This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachel with Merrick Kissel, executive vice president

Stevenson, corporate former senior advisor to the Secretary of State. And Mike Pompeo,

Secretary of State is just returned from Ukraine, so we turn to Ukraine. But the story is

in Moscow, not in Kiev, because of the kidnapping, abduction, brutality towards a young journalist

for the Wall Street Journal, Gershkovich. I mention this because it comes upon news from

Petersburg, and there's no good reporting here. I just have what the telegraph tells me.

The Russians are claiming a young woman was tricked or participated in or was recruited

by Ukrainians, take your choice to participate in what appears to be the Russians claim an

assassination of their journalist, blogger, mill blogger Tartarsky. I can't solve the Tartarsky,

but I can say that Gershkovich is a journalist for a distinguished media representative that Mary

once participated in for the solar system. All sovereignty to my knowledge have called for Russia

to release Gershkovich immediately to apologize to him. This is pure Cold War, grabbing someone else

in order to make a provocation or a point. Mary, I mentioned the assassination of Tartarsky,

because as you commented to me ironically earlier, assassination is Putin's skill.

And this might be the killing of Tartarsky. We can't rule out the fact that it was a Russian

operation. In some fashion, who knows, we can't penetrate their thinking. They're running a

ruinous war for the people of Russia. The grabbing of Gershkovich, everybody's condemned it.

What is your measure of Putin to see get what he wants with attention or will he be obliged to

release Gershkovich? Putin has practiced hostage diplomacy for many, many years, just like his

compatriots in Beijing and Pyongyang. So it's a travesty that Evan Gershkovich

has been detained. He should be released immediately. You're right to say that Putin engaged in

assassination attempts and successful attempts, rather, against his critics recall. And

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