i m laura coates, and this is cnn tonight. and, look we saw it on january 6th, when election lies exploded into violence at the united states capitol. well now, the latest outbreak of allegedly politically motivated violence is in new mexico. a republican who lost his race for the new mexico house who tweeted after his defeat that the election was rigged and he vowed to fight it until the day he dies. now, that person has been arrested on suspicion of orchestrating shootings at the homes of four democratic elected leaders. now, no one was hurt thankfully. but homes were damaged. shot came through my home, right where i had just hours before had been playing with my granddaughter. more on all of that in just a moment. and plus, we have sources telling cnn about a member of president biden s inner circle who has now been interviewed by federal investigators. we ll tell you who it is and what happened. as the biden ministration is now saying that tonight, it will continue to
and look, we saw it on january 6th, when election lies exploded into violence at the united states capitol. well, now, the latest outbreak of allegedly politically motivated violence is in new mexico. a republican who lost his race for the new mexico house who tweeted after his defeat that the election was rigged and he vowed to fight it until the day he dies. now, that person has been arrested on suspicion of orchestrating shootings at the homes of four democratic elected leaders. now, no one was hurt, thankfully. but homes were damaged. shots came through my home, right where i had just hours before had been playing with my granddaughter. more on all of that in just a moment. and plus, we have sources telling cnn about a member of president biden s inner circle who has now been interviewed by federal investigators. we ll tell you who it is and what happened. as the biden administration is now saying that tonight, it will continue to cooperate fully with the doj probe of
murder charge. we re going to take you there live inside the courtroom as soon as it begins. there on the left-hand side of your screen, live pictures from inside that courtroom. we are also following devastating scenes outside the ukrainian capital this morning. at least 17 people are dead and dozens more hurt after a helicopter carrying the ukrainian interior minister and his team crashed near a kindergarten. officials say eight victims were locales. children and their parents on the way to school. and let s begin there this morning. cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward is on the ground outside of kyiv. tell us more about what you re learning, clarissa. reporter: well, we ve just seen very tragically what appears to be another body bag being carried out from this area behind me by emergency services. they ve been there for hours combing through the wreckage of that kindergarten looking to see whether there might be more bodies under the rubble that was