state visit since russia launched the invasion into ukraine. and china is promoting this visit as a peacemaking mission. you will be hard-pressed to think that any ending of the war is coming from this visit, but world leaders are watching it very closely for any clues to what moves russia and china might make. we are covering all of the angles of the visit for you, and we will start with matthew chance in moscow. matthew, what are you hearing from the officials today? well, russian officials are treating it as a diplomatic coupe, and the leader of china coming to visit russia is the support that the kremlin is looking for. it is first time that xi jinping has come to russia since russia launched this invasion a year ago, and it is days after vladimir putin has been indicted by the international criminal court for war crime, and it is a strong message that vladimir putin is not as isolated as the west would like to think he is, and he has this figure standing side by side w
judge to throw out the final report from the special grand jury looking into alleged 2020 election interference in the state of georgia. sara murray is joining us now. sara, what exactly is the trump team trying to do here? well, look, they re just trying to do away with the special grand jury process. the months and months of work that this president went into investigating his ralallies, th not only want to toss the special report but also want to toss all of the testified that the grand jury was responsible for collecting. we re talking up of the interviews, all of the grand jury testimony that they subpoenaed from witnesses, documents that the d.a. s office may be sifting through. and they want to overturn the investigation. this is an investigation that started with georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. it spanned beyond that. and essentially the trump team
how dangerous is this ensuring russia will take control of the lifeblood of our alallies? and never mind all of the people that lost their jobs. joining us we have a friend of the program. and former governor mike huckabee. a woman running for governor they think will be a better governor than you were. hope you don t take it partnerly. i don t. personally. there is a talk show host that will take your place and be better with you. sean: well done. great comeback. that s what made you great. [laughing]. sean: you go, governor.
for the first time we learned that someone senior at the white house interveerched to prevent the issuing of a statement that would condemn russia for what they did. just last year, a actually less than a year ago when they rammed into and shot at those ukrainian ships and took all those sailors hostage. that s our ally, right? we supposedly do not recognize russia taking part of ukraine and calling it russia. we certainly do not recognize russia considering those international waters or ukrainian territorial waters to be their own, but then they pull this off with one of our alallies including taking those sailors hostage and nothing. the white house intervenes to stop a statement of condemnation. why did that happen? which senior official at the white house did that? we didn t know about that before today. but it s amazing all the stuff that s turning up in this impeachment inquiry. christopher anderson serve in that top role on the ukraine
analysts listen to it. then the analysts determined that the saudi crown prince did play a and order the killing of this reporter and that s not enough to convince them it do anything harsher than sanction a few of the saudis who they believe were involved in the murder. i m not sure what his logdggic . they said mbs ordered it and that has not changed the administration s mind. not mike pompeo who remarks that he doesn t believe there is direct reporting that links the two of them when that is what the cia assessed. that s why we see the anger come from capitol hill and reporters of the president s biggest al allies in washington saying why has the woman who traveled to turkey in the aftermath listened to the audio, why is she not the one briefing the senators. they are only briefing a few and