reporting on thursday and it was just a report on what was going on, which you broke, and it looked really bad for elon musk because here he is getting all of this credit at the beginning of the war when all eyes are on ukraine, it looked great for him. and as people are paying less attention, he s like, this is costing a lot of money, i m not going to foot the bill. my question is if dod ends up footing the bill, then what happens? does he say, no thanks i ll pick up the tab? that s the question, whether spacex and elon musk go to the pentagon and say we re rescinding our request, and that was for pentagon to pay for the ongoing services and new requests for the rest of the year, a rate that could be around $400 million for the next 12 months. so the big question today, and and we ll ask the pentagon this,
but clearly they want more answers in public now. good morning, poppy. that s right. that really is the big question today. the committee has yet to give us any idea of what the focus or topic of today s hearing is. but cassidy hutchinson has long been considered one of the most consequential witnesses for the january 6th committee, given her proximity to president trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, and therefore events and important conversations surrounding january 6th. and this rush to have the hearing today, that highlights just how important the committee believes that this testimony could be. her testimony has rattled capitol hill. are you aware of any members of congress reporter: once a top aide to mark meadows, cassidy hutchinson is now a key witness in the house january 6th committee s investigation, giving hours of testimony in multiple sessions.
in prison. the big question today, will the judge decide whether or not the men will have the possibility of parole. we also expect to hear from ahmaud arbery s mother during the hearing with a victim impact statement. she spoke with cnn earlier this morning. ahmaud didn t get a chance to live. so with that being said, travis should not get a chance to live as a free man. travis should go to prison for life without parole, and that being said, he should remain in prison forever. let s go to our national correspondent dianne gallagher on the scene for us in brunswick, georgia, for us this morning. set the scene for us. what do we expect? reporter: well, wolf, as things get under way inside that courtroom here, we expect for it to be a day of hearing statements, both from the defense and from the state. wanda cooper jones, the mother
that response is going to look like. and a big question has been what germany s response would february russia did invade? they have not been as clear as some other nations have been talking about just how forceful the response would be, how punishing the sanctions would february russia did move forward with this aggressive step. germany has been a little more low key on the world stage, frankly, when it comes to what they would do and what they would vconsider doing. what exactly those sanctions would look like. and the other natural topic here is nord stream 2, this natural gas pipeline built between germany and russia. it s not in use yet, but it s still being evaluated, but there s been a big question about that because you ve seen just how forceful the u.s. has been saying that it could be used basically as a coercive measure against ukraine. so that s a big question today. and really just what stage what step germany is going to take here. you ve seen democrats and republicans
why they turned it into dividends for shareholders. john: i m kind of surprised the president says he s going to work with oil producers to ramp up production and then doesn t do anything to pay off on that. sandra: it is interesting, i m sure we ll be covering more of it as a new week begins next monday. i ll see you then, john. thanks for joining us. i m sandra smith. john: i m john roberts. we ll see you martha: thank you very much, john and sandra. i m martha maccallum. here s the story. a lot going on in ukraine at this hour. tensions boiling over whether ukraine hit a fuel depot inside of russia, which would be an escalatory move. but did the russians do it themselves? that is a big question today. also, the cruelty in mariupol is making it a living hell. then you have the brave red cross workers that were turned