companies. and we re exactly two weeks away from the day the u.s. is expected to run out of money to pay its debts. negotiations are under way in d.c. despite president biden being half a world away in japan. plus, new details about the man who authorities say is behind one of the biggest intelligence leaks in years. court documents are revealing the suspect may have been mishandling classified information months before the leak. new attacks in ukraine. with officials saying russia launched an unprecedented barrage of missiles across the country overnight. we ll talk to ukraine s former president about what appears to be a rise in russian assaults. and more crackdowns on lgbtq rights. texas on the verge of becoming the biggest state of the nation to ban gender transition treatment for children. we begin this very busy hour with breaking news from the nation s highest court. just in the last hour, the supreme court ruled the social media giant twitter is not liable f
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on state of the union day when president joe biden delivers that state of the union address to we thought it was important to remember that that address will take place in what amounts to a crime scene. for which there has yet to be accountability for many of its perpetrators. members of the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th have been swept into the largest investigation in justice department history. more than 950 of them from all 50 states have been arrested. at least half of them have pleaded guilty to charges. on trial right now at this very moment on the rare and historically significant charge of seditious conspiracy, the right-wing militia groups, the oath keepers and the proud boys, the groups that form the tip of the spear of the mob that reached the capitol on that day, january 6, 2021. what about the campaign staffers? attorneys, activists, officials, the members of congress who helped put into motion complex
20 past the hour. now to the humanitarian crisis where an 8-year-old girl has died while in u.s. border patrol custody. authorities say the girl suffered a medical emergency while being held at a detention facility in texas next to the mexico border with her family. she was brought to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. this incident occurs almost a week after the lifting of title 42 and days after a 17-year-old migrant from honduras died in a facility in florida run by the department of health and human services. and now to capitol hill, where embattled congressman george santos avoided expulsion for now. his republican house colleagues voted against the measure to unseat him in light of his recent indictments that referring the matter to the ethics committee. santos has been under investigation by that committee since march.
what about the campaign staffers? attorneys, activists, officials, the members of congress who helped put into motion complex and complicated effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to end democracy as we know it? what about as the disgraced twice impeached ex-president himself the driving force behind the coup plot. those questions are at the heart of multiple inquiries tonight, bun run by special counsel jack smith. another in florida run by fani willis. in january, the special grand jury completed its investor to work submitting to a superior court judge based on which willis may or may not send evidence to a regular grand jury would seek criminal charges against trump or his allies. if she does that, there is every indication she might bring one of her favorite prosecutorial tools to bear, racketeering
. well, in florida run the census ptosis, he s the elected governor and he decided to find out how does the system work. he decided to test democracy. so during a special session of the florida legislature this week, dissenters led an effort to strip disney of what turned out to be a remarkable set of special perks that company had enjoyed for more than 50 years. you were not treated like disney is in florida. you have never been treated that well. so after the special session, no more will disney world operate as its own independent country within the state of florida? yes, that s how they were governed by themselves and now going for disney is going to have to pay its taxes. oh wow. just like everybody else. now if you ve lived in this country for more than say five years, ask yourself what s the political party that has always told you big companies pay their taxes? corporate tax breaks are bad of course, that s always been the democratic party . so you would imagine the democrats i