Plane engulfed in flames and the passengers as they scram to be run down and to slide down the emergency exit ramps that were put down to escape from the plane that was consumed with plane. Later on, of course, the fire was put out, but russias Investigative Committee, thats the countrys top investigative body has said that they are launching a criminal probe. This is a Standard Practice in any incident that involves a lot of large loss of life to look into the possibility of neglect in this incident which has claimed, as you had said, according to the Investigative Committee now, 13 lives. Were still getting more information. The aircraft the aircraft belongs to aeroflot, russias state aircraft, state carrier, and it was a super jet. This is an aircraft that aeroflot operates in addition to a fleet that includes boeing and airbuses on many of its international flights, so were still getting preliminary information about this incident. Obviously its attracted a lot of high level attent
Escalate a trade war with china and threatening to hit france with a tariff on wine. I dont want them doing anything having to do with taxing unfairly our companies. Those are Great American companies, and frankly, i dont want france going out and taxing our companies. Very unfair. And if they do that, well be taxing their wine or doing something else. Well be taxing their wine like theyve never seen before. Cnns senior White House Correspondent pamela brown joins us now from southern france. Pam, trump and macron have already met this morning over lunch. What more can you tell us about any further discussions and maybe even a comment or two in response to what the president is talking about threatening these tariffs on wine . Reporter yeah, thats right. Its interesting because just before leaving washington, the president had those stern words for president macron as saying that he will impose a tariff on french wine and perhaps other french goods in response to the digital tax. But t
Plus breaking news, a familiar face back on the bench at the supreme court. An update just in on Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg. Were following all the developments on this monday morning. I want to bring in hans nichols at the white house and Garrett Haake over at capitol hill. Hans, let me start with you and the new comment from the House Speaker that apparently sparked the tweet from President Trump. Watch. The president could come before the committee and speak all the truth that he wants, if he wants to. You dont expect him to do that . If he wants to take the oath of office. He could do it in writing. He has every opportunity to present his case. Hans, the president seems to be saying maybe i will and maybe i will . Reporter well the president is taking the opportunity and hes running with it. Hes at least playing with it. About an hour ago as the president started off his morning on twitter, clearly suggested that he will be willing to appear. Maybe not necessarily in person, but a
Away from al asad air base, the site of wednesdays attack which was retaliation for the deadly airstrike on Qassem Soleimani. Arwa, when this happened, we do know it was retaliation, the strike at al asad. Are we hearing any more about this strike at Balad Air Base in iraq . Reporter well, first just to clarify a little bit about the nature of how these attacks occur here. This kind of a rocket attack at Balad Air Base, the rockets attack that happen on a fairly regular basis in the green zone, this is the tragic norm of what happens in iraq. And in this particular case, when it comes to what happened in balad, eight were fired, four iraqis were wounded. As you were saying, no coalition or u. S. Forces were at the base at the time of the attack. Now, thats the norm here. Compare that to what happened at al asad air base. What hit al asad air base, those were no rockets, those were Ballistic Missiles fired from iran. Now, we were the first journalist to actually get access to the base,