and both investigations have expanded to former members of the trump administration. former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and ex treasury secretary steve mnuchin both testified before the january six committee this week. any day now, the committee could hear from former secretary of state mike pompeo. meanwhile, mike pence s former top aides, marc short and greg jacobs, testified before the federal grand jury convened by attorney general merrick garland, making them some of the highest profile witnesses to testify. they are questioning at those proceedings contributed to the news first reported by the washington post, that the doj is formally investigating trump s actions leading up to january 6th. possibly a step closer to a criminal probe of trump himself. more and more former trump officials have come forward since the january six committee s public hearings started last month, and congressman jamie raskin, who is a lead manager and trump s second impeachment trial
As the Prime Minister and i discussed, how israel does this matters. Just as isis was crushed, so, too, will hamas be crushed. And hamas should be treated exactly the way isis was treated. Thank you, america. For standing with israel. Today, tomorrow, and always. And this all comes as israel continues to strike gaza with artillery and those airstrikes. Also cutting off supplies to food, power and water until the hostages are released. Secretary of state Antony Blinken urging netanyahu to take every precaution to prevent harm to interior civilians in gaza and the humanitarian crisis in gaza is growing more dire. Up to 150 hostages including Americans Still being held captive. Erin Burnett Jones us in ashkelon. What can you tell us . Reporter we understand, obviously, those hostages right now, whereabouts unknown, status of any negotiations unknown. We know that the Israeli Defense forces are telling us that they believe that those hostages are being kept in various locations, most likel
appreciate it. and thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. a lot to monitor with the trump hush money in case and the jury s hands as we speak, make it a decision any moment. the lead with jake tapper starts right now 30 before counts of falsifying records. 12 jurors, three notes to the judge, 11 hours down. the lead starts right down the drop. hush mon fate of the first ever us president to face a criminal trial of former juror from a different high-profile cases here to break down what s actually going on behind that door. plus boeing rolls out as sweeping new plan hoping to convince skeptical flyers that it is safe to travel on their planes, but it s not just a matter of boeing planes that has so many flyers nervous we re learning today about another near miss on the runway in a moment before takeoff, what is really going on at airports and in the skies and cnn s exclusive reporting on the dramatic negotiations between the us government and haitian gang leader
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Updates of the days news. Theres a lot more to what they did that nobody knows about yet, and mueller is going to have a lot to answer for and in ohios congressional Special Election the race is tighter after a late addition to voting tallies. Officials in Franklin County announced yesterday an additional 588 previously uncounted votes had been found in a columbus suburb. The result has given Democrat Danny Oconnor a net gain of 190 votes. He and republican Troy Balder S son are separated down from yesterday. Balderson declared victory tuesday night, but oconnor is waiting for all votes to be counted. Whatever the outcome, these two will go headtohead again in november when they compete for a full term in congress. The Trump Administration is hitting russia with new sanctions, punishing Vladimir Putins government for the poisoning of a former russian
russia has denied any involvement in the uk poisonings. The president , facing political pressure, to unleash the penalties. All of it co