Wall Whelan News Today

you are live in the cnn "newsroom." im jim acosta in washington. we begin with a small sign of relief from the baby formula crisis that is gripping the nation. today a u.s. military flight carrying more than 70,000 pounds of baby formula arrived in indianapolis from europe, but you wont see it on store shelves here in the u.s. a white house official says the first shipment is heading straight to doctors, hospitals, home health care facilities and pharmacies in areas that need it the mo...

We just hope that brittney griner now takes up the case of wall whelan so that nobody ever forgets about him as so many did for her. >> carley: a marine went over there for a wedding. >> steve: senator, thank you for joining us on this very busy friday morning. >> thank you, all. >> steve: all right. it is 14 minutes after the top of the hour. and carley joins us with news out of kentucky. >> carley: thats right, steve. concerning news at that authorities in kentucky investigating an angry messa...

>> the process was very constructive and professional. whelans rights were observed. >> reporter: but the attorney also admitted that so far the defense has only been able see about 5% of the evidence available in this case. >> translator: the investigators failed to prove pauls position, specifically, he did not view this information as state secrets. >> reporter: some are speculating russia pay have taken paul whelan as a bargaining chip, perhaps to exchange him for a high russia profile, like...

For release on bail while he awaits his espionage trial. >> are you being treated okay, mr. wheel season. >> reporter: paul whelan not allowed to answer cnns questions behind bullet proof glass in the high security courtroom. whelan was detained by russia intelligence service in his hotel room in central moscow in late december and charged with espionage. his lawyer saying he was given a classified flash drive. >> paul received information and i confirm the information is classified as state sec...