that i immediately exposed, which made him immediately tell him to make him stop telling the lie, that he lost hundreds of friends on 9/11. that is possibly the most grotesque lie donald trump has ever told. about himself in a personal way. he lost tons of friends on 9/11. he lost zero friends, zero friends on 9/11. at the end of this hour, you re gonna hear what s 9/11 families are saying about donald trump hosting a saudi financed golf tournament at his golf club. donald trump, taking money from the saudis. and defending 9/11 families in the process. that s in the next hour. as 76 defendant donald trump looks at the final chapter of his life, he knows tonight that he is likely to spend the rest of his life as a defendant. he s already a defendant multiple times in different kinds of civil lawsuits, including, most importantly, and most dangerously, to donald trump, lawsuits brought against defendant trump by capitol police officers who are suing donald trump for causing the
messages, the house select committee investigating the capitol insurrection wants by tomorrow. plus, after a wild week on wall street, earning are rolling in and this morning from some of the world s biggest companies such as goldman sachs and bank of america. cnbc s andrew ross sorkin is breaking down the latest number as we get them in. and we ll explain why democrats are very upset with joe manchin. it is groundhog day. it is getting old. and we ll play for you president biden s response to reporters when asked about his fist bump when saudi arabia s crown prince. we ll also talk about the actual visit to saudi arabia. but first, the damning new report about the police response to one of the deadliest school shootings. systemic failure is the way it was described in a new preliminary report written by the texas house of representatives, the report also details how nearly 400 law enforcement officials responded to the mass shooting and basically waited outside as the
forward. what do republicans have to say? the republicans offered a bit of a muted response. many not defending donald trump s actions, not yet criticizing what the justice department is doing, taking a wait and see approach. one of those republicans, lindsey graham of south carolina, who told me earlier today that he does not think that trump should be prosecuted. that s just ridiculous for me to comment over what some grand jury may be looking at. i don t see anything to prosecute him over. now, graham himself has come under scrutiny for phone calls he made to the georgia secretary of state in the aftermath of the november 2020 elections. the georgia prosecutor looking into donald trump s actions, has asked for graham to come before the grand jury and testify there. graham himself has said that he will not do that, he s trying to fight that subpoena. nevertheless, you re hearing some defense from republicans but most are saying they re going to take a wait and see a
but we are so grateful to have you spending your morning with us. we re thrilled to have you with us. it is a bittersweet morning here at cnn. it is christi s last day with us at new day. we ll have a lot to say about that. share some good-byes later this hour. stick around for that. we do want to begin with the breaking news, what is happening in ukraine. yeah, because the war there is looming over a meeting of g7 leaders in europe right now. there were explosions that rocked the ukrainian capital of kyiv today. the ukrainian airport says between 4 and 6 missiles were launched at consekyiv. president biden is going to try to keep u.s. allies aligned against russia, even as he faces anger and frustration back home over inflation, the rising cost of food and gas and legitimate fears of a recession. he and other leaders will look for ways to punish russia, while also managing a global economy that has become shaky. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is expected t
us now. great to see you as always. this is a serious escalation. how do you see it? this is an escalation that china had been worning about in the weeks prior to this trip that pelosi was taking p the question is was it worth it, was anything substantive made during these meetings that she had on the ground there, symbolically this was a huge move, showing once again the united states stands in support of taiwan. and their autonomy there. that having been said, given the tensions, not only in the region right now, in china s escalation, and xi s escalation, as he s approaching his party congress meeting later this year, set to become the third term, unprecedented leader of that country and leader for life, was it worth it. with all of the focus now on ukraine, would this actually benefit taiwan and its security, and that s the question really going forward there, holding embargoes now on trade between china and taiwan, and, you know, the taiwanese obviously embraced this v