This is cnn breaking news. This is a live look outside of the federal courthouse in washington, d. C. Grand jurors have been Hearing Evidence today in the Special Counsels january 6th probe. They were just seen leaving for the day and we are standing by to find out if they voted on whether to hand up an indictment for donald trump. Sources telling cnn that the former president and his advisers are right now preparing for a Potential Indictment. Cnns paula reid is joining us now on that. Paula, what are you hearing . Reporter so, we know that the grand jury that has been Hearing Evidence in the Special Counsels investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, they have been seen leaving the building, but one important person stayed behind and that is the grand juror foreperson. That is significant, because that is the only member of the grand jury that is needed to return an indictment. Now, at this point its unclear if they have voted to indict the former president , or anyone
investigators. the death toll rising overnight after a russian missile strike on kramatorsk. and another hot and hazy day ahead, millions of people under heat or air quality alerts. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin with new developments in the donald trump efforts to overturn the 2020 election. later today jack smith s team will speak to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger as part of their january 6 investigation. you may remember then president trump called raffensperger in january of 2021 to press him to, quote, find the votes needed to win georgia which joe biden won by nearly 12,000 votes. here is part of that now infamous call. so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11 sk1,780 votes which is one more than we have, because we won the state. and we re also learning that the former attorney rudy giuliani has been interviewed as part of the probe. the meeting between giuliani, his attorney and invest
tell us right now that there were kids inside that classroom. no response. did you know there were kids inside that classroom? no response. really? all right. time to get out of here. we re cnn, we re journalists. tell us no, no, no. sir, sir, it s okay. it s okay. we were told to come. we did. we are yes, but we sir, sir, we are. we are. they said go. mr. mccarthy, do you think you have the votes to be elected speaker tonight? yes. you do? yes. you re going to be able to do rosendale and crane. i have the votes. why don t you have concerns? because i can. there you have it, he said, yes, he s got the votes to become elected speaker if you re still with me, jake. he said he has the votes to be elected speaker. that is news. this is cnn breaking news. i m max foster with bianca nobilo in london getting breaking news out of italy, the italian prime minister silvio berlusconi has died. he died and in april he was hospitalized for complicat
and, quote, lending work and life in the new year. kind of a bomba vibe there. travelers can expect to spend longer hours at the airports today as they head out for the holidays. a new report shows many of their fellow flyers are not on their best behavior. we are following these developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. welcome to cnn news central, i m brianna keilar, boris sanchez is off with jim acosta. what a treat. very nice. we are watching this donald trump tape, another one, that could have major legal ramifications. it has surfaced and this one is a recording of a call that he made two election workers in michigan. pressuring them to block joe biden s victory two weeks after election day in 2020. there was a meeting to certify michigan s result, you ve seen the footage here of that meeting, two-way and county election officials initially voting against certifying. then they flipped and voted to certify. that is when trump ste
gaza but acknowledge some collateral. and plus vladimir putin s parade celebrating victory day moments ago in moscow as his troops struggle to defeat ukraine. and just hours from now in washington, joe biden and kevin mccarthy face-to-face, can they strike a debt limit deal before america defaults. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with fears of dangerous escalation in the middle east. israel says that the operation was aimed at eliminating kingpin terrorists. three islamic jihad commanders were killed, palestinian medical official said at least 13 died in those strikes including four women and four children. hadas gold is live in front of an iron dome battery in southern israel. what are the two sides saying about the airstrikes? reporter: yeah, i m in front of these iron dome batteries and all expectations that these types of batteries which are all around southern israel will be used in the coming hours a