and the latest economic numbers participate a conflicting picture. we ll help you figure out what it all means. the sri lankan president say they ll resign after tens of thousands of people stormed their residences to protest the country s economic cries. this comes after months of protell uses across the south asian nation. it reached unprecedented levels on saturday. at one point more than 100,000 people converged outside the president s residence calling for his resignation. the prime minister says he s willing to make way for an all party government to take over. sri lanka s parliamentary speaker is calling for calm as the country waits for a transition of power to occur. translator: there is no need to destabilize the country any longer. i respectfully request for the cooperation of everyone on behalf of the country and for the country s future in order to maintain peace. cnn s will rippley joins us now from taipei. the protesters got what they wanted in a sense. t
filmmaker alex holder including never before seen footage of donald trump and his family during the final weeks of the election and after, intimate interviews and their reaction to his election loss. take a look at this. okay. my father, he s very honest, and he is who he is. he believes everything that he s doing is right. i think i treat people well unless they don t treat me well, in which case you go to war. so, again, that is exclusive footage and we re going to talk with the filmmaker alex holder tomorrow night at 10:00, so make sure you tune in. the documentary series will be released by cnn plus. it s part of what the committee says is a deluge of new evidence including new information from the national archives and tips to the committee s hot line. so much that they ve had to postpone next week s hearings to dig through all of this. but tomorrow we re going to hear from three justice department officials testifying how the then-president of the united sta
examining right now the january 6th committee i should say is examining the footage from that documentary right now. it s a three part series by filmmaker alex holder including never before seen footage of donald trump and his family during the final weeks of the election and after, intimate interviews and their reaction to his election loss. take a look at this. okay. my father, he s very honest, and he is who he is. he believes everything that he s doing is right. i think i treat people well unless they don t treat me well, in which case you go to war. so, again, that is exclusive footage and we re going to talk with the filmmaker alex holder tomorrow night at 10:00, so make sure you tune in. the documentary series will be released by discovery plus, which is also owned by cnn s parent company. it s part of what the committee says is a deluge of new evidence including information from the the national archives and tips to the committee s hot line. so much that
amid a wave. the third cabinet member to enter the contest, and there s also newly appointed finance minister. he joined the cabinet less than a year ago. one popular figure who says he won t seek the job, defense secretary ben wallace. he was widely expected to participate. all right, turning to the u.s. and the investigation of the capitol riots. a spokesman for the committee looking into the january 6th insurrection says it got, quote, critical testimony on friday. that s when a member of trump s inner circle, white house council, pat cipollone, spent hours testifying under oath. cnn s marshall cohen looks how important that testimony could be. donald trump s white house counsel pat sip lenny spent more than seven hours testifying to the january 6th select committee. now, that in its own right was a real breakthrough for the panel because cipollone had resisted doing a formal deposition for
everyone should watch. the parallels to what s going on now, unbelievable. i did a nice job, thank you. thank you for responding to that. listen, the committee has been spending all the pressure campaigns, and we re about to hear what was going on in the doj. how important will tomorrow s testimony be in piecing all this together you think? i think it ll be very important. first of all these are seasoned lawyers. they know what evidence is. they resisted pressure from the president of the united states. he was not acting properly. and so i think they ll be powerful witnesses. i have little doubt they will. yeah, and you understand all too well the position that pat sip lenny is in tonight. i mean he cooperated with the committee behind closed doors, and he thinks that s enough. why do you feel it s critical he