what she said about a white colleague s black son and why her partial resignation may not by enough to quiet her critics. plus, one of the most inconvenient and important cancer screenings, what a new study says about how well colonoscopies works. welcome to the lead. i m in for jake tapper. russia as bombarded ukraine can more than 80 missiles in eight regions. monday s was the most intense stretch of bombing. russia is clearly targeting civilian infrastructure, walkways, water and power stations, even a playground hit. so far 11 people have died, dozens more injured. putin says it is revenge for this, a saturday morning attack on the bridge that connects russia to crimea. the explosion was a strategic attack, its dependence on rail. and for putin, it s personal. he made it a point to drive across this bridge when it opened back in 2018. the attack came just a day after his 7 0th birthday. frederik pleitgen has this report. reporter: it was in the middle of monday mor
abe assassinated during a campaign speech by a man with a homemade gun. and a new report shows the u.s. jobs market stayed strong last month despite high inflation and recession fears. this hour what the numbers could mean for the u.s. economy and for the biden administration. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with a highly anticipated testimony of former white house counsel pat cipollone to the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. let s go straight to capitol hill. our reporter melanie is on the story for us. what do we know, first of all, about the testimony of this key witness? do we know if cipollone has been cooperating or not? reporter: well, pat cipollone has been testifying for eight hours and counting now behind closed doors and he has left several times throughout the course of the day to meet with his own down in separate side
played to the attempts to overturn the 2020 election. today the january 6th committee released new surveillance video it says it shows congressman barry loudermilk giving a tour to tunnel entrances at a time when it was still closed to the public because of covid. the hours-long tour was given on january 5th, the day before the insurrection. in a letter to loudermilk, the committee points out these so-called guests seemed very interesting in photographing unusual aspects, like stairways, hallways and security checkpoints, not your average tourist pho ops. the capitol police chief says he s reviewed and saw none of the actions are suspicious. pennsylvania congressman brendan boyle tweeted. this is the stairwell i take to my office. in my eight years here, i have never seen a tourist take a picture of it. he told nbc news the committee is pushing a false narrative that has already been put to bed. but according to committee, that same guy you saw on the tour taking photos in th
opportunity to hear testimony about the events leading up to the insurrection, and donald trump s possible role in fomenting and pushing known election lies. known because even his family members and top republican aides were learning were adamant there simply was no there there. now, trump is not on any of these ballots. but the connective tissue is a platform that echoes his sentiments. but as much as the committee has tried to convey that what we saw on january 6th is a continued threat, the question is whether these hearings impact the voters at all. perhaps giving them any pause about electing a trump-backed candidate, assuming of course they even watched these hearings. and even still, the 2020 lies are casting a very big shadow over many of these 2022 races. particularly in south carolina, where the polls have now closed but votes are still being counted. so here s where that revenge part comes in again. you have two incumbent republican members of congress in this dee
and ease pressures, the risk is stalling the economy and opening the door to recession. and primary lesson, south carolina voters voted to impeach trump. the banner republicans were warned they vied for opponents up and down the ballot. the crackling dispute now between the january 6th committee and a republican member of congress. the republican member in question from georgia. here you see a man taking photos of stairwells and hallways, not your typical capitol tour highlights. the committee says he led this man and a few others on a tour of the capitol complex january 5th, 2021. the committee says that same man took this video outside the capitol on january 6th shouting threats at democratic lawmakers. we re coming in like white on rice, for pelosi, nadler, schumer. even you, aoc. we re coming to take you out. cnn s ryan nobles up on capitol hill for us. tell us more. reporter: john, i think maybe each one of these individual pieces of evidence by itself may not be a