oslo pride parade after a deadly shooting at a gay nightclub, which police are treating as an act of islamist terrorism. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. in a breakthrough for president putin, russian forces have taken control of severodonetsk. the city occupies a key location in the east of ukraine. kyiv pulled out forces after ferocious russian attacks. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins. our ukraine correspondent joe inwood has the latest from the capital kyiv. it s a significant moment. reflect on the fact that this is the biggest city to fall since mariupol, this is the place we have been talking about for many weeks now. but in many ways its fall had become inevitable. the ukrainians said they were withdrawing, they now, since yesterday, it turns out that they have actually been pulling out for a few days but doing it without telling people, for obvious security reasons. what they say is they are now going to pull b
and stolen. that view was wrong then and it is wrong today. that comes as the justice department is ramping up its criminal investigation into the fake electors scheme that was concocted by trump and his allies with federal agents delivering grand jury subpoenas to at least four people yesterday. this is at a scale that we had not seen before from doj. it raises questions about how deep they are in to the fake elector scheme with their investigations. we will have much more on that in just a moment. that is the justice department branch of all of this. the congressional side of the investigation picks up in a few hours with a new hearing focused on the former president s pressure campaign to get the department of justice to intervene in the 2020 election. joining me now ellie honig former federal prosecutor. we can tell a lot by this witness list today. we can, john. let s set the scene. mid-december 2020 now it s about a month and change after the election, we are a few
Is youre not the subject of this. I mean it was just a search of every possible location hes connected to. He says youre not the subject to this and what do you know about donald trump . And then there is a ton of documents to suggest whats going on where hes trying to find out information. Then he says this could all go away in one week if you just give information, which we know that didnt happen. I mean to your point that he gives bad advice. And that is true that he said that. Thats not what happened. It didnt go away in one week. We have to leave it there. Thank you very much. We kept talking during the commercial break. Well try to post the commercial conversations online. The 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Tonight, dramatic moments as the defense will begin their case. Why the judge cleared the courtroom during the clash with the first witness. Plus, irans hard line president is confirmed dead in a helicopter crash. What it means in a region that is already on edge.
Already on edge. Why we shouldnt believe every number when it comes to joe biden and donald trump. That evening, we are 169 days from the election. Today, new york rested its case in the first criminal trial, i got to be in the courthouse as Michael Cohens marathon testimony ended and trumps team began putting on its case. Reporter former President Trumps team launching a fiery start to the case, taking direct aim at the credibility of Michael Cohen. Calling robert costello, an attorney for rudy giuliani, who advised cohen. He was described as manic. Cohen is implicating mr. Trump and an alleged crime. Costello testified that cohen told him, i dont have anything on donald trump. Directly refuting the testimony that he was directed to pay off Stormy Daniels. Michael cohen said numerous times President Trump knew nothing about it and he did it on his own. The judge repeatedly sustaining objections leading to a heated scolding. The judge at one point saying are you staring me down q he ha
Was actually dictated by President Trump himself, saying this, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. With no mention of dirt on Hillary Clinton. It wasnt until the New York Times was going to break the story that trump junior was promised damaging information on clinton back in july of last year. That was the New York Times reporting. At the time, trump junior and the trump team started changing their tune, saying the promise of damaging information turned into mainly an adoption conversation. They get into the meeting, and it quickly turns a pretext for Russian Adoption, according to his statement. The comments are about any type of information on Hillary Clinton were vague, meaningless. As you can see from the emails, the pretext of the meeting was, hey, we have information. There was some small talk. I dont even remember what it was. It was sort of nonsensical. Then it quickly went on to, you know, a story about Russian Adoption and how we could po