madonna to postpone some of the world to. longtime manager posting that she is now recovering from a serious bacterial infection. so serious that she was in intensive care for days. a source close to madonna tells cnn that she is out of the icu. it s expected to make a full recovery. obviously tonight we are saying our best to her. thank you so much for joining us for this news packed hour tonight. cnn tonight with abby phillip starts right now. thank you caitlin, good evening everyone. i am abby phillips and this is cnn tonight. it is the tale of two tapes. special counsel jack smith s investigation into elected interference in the 2020 election heating up today. investigators interviewing georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. former president donald trump s nemesis called him in january 2021. pressing him to find votes that trump needed to win the state of georgia. a state joe biden won by nearly 12,000 votes. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,78
starts right now. thank you, kaitlan. good evening. i m abby philip. it is the tale of two tapes. special counsel jack smith s interference heating up. investigators interviewing georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, former president donald trump s famously called him in january of 2021 pressing him to find votes that trump needed to win the state of georgia. a state that joe biden won by nearly 12,000 votes. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. so where the special counsel s investigation headed? we will discuss that. and he has already indicted president trump in the mar-a-lago case while trump and his allies keep changing their explanations about that audio recording that cnn exclusively obtained where trump is on there discussing and seems to wave around classified documents. this is what he said about it before cnn got the exclusive tape. there was no document. tha
amanda cardin hong kong. more debt ceiling drama in the u.s.. getting a deal on the table was the first hurdle. now the race is on to sell the plan to skeptical lawmakers before the government runs out of money to pay its bills. kyiv under fire. a rate alarms ringing out at the ukrainian capital for a third day in the row. as russia unleashes another massive wave of drone attacks on the city. plus, a showdown in texas. the state attorney general impeached by his fellow republicans. we will break down the accusations he is facing and where he is going through from here. the debt limit deal between the u.s. president and the republican house speaker is about to be put to the test. both leaders have been racing to support for the bipartisan agreement before the u.s. runs out of money next week. they face harsh criticism from hard-line members of their own parties. and they must get congress to approve the deal before the president can sign it in the coming day the house
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law enforcement or the pentagon to put an end to the violence and while video evidence showed rioters hanging on every word from the president, we learned that trump initially refused to use the word peace when he finally sent a tweet to that mob. and still to this day, former president trump will not say the election is over. witnesses say it took him nearly an hour to record this three-minute video the day after the insurrection due to his complete objections to the truth. watch. and to those who broke the law, you will pay. you do not represent our movement, you do not represent our country, and if you broke the law can t say that. i m not i already said you will pay. but this election is now over. congress has certified the results. i don t want to say the election is over. thursday s testimony also painted a picture of vice president pence really stepping in, taking charge, calling in the national guard, to disperse the rioters, something the president would no