secretary blinken and foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke by phone and that is significant given talks have been sparse during war. the 31-year-old reporter was arrested wednesday in central russia about a thousand miles away from moscow, russia is accusing him of spying. gershkovich has been reported in russia for the six years mostly the wall street journal which denied allegations. the timing of the arrest looks like calculated calculation to embarrass the u.s. the board called for the russian ambassador to the u.s. be expelled along with journalists. president biden said that wasn t part of the immediate plan and offered this. detaining the wall street journal reporter. let him go. you heard the president say there. secretary blinken also called on russia to release paul wylan he s been retained in russia since 2018 as you mentioned mike and back in december the biden administration facilitated release of brittney griner in exchange that freed merchant of death. th
on friday since indictment it s raised $4 million. former donald trump denies any wrongdoing but has acknowledged the payments. house gop leader want manhattan da to testify about the investigation but the manhattan da calls the request unlawful political interference, however, you feel about this tuesday is going to be a historic moment, mike. mike: expect to hear plenty from former president trump and campaign has made announcement, cb cotton live outside the courthouse, cb, thanks a lot. for more on the indictment of former president, senior legal fellow at the heritage foundation. haans, welcome. thanks for having me. mike: 2:15 tuesday afternoon the former president will be arraigned. we do expect that he will not be in handcuff, secret service is figuring out how he will be brought to courthouse and multiple street closures expected and we expect security to be super tight, why are you
continental united states and we have to get serious to harden the united states against this infiltration and help partners and allies. this is a wake-up call. mike: let s dig in on tiktok, more than 150 million users here in the united states, regular users of this popular app. some talks about banning it. we have seen different government entities ban it. what should we do about it here? well, i think we first and foremost need a public relations campaign to point out how toxic this thing is. you know, all of us with kids are seeing these reports of increasing problems in terms of mental health with our young people and tiktok is a symptom of how this is getting into their phones, into their brains and i think it s really outrageous, mike, that president biden is still using this platform that he used it for some clever little st. patrick s david into. that implies to people that the leader of the free world thinks
there. secretary blinken also called on russia to release paul wylan he s been retained in russia since 2018 as you mentioned mike and back in december the biden administration facilitated release of brittney griner in exchange that freed merchant of death. this did concern some at the time, britney breiner did weigh in on social media last night urging the biden administration to use every tool possible to bring every american home. mike. mike: alexandria hoff, many thanks. the biden administration expected to announce additional $2.6 billion in aid money to ukraine tomorrow bringing the total amount pledged to 30 billion while the 2024 campaign heats up. mike tobin in kyiv ukraine and
not surprised by the indictment? alvin bragg is probably the most political d s in the country. she s a soros prosecutor. when he came in he immediately said i m not prosecuting any misdemeanors and about 50% of felonies were reduced to misdemeanors and he also promised before he got into office that he would two after the ex-president and he s saying that before he s had a chance to look at any kind of evidence, that s a sign of politically motivated prosecutor. mike: trump attorney out talking today. let s play it. it shouldn t matter what side of the aisle you sit, if you re an american and you re concerned about rule of law, there should be no scenario where you want this to happen because we all know and if you re intellectually honest, we all know that had donald trump not been donald trump and was john smith, it would have been brought. if he was not running for reelection there s no way the case waged have been brought. so this is about 2024