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being detained at gatherings across the country, including in st. petersburg. that's where we find cnn chief global affairs correspondent matthew chance. matthew, any signs of these arrests that you've picked up on? no, it's very late where you are right now >> it's very cold at of course, the death of alexey navalny has had a chilling effect on the willingness of people in this city and others across the country to come. out. and i'm protests, but nevertheless, there have been thousands of people across russia that have violated the laws essentially in this country to pay their respects and to give off or their sympathies after the death of alexey navalny. in this city alone more than half of the 400 people who have been arrested so far, rather detained so far would detain here. so it just gives you a sense of how many people in some petersburg are

behind alexey navalny. it's a very relatively liberal city within the context >> but there have been >> vigils flowers being laid in cities across, across russia. and as i say, that human rights group monitoring group saying that more than 400 people have been detained for violating the regulations and coming out to pay their respects. this as the whereabouts of the body of alexey navalny is still uncertain miller has traveled to the polar region to a small town where there's a borger where she was told originally by his penal colony. but the body was located when she got there. it's about 1,000 miles from moscow. she was told the bodies not there. and now the government to saying the authorities are saying that the initial autopsy on alexey navalny's body was not conclusive. and so they're having to keep that body to

carry out more tests. and of course, alexey navalny's campaign and his family are suggesting that they're hiding the corpse to prevent the real reason for his death being uncovered. and so still no relief in sight for the family and still no resolution really, as to what actually happened. what was the cause of death to elect for alexey navalny, russia's most prominent opposition leader jim and matthew, we're looking at some of this video right now of these ordinary russians being pulled off, literally just pulled off the sidewalk. >> i suppose because they were there simply observing the passing of alexei navalny. how does it work in russia? you simply cannot do this, is that they're just being swept depp is that it >> yeah. i mean, look, i mean, over the past couple of years since the full-scale invasion of ukraine, there's been a particularly hard and crackdown on dissent and opposition

activists have gone into exile at thousands of people have been arrested. some and put in prison so in some for relatively petty things like posting messages on social media sites and things like that. and so the government has sent very they'll '30s here under vladimir putin have sent a very clear message that they will no longer tolerate criticism or dissent. and the fact that frankly alexey navalny died whilst in the custody of the russian prison authorities. does, does reiterate that in an extremely potent and as i say, in a very chilling way, jim yes. >> absolutely. >> showing >> our matthew chance, we're just watching video right now ordinary russians carrying flowers, paying their respects, been detained by police in russia. and matthew chance, thank you very much meanwhile, president biden is slamming congress. we're going on a two-week break without approving any financial aid for ukraine scene. and priscilla

alvarez has more on those developing story. priscilla, where do things stand tonight? >> well, president biden underscoring the stakes here. if congress doesn't get those additional funds to ukraine, all of this, of course, after he spoke earlier today with ukrainian president so linskey, now the president, making clear, again that these funds, these $60 billion at the white house requested last october have to go to ukraine. and specifically notable moment this one ukraine, had to cede ground to russia earlier today because they're low on ammunition. the president taking issue with that because it is he said congressional inaction that has led to this moment, the fact that they're low on ammunition is because they don't have the funds that they need to acquire more of that. but he also said to reporters that he's not confident that this won't happen. again, if these funds can can you to be stalled now, jim, just to give viewers a state of play here these 60 billion were requested as part of a broader national security

supplemental request last october. they have been stalled because of infighting and congress, we saw some progress earlier this week when the senate passed a foreign aid package that included the 60 billion million dollar funds. but the house has since gone on recess and house speaker mike johnson has said he has no intention or no plan as of now to bring this package to the floor, which means that all the future of these funds are essentially uncertain. so president biden and vice president kamala harris speaking with zelenskyy today and also trying to reassure allies that they will stand by ukraine as this war is ongoing. and the president just adding fresh urgency to these funds and making clear that not giving them does seek ground to russia and gives russian president vladimir putin. a, win, something that the us doesn't want to be a part of? >> so what about the deputy idea that we're going to walk away from the idea that nato began to split it's totally

against the united states of america against our word given >> the bottom line here from president biden and vice president kamala harris, that this is not just about security for ukraine, this is about us national security and not giving these funds to ukraine could really threaten us national security >> and pursue the death of election navalny, how does that change the calculus in remarks yesterday, president biden said that he hoped that it would change the calculus in the sense that it would make clear the consequences of ceding ground to russia. and that it would perhaps mobilize house republicans to vote on this package that was passed by the senate. of course, it's unclear whether that will be the case because this death happened as house the house was headed to a two-week recess, so we'll have to wait to see whether it does move the needle at all when they return, but it goes to the broader point this administration has been trying

to make that if you don't if you let russia move into ukraine and if there is no punishment for the russian president vladimir putin then this is all a gift to him and that it will threaten us national security in the long term. >> all right, priscilla alvarez, thank you very much joining us now to discuss is cnn senior political commentator, former republican congressman of illinois, adam kinzinger. adam, thank you so much for joining us this evening. a lot to talk about your reaction to the death of election navalny in an atom, if i wonder if we could just focus for a moment on these appalling images. we were just showing the world a few moments ago of ordinary russians holding flowers. they're just trying to observe the passing of this opposition leader in their country. and the police just pick them up sweep them off the streets. roman advance, it's just absolutely incredible. >> yeah, it really is and, you know, not to mention the russian police are doing that

with people coming to visit russia. they're sweeping up into vans and putting them on the frontlines of ukraine this is again, this is the the leader that people like tucker carlson has been ogling over, has been just it just tripping over himself to compliment a supermarket or whatever. how how he works. so this is, it's appalling to watch that's people that just not even protesting the just showing up to pay their respects to watch that happen. and i'll tell you with alexey navalny, this man was a hero for all his faults and everybody has faults and he had some as well >> he went >> back to russia after being poisoned with nerve agent by the russians. he went back knowing full well, this would put him likely in jayland and quite possibly his death. this is a man who is married to as kids and you look at that kind of courage and you put that up against what absolute lack of courage we're seeing in

congress and in the house right now where people are scared of losing their job and even those that aren't running again are scared of losing their access after congress, they don't want to make anybody mad. and you have a man that walked over to russia knowing it would cost his life. and was willing to make that sacrifice. >> and adam, we saw the president earlier today getting very fired up about this going right after house republicans saying, how can you leave town how can you skip town as putin is gobbling up more territory in ukraine how does the president i guess, make this happen? do you have any sense as to how he can make this happen >> yeah. look there i think there's creative ways, whether it's through the seized russian funds that we can do a stop gap now but the president's got to keep doing what he's doing. he's got to show that anger there. i want to hear a lot more from house and senate democrats that's out there as well. i mean, they have their own issue because there's a number of democrats that will oppose the israel funding as part of this. but

certainly the democrats by enlarge are supportive of this ukraine funding. well, let's keep in mind, jim, three people three republicans, that's it. could guarantee this gets to the floor. let me tell you how. >> they >> simply agree to vote against every rule and a rule is what governs debate on the floor. it's what allows the florida work. if three people walked into speaker johnson's office and said, we will vote against every rule until you commit not to pass ukraine aid, but just to put it on the floor for a vote, pretty, pretty american thing to put it on the floor speaker johnson would cave in a week because otherwise the floor would be shut down. there are more than three republicans that are not even running again for congress. what about the leaders of the committee's like foreign affairs, armed services, like house intel goldratt's committee that no, this should be leading. the effort to say this is such a historic moment that we're willing to shut the floor downs and you put on the floor and frankly, it would give speaker

johnson and out they'll say like, look, i have to do it >> i mean, >> come back from vacation. i hope you're enjoying your vacation, but come back from vacation and get this time. >> let me ask you about i mean, because some of this has to do with the pressure points that a lot of these house republicans are feeling right now, not only from the former president who has been out there on the campaign trail saying, if nato countries are meeting their obligations that russia could do whatever they want also you have and you mentioned this just a few moments ago. the former fox news host, tucker carlson he's been giving vladimir putin a platform. he did this fawning interview with the russian leader, just the other day and then we've been seeing this video of him shopping and russian supermarkets and all this other nonsense. but i did want to show you this clip from the world government summit. and do by this week, we're tucker carlson is talking about how leaders, sometimes they just kill people. let's play a little bit, talk on the other side >> i didn't talk about the things that every other american media outlet talks about, why those are covered and because i have spent my

life talking to people who run countries in various countries and have concluded the following. that every liter kills people, including my leader, every leader those people, some kill more than others. leadership requires killing people, sorry >> adam tucker carlson walked that back and later said that it was horrifying what happened at a volunteer. >> but again what, is going on with how did this develop on the right, where on the far right where there's this, this >> idolatry for vladimir putin well, first, i'd like to just say it's brain worms that are infecting people. i remember in 2015, jim, dana rohrabacher from california was very pro russian. we all basically assumed he was on russia's payroll, to be honest with you and i remember arguing with him in the foreign affairs committee and people would say to me, oh, don't worry about dana, he's just one guy and now you look at where the party is now, we could spend a half-hour on how we got here, but to give you the 50,000 foot

overview somehow vladimir putin has convinced people that he's defending christianity, which is a huge joke, by the way. somehow there are people that just want to own the left, own the libs, and they think this makes liberals mad. it does because they actually care about things and then there's a significant amount of people, jim, that just don't want to take a stand there in this such a historical moment. this is literally like before world war ii. at the moment when winston churchill is yelling, we have to do something about adolf hitler these people have a chance. and it's just much easier to put your head in the sand and hope somebody else takes a leadership role and they're unwilling to do it. i don't understand it because in my 12 years in congress, plus this last year, i don't think there's ever been a more important issue to come before congress than this one. >> right now. take a stand, have courage. unfortunately, i think we've sifted out most of the people with courage and

congress well, and they're all these through lines. i mean, there's not just trump in the last week saying that russia could do whatever they want a dado countries, you also have this story that bubbled up in just the last week that russia is apparently advancing some kind of space weaponry, where they can use an electric electromagnetic pulse to take out satellites in orbit. and on top of that, you have just in the last 24 hours russia taking another town in ukraine because the ukrainians are running out of ammunition i mean, at some point, how much can they listen to the likes of tucker carlson when you have all of those things happening >> well, look on, on earth 2.0, this would make sense. people would jump to this on this earth, we're on now, which seems to be a little insane. everybody's kinda jumped to this. blame america first thing on the right, it gets america's fault and, you know, when, when, when you have people that are out there saying russia isn't maybe as bad as we think. and then we

get the information about this potential electromagnetic pulse and space, which sounds like star her, words, but it's extremely real threat and russia, when it comes to space, has nothing to lose because they're losing that fight. so they wouldn't mind actually making space completely unaccessible. this is the moment when every republican should be saying, look, we have a true enemy and we have people fighting for freedom. let's do something about this. instead of half of them are probably in cancun right now enjoying vacation. i can't explain. in each individual member why they're unwilling to. i mean, look, they can have statues built to them in kyiv if they just agree to shut the floor down but this is the moment we're in and we just need to keep the pressure going because i think eventually they will have to do this because the pressure is growing. >> but >> look man, people like tucker carlson out there saying what he says, that it's okay to kill people. we all kill people. >> it shows the absolute ignorance of folks to believe that i hate to say that, but it should those the conniving of

tucker carlson who certainly knows better, but he's thirsty for attention >> and you served in congress for many years adam, i mean when we see somebody like alexei navalny essentially be killed by the russian government in prison. i mean, that's essentially what has taken place and they're playing games with the family at this point. in terms of turning over his body to the family and so on privately though, when you deal with numbers yes. out there publicly, they go on fox. they talked to the likes of tucker and they have to hit they're talking points and so on. i just have to think there is some sympathy for people like somebody like an alexei navalny, who was we were talking about the beginning of this segment, put everything on the line and we're going to be playing this documentary later tonight. it's extraordinary if you watch it the way he knows he's going to die. he goes back to russia to show people. yes, you can and show this kind of courage. i have to think, adam, when you talk to you, you're former colleagues

privately, they acknowledge this >> they do. they do and that's why i think if you actually put the bill on the floor would pass overwhelmingly they acknowledged this. i asked i've asked a few of them specifically, why don't you just shut the floor down in force? speaker johnson to put this on the floor. he'd actually probably appreciate if you did it. and i get like a misdirection and does some new avenue they're trying. >> i mean, >> look, they know this i mean, we had three americans that were killed in jordan that we're trying to do the right thing by defending this country and being there you know, we look at history, we sing songs, we have poems written about heroes that have stood up against the grain and done the right thing in this country. and all it takes us three or four republicans that are sympathetic to ukraine. and there's plenty of them to just do the right thing. i know it's uncomfortable and you might get a call from donald trump. but guess what, you will be able to look at yourself in the mirror for the rest of your life. they tell me this privately. but for some reason

going from private to plain the same kind of games that the freedom caucus plays to throw out people like kevin mccarthy. it's just a bridge they can't cross. and i hope they get to the point of being frustrated enough to do it. but honestly, jim, i'm not making anything up if three or four of these members walked into speaker johnson today, even though they're on vacation and said they're shutting the floor down, this would happen in a week. i guarantee you because there's no other option fascinating. we'll see if that happens. so adam kinzinger. great, thanks for your time as always, really appreciate it >> you bet. >> all right. make sure to tune in tonight for the oscar award-winning cnn film navalny, it will air tonight at 09:00 p.m. eastern. if you haven't seen it make a point of watching that later on tonight, moments ago, donald trump sounding off about the ruling of the civil fraud trial, lashing out of the judge who slapped him where they matter i save $355,000,000 fine. we'll bring that to units

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moscow is trying to develop a nuclear space weapon that would destroy satellites with a massive energy wave. this could impact both government and commercial satellites that we all rely on for cell and wi-fi networks. let's bring in cnn military analyst, retired air force colonel cedric leighton, currently net mean this sounds like something out of a sci-fi i movie but it is not that far off. i mean, this is something that is being developed according to of the president was just talking about this the other day. that's right. sounds serious. >> absolutely. the president has actually talked about stef that the us intelligence community has been following for quite some time. and that actually is really the key thing here. because when you look at all the different satellites that are orbiting the earth, and we just seeing two of them right here. but there were thousands of satellites up in earth. and the very fact of the matter is that anything that touches one of these satellites destroys as a potential to destroy the capability of that satellite, which means our gps systems are

communication systems our ability to conduct intelligence from space, all of those kinds of things actually become critically important. so if one of these satellites were to be knocked out, then that that capability goes away and perhaps we won't see what's going on in the middle east or we won't see what's going on in ukraine or russia, or china. and those are the kinds of things that we really have to worry about in this this case, and how disruptive could this be two civilians? i mean, that that is the real concern because if you knock out cellphone capabilities, if you knock out wi-fi capabilities i mean, that would be that could cause a lot of chaos. >> we've become so dependent on the internet and every single thing that we have, every single thing that connects to the internet. from medical system firms to a regular work computers to the way we watch entertainment. sure. all of that really can be affected in one way that it could be affected as through something called a nuclear electromagnetic pulse or emp. so what does that do? it creates a massive energy wave that is really filled with highly charged particles that

would then tier we're through space to disrupt not only the satellite that it's targeting, but potentially other satellites wouldn't even have to target a specific satellite. it could go after a whole bunch of them and could knockout both of these satellites. so our view of this would be gone of view of this would be gone. those are the kinds of things that could happen. and in essence, we would be blinded from that standpoint. and when you look at this, i would or could do according to one of the us official's, this could render large portions of particular orbits unusable what that means is, when you go back to the satellite piece here is thousands of satellites are orbiting in specific, many more than this or any more than this all around the earth had lower earth orbit and high earth orbit i, if those orbits are unusable, then you can use them for anything. so even and if we throw thousands up, like let's say with a starlink system that really relies on hundreds of satellites to do its job when that goes away, then you have nothing and it's coming completely becomes completely

unusable. so when you're used to using your gps, you can't use it anymore when you used to communicating across the country or even locally, that could potentially be and the ukrainians have used starlink quite a bit in this war with russia. and i wanted to ask you while we, while we have you, ukraine's withdrawal from this key town in the donetsk region. if i have that correct. that's correct. tell us about that. and how important this is. this has to do with running out of ammunition, not being able to take on the russians in certain battlefields because because of this funding and ammunition crunch, absolutely so of defka is the name of the town that's in the middle of the lower part of the donbass region, and it's at the junction of the eastern in front and the southern front. so this is where everything comes together. so the russians have taken over this town. they could potentially use this as a means of advanced through this syria. and that would then mean that they could go this way into the heart of ukraine if they have the means to do so. now, chances are that they won't be able to do that. but this is the town of some

strategic value. it's been decimated by over two years of warfare in this area, actually more than that in the case of this specific town. but the town of of defka, basically an empty shell right now, kind of looks like a mini stalin some glad that is the area that the russians have just taken over. and that very fact is a bit of a setback to the ukrainians and it's going to be hard for them to recover this area and all of these areas in the donbass region as well as on the path to crimea. >> i mean, this sounds like a canary in the coal mine type of moment. >> it is because if this area, if the ukrainians can to take a deep, can keep of defka or bakhmut, or any of these areas. they risk losing momentum and war is often about momentum. and if you lose momentum, chances are either you're going to get a static situation like this, or you're going to get something worse where they start moving this way and remember places like kharkiv and kyiv, the capital of ukraine, they're not far away from hostile borders. this is russia, this is belarus, a

russian ally, and they're very close. to these two major cities of ukraine. so it becomes really important to hold as much territory as possible and not lose troops. the ukrainians need as many troops as they can possibly get. i, anytime that the russians move into these areas, there's a lot of carnage, there's a lot of death, lot of destruction. and that's what we've seen enough difficult. >> yeah, once you run out of ammunition, eventually you have to make these very hard choices. you have to retreat or you fight to the death. that's exactly and that's what they're facing right now. all right. colonel leighton, thank you very much. in the meantime, the other big headline out of russia tonight, the sudden death of russian opposition figure alexei navalny, one of president putin's fiercest critics, cnn's brian todd reports navalny is the latest, a long line of putin opponents meet in early desk. some of them under mysterious even violent circumstances >> but in the reported death of one of vladimir putin's biggest adversaries, whether it's ever actually traced to the former kgb colonel or not, analysts say certainly fits a very

haunting pattern. >> there's not a lot of russian opposition left anymore. again, people are either in exile dead in prison. >> alexey navalny, now, apparently joins an unsettling list of those who've challenged vladimir putin and paid the price in order for putin to have been the leader for 23 years? he's had to be the seemed to be the meanest guy in the prison yard, the one who had caused damage to anybody who leave and looked at him the wrong way. >> financier bill browder was a client of sergei magnitsky, an attorney who exposed corruption and putin's government was arrested and died in prison in 2009? >> yes, fifth watson should be read. yeah if guinea prigozhin, the billionaire head of the wagner paramilitary group, died last year in a mysterious plane crash after leading a short-lived rebellion against the kremlin >> imprisoned putin critic vladimir kara-murza says he's been poisoned at least twice and sent into a coma. boris nemtsov once one of russia's most outspoken opposition leaders, was gunned down on, on a bridge at the foot of the

kremlin in 2015 on a polic cuff skier, a prominent journalist was a vocal critic of putin's regime in the wars in chechnya she was shot and killed in her moscow apartment building in 2006. then there were the former russian spies who putin saw as threats with emmer. >> putin has a particular beef with people he calls traitors, and he has gone after them in various parts of the world, including in london. in the case of a former fsb agent, alexander litvinenko as well as the attack on a former soviet double agent sergei script hall and the southern english city of salisbury in 2018, former spy sergei skripal and his daughter were poisoned and nearly killed in britain with the powerful nerve agent novichok, an attack which british investigators tied to putin in 2006, former russian intelligence agent alexander litvinenko, who'd been digging up information potentially tying putin to organized crime, was killed in london when someone slipped the radioactive substance polonium into his

tea. >> the british investigators found beyond reasonable doubt on evidence that two agents of the russian security services poisoned mr. litvinenko, putin's regime has denied involvement in all of these cases. but at the same time, he absolutely doesn't care about his international reputation in some ways, he's interested in a reputation that is a violence could >> vladimir putin now have a bigger target on his back? one analyst says it's possible that someone in putin's inner circle could turn on him what the analysts also says, he's woven people into that circle who simply benefit too much by being there. and it would harm them significantly to take him out. brian todd, cnn, washington in the meantime, cnn has uncovered social media video showing israeli soldiers burning food ransacking homes and destroying people's property >> as the idf continues can use to fight hamas and gaza. we'll talk about that in a few moments. you're live in the cnn newsroom >> vegas, the story of sin city

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