trump s and jared kushner s roles were in the white house. that was unusual. that s part of the reason why they had this front row seat to this infamous moment. it makes sense special counsel jack smith is going to want to talk to them. remember the january 6th house investigators also spoke to ivanka trump and jared kushner, and they frankly came away with a scathing assessment of ivanka s testimony saying she wasn t very forthcoming and one of her aids happened to know more about the events unfolding around january 6th that ivanka trump did. if you were jack smith, of course you re going to check this box. this is a place other investigators have gone before. it s not the same escalation as we saw with him going after former vice president mike pence, but still very unusual. i want to get some perspective now from cnn s legal analyst and former deputy assistant attorney general elliott williams. what can they get from these two that the january 6th committee couldn t? more import
and a half of snow. i also understand despite all this, there were record breaking temperatures today. yeah, it s actually remarkable. we had 100-degree span across the south and the northern rockies today. look at all these records broken. atlanta hit 81 degrees today. in fact, that s a monthly record, and then corpus christi hit 95 today, just shattering the previous record. and if you see all of the previous records here really within the last five years it just goes to show climate change in this warming pattern, and so we re going to see this more often. 135 possible record highs broken through friday, and then 35 possible record lows. so definitely yin and yang going on across the country. jennifer gray, appreciate it. coming up governor ron desantis making big leaps forward in the money race to challenge the former president. cnn s harry enton has the
grapple with in the coming weeks and months related to this war in maintaining what to this point has been an extraordinary durable coalition of western democracy, it s the potential for china s involvement or increased involvement particularly on the lethal aid side that is drawing the most concern, sharp condemnations and a very aggressive effort to head that off as it has become very clear that despite china s reticence to get deeply involved the alliance between russia and china is only growing closer. of course president putin signaled that xi jinping could be coming to moscow some time soon. next now we go to moscow and cnn s fred pleitgen. what came out of the meeting today between putin and beijing? reporter: putin certainly signaled that the relations with beijing are extremely important to him. in fact, that concert you were talking about, the really important patriotic concert, putin came substantially late to that concert because he was meeting with wang yi, the top
we want to bring you a part of the war in ukraine you ve likely never seen before. you re about to meet a man when is doing a job that provides comfort to families who lost their loved one in the fight, bringing them to their families for burial. cnn s clarissa ward joins us now from kyiv. i found, clarissa, this report you did so moving. talk about how you found out about this and how you did this. reporter: yeah, anderson, it s not everybody who can do this job, and we certainly haven t realized initially that it really falls to volunteers to do this work, and it is a lot of work. we spoke yesterday with the head of this volunteer group, bulldozer, and they said that yesterday was a record day for the number of ukrainian dead that they were trying to get back to their families so that they could give them proper burials. it s easy to get kind of carried away with the excitement of
have the crowd? reporter: you know, it was a massive event and the russians were saying they believe up to 200,000 people might show up there. i m not sure it was quite that many. he was talking about russian unity and persevering in the current conflict there in ukraine, talking about how russians can be a part of that. there was another video message he sent out tonight where there was a lot more substance than that he talked about new weapons for the russian troops in ukraine, how they were fighting against neo-nazism in ukraine but also talked about strengthening russia s nuclear weapons. also in the conflict with the west and specifically with the united states as well, anderson. fred pleitgen, appreciate it. i talked about it with cnn s fa fareed zakaria shortly before