us. we are learning the names of some of the top republicans who have testified in multiple investigations involving the former president both in the federal case involving the misuse of classified documents and also the investigation in georgia into the former president s attempt to overturn the election results there. cnn s sara murray joins us now with details. let s start with the fulton county, georgia investigation. who is testifying? well, anderson, we have learned that there are two prominent witnesses who have testified before fulton county grand jury. one of them is former georgia senator kelly loeffler. the other is former white house lawyer pat cipollone. both of these are big gets for the district attorney down in georgia, fawnee willis. it gives you an idea how long-ranging her investigation. what news to the federal grand jury investigating the documents at mar-a-lago? we are learning this evening, that kash patel, a top adviser to former president donald
john: four terrorists have been released, they are free and safe. the idf says they ve rescued three men and one women, they were kidnapped from the music festival on october 7th. today s raid by the special police forces in central gaza, the largest rescue operation since the start of this war. claudia:hi, i am claudia cowan, those hostages are back in his real and have been reunited with their loved ones. details of the mission are still coming in but here s what we know. israeli forces conducted a daytime operation on two separate locations in gaza and while they did secure the release of those hostages, an officer in the national police force was quickly wounded and has died of his injuries. lieutenant colonel jonathan oncriques is standing by but let s talk check with stephanie bennett with more on today s rescue. reporter: after being held captive for 8 months, israeli authorities say those four hostages were taken in good medical condition. it s miraculous to say t
Fewer people will actually pay tax at that rate. Now, let me tell you what else they want to do. They want to nearly double the standard deduction. 12,000 for individuals. 24,000 for married couples. Thats the justification for raising the lowest tax rate from 10 to 12 that a whole lot of people arent actually going to pay for. The plan also calls for the elimination of the socalled marriage penalty. Raising the tax credit for a child under 17 by a yet to be specified amount. And look for a new 500 tax credit for nonchild dependents. That replaces the idea that you can actually otherwise claim nonchild dependents. In addition, the plan calls for repealing the estate tax. What a lot of republicans call the death tax. This benefits generally speaking the wealthy. It also repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax. At lot of you might say i pay the Alternative Minimum Tax. Heres the problem. It was actually meant to be something for the wealthy. Wasnt indexed to inflation so a
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and say that skin color determined. turn hard not to do that. the answer to that has official backtracking today. i will speak to the reverend, al sharpton, about the controversy coming up. we also continue to follow the dangerously putting millions risk this weekend across the country. a billion dollars up for grabs in the next few days as jackpots for the two biggest lottery is in the country reach stratospheric heights. more on the head, as well. more on that and the new york times we ve been talking about back in 2018. former president trump inquiring about pursuing an irs investigation into two fbi officials, lisa stroke and page this is coming from a sworn statement from trump s former chief of staff, john kelly. joining me now the reporter that broke that story new york times washington correspondent and msnbc washington correspondent, michael schmidt. michael, always great to talk to you.
who was gunned down at the foot of a bridge of the kremlin in 2015. then former russian spies who putin saw as threats. 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 off an attac on a soviet double agent in 2018. former spy sergei skripal and his daughter were poisoned and nearly killed in britain with the powerful nerve agent novichok, an attack that investigators tied to putin s government. former russian intelligence agent, alexander litvinenko tying putin to organized crime was killed in london when someone slipped the radioactive substance polonium into his tea. the british investigators found beyond a reasonable doubt evidence that two agents of the