let me start with the breaking news international criminal court that issued arrest warrants for putin and one of his commissioners for war crimes both accused of unlawfully deporting ukrainian children to russia joining me from london, nbc foreign correspondent megan fitzgerald explain the charges against putt yun putin and what it might mean this has been a month s long investigation that started in september. and the lead prosecutor for the icc saying that they were able togather enough evidence to bring about these arrest warrants he went on to say, want to read the statement, he said the pretrial judge as sesed there were reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility the statement went on to say that they found evidence that suggests these children were taken from orphanages and along with children in care homes and taken to russia. we know there was a u.n. report released yesterday that detailed a list of alleged war crimes by russia one of them
wanted to do so. we know he has declund ined tha. the defense attorneys met with the prosecutor s office. exactly the timing of how all this will play out, i don t think we should speculate. i think it is safe to say we have seen witnesses like michael cohen go in. he was there for two days. whether any additional witnesses or evidence come forward, the grand jury has an option to ask for that if it wants to we don t see any witnesses going in today doesn t mean there won t be. but safe to say that we have reached an advance stage. so, carol, is there any difference in the way at this stage, if we think it is the late stage and that seems to be the general consensus, in the way of manhattan d.a. s indictment or lack thereof might work, how the grand jury process works versus, say, a federal prosecution? sure. there are a few differences when have you a state prosecution, for example. if they have wanted to file an indictment and then go to arrest