strikes on ukraine. power facilities in key cities taking a direct hit and leaving residents in the dark and cold. also tonight, we re digging through a new batch of just released january 6th transcripts including testimony by donald trump jr. and we re getting new insight into melania trump s mistrust of her husband s inner circle. and the southwest airlines meltdown drags on now for an eighth day. with thousands more flights canceled. will southwest get back to a full schedule tomorrow as the company claims? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour in ukraine after one of the biggest russian missile assaults since the start of the russian invasion. let s go straight to the capital, kyiv. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is on the ground for us. ben, so what are you seeing and hearing over there? reporter: well, what we heard at about 9:00 this morning l
politics nation. tonight s lead, guilty on all counts. it has been exactly 48 hours since donald trump became the first former president convicted of a felony in our nations history. the judgment rendered by a jury of his peers in the very same manhattan court complex where the exonerated convicted nearly 35 years ago as he called for the death penalty for them. trump is calling himself a political prisoner. even as he remains free to travel and campaign while he awaits sentencing in july. his republican allies are echoing his claim of a political witchhunt, attacking the judge and the jury and even as they posture as the party of law and order. meantime some chum supporters are taking things further. they place the participants in the preceding in very real danger. it was as a trial that pushed the limits of democracy. now the verdict has placed us even further into uncharted territory . joining me now is joe, a former attorney for donald trump. thanks for being with us toni
of an appearance before the verdict is read, but of course that means they haven t ruled it in either. right? and there s not much time? no likely. all right. thank carol. thank you. and thanks so much to all of you, anderson starts now don t trump s fate is in the hands of 12 manhattan jurors, and they have questions. good evening. thanks for joining us day one, a jury deliberations in the first ever trial of a former president began with the judge reading 55 pages of instructions on what to consider as the jurors way 34 we re felony charges. now, the day ended with the buzzer, which signals the jury wants to communicate going off once then again, the first time to say they wanted four pieces of testimony read back to them. the second to ask the judge to reread them his instructions unclear so far whether that means the whole thing or selected portions of it. the testimony they wanted it s from david pecker, the former national enquirer publisher and former trump lawyer
crime is that s what the problem is we ended immediately the judge ended and save his reputation for the part about not naming the crime isn t true and we ll talk about that tonight is for the late mother teresa, she was judged by the nobel committee, which awarded her the 1979 peace prize for her service to the orphans leprosy patients, and terminally ill of calcutta. with us tonight, your criminal defense attorney, arthur aidala hello, cnn legal analyst norm eisen, who was in court today along with cnn s kara scannell, also with this johnny jones, the third former chief judge for the us middle district of pennsylvania, is currently president of dickinson college. so care we just learned the sections of pecker and cohen s testimony that the courts decided to read back? yes. so we learned from the lip parties that they both agreed to and two of the requests that came from the drain, these questions they wanted david pecker at michael cohen s testimony as it related to the
trial of a former president began with the judge reading 55 ages of instructions on what to consider as the jurors way, 34 felony charges. now, the day ended with the buzzer, which signals the jury wants to communicate going off once then again, the first time to say they wanted four pieces of testimony read back to them. the second to ask the judge to reread them his instructions unclear so far whether that means the whole thing or selected portions of it. the testimony they want us from david pecker, the former national enquirer publisher and former trump lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. some of it dealing with the arrangement for pecker to act as the campaigns, eyes and ears for potentially damaging stories they ll hear that tomorrow morning. the judge dismissing them, then staying with attorneys for both sides to try to hammer out exactly what will be said. as for the defendant here some of what he said coming and going mother teresa could not be discharges. these charges