politicsnation. tonight s lead, out with the old, in with the new. right now there s literally just hours left in 2022. a turbulent political year now ending with several transitions. not least of which being this incoming divided congress. the winds of change are blowing in both parties, as new leadership takes the reins for congressional democrats, for republicans, and internal battles over the parties future rages even as the gop prepares to take over the house in a little over a week. 2022 you had its highs and lows. but, i am grateful for a few things. democrats retained the senate, and i ve held on to morehouse eats not expected. the biden white house has a long list of policy wins to boast about as the year ends. and, even with a congressional probe into january 6th ending, the investigation surrounding donald trump appears to be tightening by the day. and, yesterday at the after six years of legal wrangling, we finally know just how little donald trump paid in federal
custody, more than a month after the gruesome stabbing deaths of four university of idaho students and that deaths horrified the nation as all of us know. our correspondents are live in idaho where police just held a news conference. they re also in pennsylvania where the suspect was arrested. first let s go to veronica miracle in idaho for us. give us the latest on the case and what happens next. reporter: after seven painstaking weeks of investigating and revealing very few details, the moscow police department has finally named a suspect. they do not yet have a murder weapon and they cannot reveal a motive. but there is such a sense of relief in the community now that a suspect has been arrested. detectives arrested 28-year-old bryan kohberger in brightsville, pennsylvania on murder. reporter: it is the announcement that the nation was waited to hear. 47 days after the killing of four university of idaho students, a suspect is now in custody. 28-year-old bryan kohber
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. it is the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m sara sidner. we begin with hour with breaking news and a long awaited arrest in the horrific killings of four university of idaho students back in november. bryan christopher kohberger is in custody on a first degree murder warrant in those stabbing deaths. that s according to an affidavit. the killings terrorized the small town of moscow, idaho, which hadn t seen a murder in seven years. investigators are going to be holding a press conference. they are setting up as we speak, and we are going to take you there live, but first, cnn s jean casarez is in monroe county, pennsylvania. that s where the arrest was made, and cnn s veronica miracle in moscow, idaho. jean, we ll start with you. what are you learning about how this arrest actually came to be? reporter: well, it happened at 1:30 this morning, and it s very, very interesting to look at how it was afeffectuated her and what happe
happening now, breaking news, police officially announce the arrest of a suspect in the killing of four university of idaho students. the 28-year-old is in custody in pennsylvania right now and charged with four counts of first-degree murder. our correspondents are getting additional details on how the suspect was tracked down. also tonight, former president trump paid zero in income tax during his final year in office, held foreign bank accounts and claimed huge financial losses. we re breaking down the revelations in trump s tax returns now that a house panel has made them public. and as russia launches a fresh round of drone strikes in ukraine, vladimir putin vows his ties with china s president can withstand all tests. is there a connection, a show of strength or sign of weakness? welcome to our viewers around the united states and the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking n
this is new video outside his apartment. it s located minutes from the scene of the crime. a lot of new information pouring in. we ll bring it to you live throughout the hour action we await that police news conference. first to to william la jeunesse. william? this is one of the biggest mysteries of the year. it paralyzed the university of idaho campus. half of the students department return after thanksgiving because this crime was not solved. that rest of 28-year-old bryan kohberger will not be closure but is a relief. pennsylvania state police and the fbi made the arrest around 3:00 a.m. this morning. 1 1/2 hours from philadelphia in the mountains of eastern pennsylvania. 2,500 miles from the moscow campus in idaho. kohberger is not a student at the university of idaho, but he sen rolled as a ph.d. student in criminalology at washington state about 15 miles from the murder scene. a press conference in an hour. we hope to have details of what connects this suspect to the