and failed to get german signoff on the allies of ukraine s tanks something that poland says they would do on their own. and president biden was asked about it today. polands call to send tanks and money. u.s. tanks to ukraine? president biden: ukraine s going to get all the help they need. anchor: that s ukraine s president, he says he needs more than western gratitude to hold off the russians. hundreds of thanks, are not hundreds of tanks. also, today, the white house told reporters, that the mercenary fighters made up in part of russian convicts, this all come as day after we learned that cie director briefed president zelensksyy on how the spring russian may play off. fred starts us off from kyiv. reporter: hugely important week in ukraine. one that could be pivotal for the war and the future of their country. they want it take the fight to the russians, they understand that they need more modern, western weapons to do that. at the same time they re bracing
really was. from this latest discovery we have one johnny mcentee to thank, trump s director of personnel by the end. we now now mcentee s testimony before the committee revealed that the twice-impeached disgraced ex-president in his final hours in office floated the idea of a blanket pardon for the breach of the united states capitol. there was a vice of dissent to that idea, white house counsel pat cipollone. he rejected the idea. our friend luke broad water of the new york times reports this, quote, mcentee recalled cipollone also rejected trump s idea that all white house staff should be pardoned, even those who have played no role in the president s push to overturn the 2020 election. quote, i remember cipollone questioning on that, well, why does anyone need a pardon, mr. mcentee recalled, adding that the president had responded, well, just so they can t go after them for any little thing. and i think cipollone said, yeah, but no one here has done anything wrong. the
her testimony. he does not have the courage she showed and is refusing to tell the committee what he knows. men like mark meadows who are openly defying the subpoena to testify and avoiding us as well. we d love to talk to him not under oath, but he s shown no willingness to even face questions from reporters. house minority leader mccarthy is seeking to cast doubt on miss hutchinson s testimony and the work of the committee. this is just the continuation. they re obsessed with trump and this is all they want to do, but this here say would never be allowed in the court of law. we should point out, nothing would be here say if mr. meadows or pat cipollone would testify under oath. all they need to do is tell the truth. say what they said. then everything would be clear. hutchinson is also being attacked be i the former president himself. here s some of what he told news max yesterday for an interview that aired today. this lady yesterday, there s something wrong with her
we begin tonight with the effort to discredit cassidy hutchinson s testimony before the house january 6th select committee and effort to destroy the credibility of a 26-year-old woman who had the courage to do what the former white house counsel and president s own chief of staff do not have to courage to do. two days after telling the committee that the former president of the united states sent a mob of people, some of who he knew to be armed to the capitol, she is being attacked by the president and his defenders. men like jim jordan whose republican members are attacking her testimony. he does not have the courage she showed and is refusing to tell the committee what he knows. men like her former boss, then chief of staff mark meadows who are openly defying the subpoena and testify and avoiding us, as well. we d love to talk to him not under oath, but he s shown no willingness to even face questions from reporters. house minority leader kevin mccarthy is seeking to cast d
at this stage. reporter: right. well, it would be rare to make a search warrant affidavit public, but we are at a point where there is a push for transparency, not just on capitol hill, but the media, including cnn. in court the justice department made a set of arguments and really a couple little details about this investigation that they re saying should keep this affidavit secret, confidential, only for their eyes and for the judge s eyes. in their filing yesterday, they wrote if disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a road map to the government s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps. we know too they have disclosed in this filing yesterday that they are using witnesses already, that they have spoken with, they re using a grand jury in this investigation, and that they also are looking for to make sure there aren t future witnesses whose infor