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u.s. and china deteriorated to their lowest point in decades. real tension, particularly over taiwan. secretary of state antony blinken speaking today with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov. as cnn learned exclusively of plans under way for a prisoner swap, trading convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout for detained wnba star brittney griner and marine veteran paul whelan. we're watching that closely. let's begin with the new gdp numbers, cnn chief business correspondent christine romans is here with more. christine, break down, a lot of numbers not just you but economists fol...

Just gives us a little bit of peace honestly. we know -- we can only imagine what she is going through. we can only imagine and you're right, seeing the cage and seeing the handcuffs, it does not really make us feel great, but being able to lay eyes on b.j., yeah, that gives me a little bit of comfort and peace and i'm sure it does for our members also. >> i know geopolitics is not your area of expertise, but we know brittney griner was detained february 17th, just days before the russian invasion of ukraine. there had been warnings for months that this invasion was possible, the u.s. state de...

Should be loyal to him. not surprising, i guess, that he has that opinion given what we have seen in the past. >> absolutely. i mean just remember jeff sessions, who was the attorney general who did the right thing in recusing himself from the russia investigation. and the president spent months fuming about that. and then ultimately humiliated sessions by firing him on the day of the midterm elections. you know, it's always possible that one reason people come forward with stories like this is that they know it's so outrageous that once it sees the light of day in a story like maggie's, that ...

Reporting that rachel mitchell a sex crimes prosecutor, could well be selected to question dr. ford. now why could this be actually a good idea in your opinion given what is at stake here? >> why not have someone who is familiar with the issues any types of cases asking questions that people have been trained over the years in handling these cases to anticipate? that way everyone will have the answers to whatever questions they may think of as it relates to this issue during the hearing, as opposed to after. hey, why didn't we ask this, why didn't we ask that? by bringing in an expert who know...

Saw put on by the democrats when they were questioning judge kavanaugh. >> laura: joining the now on why this could be the right move for the g.o.p., former sex crimes prosecutor, nicole debord. nicole, "the washington post" is reporting that rachel mitchell, a sex crimes prosecutor, could well be selected to question dr. ford. now why could this be actually a good idea in your opinion given what is at stake here? >> by not have someone who is familiar with the issues any types of cases asking questions that people have been trained over the years in handling these cases to anticipate? that wa...