welcome back to the cnn newsroom. much of the world expected ukraine to fall quickly to russia s invasion given the onslaught of man and machines and heavy weaponry. now ukraine enters a second year of battling its way to freedom in that war. this time, this time lapse, i should say, just shows how successful ukraine s military has been this past year. the russian troops mostly contained. the fighting in the east is intensifying and ukraine s military is kahn for more western aid including fighter jets. president biden for now appears to be dunk down the request from ukraine s president for f-16s. take a listen. we re sending him what our seasoned military thinks he needs now. he needs tanks, artillery, there are things he needs now that we re sending him to put him in a position to make gains this spring and this summer going into the fall. he doesn t need f-16s now. the u.s. has announce ad $2 billion aid package. according to the united nations, ukraine has already pa
Card witness. Has already revised his initial testimony in the president s dealings with ukraine. Sondland has arrived and will be before the committee in a moment. Late yesterday we had a hearing that lasted deep into the night. Well see how far we go today. Welcome back to continuing coverage on the fox news channel. Im bill hemmer. Good morning, bill. Im sandra smith. Lawmakers are expected to double down on a phone call with the president. Team fox coverage back with us now. Chris wallace, bret baier, Martha Maccallum and bret baier. Well be with you guys throughout the entire day. Ken, we have an oping statement from Gordon Sondland. There are a lot of skipped areas in 23 pages. Opening statement will last at
least 10 minutes. From what youve been able to glean off of this, in a quick speed read what do you see as critical for sondland . Right. It looks as if there may be a bombshell or two in this. Thats what were looking for. Lets see what he says. He could revise this up to the
new updates in the special counsel s january 6th investigation. pennsylvania congressman scott perry s cell phone revealing the republican lawmaker was, quote, proactive and persist ten in his efforts to pressure trump officials to overturn the 2020 election. according to newly released court documents, showing a judge rejecting the congressman s bid to shield over 2,000 personal phone records from investigators. perry was among those working behind the seeps to help trump overturn the 2020 election. joining me to talk about it, a senior adviser to the january 6th committee. congressman, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. your sense of this. how is it that we re still seeing this legal wrangling over congressman perry s phone records? it sounds very critical to the
happening this year and have already begun. when people say democracy is on the ballot, they might never need it more than they do this year. because the people who wanted to overturn the election results in 2020, to help trump, they weren t empowered when joe biden won. what if they get in power next time? what if trump asks a secretary of state to find him 11,790 votes, but this time that secretary of state actually goes along with it? what happens then? the results could be catastrophic. so, for all the people condemning kevin mccarthy of his decision to reimburse a strong, despite his private discussed remember that mccarthy didn t just rehabilitate trump, he helped rehabilitate and empower dozens of fringe conservatives and qanon cultists who are working very hard every day to make sure they re in control for the next round of elections.
and once trump came back into the gop folded allowed all the other election deniers, all the others who believe in the big lie, and conspiracy paddlers to come back into the fold. and now, those election deniers are actually running for office to oversee future elections in this country. here is a massive, big red warning side for everybody to just watching this program, and everybody around the country. a lot of those races, the ones that will decide who oversees the 2024 presidential election, those races, those races are happening this year and have already begun. when people say democracy is on the ballot, they might never need it more than they do this year. because the people who wanted to overturn the election results in 2020, to help trump, they weren t empowered when joe biden won. what if they get in power next time? what if trump asks a secretary of state to find him 11,790 votes, but this time that secretary of state actually goes along with it? what happens then? the resul