we set out. at first we didn t know where we were going to go, but it seemed to make sense to go east. there were no flights, there were still no commercial flights in ukraine. so, you had to drive and it s driving a long way. and in those early days, there were checkpoints everywhere. people were so jumpy, so suspicious, especially of foreigners. it took us a long time to get to kharkiv. we arrived there and there was a ghost city. there were no people on the streets. there was just an abiding sense of fear and terror and an expectation that, at any moment, the city could collapse. one of the first things that happens when we re there is we get stopped by the police. we get searched. i get patted down. other colleagues have been thrown on the ground. had guns pointed to their heads, because there was that fear
could collapse. one of the first things that happens when we re there is we get stopped by the police. we get searched. i get patted down. other colleagues have been thrown on the ground. had guns pointed to their heads, because there was that fear of saboteurs everywhere. we spoke to the police and we said, look, you know, we re journalists now. can we ride along with you at night through the cityjust to get a sense of what s going on? and we did. but a lot of buildings had been destroyed. hardly anyone on the street, anyone who was on the street was treated with suspicion. you know, ithink in the first night. cruise missile took out the building opposite our hotel. whole building shook. and that was how it was in the early days. just attack after attack. constant artillery, constant fear and a constant sense of, well, i really don t know what s going to happen. i don t know how long ukraine
committee is hoping to explore over the august recess as they prepare for potentially more hearings in september. melanie zanona, thank you. to the criminal investigation into the january 6th attack. a new court filing shows that prosecutors have now obtained a search warrant to access the cell phone of john eastman. he is the right-wing lawyer who kept pushing the idea that donald trump s 2020 election loss could be overturned despite multiple white house lawyers telling trump he should accept his defeat. what more are you learning about what these federal investigators are looking for? this is another development in that criminal probe that s being run by the justice department out of the u.s. attorney s office in d.c. we all remember that video from june when john eastman was approached by the feds, patted down, his cell phone taken. the way that the justice department set this up is that they needed to go back to court once they got that cell phone and ask for another searc
of communication between the trump white house, the executive, legislative branch, trump or his campaign, and in what you see on your screen, a lengthy list. that s all bad if you re on the wrong side of it. it tix off the name of coup plotters like giuliani, ellis, or of course, eastman, the infamous coup lawyer shown here, patted down by agents, seizing his phone under lawful subpoena. made news, just as the fed searching the home of another trump loyalist, jeffrey clark, made news. what did not make much news was donald trump s speech today, his return to washington since becoming the loser of that last election. we can tell you fox news did not take the speech alive today. a snub surely noticed by trump and the entire republican party. and if you are keeping count, by
air travel. you had to take your shoes off. you had to go through four grader screenings. i mean, everybody remembers after 9/11. you would get checked going into the airport. you d get checked going through tsa. you would get checked at the gate. like, you had to get patted down. you re still getting patted down. liquids mika and i just traveled. liquids taken out. even, what, 21 years later, of our bags in one airport and thrown out, separated. they checked them. i mean, they have so hyperregulated air travel to stop another 9/11. guess what? it s worked. i guess what steve scalise is telling us is he is totally fine with the hyperregulation of guns. if his model is 9/11, progressives would say, bring it on. too much for me. hey, why don t we just do universal background checks that 90% of americans support?