soccer, perhaps the greatest ever to play the game. the news continues, so let s hand it over to alisyn camera at that for cnn tonight. good evening everyone, i m alisyn camerota. there is new intriguing details from the january 6th committee tonight. you ll hear how lindsey graham vowed to champion donald trump s election lies if only the white house could find him, quote, five dead voters. we ll explain. you ll also hear what donald trump thought about the appearance of the january 6th rioters. spoiler alert, they were not his type. and you ll hear about the text that don jr. sent to mark meadows the day after his father lost the election. it was basically a roadmap for how to unconstitutionally keep trump in office. don jr. says he cannot remember who sent him that text. but see if you recognize some of the unique language in that text as a clue. and as predicted, there are new developments and new lies from congressman-elect george santos. he s the one who lied ab
one of the best defenses in the country. of course we would be remiss if we didn t mention how most teams would love a trip to the sugar bowl but the alabama crimson tide not one of them. they lost two games this season by a combined four points both on the last play of the game against texnnessee and lsu, so they miss the playoffs. they ll face kansas state tomorrow, some of the georgia fans in our sports department told me to remind you you can t spell sugar bowl without uga. i apologize for that. i ve been to the sugar bowl more times than i can count on two hands. spent a lot of time in new orleans in college. she was so annoyed we were doing the sugar bowl situation in the show. i ll be watching tomorrow. we kickoff at noon, it s fine. actually love nick saban said yesterday this has been one of the most enjoyable nonplayoff bowl preps they have had. that s one way to see it. yeah. coy wire, we ll be watching. roll tide. thank you so much. all right. cnn
mother is under scrutiny after he linked her death to 9/11. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight we have a new window into the previously unseen testimony in the january 6th investigation. the house select committee going public with a significant new batch of transcripts including the panel s interview with donald trump jr. cnn political correspondent sara murray is here with me in the situation room. she has been going through all this new material. sara, this round of transcripts involve some members of trump s inner circle. what have you learned? we ve reported on how important mark meadows texts were for this committee. and we see it again in the committee s interview with donald trump jr. he is texting mark meadows during the riot while it s infurling, saying we need an oval address. we need to leave now, talking about his father. it s gone too far and gotten out of hand. th
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. thank you for sticking with me. i m sara sidner. we re now get a look at even more witness transcripts from the january 6th investigation, 19 to be exact. the january 6th committee released key interviews from members of former president donald trump s family and staff, and conversations with people involved in the state level effort to overturn the 2020 election. in one interview, donald trump jr. gave more context around texts that he sent to mark meadows about plans to keep his father in office days after the election that he lost, and trump lawyer christina baub detailed something with lindsey graham in which he pledged to become a, quote, champion of election fraud claims. sara murray with me now. i know there s a lot to go through, and there s a team of people going through them, but what else stands out to you? reporter: there is a team that is diligently going through these transcripts, but the don jr. transcript is tfasc
strikes on ukraine. power facilities in key cities taking a direct hit and leaving residents in the dark and cold. also tonight, we re digging through a new batch of just released january 6th transcripts including testimony by donald trump jr. and we re getting new insight into melania trump s mistrust of her husband s inner circle. and the southwest airlines meltdown drags on now for an eighth day. with thousands more flights canceled. will southwest get back to a full schedule tomorrow as the company claims? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour in ukraine after one of the biggest russian missile assaults since the start of the russian invasion. let s go straight to the capital, kyiv. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is on the ground for us. ben, so what are you seeing and hearing over there? reporter: well, what we heard at about 9:00 this morning l