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charged with lying that russian intelligence officials were involved in passing false information to him about hunter biden standby for details on this new court filing. also tonight, president biden is set to impose major new sanctions against russia aimed at holding the kremlin accountable for the death of opposition leader alexey navalny and for nearly two years of war in ukraine, plus nikki haley vows to stay in the republican presidential race for the long haul, calling donald trump. and i'm quoting her now, a disaster and declaring he's not afraid of his retribution the biden campaign also is turning up the heat on trump what the president himself ordering staffers to aggressively attack trump's most inflammatory remarks welcome to our viewers

here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, a urine. this room the skis, cnn breaking news. >> now let's get right to the breaking news are truly bombshell admission to the fbi by an informant on hunter biden, that russian intelligence officials were directly involved in passing along bogus dirt on the president's son cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is working this important story for us, evan, what are prosecutors now saying about these ties? well, >> alexander smirnov wolf was behind those very damaging allegations against president biden, one of the things he said to the fbi in 2020 was that he had information mission indicating that hunter biden, his son, and then former vice president. we're going to get $5 a piece in order to help fix some businesses for burisma,

which was ukrainian energy company, according to the fbi, according to the justice department, none of that is true. he is charged with a line to the fbi and falsifying records. now, what the this new court filing which just came in in the last hour says that after smirnoff was arrested by the fbi last week, he said the following. he said that smirnoff admitted that officials associated with russia and intelligence, we're in in passing a story about hunter biden, business person. one is the one is what the justice department refers to in this filing, whether it is hunter biden that they are referring to now, smirnoff is due before a judge in the next few minutes, wolf, the fbi and the justice department want him to remain detained while he faces these new charges. and so we'll find out whether a judge agrees to keep him detained.

but one of the arguments that the justice department is making is that he has extensive contacts with intelligence officers, not only in russia, but in other countries as well. and they say that he is, that he poses a flight risk wolf. >> i just went through this or what, nearly 40 or 50 page are charged this government's memorandum and support of detention of this defendant, alexander smirnov and has gotten a lot of incredible, incredible details. what wider fears does all this raise? >> well, one of the things that the justice department and special counsel, david weiss is making here in this filing, wolf, is that this not this not only refers to her house has to do with the 2020 election, but that the, this, this also calls into question whether smirnoff is part of it an effort to influence the next election, the 2024 election. i'll read you just a part of this that he's that the justice department says this invest information that he is spreading is not confined to 2020. he is actively pedaling

new lives that could impact us elections. after meeting with russian intelligence officials in november, they the prosecutors in this filing, wolf, point out that he has business trips, a planned overseas and of course, the people who he is associated with, again, people who, who according to the justice department are people associated with intelligence agencies overseas, that they could essentially actually help influence us elections that are coming up. well, >> yeah, a lot of incredible details in this document, evan, stay with us. i want to bring in some of our legal, political, and russia experts to assess what's going on. susan glasser, i'll start with you. this is truly a remarkable development right now. what does it tell you about the extent and sophistication of russian disc it's information >> well, what leaps out here, of course, is not only that the fbi and the justice department have made this arrest and made these charges of false statements, but that these false statements appear to have

made their way into the american political process and been amplified by key republican members of congress of course, you have been pursuing president biden and his son hunter biden. they've been seeking any evidence on which to base an impeachment case against biden. that's been one of the demands of donald trump in effect that his successor should face the same kind of investigation that he, donald trump faced. and i just think it's markable to see if we can trace the chain of these false statements about president biden directly into the american political process and being amplified by important republican members of congress as they've sought unsuccessfully so far to get president biden under an impeachment investigation. >> a very important point, let me bring carrie cordero into this conversation. carrie, what do you make of the allegations and the case that the prosecutors are now making against smirnoff well, the more

it unfolds, wolf, i think it's pretty troubling in particular because this confidential informant >> appears to have been an informant for the fbi dating back to 2010 so this is an individual that the fbi that the justice department had trusted for a really long time. and so although last week the charges that were brought against him were just one count of false statements and one count of falsification of records in a federal investigation. >> these >> this new information reveals that there's an entire counterintelligence side of it. and you know, having covered you know, going back to 2016 now russian efforts to influence us elections, it just feels to me that perhaps the fbi, the justice department, don't have quite a good a handle on it and figuring out ways to be able to effectively warn lawmakers, warn the public worn policymakers when these

efforts are underway. so i think it's good that they finally figured out that he was lying to them and that he was relaying information provided by russian intelligence. but i think there's more to unpack here >> yeah, there certainly isn't gloria gloria borger is with us as well we've heard republicans repeatedly touting this indicted ex-fbi informants information and credibility. listen and watch this. let me play some clips. >> real of a bribery scant. joe biden bribery scandal allegation is this well, every day this bribery scandal becomes more credible, we already know the president took bribes from >> burisma, even a trusted fbi informant has alleged a bribe to the biden family >> the most corroborating evidence we have is that 1023 form from this highly credible, confidential human source, according to us attorney scott brady so gloria, how do you think they will now respond to

this >> well, i think they've got a lot to answer for as as carrie was saying, also, sodas, the fbi. i mean, this has gone from being just a fabrication which was charged to a charge about smirnoff essentially, a russian operative here taking information from the russians that was false and passing it along to two republicans on the committee and portraying himself as a trusted fbi agent, which he apparently might have been and so there's as carrie was saying, there's an awful lot to unravel here. but in the short term, i think we can say that republicans don't have a leg to stand on anymore when it comes to this investigation into hunter biden because he was allegedly their main credible all source for the notion of bribes of $5 million,

each going to the president and hunter biden. and now he's been completely discredited by the us government and special counsel, the justice department, evan, let me get back to you. what do you know about why it took so long for federal officials to reveal this information against severe enough, according to the court records, wolf, the fbi, last year in 2023, asks david weiss, the us attorney, who's been doing all of these investigations to take a look at this and to look into whether smirnoff was lying. and so what we don't know is what happened between 20 thank you. 20.20, 23. david weiss, again, the special counsel who was has been charged with looking into hunter biden's business dealings, has brought two charges, two separate cases against hunter biden in la and in in delaware. the question is, what has he been doing in the intervening period? good to look into this and the question is also for the fbi, whether

they ever really verified some of the claims of their informant part of the issue here is that well, if this is a guy who according to the fbi, was associated with the number of intelligence agencies. and so i'm sure they viewed him as very, very very valuable source of information. but once that information then became part of the political discussion where republicans started leaning on his information and making it public. the question is, what does the fbi do to try to make sure that these claims are at least verified before there. again, put out there in the political sphere. >> yeah, it's really a damning charge in this 28 page, nearly 30, 40 page charge that has just been a released officially, susan, what concerns do you have about the november presidential election given what we're learning here? >> well, i was thinking, you know, it's so notable that this disinformation from what

appears to be russian intelligence sources makes its way into the us political system because it's pushing on an open door. in fact, it was offering republican members of congress on capitol hill republican pro trump commentators on television exactly what they wanted to hear about joe biden and so it shows how manipulable our political system is. and it shows how open we are especially as russians become savvy to what but it is the american political system wants to hear from their operatives and they seem intent upon giving it to them. and i do think it underscores that vladmir putin is very clear about the stakes in the 2024 presidential election. and he has every incentive in the world, of course, to keep his it's deadly war going in ukraine until the election because there's one candidate, donald trump, who's made it

clear that he would not be providing the support to ukraine. >> yeah, that's an important point as well, guys. thank you very, very much. just ahead, we're gonna have much more on the breaking news. a key former national security council official, alexander vindman is standing by hi live, will get his reaction to this bombshell news. we'll be right >> king charles tomorrow. it on cnn. >> babacar, nato chest congestion. hello, 12 hours of relief mucinex. dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion in any cough day you're not mucinex da its comeback season. now, trying to use the next instance suits or probe indicated drops when you buy or sell your car exactly how you want with car gurus, you might begin to wonder what if you could do things your way all the time

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almost a decade back to thousands 162,020.20, 24. certainly shows their tradecraft and using wetting agents smirnov is under arrest because he's assessed to be a winning asian more than likely. and out, the fact that i think from an intelligence perspective from the russian perspective, they see a large number of republican and political leaders as unwitting agents are carrying forward of russian disinformation. so that's pretty interesting picture that it paints of how the russians are interfering, co-opting. the republican party to do their bidding to tip the scales in trump's favor. the other thing that's really interesting is it may clarify some of trump's intentions why he is catered so hard towards russia, why he invited just within the past two weeks, invited russia to attack a nato member, a grave danger for us troops. a grave danger for years trips. why? because he's

looking for that quid pro quo that he's been searching for. or from 2016 forward, whether it's emails, whether it's solicitations to russia to share intelligence, to deliver some sort of information on corruption >> that is >> why he's probably working you so he's leaning so far into engaging with russia because he's looking for any and every means to win the 2020 elections and tips the scales in his favor. i witnessed it when i was in the white house and reported presidential corruption. it carries through to 2024, very, very dangerous. >> i remember a kernel when you testified in then president trump's first impeachment hearing, where he was accused of pressuring ukraine to investigate the bidens business ties over there in ukraine. how does that inform you now, now that you view this latest development? >> well, so those were russian age russian agents back then,

also, these were russian agents feeding dirt on this corruption. the so-called corruption scheme with burisma, which frankly nobody has found any credible reporting indicating that president biden was any way involved, certainly there's no dispute that hunter biden was on the board receiving money, but there's no implication of president biden be involved in this. but these were russian agents back then. these have been russian agents, russian officers running russian agents all the way through his day and it is a really deeply disturbing, that swaths of the republican political elite have been co-opted to carry forward russian influence operations to interfere in us elections. that i think republicans unfortunately, are not likely to change their tune. they'll say that it's interference that the fbi now is looking to sport that impeachment inquiry. i don't think they're gonna they're going to adjust their

narrative, but it's deeply dangerous in the american public needs to know what is going on and how russia is interfering with the help of the republican party and donald trump. >> this us smiling against veered off, also says spirit loves context we're extensive recent, and not trivial. and i'm quoting now the false information he provided was not trivial at targeted the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties in the united states. the effects of spirit is false statements and fabricated information continue to be felt to this day. colonel, do you think the us is taking this threat of russian interference in the 2024 presidential election seriously enough? >> i, think the biden administration is turned certain extent the trump administration also at the professional level, look too hard nor elections to make sure that they weren't subject to cyber attacks. but influence operations are different. a different animal entirely

really, it's about inserting messages finding a receptive audiences and sowing chaos, disinformation casting both candidates as corrupt. so it's definitely clarifies the point on what the, what the russians are doing what's a little bit disturbing frankly, is that sources go through annual vetting and they get repeatedly assessed for how effective they are, how credible they are. and for somebody like this individual to be assessed as credible, continue to provide a reporting there. i think there's something that fell through the cracks in terms of screening and this should've never happened. and certainly think congress should have been warned about the fact that they were communicating with a witting agent of the russian intelligence services? yeah >> they got to learn the lessons of this to make sure it doesn't happen again, alexander vindman. thank you so much for joining us just ahead. nikki haley vows to stay in the race against donald trump, even

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>> well i'm. not let's bring in cnn's kylie atwood in haley's home state of south carolina, where the former governors campaigning only four days before the gop primary, there kylie haley went on to say why she is staying in the race tell our viewers what she said >> yeah. nikki haley said she refuses to quit. she's not going to cave. she's willing to take the cuts and bruises to keep her campaign alive, saying that the american people deserve to have a choice, deserve to have their voice heard. and she articulated once again her case that she believes that she is the best younger candidate, the best younger option for the american public. just listened to what she said going after trump and biden for their age in a very sharp way today trump and biden are too old men who are only

getting older, nearly 60% of americans say trump and biden are both too old to be president because they are. we've all seen them fumble their words and get confused about world leaders were talking about the most demanding job in human history you don't give it to someone who's at risk of dementia >> now, nikki haley said that on sunday the day after the south carolina primary, her campaign is still going to be alive. she talked about the fact that ten days after the south carolina primer there 21 states and territory for his that are going to vote. she committed to staying in the race. one thing she didn't do, however, wolf was get into the delegate math and the trump campaign for their part trying to undercut her argument today by putting out a memo noting that they believe that they're going to clinch enough delegates for trump to actually have the republican nomination by mark which 12th or march

19th, wealth. >> kylie atwood in south carolina for us. kylie, thanks very much for joining us now from south carolina, another former republican governor from that state, mark sanford also with us cnn senior political commentator, the former obama senior adviser, david axelrod, governor sanford, i'll start with you. a recent poll in your her state of south carolina showed nikki haley losing to trump in her home state by more than 30 to 30%. you said it would be it would take a bd or strike for her to win south carolina. so why do you think she's actually staying in this race now? >> i suspect it would probably a couple of reasons. one would be in politics were all ultimately bars of soap or bottle of shampoo. you know, if you're going to brand then stick with your brand and i think a number of these candidates, former candidates, have done and horrible harm to their own brand by saying way,

i'm against trump, but oh, no, i'm going to suck up to trump i think it's locking in her brand, which i think is pretty smart to a cardinal rule of politics is pick your flavor. you either pro-life or pro-choice, for instance, for, for most folks and the people who say, well, i'm pro-life oh no, i'm pro-choice know. i'm pro-life again, it confuses folks. i so i think that there is a consistency message that matters. and then finally, i think at this point the game though she was originally a trump supporter, not that long ago. she has locked in on this flavor and i think it gets personal at this stage of the campaign when you're four days out today may have been strongest statements. she's made so far against trump during this campaign, david axelrod, the trump campaign, released a memo today about the south carolina primary, which reads in part, and let me quote from it, nikki haley's campaign and saturday, february 24, fittingly in her home state, rejected by those who know her the best. david, how

damaging do you think a massive defeat in her state where she serves as governor would be to her campaign well, i don't think you have to be a political commentator or politician >> to know that getting beaten in your home state is always bad for months and months and months. she'd been pointing the south carolina as the place where she was going to breakthrough. listen, she is game, she is tough. she's proven that but when she says i'm not going anywhere, that can have two meanings and it's not really clear where she's going here. she's not in a position to win her home state. i think she's really hoping to win a delegate or two in her home states winner-take-all statewide and by district, there's maybe one congressional district where she could win some delegates. and then when you look down the field, wolf, it's really hard to see where she picks up delegates and at the end of the day running for president and is about accumulating delegates to be

the nominee. and it's very, very clear this is donald trump's party, right? right now >> well, i have you, david, let's turn to president biden's campaign. cnn has now learned that he's given his top campaign officials knew marching orders to more aggressively attack the wildest, most inflammatory statements from trump. once senior campaign adviser saying the biden team has been surprised by how many voters appear to have put. and i'm quoting now, rose colored glasses on when looking back at the trump years, is that the right strategy? do you think that they can pull this off? >> yeah. well, listen better late than never. i think this should have been the strategy for some time, and i'm not sure that it's just the things that he says. it's the things that he does in the last few weeks. you've seen president trump singlehandedly block the single. most stringent border security measure that the congress has taken up that was agreed to by republicans, democrats, and the president. he single-handedly stopped it

because he said, we don't want to give them the we don't want to give this issue away. so let's keep the crisis going. we've seen what happened in the last few days relative to ukraine and russia. he had nothing to say to this day. he really hasn't said anything about navalny, hasn't condemned putin, has condemned nato, but not putin, and has a bridal the congress from funding ukraine as ukraine is losing territory for lack of ammunition, there is plenty of stuff to talk about relative to donald trump. and they should because know it's very hard for president to win a referendum in this day and age and for biden, this is particularly true partly because of the age issue and partly because of the sour mood of the country. he needs this to be a choice and he needs to focus on that so i fundamentally believe they are right a little late to it, but i'd lean even further in.

interesting, governor sanford, r. >> biden, >> president biden was asked today about his preferred opponent for the november presidential election. this is what he said. listen who you read a town november, making him or donald trump >> you buy that president biden won said he wasn't sure he'd be running if it weren't for trump yeah. >> i don't buy it. i mean, it's it's political bravado i think that nikki would give them a real run for the money and he'd be in trouble. i think that there are any number of polls that have laid that out. i think that trump's going to give them a run for the money if. >> they >> don't sort of geared up as david was just suggesting with some of the issues that i think are at play and would resonate with voters. so i think he does care. i think his team cares, >> but that's what you >> say in the world of politics before the facing your opponent because you sure don't want to put up a white flag ahead of time and suggest you're

worried. yeah. good point. governor sanford. thanks so much for joining us. david axelrod, always good to have you here in the situation room as well. appreciate it. and just ahead, how president biden is vowing to respond after the death of russian opposition leader alexey navalny. much more news coming up. we'll be right back. >> that might on the ice, he saw something someone in this towns hiding something have to to get to the truth >> hold on. >> the grand cherokee is the most awarded suv ever. and because of that, it means even more. when you and keep a grand cherokee in the face emily chose now while still looking forward to the road ahead during the jeep, president's day sales event, get the

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talking about the republican impeachment inquiry that is based on smear nops claims but they see that as being politically motivated and basically totally bogus. i think if anything, we could end up hearing directly from president biden at some point in the next few days, as he's on this west coast swing, if he does get asked about this latest development you'll recall that last friday after delivering remarks about alexia navalny, when a reporter asked him about smirnov, we got a pretty fiery response from the president saying that he was lying. the inquiry impeachment inquiry should be dropped altogether and saying that all of this had been outrageous from the very beginning. so clearly this is something that the president is amped up about, not to mention the very sort of grave and serious implications that all of this has for russia's attempts to influence politics here in the us, wolf, as you know, mj we did hear from president biden earlier today about the new sanctions against russia that are clearly now in the works.

tell our viewers what he's saying. >> we the president confirmed that a new round of sanctions against russia is going to be coming on friday. this was expected ever since news of alexey navalny's death broke he said that the timing are indicated at least that the timing is not a coincidence. this is according to actually us official speaking towards given that saturday happens to be the two-year mark of russia's invasion into ukraine. this is the president earlier today >> i told you review it sanctions on russia rob, a major package announced on friday i'll be happy to sit with you all. we're doing >> us officials, of course, have been careful not to telegraph exactly what that package of sanctions is going to look like. but jake sullivan, the president's national security adviser, did describe this as a substantial package. he said that it would be a wide range of targets it's that calm in this

package, particularly aimed at russia's defense industry, as well as revenue that fuels russia's war machine. this is, according to jake sullivan. so this obviously comes as the white house is continuing to urgently call on house republicans to take action to pass a national security bill that would fund ukraine's war efforts to the tune of some $60 billion. that of course remains stalled on capitol hill right now, wolf during recess right now, mj lee reporting from the white house. thank you. let's get some more right now on alexey navalny's death and the reaction cnn's chief global affairs correspondent matthew chance is joining us live from moscow right down matthew, give us the latest information you're getting >> yeah. well, there's been some significant developments here, particularly a lot of controversy surrounding the promotion all the deputy deputy director of the russian federal prison services name is valerriy but urine off and it's been promoted to the rank

of colonel general, something that was announced on an internal website, but has been reported by the state media here in russia, it's controversial because it comes just a few days, four days the death of alexi navalny, that prominent russian opposition leader in one of the prisons that that service runs. and so that's why it's caused such outrage, particularly amongst navalny's supporters, the head of alexey navalny's anti-corruption foundation, evan's is dan off saying this is a personal award for torture and murder from putin the kremlin, of course, has denied does any connection between the death of navalny and this promotion. but it comes as all this controversy continues to boil up here with most recently the mother of navalny, ludmilla navalnya moving to thousand miles or so to the north of the country here in russia to try and get access to the remains of her son at failing and now

making a personal appeal to vladimir putin to intervene. take a listen i am addressing you vladimir putin, like you have this solution to the issue depends only on you. let me finally see my sunday. i demand that alexey's body be immediately handed over, but i can bury him humanely. >> so an emotional pill there from the vilnius mother, but shortly after she made those remarks to the camera, there it was announced here in russia that her other son or leg, olig, the value alexei navalny's brother has also been announced to buy by the prosecutors to be on the police, wanted list. it's not clear what he's suspected of but it does indicate that the authorities here are not easing up the pressure at all on the navalny family not at all. >> matthew chance in moscow for us. thank you. just ahead. prosecutors unveil new charges in the kansas city super bowl rally shooting. stay with us.

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there were multiple shots that were ringing out just today prosecutors gave us some new clarity on the timeline what was occurring before the first shot was fired. have a listen defendant maize was in a verbal argument with another individual. that argument very quickly escalate it to maize drawing his firearm almost immediately others pulled their firearms. the evidence tells us that it was mr. miller's firearm mr. miller's firearm struck lisa lopez galvin now this is graham, but this is what investigators are dealing with. this one victim, lisa lopez galvin. authorities actually pulled a 38 caliber round from her match that to one of the weapons that was in possession of one of these individuals. now cnn is attempting to locate attorney information for them. we do know that not only there thank custody wolf are also still in the hospital. these two individuals were victims in the

shooting as you had this dispute, multiple people pulling out weapon, shooting, shooting in different places. again, they injured they were injured in this process. >> i understand also, josh, that investigators are calling for additional victims to actually come forward now, that's right. authorities say they know the number of gunshot wounds that were suffered, what they don't know is how many people may have been injured fleeing. you can imagine the chaos as shots ring out. people are fleeing over fences and there could be the trampling stampede effect authority say that if you were injured on that day, they want to hear from you what does that tell us? that tells us that authorities there are still building this case and likely are going to try to bring every possible charge that they can down to every person who was injured against the people that they believed were responsible wolf josh campbell reporting. thank you. and we'll be right back with more news >> vegas. the story of sin city. sunday at ten on cnn. >> i love your dress thanks.

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>> new developments today at the united nations security council, where the united states has now vetoed an algerian resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza claiming it would have hurt efforts to release hostages. the veto covers the one day after the us released its own draft proposal for a temporary ceasefire at the un security council amid growing american frustration with israel's war against hamas meanwhile, the war in ukraine is bringing two of america's biggest adversaries closer together. and the repercussions of the relationship are being felt in the war torn country. brian todd is binary the story for us, brian, what is this growing russia, north korea alliance mean for us national security interests? >> wolf, it means that america's ally in kyiv not only has to contend with vladimir putin's army and its arsenal, but also with hundreds of north korean artillery shells and missiles, which we we've just learned have american-made parts in them a startling

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>> elicit technology has just one part of a larger problem, growing military ties between kim jong un and vladimir putin, ties that have been strengthened with a luxury gift to the north korean dictator from his russian counterpart the russian limo that putin showed kim when the two met last year, putin just sent kim a similar model called an aurus, according to north korean state media, the russian president possibly trying to one-up former president trump, who showed kim the american presidential limo a cadillac nicknamed the beast, when the two met in singapore in 2018, kim's managed to move around in several high-end vehicles over the years, including a black rolls-royce and armored mercedes-maybach pullman guard limousines. the problem is under un sanctions, kim's not supposed to have these luxury cars he smuggled them in, then turns around to flaunt his apparent fleet of limos. >> north korea's commercial facilitators overseas have global reach that stretches not only in northeast asia, but also to places like europe as

well. >> that kim now reaping the prestige of high profile summit symbolic value of red carpets and limousine rides. and that's certainly enhances kim stature. it shows that he's an equal on the world stage. and it also has probably an impact domestically showing came as the great leader that he can deliver for north korea, even though the economic conditions remained dismal >> north korea has been banned from importing luxury goods since 2006, but that has not stopped the regime from smuggling and items like high-end watches, yachts, cognac, and other expensive liquor, even ski lifts for the resort, which only north korean elites can use. wolf. we've also done features on his other high-end modes of transportation. he's got an armored train. he's got a a private plane that was custom made just for him. he gets around in some pretty incredible machinery. >> very interesting indeed, brian todd, thank you very much for that report. and to our viewers. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in