newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington, and we begin this hour with a developing situation in russia near the ukrainian border. the russian defense ministry says 11 people are dead and another 15 are injured after two men or two gunmen, i should say, opened fire on russian military recruits during a training session. russia says the two men were from former soviet states that russian state news agency is reporting the incident occurred during a shooting training session with volunteers preparing for a special operation when the unit was attacked with small arms fire. details are still coming in to cnn at this hour. we ll update you as we get more of that information as it s coming in, but we ll bring that to you just as soon as that story develops. in the meantime, the shooting happened as the violence inside ukraine is once against escalating violently. in just the past week, russia launched hundreds of missile strikes, including yesterday and today in zaporizhzhia. they
states. there s no question this was a call to action from the committee. over to doj. the committee s work is all but done. they have unearthed all sorts of important new evidence. we don t know whether doj will ultimately indict donald trump or the people around him. what we know for sure is the committee has given doj plenty of new evidence. we know doj s investigation is expanding, and we do know, as liz cheney correctly said, we are almost two years out from january 6th. plenty of foot soldiers have been indicted. that s very important, over 800, but not a single person within any meaningful vicinity to donald trump has been indicted yet. will that change? the committee s done its job. will doj do its? that s the question now. and during thursday s hearing, we also heard from people around trump about his mindset. let s take a look at that. so, we re in the oval, and there s a discussion going on. and the president says, i think it s it could have been pompeo, but he says wo
criminal prosecution, and as long as the committee does that before the next congress takes over, in early january 2023, doj is still free to run with that. so, no question the committee has limited its options by the timing here, but they ve not completely eliminated them altogether. interesting. and i want to play a moment from congresswoman liz cheney s opening statement. let s watch. the violence and lawlessness of january 6th was unjustifiable, but our nation cannot only punish the foot soldiers who stormed our capitol. those who planned to overturn our election and brought us to the point of violence must also be accountable. with every effort to excuse or justify the conduct of the former president, we chip away at the foundation of our republic. that seems like a statement clearly pointed at someone, elie. yes, to be specific, one merrick b. garland, the 86th attorney general of the united