standoff between its allies. lloyd austin meeting with european defense ministers at ramstein air base in germany. we are also, though, just getting in some breaking news, cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand, oren liebermann joining us. what are you hearing potentially about what more we re learning? even this secret meeting that the cia director held last week with president zelenskyy? yeah, so about the meeting between ukrainian president zelenskyy and cia director bill burns we are learning that burns went there really to brief the ukrainian president on what the u.s. believes are the potential battle plans by russia to launch an offensive in the spring. now, of course, bill burns has been a very key emissary between the u.s. and ukraine as well as even with russia over the course of the war and this really just signifies the urgency the u.s. feels in this moment getting ukraine the information the intelligence it needs ahead of this potential russian offensive see
cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. hello and warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m max foster. bianca off this week. just ahead on cnn newsroom. reporter: brian walshe facing murder charges in the mysterious disappearance of his wife, ana walshe. even without the body you re going to have enough evidence seemingly to focus on nobody else but him. trying to draw a contrast with the way trump has handled his own documents issues. they re trying to draw a picture of cooperation. you guys can ask me this 100 times, 200 times if you wish, i m going to keep saying the same thing. reporter: aviation experts are calling it a narrowly avoided disaster at new york s john f. kennedy airport. they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. it s wednesday, january 18th. 9 a.m. here in london. 11 a.m. in kyiv, ukraine. we re following this breaking news for you developin
peter: good evening, bret. this report makes a practical conclusion when refugees did not tell the u.s. accurate information about themselves, then officials were not able to check to see if those people were actually on terror watch lists. we know this happened dozens of times and this report dropped on a day that felt kind of like a family reunion here at the white house as hundreds of former obama staffers came to see patriots unveiled of the former respresident and first lady. the country is better off than when you took office. peter: is the country safer? review of massive afghanistan evacuation officially called operation allies welcome finds we determined some information used to vet evacuees through u.s. government databases such as name, date of birth, identification number and travel document data was inaccurate, incomplete, or missing. we were told that wasn t possible. i will absolutely assure you no one is come in to the united states of america who ha
think it will help someone and it s okay to talk about it. an actress finds real life drama when her sister and her sister s husband disappear. they said lesley didn t show up for work. lesley s life had seemed perfect but maybe that was an illusion. she mentioned going underground. yes, she did. had something driven her to leave town or had something very different happened? the dog told you a dead body was in the back of the car? correct. but with few clues, hollywood would stage a dramatic press conference hoping to flesh out a killer. i was just floored by what was happening. hello and welcome to dateline. aasha davis moved to hollywood with big dreams and her sister lesley followed to support her. then lesley went missing. in a town built on deception, the police came one a plan. it was a dramatic stunt scripted to smoke out a suspect and the stakes were high. here s josh m with a sister s search. in the movies and on tv, people can disappear
the committee may be flexing its oversight power to illuminate what happened on january 6th. but the d.o.j. is apparently investigating the president himself. key aides to mike pence and his lead counsel have already testified in front of a federal grand jury. pretty high up. they asked hours and hours of detailed questions about meetings that trump himself led, one that was described to the january 6th committee. remember this? mr. eastman came in. he said i m here to request that you reject the electorate. i said we would lose 9-0 in the supreme court, wouldn t we? he started, well, i think you would only lose 7-2 and after further discussion acknowledged, yeah, you re right, we would lose 9-0. 6-2, 6-1, half dozen of another. as for jacob s credibility, keep in mind his version of events was already shown in front of a federal judge and that judge s conclusions, it is, quote, more likely than not that president trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the joint session of