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plus, donald trump and the supreme court, the former president asking justices to intervene in the decision banning him from colorados ballot. the argument his legal team is making this morning. and we are tracking breaking news of a shooting investigation at an iowa high school. the latest from perry, iowa, in just a moment. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, im chris jansing in for ana cabrera. the list of famous men connected to convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein just got longer as c...

it said it found 184 classified documents in boxes retrieved from mar-a-lago in january including 25 marked top secret. some of the markings indicated the material was about human sources or spies that often work with the cia. underscoring fears the documents may contain americas most sensitive secrets. marshall cohen joins me now. it seems were learning more and more by the hour, what are we learning about the damage assessment? >> it came in in the last hour its a letter from our top...

at the highest levels of inflation in 40 years and prices are soaring, especially at the gas pump which just set another record high this morning at $4.40 a gallon. the markets already reacting. yesterday the dow tumbled for the fourth straight day as investors began to sour on the u.s. economic outlook. some on wall street warning of a recession because of inflation possibly as soon as next year, mika. >> thats one reason why president biden addressed it in a major white house speech,...

They are offering to return his remains which is something of a step forward in terms of their humanitarian response. because other prisoners of war, including foreigners have been accused of, charged and sentenced to death as mercenaries. theyre planning to put other prisoners of war from mariupol on trial for war crimes. but anyone who is fighting for an army is entitled to the full protection of the geneva convention. >> with me is jeffrey lewis, from the middle bury institute of internationa...

Released by the german military. all of this comes less than a week after german chancellor olaf scholz said sending heavy weapons would lead to world war iii. joining us now, peter swak. he served in moscow from 2012-2014 as attache to the russian federation. a lot of major players circling around this situation in russia, including the u.s., are ratcheting up the rhetoric andle backing it up with supplies. >> which is what the ukrainians have been asking for for a while. now theyre getting tha...

General peter swak and a memoir about his time in the 90s called "swimming the volga." good to have you on, general. i want to ask you because russia has shown no movement in its position. one of its demands being ukraine and frankly, other nations, no other nations could join nato ever again, non-starter for the u.s. but also a russian president who wants to gain back former soviet republics under his sway and public about the fact he doesnt think ukraine are a country or a people, its russian....

But of course, there are questions about just how serious the russians are and yesterday president macron of france spoke on the phone with president putin two times and after that phone call, weve heard from president putin that he asked president macron what has changed in the u.s. position because macron was proposing this idea of a summit between president putin and president biden and he was asking, what has changed in the american position? president macron couldnt answer that question. an...