the attorney of the officer said he was not present at the scene where the five officers were seen beating nichols. all this plays out in memphis. on capitol hill there s new movement around potential police reform. can it get bipartisan backing in a divided congress? meanwhile, breaking news on the house fire surrounding embattled congressman george santos. extreme cold and dangerous conditions across a dozen states. 37 million people are under some sort of winter weather alert. the bitter blast of ice, snow and cold temperatures bringing a host of woes in travel reports. the icing and sleet is much harder to deal with than the snow. where the storm is heading, coming up. plus, on the run. an urgent manhunt is under way for a man accused of torturing a woman he held captive in oregon. police say it s not the first time he has done this. why they are urging women who use dating apps to be on alert. we will start out with the firings in the aftermath of tyre nichol
dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the prime minister making the announcement moments ago outside 10 downing street. this after she failed to overcome a flurry of criticism from her own party. alex hogan is following all of this from london. hi. good morning. this has been a very contentious day here in london after a contentious two months of british prime minister liz truss time in office. she announced her resignation earlier this morning. speaking for a minute 30 seconds. very brief. take a listen. we set out a vision for a low tax, high grade economy that take advantage of the freedoms of brexit. this comes after a shaky day yesterday at downing street. another member of her government left the job. home secretary resigned. she was a popular figure in the conservative party. she has been replaced by grant sha p. he is a supporter of the former p.m. candidate who lost to truss. he quickly addressed the need to get to work. truss had only serve
buddies and allies to overturn the 2020 election. as we reported on this program at this hour yesterday, mark short, he s of course the former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence, testified before a d.c. grand jury last week. now according to new multiple reports, we also know that a second senior pence aide also testified. that would be greg jacob, pence s legal counsel. both men, of course, had a front row seat to the extraordinary pressure campaign on mike pence by trump and his allies, people like john eastman, to get pence to stop the certification of president joe biden s election victory on january 6th. wall street journal reports these stunning details about their testimony. quote, one area of interest to prosecutors was a january 4th, 2021, oval office meeting where conservative lawyer john eastman pushed pence in trump s presence to either reject the electoral votes outright or suspend the proceedings and asked several state legislatures to re-examine
and ease pressures, the risk is stalling the economy and opening the door to recession. and primary lesson, south carolina voters voted to impeach trump. the banner republicans were warned they vied for opponents up and down the ballot. the crackling dispute now between the january 6th committee and a republican member of congress. the republican member in question from georgia. here you see a man taking photos of stairwells and hallways, not your typical capitol tour highlights. the committee says he led this man and a few others on a tour of the capitol complex january 5th, 2021. the committee says that same man took this video outside the capitol on january 6th shouting threats at democratic lawmakers. we re coming in like white on rice, for pelosi, nadler, schumer. even you, aoc. we re coming to take you out. cnn s ryan nobles up on capitol hill for us. tell us more. reporter: john, i think maybe each one of these individual pieces of evidence by itself may not be a
president s own family. lauren fox is joining us live from capitol hill. good morning, lauren. what can we expect tonight? reporter: well, hundreds of hours of interviews behind closed doors and the public going to get a chance to see tonight what the january 6 committee has been working toward. we expect that the committee hearing will kick off tonight with opening statements from the chairman bennie thompson as well as the top republican liz cheney on the committee. committee aides telling us that we expect thompson will put this in a historical context, the violence that transpired that day, and the unprecedented nature of the attack on the u.s. capitol. and then we expect things will move forward in three different areas. one of them, the public will get a chance to see some previously unseen video footage of private interviews behind closed doors that the committee has done with white house officials, trump campaign officials, as well as members of trump s own feel. we