The American People before this summers conventions. What he needs to do for a strong state of the Union Address tonight and how some allies are working Behind The Scenes to push the president to own the big stage. And within the next few hours, the city of uvalde, texas is expected to release its findings of its report on the Botched Police response to the Robb Elementary School massacre. We have a closer look at what we can expect and were learning burning more about last years Train Derailment in ohio and how the response that followed was based on a bad call. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central The Stage is set for tonights big speech from president joe biden, perhaps the biggest of his presidency. And just a few hours he sets deliver a State Of The Union dress that i have to navigate some pessimism about the economy, anxiety over record immigration, frustrations with the israelhamas war and growing concerns about
the justice department has just issued a scathing and disturbing report on the louisville police department nearly two years after a nearly two year civil rights investigation. now, attorney general merrick garland launched this probe in the months after the louisville police shot and killed an unarmed black woman, breonna taylor inside of her home. a short time ago garland explained that that botched raid in march of 2020 was part of a practice of abuses by the city. the pd leader told the department breonna taylor was a symptom of problems that we have had for years. the justice department s findings in the report that we are releasing today bear that out. and listen to this, these are just some of the very ugly examples that garland cited today. the justice department has also identified deficiencies in lmpd s response to and investigation of domestic violence and sexual assault. lmpd has relied heavily on pretextual traffic stops in black neighborhoods. some have vi
region. we ll get a live report from kyiv. this afternoon the house january 6th committee will hold its fifth public hearing on what it has learned so far about the attack on the u.s. capitol. today s hearing will focus on how former president trump tried to use the justice department to help him overturn the results of the 2020 election but failed because of pushback and resignation threats, like this one from former acting deputy attorney general, richard donahue. the president said, suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rossen, with him, jeff clark. what do you do? i said, sir, i would resign immediately. there is no way i m serving one minute under this guy, jeff clark. donaghue will testify today as well as steve engel. adam kinzinger, one of two republicans on the panel, will lead today s questioning. committee chairman, bennie thompson, says the panel will wait until later next month to hold more hearings because it needs to look through new evidence it
united states, and i m going to put my state through that without sufficient proof? reporter: but trump pressed on and the committee revealing his involvement in the trump campaign effort to send a fake set of electors on january 6th to prevent congress from certifying joe biden s victory. what did the president say when he called you? essentially he turned the call over to mr. eastman who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors in case any of the legal challenges that were ongoing changed the result of any of the states. reporter: newly revealed text messages from the morning of january 6th show the apparent involvement of gop senator ron johnson, an exchange between staffers for johnson and vice president pence shows johnson wanted to give pence an alternate slate of electors from michigan and wisconsin. pence s staffers responded, do not give that to him. the pressure campaign extended to georgia
in history, the history of the united states, and i m going to put my state through that without sufficient proof? reporter: but trump pressed on and the committee revealing his involvement in the trump campaign effort to send a fake set of electors on january 6th to prevent congress from certifying joe biden s victory. what did the president say when he called you? essentially he turned the call over to mr. eastman who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors in case any of the legal challenges that were ongoing changed the result of any of the states. reporter: newly revealed text messages from the morning of january 6th show the apparent involvement of gop senator ron johnson, an exchange between staffers for johnson and vice president pence shows johnson wanted to give pence an alternate slate of electors from michigan and wisconsin. pence s staffers responded, do not give that to him. the pressur