challenging. you cannot and should not do it unless you have a full tank. we give all that we can for as long as we can, and then it s time. and so, for me it s time. good morning, everyone. poppy is off wi, kaitlan and i here. when it s time to go, it s time to go. it shocked a lot of people. that was a resignation that people were not expected. that was new zealand s prime minister resigning. we ll discuss her surprise announcement in a moment with christiane amanpour. plus president biden has been planning to announce his re-election bid after february 7th but then came the document scandal does that delay his decision. there is a new george santos lie. the new york lawmaker claims repeatedly and consistently that his mother was in the world trade center on 9/11 now we know she wasn t even in the country. a bold prediction by volodymyr zelenskyy in a speech in davos, vowing his country will reclaim crimea from the russians. but we begin with this president
i m john king in washington. thanks for sharing a busy news day. alec baldwin staring down charges. he will be indicted for involuntary manslaughter after the onset death of the rust cinematographer. we ll bring you details plus, brand-new cnn reporting. sources say questions about classified material and a special counsel investigation will not alter joe biden s 2024 campaign launch. the view in the west wing, the documents scandal. team biden says it s a beltway obsession and hope not much more and go to hell. a homeless veteran accuses george santos of a new low. swindling money from a gofundme intended to pay for a dying dog s lifesaving surgery. i don t want him to do it again. he took a piece of my heart when he did this. prosecutors in new mexico just last hour are announcing alec baldwin along with the film s armorer will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in that fatal shooting on the shoot of the western movie rust. let s bring in elie honig and crimi
hello, everyone. welcome. alec baldwin says he plans to fight the criminal charges he will soon fate. in october 2021, hutchins was killed by a live round in a prop gun that baldwin was holding, rehearsing for the film rust. today the district attorney in new mexico says baldwin will be charged with two counts of involuntary man slawer. a special prosecutor assisted in that investigation. this is really about justice for halyna hutchins. we have talked to several who say they always check their gun. an actor doesn t get a free pass just because they re an actor. the piece that stood out to me, again, this set was run very loose and fast, and that those bullets were not checked properly before putting them into the gun, and alec baldwin did not check them either with the armorer. the armorer, hannah gutierrez-reed is also charged. assistant director david halls has enter a plea in this case. josh, what did she say. reporter: she said she looked at the totality of the
between people who are willing to use the power of the state to silence their opponent, and those who are unwilling. what s the hill this country together since the civil war? it s not that of a federal code, it s not even the bill of rights come as important is. remember, the soviet union had a bill of rights for guaranteed freedom of speech and equal rights. but in practice the bolsheviks sent their dissidents to the gulags. as he boasted, show me the man, i will show you the crime. now what s kept us functioning through the centuries where the bolsheviks failed is that our constitution separated powers and prevented a unit party. we also had an understanding that state power shall not be used for improper political purposes. the law must be enforced equally, without political considerations. and once you lose that common understanding, it s mutually assured destruction. nobody had any reason to uphold the system, so the system will collapse. the late anthony scalia made th
living on the full load of government benefits for his age group, medicare, social security and in his case, government pension, and who has discovered that golf is the least effective form of exercise to control weight and stay in shape, is now a full year and a half into the worst life ever lived by a former president of the united states. donald trump, his life is a misery from the moment he wakes up too early in the morning, through those dark hours in the middle of the night when he is struggling against the insomnia to find some peace. piece that never comes. pure misery. that is his life. prior to donald trump, the worst post presidential life ever lived was richard nixon s 20 years after being forced to resign in disgrace because of the crimes he committed an office for which he was assuredly going to be impeached if he stayed in office and convicted in the senate and removed from office. but when month and to richard nixon s painful post presidency, his successful