attack, the question is will democrats attempt to use the actions of lone lunatics to chill political speech? if so this is because their grip on power is giving way on two major fronts tonight. in politics and across social media. for them, elon musk s successful purr which you say of twitter is a total invasion of their inter-sanctums like an intruder waltzing into their living room and maybe making a sandwich and turning on fox news and using the bathroom. how dare he. most regular people see elon s desire to house clean at twitter as plain common sense. after all, we discovered there s a lot of fat to cut l. welcome to a day in my life as a twitter employee. then make my way down to the log cabin area. i don t know what it is but it was cool. played fuse ball with my friendy friends to unwind a bit and it was cool. then going to the meditation room that i thought was super neat. i had red wine that s on tap. laura: in is the culture the left is desperate to protect.
brutal treatment of soldiers on the front lines. we re live in ukraine. plus, cnn is learning more connections connected to president biden could be searched for classified documents and the president is frustrated tonight. and kevin mccarthy says he had questions about the life story of congressman george santos, so why was nothing done? let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of outfront. tonight, russia touts a rare military victory. this is video posted by putin s private army. in it, you can see russian fighters holding a wagner flag and claiming that they re now in control of the main train station just outside the town of solidar which putin claims his forces have seized. this train station is not far from bakhmud. it s an area that is symbolically important for russia. capturing the two cities would be the most significant victory russia s had in months, but it s coming at a cost. a former w
the lead starts right now. new witness tran scripts released from the january 6th committee, including one from donald trump s own son, and an unusual request from one sitting gop senator. then, officials are calling it the largest russian missile strike since the war began. ukrainians say it could have been so much worse. plus, some signs of relief on the horizon for tens of thousands of southwest pas passengers who have been stuck in the airline s meltdown for now eight days. welcome to the lead, i m phil mattingly. and we begin with our politics lead and new insight into the january 6th investigation. the committee released more testimony transcripts from 19 witnesses, including trump s son donald trump jr., trump attorney christina bobb, kimberly guilfoyle, stephen miller and former white house press secretary stephanie grisham. there s one key thing that sticks out, and that s the role of mark meadows. he was, of course, trump s chief of staff on january 6th an
On capitol hill the January 6th Select Committee about to share striking never before seen testimony and evidence all with the Focus On Former President Trump and the central role the panel says he played in the attack on democracy. Welcome to cnns live coverage of the January 6th Hearings. Im anderson cooper. Im jake tapper. This is the final hearing. Committee members are promising to hammer home their urgent argument that donald j. Trump remains in their view a Clear And Present Danger to American Democracy as trump continues to push false claims about the 2020 election. Committee aides tell us the hearing today will zero in on trumps State Of Mind on and around january 6th. Were told well see and hear from Cabinet Officials, and other new witnesses who have recently been interviewed by the committee that could potentially include former Secretary Of State mike pompeo, former treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and elaine chao. Some coming from the Secret Service. They have turned over
hi, it s 4:00 in new york. president joe biden is set tonight to weigh in on the issue that is foundational to every other issue and debate we have in this country, democracy and the threats that loom over our democracy more than a year and a half after the ex-president tried to halt the peaceful transfer of power. it s an issue that would not be an issue if it were not for the fact that one of our country s political parties turned its back on democracy and decided to harness the terms of auto considerates. we are talking about the republicans. days before what could be the most important midterm election in history, president biden is putting concerns front and center with a speech just steps away from the u.s. capitol. nbc news can report, while the topic has been on the president s mind for quite some time, a number of developments have added to the urgency, including the growing suggestion by some republican officials that they may not accept the election results an