became the first transgender champion in ncaa division history. in an interview last month, he said that she does plan to keep swimming competitively including, she said, at the olympic trials to try and go after the olympics. the vote, though, by the governing body would ban thomas and other transgender athletes from taking part in women s sports events. mary korean rafferty joins us with more. reporter: hi, eric. the new rules would mean a trans it s e alt heat9 would have to complete their transition before the age of 12. ya thomas, first trans athlete to win a division i swimming title and had also hoped to compete in the olympics, will not be allow to do so. the international body that governs water sports says the move will balance includessivity and insure no one has an unfair advantage. we have to protect the right of all our athletes to compete. but we also have to protect competition fairness at our events, especially women s competition. and also the past reco
good to be with you. i m ayman mohyeldin in new york. thursday s hearings of the january six committee was basically the mike pence show, revolve around the pressure campaign by donald trump s allies to get the vice president to use his constitutional, ceremonial role, on january the 6th, to change joe biden s electoral votes, or set them aside for donald trump. the panel may know about painting pence as a man of courage, who stood up against trump s plan. we are fortunate for mr. pence s courage on january 6th. our democracy came dangerously close to catastrophe. that courage put him in tremendous danger. when mike pence made it clear that he wouldn t give into donald trump s scheme, donald trump turned a mob on him. thanks in part to mike pence, our democracy was stood on trump s scheme and the balance of january 6th. all right. the committee wasn t alone. in fact, an article in the atlantic last week hailed pence as a national hero for turning back the threat t
hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka whitfield. major breaking news, moments ago the cdc s vaccine advisory panel voted if favor of authorizing the pfizer and moderna covid vaccines for children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. the white house says those vaccines will now be available in states as soon as next week. cnn s miguel marquez has been following this key vote. miguel, this is a welcome moment for many parents across the u.s. and a lot of pediatricians who had been hoping for this. reporter: a lot of people across the country hoping for this. look, it is not clear how significant uptake will be, given where we are in this pandemic. but certainly this was the last big tranche of americans who weren t able to be vaccinated, almost 20 million of our youngest, most vulnerable americans who will now soon be able to get two different vaccines. they had a long meeting today, they took a lot of questions. they had questions and s
the results was illegal. but they pushed anyway. listen to former trump white house lawyer eric herschmann on his conversation with eastman. i said are you out of your effing mind. i was completely blunt. i said you re crazy, you re going to cause riots in the streets. and he said words to the effect of, there s been violence in the history of our country to protect the democracy or protect the republic. testimony revealed even after the capitol riot, eastman pushed for delay in certifying the election and later asked for a pardon. [ crowd chanting ] the committee also outlined just how close rioters were to the then vice president and pointed out that some of them had seen president trump s tweet at 2:24, saying that pence lacked courage. recent court filing by the department of justice explains the confidential informant from the proud boys told the fbi the proud boys would have killed mike pence if given a chance. some of those rioters came within just 40 feet of
last heard from in ukraine around april 23rd, according to a family friend. alexander and andy went missing last week. videoed surfaced today on pro-russian social media appearing to show those two men in an unknown location. we re not showing the video because it appears to show the men under duress. sam kiley is in kharkiv just miles from where those two veterans were last seen. he spoke with an american who was fighting with andy and alex just before they went missing. these two americans fighters have their hands bound behind them. they re dressed in uniforms not their own, and they may well have been captured by the very russians they had been fighting. this as far as it goes is good news for the comrade who last saw a t-72 tank open fire on his two friends. does that give you any kind of cause for hope? absolutely. absolutely. i wish i could say with 100% certainty that it s not a fake, but i have a lot of hope that it s them. a former u.s. serviceman, he was in