program in prison tonight, his health failing. his lawyers saying he s been poisoned. and morgues in china oesh flowing full of people who were sick from covid. the government is saying, though, they re not covid deaths. why? we re live in beijing tonight with a special report. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight putin calls it a war. for the first time vladimir putin using the word war to describe his brutal invasion of ukraine. for ten months it s been called a special operation. in fact the word war has been banned. and then today hours after zelenskyy visited with biden in washington, putin said this. translator: our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict but on the contrary to end this war we have been and will continue to strive for this. war. the word war is not semantics for putin. calling this a war, which again has not been allowed. it s been banned. it has serious implications because it allows putin to
had a few minutes with the report. andrew, let me get your first reactions to anything that has leapt out at you, if anything. recognizing that you ve only had a few minutes, i m gonna give you more time to read, this but this is just your first headline reaction to it. yeah no i see dan and i are doing the same thing. we are trying to do two things at the same time. this is a monumental, or as you said, it is over 800 pages and there are four appendices that look fascinating, addressing such minor issues as the preparation of law enforcement to meet the challenges of january 6th and whether there was foreign interference in the 2020 election there were these appendices, and they re trying to take the entire report. and then the table of contents is really, to me, attracts what i think is the genius of the january six committee. which is really focusing on all of the different ways that the former president tried to stay in office. as opposed to just thinking about january
that january six committee today released dozen more transcripts from its interviews with witnesses. these interviews are revealing even more about what went on in the days leading up to the deadly capitol attack, including in this latest batch of transcripts are depositions from ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, trump aide and longtime secret service official tony ornato, trump s son-in-law and senior aide jared kushner, and rudy giuliani, who led the ridiculously attempt to overturn the 2020 election. ginni thomas told the committee she never spoke with her husband about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election. she did confirm, though, that the supreme court justice is the best friend that she referenced in her text today than trump chief of staff mark meadows. and she told investigators she regretted texting trump s chief of staff meadows, about you know, having a coup. tony ornato told the panel the first time here the story about trump
ruhle. the january six committee released dozens of more transcripts from its interviews with witnesses. these interviews are revealing even more about what went on in the days leading up to the deadly capitol attack. including the latest batch of transcripts, we ve got the latest from ginni thomas s wife, of supreme court justice clarence thomas. trump aide, and longtime correspondent, and jared kushner, and rudy giuliani that read the ridiculous to overturn the 2020 election. she told the committee that she never spoke with her husband about any of the challenges to the 2020 election, and she did confirm though, that the supreme court justice is the best friend that she references in her tax. terror then chief of staff mark meadows. and she told investigators that she regretted check texting, the chief of staff about having a coup. tony told the panel, the first time he heard the story about trump s fight with a secret service agent going to pass the law. with from cassid
Good morning. It is 10 00 eastern. Im ana cabrera alongside my colleague jose diazbalart with special coverage of Donald Trumps criminal Hush Money Trial. And right now, court is back in session with the witness who has already clashed with the judge, returning to the stand. The prosecution just completed its Cross Examination of veteran new york lawyer Robert Costello and so now hes facing questions on redirect from the Defense Attorney. And all this after the judge cleared the courtroom yesterday to Admonish Costello for making comments under his breath, rolling his eyes and staring down the judge. It is already tense in that courtroom today. Lets bring in Yasmin Vossoughian who is outside the courthouse. Also with us, Defense Attorney misty maris. And so, yasmin, so far today, this has been another intense day. What has been going on . Reporter in the last 30 minutes, a lot of intensity to say the least as ana mentioned. Were now in redirect from the defense here on their own witnes