Hello, from CNN, I'm Jo Beck, with the five things you need to know for Wednesday, March 27. The Trump administration is doing damage control over the Yemen strike group chats. Top Intell officials are shifting the responsibility to Defense Secretary Pete Haggseth for sending intel to a message chain on the Signal app that included a journalist. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has written a letter to President Donald Trump calling for Haggseth to be, quote, fired immediately.
After hearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday, the CIA Director and the Director of National Intelligence repeatedly denied that classified information was sent to the chats. But GOP senators want more answers, like Mike Rounds, who said he wasn't satisfied with the responses. Only if they simply had to say what the White House said, the White House said they made a mistake, and I think that's exactly the way to begin with. Democrats argue that if the information shared in the chat wasn't sensitive, then it should be released to the public.
I think that Russia wants to see an Intell, but it could be their drag in the feet. That was Trump speaking in an interview that aired on Newsmax last night, about whether Russia wants peace in Ukraine. I've done it over the years. You know, I don't want to sign a contract.
I want to sort of stay in the game, but maybe I don't want to do it. Quite, I'm not sure. Yesterday, the White House said both Ukraine and Russia agreed to stop using force in the Black Sea, which Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky confirmed. But Russia has said it would only do that once the sanctions on its banks and exports are lifted.
Trump told reporters that his administration is, quote, looking at the conditions. Leaders from NPR and PBS will testify in Congress today, after Trump said he'd be interested in taking away their tax payer funding. The CEOs have been called to speak in front of a government-efficiency House subcommittee, when Republicans are expected to grill them over their funding. At the start of the year, the Federal Communications Commission chairman ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS's sponsorship practices.
NPR's as its two largest revenue sources are from corporate sponsorships and fees paid by member organizations. Vice President JD Vance has announced he'll be joining his wife on her trip to Greenland this week. Second lady, Usha Vance, is visiting along with a U.S. delegation, including national security advisor Mike Walts.
And the trip was described as highly aggressive by Greenland's Prime Minister. But in a video posted to X, the Vice President had a much more positive take on the trip. There was so much excitement around Usha's visit to Greenland this Friday that I decided that I didn't want her to have all that fun by herself. A statement from Vance's office said the pair will visit a space space, receive a briefing on Arctic security measures, and meet with U.S.
service members. Vance also claimed that Greenland has been ignored by American and Danish leaders for, quote, far too long, which he said is bad for global security. New details have been released about the death of the teenage son of a former New York Yankees player. We'll have more on that next.
Costa Rican officials told CNN they've ruled out asphyxiation as the cause of death for 14-year-old Mila Gardner. His father is former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, who over the weekend announced that his son had died after a sudden illness on vacation. Authorities say the whole family got sick from what they think was food poisoning. They had said that could have caused Mila's airways to be blocked and caused his death, but that has now been ruled out.
They're waiting for toxicology tests to see if he died because of the food poisoning, and investigators are also looking for security footage and interviewing hotel employees to see if they spotted anything unusual. That's all for now. We'll have more news for you at 9am Eastern.