telling you the truth. what we saw here. police officers trance toward that gunfire. we have been trending like that since 1999. they recently had training on this a few months before this incident, but that s really disgusting, knowing you are trained to go towards the gunfire, you are fully equipped , you see them coming in with shields, body armor, helmets, automatic weapons, and yet, the first sound of gunfire, they turn, retreat, go the other direction, and you can hear the gunfire. for me as a law enforcement official, i find it disheartening. it s hurtful, painful for me to watch on so many different levels, but if i can encourage the community with one thing, what we saw demonstrated, and i think what we re going to continue to see demonstrated on this particular video, what we see there, they did not uphold their oath. this is not to be confused with the rest of the men and women out there who go out there and courageously will go towards the gunfire, and i don t wan
we will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. the panel has not yet revealed who that potential witness is or what they may testify to but it does signal the panel is acutely aware of what donald trump and his allies might do to try to stifle their investigation, which has shown the lengths to that donald trump went to to stay in power. yesterday we learned of a late-meeting at the white house, four days after states certified their election results, which should have been the end of the line according to attorney general bill barr s testimony. inside the oval office was a group of outside advisers. liz cheney called them the, quote, crazies, including rudy giuliani, michael flynn and sydney powell and patrick burn. they were there to pitch donald trump on executive order to seize voting machines and appoint sydney special counsel. the group was alone for ten to 15 minutes before white house officials like pat cipollone intervenes. what followed wha
hallway, doing nothing pretty could hear the sounds of the teachers and students being shot. so in the most powerful telescope ever made showing the distant galaxies. we will show you the picture of a real star being born. that s all coming up. good evening, i am erin burnett. accusations of potential witness tampering. congresswomen, liz cheney, accusing president donald trump of trying to contact an unidentified january 6th committee witness in recent days. after our last hearing, president trump tried to call a witness in our investigation. a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings. that person declined to answer or respond to president trump s call. instead, alerted their lawyer to the call. their lawyer alerted us. this committee has supplied the information to the department of justice. that is a serious point to make. obviously, she s making a serious obligation. the justice department does have the power to prosecute if they see the former president tamp
the earliest galaxies. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 9am injapan where a private funeral will be held in tokyo later, for the former prime minister shinzo abe, who died after being shot while at a political campaign event. mourners have streamed into a temple in tokyo to pay their respects. these are scenes from a vigil at the zojoji temple. world leaders have also paid tribute. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, said mr abe did more than anyone to elevate the relationship between their two countries. rupert wingfield hayes reports from tokyo. shinzo abe was a fresh faced 52 year old when he shocked everyone by becoming japan s youngest postwar prime minister. it did not go well. and in less than a year, he was gone. five years later, he plotted his return with a new hairstyle and a new slogan. and this time, he stayed, for eight years, longer than any other postwar japanese leader. today, japan is layin