also claims he does not remember who sent it to him. it says, we have operational control, total leverage, moral high ground, potus must start a second term now. state assemblies can step in and vote before the electoral slate. republicans control 28 states, democrats 22 states, once again, trump wins. that s the road map the day after the election, ron, for how to keep donald trump unconstitutionally in office. okay, fast forward to january six, when they tried some of these things instead of a donald trump jr. is texting a different tune. here it is. we need an oval address. he has to leave now, it s gone too far, it s gotten out of hand. i mean, what did they think their shenanigans would lead to? it led to chaos and violence. yeah, there is a dangling threat in the first series of text or emails that i cannot imagine the special counsel will be interested in investigating because as you know, donald trump jr. is really the first one to suggest, this in the report, sug
mother is under scrutiny after he linked her death to 9/11. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight we have a new window into the previously unseen testimony in the january 6th investigation. the house select committee going public with a significant new batch of transcripts including the panel s interview with donald trump jr. cnn political correspondent sara murray is here with me in the situation room. she has been going through all this new material. sara, this round of transcripts involve some members of trump s inner circle. what have you learned? we ve reported on how important mark meadows texts were for this committee. and we see it again in the committee s interview with donald trump jr. he is texting mark meadows during the riot while it s infurling, saying we need an oval address. we need to leave now, talking about his father. it s gone too far and gotten out of hand. th
the world, i am allison caustic . ahead on cnn newsroom, relief still days away for many southwest customers as we enter day eight of the airline meltdown. i talked to an aviation expert about the federal ramifications there plus we have a live report on a deadly fire at a casino in cambodia. that has left seven people that. pope francis says pope benedict is very sick and asks for everyone s prayers, the latest from the vatican. we begin with what ukrainian officials are calling a massive missile attack on cities across the country. ukrainian air force says russia is attacking from various directions with air and sea- based cruise missiles. joins us from kia, what is the latest and what are you hearing? well, what we are hearing from ukrainian officials is that at least 120 missiles have been fired so far today from russia to ukraine, hitting basically every major metropolitan area in the country, including, of course kia, where we are just a few minutes ago, a distant
the lead starts right now. new witness tran scripts released from the january 6th committee, including one from donald trump s own son, and an unusual request from one sitting gop senator. then, officials are calling it the largest russian missile strike since the war began. ukrainians say it could have been so much worse. plus, some signs of relief on the horizon for tens of thousands of southwest pas passengers who have been stuck in the airline s meltdown for now eight days. welcome to the lead, i m phil mattingly. and we begin with our politics lead and new insight into the january 6th investigation. the committee released more testimony transcripts from 19 witnesses, including trump s son donald trump jr., trump attorney christina bobb, kimberly guilfoyle, stephen miller and former white house press secretary stephanie grisham. there s one key thing that sticks out, and that s the role of mark meadows. he was, of course, trump s chief of staff on january 6th an
after a monster winter storm clashes many of people in its path. hundreds of people are likely still trapped in their vehicles. one of them is an 85-year-old grandmother stuck with her son. they have been turning the car on and off to have heat and save gas. a life-threatening blizzard banning travel and declaring a state of emergency. sub vero temperatures are covering huge swaths of the country more than 100 people people remain under windchill alerts. nearly 2 million are without power. a power grid operator is now asking residents to reducing their power. people traveling home for christmas have been met with frustration. road travel in some areas is dangerous, if not impossible. today alone, 2,000 flights have been canceled. almost 5,000 have been delayed. carlos suarez is in atlanta. let s begin with cnn s polo sandoval in hard-hit buffalo, new york. in buffalo, they know snee. this is what they do. when they say it s bad, it s clearly bad. as we can see, it s pretty bl