the state department works to find them. cnn s barbara starr has the latest developments. reporter: it was in the fighting north of kharkiv where two americans went missing last week, less than 5 miles from the russian border. the u.s. government working with ukrainian authorities to find them. i have been briefed. we don t know where they are, but i want to reiterate americans should not be going to ukraine now. reporter: now this photo from a russian blogger has emerged of alexander and andy appeared to be bound in the back of a russian military vehicle. video later emerging of an interview they did with pro-russian media. cnn is not showing the video as the two appear to be speaking under duress. now the state department is working to verify their status. they said that there is a photograph that is being circulated on the russian media, and they re working hard to verify it. we re very hopeful. reporter: retired staff sergeant druuke served in both kuwait and ir
whose reporting did more than most to make it clear that watergate was for more than the simple break-in it first appeared to be. it s worth mentioning now because contrary to the impression people might have today, knowledge about what watergate truly was in size and scope and the threat to democracy it posed did not come all at once all neatly wrapped up in a bow. it was revealed in day by day slices of the truth by bob and carl and so many others. that notion seems just as true tonight, 50 years later, when it comes to the latest assault on democracy. we ve had plenty of revelations almost since the capitol was attacked, so many that it s hard to keep track, and harder still to be surprised or imagine any of it changes what we think we already know. yet this week, the house january 6 committee, even as it tries to bundle up the scandal and tie a bow around it, has also delivered plenty that is new. and today promised more. listen to kmut tee member zoe lofgren today on cnn
impression people might have today, knowledge about what watergate truly was in size and scope and the threat to democracy it posed did not come all at once all neatly wrapped up in a bow. it was revealed in day by day slices of the truth by bob and carl and so many others. that notion seems just as true tonight, 50 years later, when it comes to the latest assault on democracy. almost since the day capitol was attacked, so many that it s hard to keep track, and harder still to be surprised or imagine any of it changes what we think we already know. yet this week, the house january 6 committee, even as it tries to bundle up the scandal and tie a bow around it, has also delivered plenty that is new. and today promised more. listen to committee member zoe lofgren today on cnn talk about donald trump s effort to strong arm georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger after the election. i think we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then-president trump was trying to fo
the decision not to lie even though donald trump told them to, it s their turn next in front of the january 6th select committee. one of them set to testify in the coming days, the election s boss in the state of georgia, brad raffensperger. he was on the other end of that infamous phone call with the then president of the united states who was desperately scrambling to come up with votes that didn t exist. so look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. raffensperger is expected to appear with his deputy gabe sterling, and now we know that rusty bowers, the arizona house speaker who backed trump s re-election but also refused oto go along with his scheme will be joining them. earlier i spoke with the committee member of the january 6th committee, congresswoman zoe lofgren. these individuals are republicans they voted for trump. they are, you know, supported him, but they wouldn t do illegal t
rioters. as trump pressured him to stop the vote certification of the 2020 election. it was a move trump knew was illegal as several witnesses revealed just yesterday. let s get to cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. what more are you learning about next week s hearing? well, the committee, the january 6th committee is trying to nail down the list of witnesses that they have from the former justice department, former justice department officials under former president trump. and right now we know that they have slated they were key in standing up to the president. he was trying to essentially use the justice department to endorse his claims that there was vote fraud, and in the end, to try to overturn the election results. one witness that we don t know we know the committee was looking for, and it appears will not be showing up is pat sip pat cipollone. it would have been unusual to see a former white house counsel sitting before this committee. it appears