we begin in the us where a congressional committee has released six years of tax returns for the former president donald trump. mr trump battled for years to keep the documents secret until the supreme court approved their disclosure last month. the returns show that in two years covered by the release, he and his wife paid just 15 hundred dollars in federal income taxes. the former president has released a video statement, condemning the release of the documents. although these tax returns contain relatively little information and not information that almost anybody would understand they are extremely complex, the radical democrats behaviour is a shame upon the us congress. joining me now is adam davidson, a contributing writer to the new yorker. he has long covered trump s finances for the magazine. thank you very much indeed for joining us. if i could start by picking up on the point made there by donald trump, a lot of people will neither be able to make head or tail of
viewers watching from around the world, i m laila harrak, and ahead on cnn newsroom former president donald trump s tax information is finally about to go public after his years-long fight to keep it secret. what we can expect to find out in the coming hours plus one of russia s largest strikes yet. that s ten months into the war, russia launches dozens of missiles into ukraine, just days before the new year. and remembering a football legend. tributes pour in from around the world for pelé. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom we have laila harrak. we begin with the latest chapter of a legal battle that has been playing out in washington for years. in the coming hours, u.s. house lawmakers will release some of former president donald trump s tax returns. he refused to make them public when he ran for the white house, breaking with a presidential tradition going back decades. and he fought every effort to get them released, calling it an abuse of power and a
now. what rudy giuliani and jared kushner swore under oath. today donald trump s taxes now in plain sight after a year s long back and forth legal battle. plus the transportation secretary s new threat aimed at southwest airlines, make good on getting thousands of passengers home or face thousands of dollars of fines for failing to get planes in the air. this is what we re watching at this hour. and good morning, everyone. i m amara walker in for kate bolduan. just minutes ago, the committee investigating the insurrection putting out a new batch of transcripts from the work. today s releasing includes a few headline names. rudy giuliani, donald trump s former legal mouth piece who helped lead some efforts to undo the 2020 election. jared kushner and jason miller a top campaign visser and ginni thomas who also attended stop the steal rallies. cnn is reading through all of this right now and we ll bring you details as soon as we get them. also this hour, a never befor
hello, everyone. at this hour, a suspect now in custody. the fbi makes a giant breakthrough in the killings of four idaho college students. plus, new transcripts and new insights into the day surrounding the insurrection. what did rudy giuliani, jared kushner and ginni thomas tell the committee. donald trump s tax returns are finally public. this is what we re watching. hi, everyone, i m amara walker in today for kate bolduan. we begin with breaking news. police have made an arrest in connection to the murders investigation of four college students in idaho. two federal law enforcement sources tell cnn that the fbi took a suspect into custody in northeastern pennsylvania. the arrest comes nearly seven weeks after the students were found stabbed to death in a home near the university of idaho campus. police in moscow, idaho, will hold a news conference later this afternoon and cnn s veronica miracle is live in moscow, idaho, with the very latest. veronica. reporter: we
law enforcement sources. the moscow, idaho, police department has announced a news conference for later this afternoon and cnn s veronica miracle joins us from moscow, idaho, right now. veronica, what are we learning at this hour? well, abby, just in the last few minutes josh campbell, lauren and mark morales revealed bryan kohberger, a 28-year-old has been arrested in connection to these murders here. he was arrested according to federal sources in pennsylvania, completely on the other side of the country, thousands of miles away. this arrest comes after seven weeks of painstaking investigation by the moscow police department, the fbi and other agencies who have descended upon this town to try to figure out who could have possibly murdered four students in their sleep, that s according to the coroner here saying those four students were likely murdered in their sleep. some of them showed signs of defensive wounds they tried to fight off the attacker. now we understand th