knees. diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. diana seems to have defied her critics, people who wanted her to shut up and go away. we will all feel cheated always, but you were taken from ul us so young. diana was a pioneer. she was ahead of her time. she haunted the royal family, and she still haunts the royal family to this day. diana s never far away. i had dreams as a young girl if i want this, that and the other. not want. hoped. this is cnn breaking news. i m jean meserve in washington. in paris, france a tragedy. britain s princess diana has been in an automobile accident. she has been injured. her companion dodi al fayed with whom she has been romantically linked over the last month or so, reportedly was killed. i saw there was a message on the phone answering machine, and it was from a fleet street editor saying had i seen the news about princess diana. and did i want to say anything. we have reports from paris th
steve bannon to testify publicly on the eve of his federal criminal contempt trial for refusing to honor the committee s subpoenas. among those scheduled tomorrow, a former spokesman for the oath keepers which played a central role in the coordination and execution of the capitol insurrection. just moments ago, president biden was joined by gun safety advocates at a white house event celebrating bipartisan legislation signed last month. while the administration is struggling with the grim reality, on the cover of today s new york times about how many in the president s own party as well as independents are souring on him. and hundreds of firefighters in california are in a desperate battle to protect 3,000-year-old historic sequoia trees from the wildfires. we begin with the january 6th insurrection. joining me now ali vitali, jeremy peters. and tim miller, author of why we did it. ali, take us through what we can expect this week from the hearings and how they might
dangers the men and women in the capitol faced that day. the perils that our nation faced as a whole and the former the president s justification for what happened. i went to washington because they were angry with an election that they think was rigged. a very small portion went down to the capitol. a very small portion of them went in. but they were angry from the standpoint of what happened in the election because they are smart and they see and saw what happened. among the crowd that day, far right extremists like the proud boys and oath keepsers welcome the focus of tomorrow s hearing along with trump s role encouraging them to march on the capitol. the president tweets on the wee hours of december 19th to be there and be wild. it was a siren call to these folks. and we ll talk in detail about what that caused them to do, how that caused them to organize as well as who else was amplifying that message. the committee member who will lead tomorrow s hearing says th
. ,. ,. . . ,,,,,. ,. . ,,,,. . . ,. ,,, such an assault could only take place in broken third world country. sadly americas, now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. they even broke into my safe! what is the difference between this and watergate, or operatives broke into the democratic national committee? here in reverse, democrats broke into the home of the 45th president of the united states. as you just heard, trump himself admitted that he is corroborating with the relevant government agencies in this investigation. the ex president, right about one thing. this is a truly unprecedented event. ken delaney justice and news correspondent. he joins me now. this is developing story. what more do we? no elissa, we have new reporting in from my colleague colleague anna who was told by a source familiar with the matter saying that the president is in new york city today. he was not present for the search. secondly, she has learned that the fbi not
describing the fbi as the, quote, fascist bureau of investigation. we ll talk more in a moment about the debate within the former president s circle over putting out the surveillance video or not. but according to reporting in the new york times by cnn political analyst maggie haberman, investigators already have at least some surveillance video from earlier before the raid, which may have actually triggered the search. quoting now, officials then used a subpoena to obtain surveillance footage of the hallway outside a storage room at mar-a-lago and saw something that alarmed them. they also received information from at least one witness who indicated that more material might remain at the residence, people familiar with the investigation said. tonight s lead story comes at the end of a day that saw a string of related developments, including rudy giuliani going before a grand jury, the outlines of a plea deal involving alan weissle berg, and a declaration of political war f