to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m bianna golodryga. we are following several major stories for you this morning. soon family members and the memphis community will gather for tyre nichols funeral to celebrate the life of the 29-year-old whose brutal death at the hands of police sparked protests across the nation. the families of george floyd and breonna taylor who have experienced similar losses are expected to be there. vice president kamala harris will also attend after an invitation from tyre nichols apartments. we will bring you the funeral live when it begins. right now house republicans say they re talking strategy ahead of president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy s meeting over the debt ceiling this afternoon. both sides are standing firm so far. republicans threatening to bring the country closer to defaulting on its debt as they demand spending cuts. the white house vows there will be no negotiations when it comes to paying the nation s existing bills. p
his own investigations. what will kevin mccarthy do now? and 5.4 billion dollars of potential fraud in pandemic related loans. with republicans now running oversight, will they get to the bottom of this? as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. there is new video tonight of a defiant donald trump testifying under oath. it comes as the former president now floor florida resident faces growing pressure from multiple investigations. the video was released today by new york attorney general letitia james, who deposed trump during her civil investigation into the trump organization s business practices last year. anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding. and that could include a civil enforcement proceeding or a criminal action. do you understand that? is that a yes? i don t know what i did wrong. but the answer is yes. i do understand. the former president went on to plead th
the pandemic. this is a story that unfolds in three parts. first, the fraud. just yesterday we learned that nearly 400 department of homeland security employees took pandemic unemployment aid, even though they were working. this is just a tiny fraction of the massive and brazen covid theft that has incurred since the government started doling out billions in so-called relief. the official who was in charge of overseeing the distribution of the belief has called this the biggest fraud in a generation. it was the theft of as much as $80 billion or about 10% of the $800 billion it was handed out in that paycheck protection program. that s on top of the 90 billion to 402 billion believed to have been stolen from the 900 billion covid unemployment relief program, that is a lot of money. the second part of this story surrounds the title wave of inflation but all of this unchecked spending and the fraud actually caused. the adverse effects of pumping trillions into the u.s. economy
good morning to you. i m jessica dean in washington. jim sciutto is off today. we re following several major stories this morning. overnight ukraine rocked by a barrage of russian missiles. the defense minister saying it s the most massive missile attack since the invasion began in februariment we know power is out in several regions including parts of the capital kyiv. we ll be live on the ground ahead. plus, the u.s. reinstating covid tests for travelers coming from china as beijing drops its own restrictions despite an overwhelming surge in cases. a fresh apology from southwest airlines today, plus new steps the airline is taking to reimburse passengers whose holiday travel was ruined. still more than 2,300 southwest flights canceled today. we re told the scheduling nightmare could end as soon as tomorrow. let s begin this morning on the ground in ukraine. cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman is in kyiv. ben, you saw firsthand some of this damage. tell us
committee dropping a brand-new batch of key testimony and for the first time we are now seeing interview transcripts from 19 additional witnesses and they include some of the closest people inside former president trump s inner circle. his son, donald trump jr., former fox news anchor kirsten gillibrand as w kimberly guile so let s get right to cnn s sara murray looking through all of these documents. sara, thousands of pages of transcripts. some we ve seen through the january 6th committee hearings and you ve been reading through donald trump jr. s transcripts. what are you finding in there? reporter: you know, this is obviously interesting because he s the former president s son, proximity to the former president and asking him about what was happening as the riot unfolded on january 6th and they re reading back text messages he exchanged with mark meadows. at one point don junior tells mark meadows, the former president trump, his dad has got to condemn this then says a