jury looking into whether president trump and his allies broke the law when they tried to overturn the 2020 election has finished its investigation. there s no word yet on the panel s findings. fulton county s district attorney will decide whether to pursue indictments. fanny willis started her investigation after then-president trump called the georgia secretary of state to pressure him to find the votes needed for trump to overturn his loss there. the investigation later expanded to include a look into the false claims of election fraud and a plan to use fake electors and a threat against election workers. let s bring in cnn s political correspondent, sara murray, who s been following all this, and legal analyst jennifer rogers. so sara, she was also sara, what happens now that this report is done? what can we expect? reporter: look, the report is finished. the judge said the grand jury has been dissolved after a year of investigating, and look, this is really somethi
a helicopter crash in ukraine killing top officials and some children. the maga king who falsely claimed fraud said he s the one behind the attacks. george santos qualified to serve on two house committees even though no one s sure what his real qualifications are. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with this breaking news. tragedy in ukraine. devastating helicopter crash. the chopper plunged to the ground near a kindergarten. the crash killing ukraine s interior minister and leadership team and killing some children on the ground being taken to the kindergarten by their parents. cnn s clarissa ward live on the ground. what more do we know about this rapidly developing story? reporter: well, christine, as if ukraine hasn t experienced enough horror and enough tragedy. this morning e s events are tru devastating. you can see the area behind me where the helicopter crashed in. the latest informatio
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
it is top of the hour. just in to cnn, michael cohen, the former personal attorney to president trump is meeting at the manhattan da s office. this is a very strong indication that the sweeping investigation into the trump organization is continuing. and perhaps the focus has returned to this hush money payments to stormy daniels. we re following the story. what did michael say when he went in? we have video, you played it of michael walking into the manhattan district attorney s office. cohen said he could not comment on what the topics they would be discussing would be. but he might have more to say when he is leaving. but this is the first time cohen has been in since this investigation has been led by the manhattan district attorney. he previously been in to meet with investigators 13 times over the previous years. the trump organization and the financial statements, now sources tell me that the investigators have refocused back to the hush money payments. of course
Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, everyone. The nations top Law Enforcement official, attorney general Merrick Garland faced a gauntlet of tough questions and accusations. Much of it centered on whether his office has put a thumb on the scale in the special counsel investigation of President Bidens son, hunter. Garland testified in a contentious hearing before the house judiciary committee. Republicans pressing him on whether garland has meddled with the work of special counsel david weiss who was handling the hunter biden case. Biden was recently charged with three gunrelated counts. Garland also facing questions about the indictments of former president donald trump, and republican claims that the indictments were politically motivated. Garland telling the hearing, no one has told me to indict, insisting the decisions were made by special counsel jack smith. Its where we start tonight with ryan nobles. Reporter tonight, attorney general Merrick Garlan