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requested a colonel convicted of murder and added along this infamous arms dealer for wnba star brittney griner and paul whelan. we have a team of correspondents covering these breaking developments. frederik pleitgen is in moscow for us. let s start with natasha bertrand, who is breaking this exclusive. what have you learned. reporter: what we ve learned is that in response to the russian proposal to trade that arms dealer, viktor bout for the two americans detained in russia, paul whelan and brittney griner, the russians put forward their own request and they said we don t want just viktor bout, we want this guy name vadim krz krosokov, convicted in december of 2021 for murdering in broad daylight a chech an fighter and the germans sentenced him to life in prison. the russians in response to this proposal submitted this kind of back channel request to the americans. it was done through an fsb back channel, the fsb of course is the main security service for the rus ....
ukraine is still independent, and has fought russian invaders to a standstill. at the cost, which is almost unimaginable, or was until february 24th six months ago. it changed so much for ukraine, europe, superpower relations, and the nato alliance. for people living worlds away of the fighting, vladimir putin would prefer we pay less attention to it all tonight. instead, because of just how important it is, that is where we begin the broadcast. reminding you again, showing you again, the moments of savage brutality, and the moments of hope over the past six months. we are all here, our military are here, citizens in society are here. we are all here defending our independence. our state, and it will remain so. glory to our defenders, glory to our women, glory to ukraine. that is volodymyr zelenskyy just hours into the invasion. not fleeing the country or evacuating to lviv, or eastern poland as some had expected. standing firm, as alleys today, the former actor a ....
Contact. reporter: even in the areas of ukraine that russia has annexed, mothers are taking a stand. return students to their studies this sign in donetsk says. translator: please return our children. there are many dead, many captured. the rest of the children are physically and morally decimated. reporter: soldiers mothers traditionally carry a lot of sway in russia, and russian president vladimir putin seems eager to show he s not tone-deaf to their plight. recently visiting wihat the military says were new recruits, even firing a sniper rifle himself. trying to convey he cares about the new recruits. translator: about our country, you know, of course, we have costs. most notably regarding losses in the special military operation. i think about it all the time. reporter: but many mobilized russians and their relatives seem to feel left out in the cold after their country called ....
Of the trump white house, he identified two dozen boxes of presidential material that had been in the residence in the white house residence, not in the oval office but in the residence. and that pat cipollone according to the white house lawyer, according to the archives lawyer, pat cipollone, the white house lawyer, wanted the material returned. they asked repeatedly for the material to be returned and a ad not been returned. they asked again in may 2021, please return to material, in fact, they were almost begging. they set besides the boxes, they noticed several other high-profile items that had not been returned. former president trump correspondence with kim jong-un, the north korean dictator. his correspondence with former president obama had not been returned, even though they discussed a return for that. it really needed all these things back. wihat that shows is that long before the raid happened on mar-a-lago, the national archives and former president trump s lawyers were c ....
Hearing about along the way. now, cnn has confirmed that pelosi and a group of lawmakers will visit asia, some of the stops that are to be included, include japan, south korea, malaysia, singapore, as you mentioned, it remains to be seen whether she will indeed visit taiwan. the biden administration has concerns about how china might respond if pelosi does visit the island, and some officials have been privately working behind the scenes to try to convince the speaker to not go. one thing to keep in mind here is that pelosi has built a reputation as a china hawk. this could be her last term in congress. we ll just have to see whether she ultimately makes that decision or not. alisyn, victor. melanie zanona, thank you for the latest. here s wihat we have all ben thinking about. what would we do if we have won the jackpot tonight. one lucky person or a group of people could be $1 billion richer tomorrow. so next we re going to talk to one man who won the mega ....