important, america first committee in 1940-41, was almost a million members in size. it was lead by industrialists, by members of congress, punitive spokesman was lindbergh, it was made up of all kinds of people, patriotic americans, communist, ain t semites, they had one thing in mind, keep america out of the european war. you see, they had just fought world war i. the country was going through a horrific economic cycle, depression. they didn t want to fight any more. the argument was basically, let s build up our military to protects continental u.s., bombers and other air war craft, ships and subs, but stay out of europe, we went there and lost enough lives. franklin roosevelt was frustrated. he got around neutrality act too give some support to england. which was under attack by the nazis, the nazis moved through much of eastern europe, they were attacking england, we had many people who opposed us getting involved because they didn t think we were ready and tired of the
calling conservative voters and extremist threat to our democracy and ending this today. we understand we hit a nerve. we get that, we understand we are trying to hide and we understand that ultra maga officeholders want to play games and dodge accountability for their extreme proposals and actions. but they are telling on themselves. we are talking about an agenda that s not popular, talking about agendas that s incredibly extreme, talking about an agenda that s not in line for them a majority of americans. when you talk about extremists, were talking about a key piece component of the american pu public. greg: very small, but the crux. anyway, republicans planning a rebuttal to the speech by highlighting democrats record on crime and inflation. here is kevin mccarthy. speak of the problem with joe biden is he doesn t understand the soul of america, the tens and millions of hardworking law-abiding citizens that he vilifies. they want a safer and more prosperous america a
the state department works to find them. cnn s barbara starr has the latest developments. reporter: it was in the fighting north of kharkiv where two americans went missing last week, less than 5 miles from the russian border. the u.s. government working with ukrainian authorities to find them. i have been briefed. we don t know where they are, but i want to reiterate americans should not be going to ukraine now. reporter: now this photo from a russian blogger has emerged of alexander and andy appeared to be bound in the back of a russian military vehicle. video later emerging of an interview they did with pro-russian media. cnn is not showing the video as the two appear to be speaking under duress. now the state department is working to verify their status. they said that there is a photograph that is being circulated on the russian media, and they re working hard to verify it. we re very hopeful. reporter: retired staff sergeant druuke served in both kuwait and ir
rioters. as trump pressured him to stop the vote certification of the 2020 election. it was a move trump knew was illegal as several witnesses revealed just yesterday. let s get to cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. what more are you learning about next week s hearing? well, the committee, the january 6th committee is trying to nail down the list of witnesses that they have from the former justice department, former justice department officials under former president trump. and right now we know that they have slated they were key in standing up to the president. he was trying to essentially use the justice department to endorse his claims that there was vote fraud, and in the end, to try to overturn the election results. one witness that we don t know we know the committee was looking for, and it appears will not be showing up is pat sip pat cipollone. it would have been unusual to see a former white house counsel sitting before this committee. it appears
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