committee member jamie raskin said that s the moment that trump became the first president in american history to call for a protest against the peaceful transfer of power. we expect the committee to try to link this to extremist groups mobilizing around january 6. also, the committee has suggested they will probe possible links between trump s circle and some of the extremist groups. one of the witnesses today, stephen ayres, a convicted rioter. also a former spokes keeper for the oath keeper will join us. joining us now elie honig. your gravitational force is pulling us over here. we re talking about what the committee wants to do today. the tweet from donald trump why that inspired them to mobilize around january 6. and why is that important? yeah, john, the committee is going to make the point that the one and only reason that the mob descended around the capitol, liz cheney wrote, president trump assembled the mob. we re going to hear about the december 18th meeting
queen elizabeth celebrates 70 years on the throne. we re live with a preview of the upcoming celebrations. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. the mass shooting at an elementary school in uvalde, texas was an unthinkable tragedy. 19 young students and two teachers gunned down. but now we re hearing more chilling details about police failures on that day. the incident commander, police chief arredondo did not have a police radio on him at the time. we re also getting new information about a desperate 911 call by a 10-year-old student while the shooter stalked the building. reporter: new questions raised in the investigation of the deadly school shooting in uvalde. school district police chief arredondo didn t have a radio with him at the scene, something that may have hindered his ability to communicate directly with police dispatcher. i am told that this person did not have radio communication, and i don t know as to why. reporter: gut
states will in fact send advance rocket systems to the war-torn country. we ll have more on what changed the president s mind there. along with joe and mika, we ve got mike barnicle and elise jordan and the former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. we will begin in texas, where the official account has changed again, about how the gunman who killed 19 children and their two teachers entered that school in uvalde. last friday, you ll rememberer the director of the department of public safety said a teacher had propped open a door through which the gunman entered the school. well, now, the agency said the teacher had come back to close the door but it just failed to lock. this new account comes after an attorney for the teacher told the san antonio express news the teacher did prop open the door using a rock to carry food from her car into the school. when she saw the gunman crash his car into a ditch, she went back inside to get her phone to report t
welker and michael crowley and barry mccaffrey. thanks for joining us. molly, let me start with you. we see russians make key advances, especially as they are being more concentrated in the eastern part of ukraine. they are hammering the area of severodonetsk. talk me through what you are hearing when it comes to the battlefield in ukraine. reporter: that s exactly right. they are hammering severodonetsk and all of the villages surrounding it. there s been a pocket, a horseshoe-like area, a-in-law fighting area, but that s where all of the russian aggression for the last week has been concentrated in the donbas. severodonetsk has the biggest city, the most strategic in lieu luhansk. this morning. we heard the front line cut the city in half. as of an hour ago, we heard from the head of the city military that told reuters, 60% of the city is under russian control, the eastern part. 20% under ukrainian control and there s a portion of that city which is no man s land. evacuat
east. for the 19 children and two teachers gunned down inside their classroom one week ago there s growing anger now over the police response as the justice department prepare tuesday launch a review how law enforcement responded. reporter: we re now getting our first glimpse add some of the information related to officers outside robb elementary school as a massacre was unfolding on the inside. abc news obtained a portion of video that appears to be audio from one 911 operator relaying information from a child inside the classroom. you have a child on the line. reporter: cnn has not been able to independently confirm the audio or at what point in the incident it was heard. on friday the texas public safety director said there were at least eight 911 calls from two callers in the school pleading for help. investigators now say 19 officers waited outside the classroom where the gunman was for about 50 minutes until a customs and border patrol team decided to go in with