i was in my car in atlanta on the tenth and 14th bridge going over the split when i heard shake it off. first thing i thought was the track was amazing and then the hit came in the players going to play, play, play, i m just going to shake, shake, shake, shake it off how does a person feel when they come home and feel like their house has been robbed? that s how i felt. players going to play, play, play, play you have the cream of the crop artists and taylor swift is the top. she s a modern pop star but old fashioned as it gets. she believes in magazine covers and performances on late night tv. a lot of the traditional ways for artists to be in the public eye. she is the biggest artist like in the world. she s just like rolling in dough. taylor swift had yet another massive year. she dropped her midnights album that rose to the top of the charts. you got the ticket master debacle literally crashes the website because ticket master can t keep up
midterms, with nearly 200 election denying republicans running for key positions across the nation. today we will see new surveillance footage from the trump rally on the ellipse and secret service documents proving how forcefully the former president tried to join the rioters at the capitol on the 6th. the committee will show new evidence he planned to declare victory even before the election was held and new testimony from top trump cabinet members that they tried to stop him afterwards from overturning the results. today s overriding theme, beyond donald trump, congress and the voters have to work to preserve democracy as we know it. keep in mind, this is the first time in nearly three months we will see the committee in action. you know the political reality. the house of representatives could be in republican control come january. while members have repeatedly said they don t see this as part partisan, there s still a political context here. ahead of a potential 2024 p
forecast models are putting florida in the bull eye s for a hurricane in days. this is what we re watching at this hour. thanks so much for being here. i m kate bolduan. putin s war on ukraine is where we do need to start at this hour. russia is staging referendums in four occupied areas of eastern ukraine beginning today. residents being forced to vote on whether the regions should become part of russia. the referendums are widely considered a complete sham of course but this is drawing global condemnation. ukraine s president zelenskyy is calling on russians now to revolt as putin is facing a growing decent from his people over his orders to mobilize 300,000 more soldiers. hundreds have been rounded up in anti war protests as we ve seen and more and more russians are trying to escape the draft and leave the country. cnn ben wedeman starts us off live from kharkiv on this referendum votes. what are you learning about how this will go? reporter: well, it s going, i think, a
swift submitted a decoloration, and in it, she states i listened to country music almost exclusively. in my house we played cds and rarely played the radio. when i listened to the radio, it was again really country music. i did not watch the mtv show trl and i did not go to clubs during this time. i believe it. taylor swift grew up on a christmas tree farm and we ve seen the early videos of her playing the guitar from when she was a little girl and she started as a country music artist. taylor swift also says in this decoloration, until learning about plaintiff s claim in 2017, i had never heard the songs players gonna play and never heard that song or the group 3 lw. i have never seen a players gonna play music video. shake it off was independent of players gonna play . her defense, she says my parents limited what i could watch and listen to and did not
47 past the hour. four years after the murder of jamal khashoggi, the biden administration said the crowned prince mohammed bin salman should be immune from a civil lawsuit. mbs is a head of state, which makes him immune under international law but reiterated the condemnation of khashoggi s killing. they concluded mbs ordered khashoggi s murder. the lawsuit was brought from khashoggi s fiancee and the human rights group he found. they report the decoloration, is non-binding and the decision remains up to a judge. we have an nbc news ex clue exclusive. nbc news julia aniesly traveled with homeland security as they worked with colombia national police to track down cartel leaders. julia joins us right now. julia, good morning. what did you experience?