dramatically reduces redness in one minute. look at the difference, eyes brighter and whiter eight hours. it was love at first sight with efi. see for yourself. good afternoon. i m erica hill. thanks for joining us in the cnn newsroom and i m bianna golodryga, a major display today of democratic solidarity in china is watching it all right now in the outskirts of los angeles, taiwan s president, sighing wind is meeting with house speaker kevin mccarthy and other bipartisan leaders. it comes as taipei s relations with china steadily crumble and us chinese tensions continually rise over aggressive spying in beijing support for russia. but the u. s. does remain steadfast in its support for the tiny island nation next hour. we do expect, speaker mccarthy and president said to deliver joint statements from the reagan presidential library, and we will bring those to you live, joining us now. cnn s senior international correspondent, will ripley, who was in taipei and cnn chief whit
these were homes, neighborhoods , communities and here and elsewhere. the staggering loss of property is secondary. at least 25 people are now confirmed dead in mississippi. another person was killed in alabama for perspective. these past 24 hours have seen more tornado deaths than all of last year. many are just thankful to have survived. mcafee unity. and . thank god we re alive, but also were so devastated by the loss. the whole trailer park behind the building is gone and we don t know where everybody is . we don t know who s alive and who s gone. cnn s nick valencia is enrolling fork, mississippi nick just heartbreaking to hear these accounts. what are you hearing from people? it is and it s just awful to see this and we apologize for having to go live from our satellite phone. but it s a testament how much damage is here. in sharkey county and rolling fork, mississippi felt hours have been heavily damaged here, which is why we re not being able to go live on air. but wh
before the grand jury telling, and they both told them something similar that you know they were. i asked if dhs could see his voting machines have had the authority to seize voting machines, and they both said no. now we also know that trump continued to entertain the idea of potentially using federal agencies to seize voting machines all the way up in the immediate run up to january, 6th. but this these new details from our sources about closed door testimony really do give a rare window into what prosecutors are looking at, at least as one part of the investigation into efforts to overturn the election. alright zachary cohen, please keep us posted. thank you. house gop lawmakers are sounding off on the historic indictment of former president donald trump and already discussing plans to investigate manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is on the hill. so manu, some lawmakers are calling trump s indictment a political scam and say tha
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was the expectation set by a judge that he would have to answer questions, which is rare in a criminal case. like this and so the grand jury wants to hear more about the interactions between trump s legal team and the federal government leading up to the fbi rate of mara lago, right, and so they want to know why more classified documents were found there after the legal team said to the best of their knowledge that there weren t any more so the expectation is, he was asked and had to answer questions about that. alright zachary cohen, thank you very much with his unique insights. cnn senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elie honig joins us now to break down some of these headlines. ellie thanks so much great to see you again. what do you think is the most perilous legal case against trump out of all of the ones that we ve been talking about? there are many, but does any of them stand out as being the most perilous? well it s a lot to keep track of as you said, jim. i thin