This vicious persecution is a travesty of justice. This is a political hit job. Im going to have to sit here for months on a trail. I think its ridiculous. Its unfair. Trump often whines about the unfairness of it all. The two tiers of justice. Well, hes right, there is a tier for trump, who remains a free man, and another tier for the many other americans who go to prison for much less than what hes done. Also tonight, Brave Mourners Defy the kremlin outside the funeral of russian Opposition Leader alexei navalny. Crying out, putin is a murderer, and we wont forgive. Well discuss how their Valor Contrasts with the weakness and capitulation of the putin and trump stooges in americas Republican Party. Plus, on this first day of womens history month, well call up the bey hive to discuss how beyonce who is number one on the Country Music charts is helping Shine A Light on the black pioneers in the genre, particularly black women. But we begin tonight with the wildest of american dichotomi
law enforcement nationwide watching with heightened concern. cbs news is overhead. i m astrid martinez taking to the new york city skies with nypd as they showed me their massive security operations to keep the crowds safe on new year s eve. also tonight, red sea attack. u.s. navy kills iran-backed rebels in boats attacking a container ship as israel expands its fight agains hamas. i m ian leon the israel-gaza border. last night israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the war behind me could last many more months. plus, president biden s new year. vacationing in st. croix, but juggling war, a migrant crisis, and reelection. i m skyler henry traveling with the president as he dials up the pressure on congress while his political opponents weigh in. death of nascar legend. remembering three-time champion cale yarborough. cale hits him. he is fine! later, we ll note the end of anner as america s last lighthouse keeper ends her watch. boston lighthouse is m
punxsutawney, pennsylvania. get your arms around that. they re waiting to see. i love it. will the groundhog see his shadow? fantastic. band is on stage. everyone is ready to go. we have to do the show live from there sometime. oh, my god, i d love to do that. can we do the show live from punxsutawney? groundhog day for me is one of those things, i can never remember whether the groundhog sees its shadow, it s good or it s bad. it just doesn t stay with me. maybe because i don t care. i don t know. i don t know. but that would be fun. yeah. gobbler s knob. exactly. that s where we all want to go. we have a lot to get to this morning. i really want to hear that. including president joe biden s meeting at the white house with speaker kevin mccarthy. both sides were upbeat about their conversation. it appears we re not any closer to a deal on the debt ceiling, but we will follow the developments there. gave him a box of white house m&ms, and mccarthy le
hello, i m sara sidner in for victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. the southwest airline meltdown is now in its seventh day of derailing people s travel plans. since last thursday, the company has cancelled more than 15,000 flights, including 2300 set for tomorrow. flight aware finds 89% of the nation s cancellations just today belong to southwest airlines. transportation secretary pete buttigieg promises to hold the nation s largest domestic carrier accountable. but for some passengers, southwest may never be able to make up for days of delay. misplaced luggage and ruined holidays. i hate southwest. southwest, i hate them. i hate them. how did you make out? i was there from 12:00 12:00, still stranded. i need to drive nine more hours. i m upset, i m stressed, i m tired and i hate them. okay. she did not pull any punches there. cnn correspondent nick valencia is outside of hartsfield-jackson airport, the busiest in the world. nick, what are you hearing
share 20 transcripts from his witnesses with justice department investigators. the committee also seems to be zeroing in on former trump cabinet officials. of particular interest, conversations among those officials about possibly invoking the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. joining us now is johnwood, a former senior investigator for the january 6th select committee. he is running as an independent in missouri for the senate there. john, thank you so much for being with us. so, it was cnn s exclusive reporting, the department of justice is preparing to make a case to get around executive privilege, to basically force the testimony, to be prepared to force the testimony of key trump advisers. what does this tell you about where they are? where this federal investigation is? yeah, this is a really big step. up until a few days ago, there were very few public signs that the justice department was really focused on people in trump s immediate inner circle, as opp