yasmin vossoughian. i ll be back later with a report on the january six. hearings simone sanders starts. now greetings, you are watching simone. one of the most conservative judicial minds in america, tell us the january six committee, donald trump and his allies are still a clear and present danger to our democracy. that is happening right in front arise. plus, i have been saying, and republicans go low, it is time to go toe to toe. so i am asking, why aren t democrats changing from the we ve tops about ginni thomas and her alleged emails to trump attorney john eastman? you know, at the architect of the attempted coup. and, law versus protocol, i am very struck by how much the government functions on protocols that are not rules of law. so, we are going to dig into the difference today, and how this was on full display on january 6th. i am simone sanders, and i have something to say. e sanders, and i hav something to say all right i need you ought to listen. that the janua
last heard from in ukraine around april 23rd, according to a family friend. alexander and andy went missing last week. videoed surfaced today on pro-russian social media appearing to show those two men in an unknown location. we re not showing the video because it appears to show the men under duress. sam kiley is in kharkiv just miles from where those two veterans were last seen. he spoke with an american who was fighting with andy and alex just before they went missing. these two americans fighters have their hands bound behind them. they re dressed in uniforms not their own, and they may well have been captured by the very russians they had been fighting. this as far as it goes is good news for the comrade who last saw a t-72 tank open fire on his two friends. does that give you any kind of cause for hope? absolutely. absolutely. i wish i could say with 100% certainty that it s not a fake, but i have a lot of hope that it s them. a former u.s. serviceman, he was in
pence. the white house council said pence did not have any authority to throw out the results. trump s pressure on pence, and i quote, directly contributed to the violent insurrection. let s take a look at this photo. it s obtained by abc news, showing pence and his family inside hiding, as the building was being ransacked by rioters. pence s daughter on the left side of the photo, his wife on the right, pulling the curtains closed for extra safety. and pence had good reasons to be hiding. some of the rioters brought gallows to the capitol while calling for pence to be hanged. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. pence s former chief of staff will not testify in person. but clips from his video deposition are expected to be played. tonight, in a short, telling wolf blitzer, who he believes is ultimately responsible for the january 6th violence. well, to be clear, do you blame those surrounding the president for giving him bad advice? or do
more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6th unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks before january 6. the times says this raises questions about a possible link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. cnn s katelyn polantz live in washington. explain to us about these revelations involved in all of these emails. reporter: hi. so this new story from the new york times describes emails between two lawyers who were working with donald trump and the trump campaign after the election. they appear to reveal that one lawyer, john eastman, he is well connected among conservatives, former supreme court clerk, that east man had insight into the internal deliberations of the supreme court and another lawyer was using that information with him to look at ramping up their legal battle with an expectation of chaos on january 6. so in these emails the new york times says that eastman on christmas eve
media outlet to gain access to southern gaza without a military escort. we ll bring you that report ahead as the defense minister says the war in gaza will last several more months. and exonerated. a man in illinois spent 35 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit. and now his conviction has been vacated and he is a free man at least. he will join us live just ahead. we re following these major developing stories and many more coming in to cnn news central. thanks for joining us this afternoon. it s the top of the hour, and we re tracking a set of counterterror operations in europe. multiple suspects were arrested in germany, denmark and the netherlands today. german officials arrested 3 hamas members for allegedly planning to attack jewish institutions. authorities in denmark made several terror arrests that are unrelated to the germany case. israeli officials claim the suspects were also acting on behalf of ha mast. alex, all of this is confusing as you try t