criminal charges. the new reporting about the hush money investigation into former president donald trump and his apparent invitation to testify. then, airline safety in the spotlight as years of close calls and midair emergencies have travelers on edge. captain sully sullenberger is here. and norfolk southern ceo apologizes after that toxic train derailment in ohio. plus grilling from lawmakers , today, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. buckle up, boys, and girls, the new york times is reporting tonight the manhattan prosecutors are inching closer and closer to criminal charges against the former president, donald j trump, and the stormy daniels case. that, as you recall, is the one involving hush money payments made before the 2016 election to keep the former porn star, daniels, from talking about her apparent affair with trump, who still denies it. the times says that according to four sources, quote, the
bret: but breaking tonight, a pair of journalists who were permitted to see through sources internal communications at twitter testified today before a house committee on the so-called weaponization of the federal government. republicans who control that committee are trying to show a link between censorship of conservatives, the biden administration, and the fbi. democrats today tried to pushback in a fiery hearing. correspondent david spunt takes a look tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. good evening to you. today s hearing delivered on a promise from house republicans to expose what was going on at twitter behind the scenes leading up to and after the 2020 election and, as we expected today, things got tense. can discuss. no one has yielded the gentle lady is out of order. and she is out of order because he interrupted. gentle lady is not recognized. you are not recognized. he has not said that. the new house subcommittee on the w
fox corporation report murdaugh acknowledges that fox news anchors pushed election lies on air. after a weekend of blizzard conditions, california faces yet another winter storm, but does all this wet weather mean a historic job is over we will speak with a leading snow lab scientist. plus, a new assessment on the origins of the covid pandemic is only adding to the confusion. good to have you with us. we begin with astonishing testimony from the media titan behind fox news, that could have huge legal ramifications for the network. rupert murdoch has admitted under oath that some fox news anchors endorsed false claims on air about the 2020 u.s. presidential election being stolen. now these are the fox anchors spread for different president donald trump s lies about election fraud, blue dogs, maria buddy romo, janine perot, and sean hannity murdaugh made it clear that he doesn t believe that right wing top network as an entity promoted the lies, but the fox corporation chairm
hello, welcome to our viewers joining us here from the united states and all over the world, you are watching cnn newsroom and i m rosemary church. just ahead, heavy snowfall along the west coast leaves hundreds of residents stranded, and the situation across the northeast does not look much better. we will bring you the latest on extreme weather pummeling parts of the united states. a stunning admission under oath, the chair of the fox corporation, rupert murdaugh, acknowledges that fox news anchors pushed a election lies on air. reports of crumbling morale and desperation within the russian military. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. we begin with extreme weather in the united states, as a winter storm is pummeling parts of the country with heavy snow and rain. nearly 50 million people are under winter weather alerts, across the northeast. new york s governor says parts of the state could see up to a foot of snow. schools in connec
poisoned an entire town in ohio, the transportation secretary, the man in charge of preventing train derailments, held a press conference attacking white construction workers because they re the problem. it s nineteen fifty two . our eight year old president , meanwhile, 80 years old, he seems convinced it s nineteen fifteen. and we re all living in rural alabama, burning crosses the front yards of terrified sharecroppers to amuse ourselves. we don t have tv. biden gave a speech the other day in 2020 three to denounce lynching as lynching is still happening in the united states . it s all seems a little delusional. so it was with a genuine relief that we saw today. one of biden s top cabinet officials, janet yellen, who runs the treasury department, signed off her twitter account. finally, leave washington and meet with actual flesh and blood human beings. who are suffering. and now what did she meet with them to prove her sincerity, janet yellen brought with her a