welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world, i m kim brunhuber, ahead on cnn newsroom, the united states announce more sanctions on russia, as the war enters the second year. a slow-moving storm floods highways and prompts a rare blizzard warning in southern california. details plus the wintery forecast for tens of millions of people. alex murdaugh back on the stand, prosecutors target the lies the disgraced lawyer admits telling while maintaining he did not kill his wife and son. live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. the second year of russia s war on ukraine is beginning with reports of more attacks, we re told russian forces have shelled the southern district overnight into saturday and just a short time ago came word of heavy explosions in the occupied city of mariupol. confirming the destruction of an ammunition depot. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy confirmed his call to arms. here h
deadly school shooting in nashville. we will have the latest for you on a story that has, of course, again brought up the gun crisis and public health epidemic we face in america. we begin to the top story out of the grand jury investigating donald trump who =uqestigating donald trump who owne1 predicted arrest whichfá didn t happen last week. he has addede1 it the possible criminal evidence against him by posting something that wew3 do t normalize here in the news or in america and that is violentfá imagery tempting furt)eu attacks, death threats, violence against the d.a. that is inve3(k the rule of law. the former president also lied over the weekend about this case which some evidence restatemñ that we re not airing tonight. from the public evidence we aren seeing a criminal probe thatfá continues to move steadily towards a finish line, whether it s indictments or not, no one knowse1 yet.e1 but they are progressing. final witnesses, key evidence. this probe is late
washington tomorrow, he will be under the microscope as republicans take control of the house. brian style who sits on the house financial services committee is here on how the gop plan to hold the bidenom icadministration accountable for its economic agenda. house republicans are prepared to investigate the close relationship between big tech it the federal government. here is maria with the soon to be chairman of the house intelligence committee turnersman mike o subpoena twitter filesesome are you going to subpoena this information so that you have this in your purvie are you going to subpoena this information so you have this in your purview to go through and are you going to subpoena the? players who were doing this. we ar e definitely pursuingd, the department of justice and also the fbi. that january 6 committee has s establishehod some great legal precedent. a difficult time trying toents prevent those documents. i think that it will show a very troubling pattern. w
love the reading. something tells me he doesn t really believe that, because tonight we re learning that we could soon get answers to one of the most important outstanding questions, who actually had access to those documents? now, first, although the white house press corps has thrown out, we had to give him some credit. the occasional tough question, the media, for the most part, has been basically regurgitating white house talking points. why exactly are republicans démarche visitor logs from president biden s private home? they know full well there are no visitor logs. it has never been standard practice. they don t exist. white house said yesterday no such records exist. both the secret service, the white house counsel s office saying, look, we don t have those laws. not only is the secret service saying no such thing, but the fox news has learned that at the secret service is prepared to give congress the names of any visitors they have documentation of to biden
election. we also that the grand jury waaa empaneled by a soros funded d.a. called alvin bragg, who looks and acts like ta tawanna brawley era, alvidenc sharpton. so we would assumee on the bass of that evidence that it s pretty likely trump does get charged with something at some point. but charged with what? in a fre that s the question. that should matter in a free country, laws or universal laws apply to all citizens equally precisely because all citizens i are considered equal forou generations. this was very obviouss to ami to american liberals. in fact, iact was the basis ofel their worldview that was back when liberals opposedas jim crow.om and we re notet tryinhing cg to reinstate it as something called equitequiy. we are not liberals, but we retain the traditional american view, which is that laws must be applied equally or else they are not laws at all. justice must be blind or elsejut it is tyranny. so we spent the day with helpp f staff toyer on our staff t