cardinal radsinger could be charged with abuse. two acts were committed during his tenure and sanctioned by the state. now, benedict, the 16th, stepped down as pope in 2013. his tenure was overshadowed by a growing scandal of allegations of sexual abuse of minors. cnn vatican correspondent delia gallagher has more on the report and the response so far. reporter: this is a massive report running more than 1,800 pages, covering about a 75-year time period from 1945 to 2019, looking at cases of sexual abuse in the arch diocese of munich. it was released thursday afternoon, and the initial responses from the vatican and from pope emeritus benedict say they need time to read it and look into the findings. cardinal marks who is the current archbishop of munich is also implicated in the report
step back. for the last several days there s been a lot of speculation about when russia might attack. and in the media, wednesday, the 16th, was the date that had been floated everything times. there were articles in european newspapers, several news outlets pointing specifically to wednesday as the possibility. now, on record, u.s. officials never went that far, as far as i know. they were only highlighting that an attack could come at any stage, that it could come even before the end of the olympics. but this date, the 16th was put out there. now, just a short time ago, or earlier today, president zelensky gave the speech in which he referenced the 16th. and his office is now saying that he was referencing those media reports that he doesn t believe that russia is necessarily going to invade on the 16th. that they, meaning the media reports or the officials who leaked those comments to the media, are even specifying that
the civilian news media, and you can t hide airplanes that are flying and we put a lot of aerial assets up, so we know. now as to the exact timing, that s the first report is always wrong. bear in mind once you put forces in position into attack positions they cannot stay there forever and they have to get ready to move. if they are saying the 16th, maybe you don t go on the 16th, but the 17th or 18th, but i think right now key tell, if you get hit with a cyber attack, ukraine hits with a cyber attack early and locate where they put the airborne forces, always lead with cyber and with airborne forces, that will tell you where they are going and what they intend to do. sandra: general kellogg, we are waiting to confirm those reports. jennifer griffin is in the pentagon briefing room. we believe john kirby will take
what is the latest from the kremlin at this hour? and how is it being framed in russian media there? you know, um, i think there is a bit of, let s say, deliberate confusion, which can sometimes work in president putin s favor. but i do have to tell you, i have been watching russian tv, again, a number of channels tonight. and i think it s interesting because, remember, these are channels that are speaking to russian citizens. so, what s the message? and number one was today, the 16th, was supposed to be the attack. the attack that never came. and there was high mockery on all the channels. in fact, there was one um where it was a video from a comedy show where the anchor s says we are on the scene of where nothing happened. sir, can you tell us what did you see? well, nothing. so, it was literal hly on that
that russia would invade ukraine, he said it tongue and cheek, a bit ironically, and instead of that, he wanted to have a show of patriotism all across the country. he s coming down here as part of that, and erin, you re absolutely right, he s a critical city to a number of reasons. to the east, 15 miles away, to the front line, where ukrainian forces have been battling pro russian, russian-backed separatists past eight years. a little past that is the actual russian border. the city is actually on the sea of azof, which is where crimea is. as you have been discussing, the russians have been building up this third front all along the southern coast of ukraine with exercises in the black sea, with troops in crimea, with those helicopters you were talking about with fighter jets. and so there has been all sorts of speculation that putin for years has wanted to join crimea with those russia-backed