out front. plus, she is bucking the president again, this time on immigration. but have voters had enough of democrat turned indeputy kyrsten sinema? we are out front in arizona. and new reporting just coming in from cnn s k-file, an up and coming star in the republican party calling survivors of a deadly school shooting spoiled, angry, and stupid. and there is more. let s go outfront. good evening, i m pamela brown in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, bracing for revenge, the sound of air raid sirens heard across ukraine s capital as the city prepares for russia to retaliate after the kremlin says it prevented an assassination attempt on vladimir putin. on russian state tv, this right here is the message. translator: everyday control centers, the presidential office in kyiv, and the government building should be turned into dust. those sorts of threats creating chaos in the streets of kyiv after a low-flying drone was spotted in the capital. you can see it be
china. erin? will ripley thank you very much for that amazing report. thank you for joining us. anderson is now. one for the history books tonight. former vice president mike pence testified today before the federal grand jury investigating the former president s actions surrounding the january 6th riot and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. i m john berman in for anderson. just pause and listen to that again. a former vice president just testified in an investigation about whether a president, his running mate illegally tried to overturn an election. so much has happened the last few years, it s easy to get numb to the mind-bending historical explosions taking place. it s the first time in modern history a vice president has been compelled to testify about the president he served beside. to add to that, he might run against trump in 2024. it s also the first time that this vice president has testified under oath about the day where rioters were seen yelling hang mi
happening now, the key ukrainian city of bakhmut amid fears it could all at any time. alex murdaugh is sentenced to life in prison after jurors quickly convicted him of murdering his wife and son and the judge calling him a monster. desantis trump split is on display. this as cnn uncovered comments by a new appointee of governor desantis with an animati-gay conspiracy room. alex marquardt is near the front lines in ukraine. alex, bakhmut is significant. reporter: russian forces are trying to encircle ukrainian forces but holding out. this is a very tough fight for the ukrainians that got tougher with a ukrainian bridge on the main supply route that ukraine uses to get to the front line. essentially the only paved road ukraine can use to back up the forces. we were on that road yesterday. we showed it to our viewers here on this program. we saw all kinds of military vehicles going to and from that front line so now, if ukraine wants to supply its forces, if i wants to
right now. first, my personal apology on behalf of myself and everyone at southwest for all of this. second, a pledge to do everything we can and to work day and night to repair our relationship with you and offer some new resources that we have to get you the fastest information and fastest service possible. it is the top of the hour, 8:00eem eastern. we re glad you re with us. it is december 29th. welcome to cnn this morning. i think everyone wants an apology. i m confused because he said at one point that if you still haven t gotten your bad you could get it at no cost to you, which is you could get back at what you own. so we re talking about this apology this morning from southwest airlines. this time from the chief commercial officer brian green. this comes at 2300 more southwest flights today have been canceled and they announced new ways they are planning to help stranded customers. listen to this. you could submit a full refund request for any canceled
bombings and rocket fire in gaza tonight, casualties mounting as questions grow over whether israel s prime minister new that hamas had an attack plan a year ago, i ll ask his senior adviser. plus, to hell with this place. the parting quote of george santos, his office already locked already changed and his name above the office gone. so now what happens to his seat? and an exclusive new reporting this hour, house speaker mike johnson promoting a book full of baseless conspiracy theories and homophobic insults some directed at pete buttigieg and he s out front to respond. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, hamas once again firing rocks now deep into israel. our team in sderot hearing the rocket fire from northern gaza. this is the aftermath that you are looking at now of israeli strikes in the town. both sides blaming the other. the reality is this. more people are dying and the onslaught of war is continuing and 136 people are