only by the barest margin and only by winning the votes in the 11th hour of the most extreme members of his party. one promise he made while campaigning to be speaker according to cnn s the new york times is to make thousands of hours of security footage from the january 6th attack public. today here is how house speaker mccarthy justified his decision to release the video. because i think sunshine matters. i don t care what side of the issue you re on, that s why i think putting it out all to the american public, you can see the truth. so what could be wrong with that? well, for starter, he is not actually doing what he said. he is not putting it all out to the american people. he is giving it to fox host tucker carlson, the one who spent months downplaying the significance of the day and hosting people peddling conspiracy theories about the day, lies about the election. when asked about that today, the speaker suggested the objections were just sour grapes. did you
so i take garlique to help maintain healthy cholesterol safely and naturally. and it s odor free. i m taking charge of my cholesterol with garlique. good evening, we begin tonight keeping them honest with what is one of the most powerful elected officials in the country said today about transparency versus what he s actually doing about it. house speaker kevin mccarthy is the highest ranking republican in congress, and is second in line to the presidency, but became speaker only by the barest margin and only by winning the votes in the 11th hour by the most extreme members of his party. one promise that he made while competing to be speaker, according to cnn s melanie zanona, the new york times, was to make thousands of hours of security camera footage from the january 6th attack public. today, here s how speaker mccarthy justified his decision to release the video. i think that sunshine matters, i don t care what side of the issue you are on. that s why i think that gett
just ahead, epic snowfall in california, measured in feet. so much snow, some ski resorts closed. cars buried, roads shut down, some people trapped in their homes as another major system barrels towards the state today. millions of americans will wake up this morning without a pandemic era benefit that helped them buy groceries, even as inflation has caused food prices to soar. plus at least three dozen people are dead after two trains collide head-on in greece. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for being with us. well, california under blizzard warning. parts of the gelden state have been buried in up to 7 feet of snow over the past few days as a freezing cold system moves inland over the u.s. on tuesday, 23 million americans were under winter weather alerts with many of those in california. the surprise snowstorms are also bringing high winds streaming across the southwest, and more snow tracking up across the pacific northwes
top fox executive rupert murdoch under oath admitted election lies peddled on his network were simply a business decision, saying, quote, it is not red or blue, it is green. what else did murdoch admit? plus, when winning the battle does not end the danger. cnn treks across a booby tracked land littered with mines in ukraine. but first, the supreme court on the record. hear what the justices said about president biden s plan to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt, and whether biden even remotely has the authority to do so. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we re starting today in the money lead in fate of president biden s plan to wipe out $400 billion, that s b with a billion now rests with the supreme court. justices today heard oral arguments in two cases challenging biden s plan. the biden administration argued yeah, they have the power to forgive financial loans in order to protect americans brought in by the covid pandemic. six republican states and
fresh calls for voting protections. this has been a theme throughout his administration and one in which he will use this opportunity in selma to call for that. again, the white house says that president biden will be delivering remarks when he is there. he wants to make sure that we are not erasing history, we are commemorating it. that s what the white house says about his remarks. also, he will note that voting rights is integral to economic justice and civil rights for black americans. so those are the through lines for his remarks, but he is also expected to cross the bridge. this is something that happens each year, each anniversary. of course, it is an important moment, one remembering 1965 that led to blpolice attacking voting rights activists and he led to the passage of the voting rightsing act of 1965 and it is an opportunity for president biden to call on that while he tries to elevate those calls for voting protections and one in which again, as you mentioned, he