not a lot. donald trump wasn t going to honor his predecessor when he launched his car spreading the racist birther lie at the 44th president of the united states duly elected twice was not born in this country. that was far from normal but what we saw today said a lot about the office of the presidency, the people we elect to hold it and the peaceful transfer of power to one president to the next. i ve always described the presidency as a relay race. you take the baton from someone. you run your leg as hard and as well as you can and then you hand it off to someone else. knowing that your work will be incomplete. the portraits hanging in the white house chronicle the runners in that race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country we love closer to its highest aspirations. now, just imagine someone else speaking in that manner. let s be honest. can t. that s what a normal presidency is supposed to be about and today we saw a former president not afraid to make fu
for the planet s prosperity, and the us energy secretary explained what her country was doing to tackle soaring oil and gas prices. i also heard from the boss of plane maker boeing about how the post covid bounce was helping it put years of turbulence in the rear view mirror. but it wasn t all doom and gloom because we also celebrated a year of huge growth for women s sport. wherever you arejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, 2022 has been a year of huge disruption to the global economy, with many of us forced to rethink everything from what we eat to how we work and well, even how we heat our homes. the world went into the year still very much feeling the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. restrictions, economies everywhere have found it impossible to return to life as it was before. a major reason why was russia s decision to invade ukraine on the 24th of february. as well as costing thousands of lives, it s d
complete holy hell, remember? this is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for merrick garland, joe biden, and nancy pelosi. they took on the wrong guy this time. well, that s what makes the one-time trump white house advisers move now, well, extra confounding because eight months ago, bannon said that he wasn t backing down ever. i mean, the wrong guy this time, right? well, trial dates have a funny way of making people change their minds, shall we say, because now he is, well, backing down. willing to testify before that very committee that he seemed to be mocking and taunting. now, what exactly changed other than maybe the calendar date? we re going to dig a lot deeper into all of that tonight along with new january 6th hearing developments. and if bannon thought his decision to testify now would call someone s bluff at the doj, well he s surely mistaken because a trial is still happening and it won t even be postponed. a federal judge denied his legal team s request
we are standing by to review that affidavit as soon as it comes out, which could be this hour. let s begin this hour with cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. jess, this affidavit could be released any moment, sometime between now and noon. walk us through this whole process, what we will see, what we probably won t see. yeah, in i minute now, guys. what s interesting about this is it s all been a relatively rapid process. you know, it was less than four hours after the doj submitted their proposed redactions that the judge ruled, yes, in fact, he would accept that proposal and it would be released to the public. like you said, in just two hours here. and what s notable is that the judge seems to be agreeing with what the doj has proposed, despite the fact that what we saw in court just about a week ago was doj pushing back substantially against the judge, saying even if they issued a redacted version of this affidavit, they said that there would be so many redactio
be a witness against myself. did the trump legal team ask you to prepare a memorandum regarding the vice president s role in the counting of electoral votes in the joint session of congress in january 6th? did you advise the president of the united states the vice president could reject electors and declare the president had been re-elected. fifth. dr. eastman, the first sentence of the memo says seven states is that statement in this memo true? fifth. did president trump authorize you to discuss publicly a january 4, 2021, conversation with him? fifth. so, is it your position that you can discuss in the media direct conversations you had with the president of the united states that you will not discuss those same conversations with this committee. fifth. the second development tonight concerns the select committee and it is a surprise. the committee announcing it will hold proceeding tomorrow in which it will present recently obtained evidence. starting