zelenskyy last week. that meeting comes at a critical juncture for the war amid new questions about the quantity and quality of u.s. support. and exactly what specifically makes the new mexico da so sure about the charges against alec baldwin, that could land him in prison for years. it wasn t that we were trying to charge him with a felony. it s that what his actions did matched the case law for involuntary manslaughter. but let s start exactly two years out from inauguration day, seeing the early contours of the presidential strategy, that the white house hopes will get joe biden back to the oval office for a second term. the goal to spotlight pooud s legislative achievements of the past 18 months and contrast that with what a white house spokesman predicted would be republicans divorce from reality political stunts. to that end, politico reports the administration is giddy that only soft of the biggest bomb throwers are now on the oversight committee believing they a
you are live in the cnn qwest newsroom, i m paula reid in washington. a monster winter storm has claimed the lives of 16 people and has cut power and electricity. the u.s. department is declaring an emergency for the texas power grid to aid its capacity and this is due to a shortage of electricity. the emergency declaration allows the state s energy provider to exceed environmental emissions limits until usage drops. in new york, a dire situation. hundreds of people have likely been trapped inside their vehicles since yesterday. that includes an 85-year-old grandmother and her son. they ve been turning the car on and off for heat and to save gas. sub-zero temperatures are widespread across the country and more than 750,000 customers remain without power. the power grid operator for 13 states is now asking residents to reduce their power usage to avoid widespread outages. holiday travel by road and air has been disrupted, and today alone more than 2600 flightses have be
Los angeles. The Israeli Military releasing a statement moments ago saying it has killed a senior hamas member involved in planning last saturdays horrific attacks in israel. Murad abu murad was killed in a strike targeting a building in the gaza strip. We also just received some new video showing the damage from the israeli city of ashkelon. Hamas armed wing al qassam saying friday that it launched 150 rockets toward that city. There are now reports whether any israelis. No report, should i say, whether any israelis were injured in that attack. Its been exactly one week now since hamas staged those shocking, brutal and deadly attacks against israel. Israel has been striking back hard all week. Now, the Israeli Military says Commando Units are conducting localized ground raids in gaza. And a short while ago, they also issued a statement that more than 120 civilians are confirmed to be held captive by hamas in gaza. The idf also continuing to pound gaza from the sky. Hundreds of thousan
Sitting president of the United States. Another mark up hearing tomorrow morning which is expected. The imminent impeachment on the house floor of President Trump. I want to bring in our correspondent, i believe we have garret headache aake on the hil his first appearance here on the hill. We have seen you a lot garret. We have some folks looking at that hearing, you have been looking at impeachment. Speaker pelosi has telegraphed a narrow case that could be pushed through judiciary, our colleague Geoff Bennett did not see the democrats splintering or holding other amendments here. They want to get this through you kn unified. What does your reporting show about that . Thats right. We have been starting to put the pieces together on a senate trial which is mostly fan
fiction of what you have been hearing about it that both sides speculated of what it looks like. We heard from Mitch Mcconnell yesterday afternoon saying theyll wait until the new year getting it started. It will push all
when you see a plea deal with the assistant director, who was there, what questions do you have for him, and how much do you think that deal played into the absolute confidence we heard from the prosecutor yesterday? i have been critical of the prosecution i m a defense attorney, so you have to take this with a grain salt. it was very telling to me that they cooperated one of these potential codefendants. why did they do that? why didn t they go to the guy nobody has ever heard of to cooperate him against another defendant? is alec baldwin a kingpin? no, i think he s just a very high profile celebrity target. what solidified that for me is the interviews saying something to the effect nobody is above the law. you hollywood types, you re too big for your britches. you re just like everybody else. they didn t say those words exactly, but the mess anxious, i