with the grand jury investigating donald trump s attempts to overturn the election and his role on january 6. the former president reacting to john allen. mr. president, what do you think of mike pence testifying today? i don t know what he said. i have a lot of confidence in him. pressure rising. calls for president biden and house speaker mccarthy to restart talks on raising the debt ceiling and mounting fears over the real-world impact of a potential and historic u.s. default. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. for the first time in modern history a vice president has testified in a criminal probe about the president he once served. mike pence spent seven hours before the grand jury thursday in the special counsel s investigation of donald trump s attempts to stop the peaceful transfer of power and trump s role in the capitol attack. pence was brought in by jack smith early in the morning thursday after just the night before the appeals court rejected don
breaking overnight, russia launches the largest missile attack in two months on ukraine killing at least 20 civilians. this morning ukraine is promising to fight back. here at home, water continues to rise across the midwest and what is being called a slow moving disaster. there is widespread flooding along the mississippi river. and the worst is yet to come. former vice president mike pence testified before the special grand jury investigating former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll play for you what trump had to say about it. and a tense back and forth between donald trump s lawyer and the woman who says trump raped her which he denies. what it was like in the room during e. jean carroll s cross examination. we begin this hour with that breaking news out of ukraine. overnight, a deadly wave of air strikes, 20 people were killed including three children in a strike on a residential building in the central ukrainian city of uman according
texan, who everyone seemed t love caring, wondering compassionate. so why did she have the strange permission actually always felt like she was gonna die young. the call came on blac friday they said that ashlea apartment was on fire. when the car picked up, i m heart broke. and this fire was n accident they conducted surveillance at ashlea apartment. they re going back to the place where ashlea worked? they were going after ten of thousands of dollars. but was money they only motive or was there something else? there were a lot of rumor going around that ended up being true couldn t believe anyone did that to her. it was just pure evil. hello and welcome t dateline ashlea harris had no shortag of admirers. family, friends, coworkers even her ex son her praises. so when she was found dead after a suspicious fir consumed her apartment, police were baffled this was no accident but where the clues to who killed ashlea now up in smoke? it would t
than an hour on the ground they were able to plug some 17 plus embassy staff and their families , plus a small number of foreign nationals, the state department said out of the country and then flying them back, at least to eat the opiate now there were no contacts with any kind of violence in that operation. there have been some unconfirmed reports that it almost simultaneously. almost simultaneously. a french evacuation effort may have come under fire, but that has been unconfirmed at this stage of british special forces and the french special forces evacuated some 100 plus people from their nationalities and other foreigners at the belgium s dutch and even the norwegians are now and germans are now carrying out their efforts. but there are 19,000 potentially americans still stuck. in sudan , many of them dual nationals, not all of them necessarily wanting to be evacuated. but this isn t just focused on khartoum. in terms of the need for evacuation. there is violence spread
the justice department has just issued a scathing and disturbing report on the louisville police department nearly two years after a nearly two year civil rights investigation. now, attorney general merrick garland launched this probe in the months after the louisville police shot and killed an unarmed black woman, breonna taylor inside of her home. a short time ago garland explained that that botched raid in march of 2020 was part of a practice of abuses by the city. the pd leader told the department breonna taylor was a symptom of problems that we have had for years. the justice department s findings in the report that we are releasing today bear that out. and listen to this, these are just some of the very ugly examples that garland cited today. the justice department has also identified deficiencies in lmpd s response to and investigation of domestic violence and sexual assault. lmpd has relied heavily on pretextual traffic stops in black neighborhoods. some have vi