were coming in to make a citizens arrest. hearing number four, the attack on the capitol. mika, we ve been talking about it this week, it s been a theme of violence in american politics. one side promoting violence, that is, of course, the trump wing of the republican party, where there s a consequence starting in 2015 where donald trump in 2016 was saying beat up protesters. i remember the time when they used to go out an a stretcher. right. if you beat them up, i ll pay for your defense. praising a member of a republican member of congress. for being up a reporter for asking a question about health care policy. talking about violence, having violent imagery. this leads to one threat after another threat after another threat. to ultimately an attempt to overturn the election. the hearing was marked by testimony of threats of violence and in some cases actual violence. and against elected officials who refused to help donald trump overturn the 2020 election. and aga
majority of the video that will be shown has not yet been seen publicly. the house panel will try to show americans that former president trump was not a bystander but was at the center of the uprising to overturn the election and the votes of 81 million people who chose president biden. so, let s begin the hour with cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. so, ryan, have they told us what this new video and testimony will be? reporter: not specifically. but we do have a good idea as to where it is headed. we are told that this is going to be new angles of some of the violence and chaos that took place on that day from a unique perspective, a perspective that could come from a documentarian that was actually embedded with the proud boys right-wing militia group on that day. there s also going to be taped interviews and clips of these taped interviews of these depositions that took place behind closed doors with members of the trump administration and the trump family it
president biden wrapping up his trip to asia this morning, with concerns that china might be turning closer to russia. and why the biden administration is considering sending special forces to kyiv. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is tuesday, may 24th. and a proxy war is playing out here on primary day and the future of the republican party is at stake. voters head to the polls in five states today, but georgia is really in the spotlight. the gop race for governor pitting former president trump against his vice president mike pence, who stumped for incumbent governor brian kemp at an election eve rally. trump is supporting his primary opponent, david perdue. kemp has been a top trump target. trump issued a statement that may be unprecedented when it comes to former running mates. mike pence was set to lose the governor s race in 2016 before he was plucked up and his political career was salvage. pence is parachuting into races hoping some
cultural center. that s the ex-motion you saw a few moments ago actually seeing it right now. president zelenskyy calling this absolute evil. also, ukraine s last stand in mariupol appears to be over. the remaining fighters at the steal steel plant surrendered. it would be putin s biggest win yet in this brutal war. russians dropped insend dare munitions on a village near kharkiv. reporter: putin would choke the light and life out of here. we are driving into the smoke of an incendiary munitions attack, we re told here, against this civilian village. homes, fields, even the air itself torched. vera says she saw it staurling from the sky and her neighbor hit. reporter: the incendiary munition which burns hot through everything in its path came after heavy normal shelling which makes you question, like so much here, exactly why russia needed to heat fire on top of heavy explosive. it hit just ten minutes ago, this man said, pointing the way. some left bewildered. others i
Tonights lead on politics nation, democracy on trial. Tonight im in washington, d. C. , ahead of the annual white house Correspondents Dinner where there will be no doubt plenty of cocktail hour conversation about the whirlwind week of Legal Proceedings for former President Trump. The first witness in trumps Manhattan Hush Money Trial took the stand this week, and the former publisher of the National Enquirer detailed how farrakhan candidate trump went to like his alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels. Meanwhile, here in washington on thursday heard trumps argument that the presidency itself is Above The Law as his lawyers claim he has total immunity for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election. Some of the courts most conservative justices, many of which were nominated by trump himself, seemed open, if not sympathetic, to the idea. All of that on politics nation, plus well hear from the president of emilys list as the biden takes on another State Abortion Ban and voters prepare