the scheme going anyway. a former georgia election official telling the panel she and her family paid a horrible price for trump s lies, their lives threatened after the president falsely accused her of ballot fraud. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight the american people have gotten a deeper look into donald trump s attack on democracy through the testimony of state level officials who defied him and wound up actually fearing for their own lives. let s get to all the testimony from the january 6th investigation. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju reports. you re a tyrant. you re a felon reporter: tonight the january 6th committee laying out in stark terms intimidation and pressure campaign from then president donald trump and his allies against state officials attempting to uphold democracy in states where joe biden won. what are we going to do, besides k
and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, we ve got a lot of theories, just don t have the evidence. that s the stunning admission from rudy giuliani about the baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 election. now giuliani, you know, you remember him, right? you know, the stuff coming down his face. he was the center piece of a lot of this, one of the loudest voices in trump s ear, one of the biggest mega-phonies out there , mega-phones out there. giuliani knew the conspiracy theories were not true. at some point, one of them made a comment that they didn t have evidence but had a lot of theories. that was mr. giuliani. what exactly did he say, how did that come up? my recollection, he said we got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. okay, not having the evidence of any of this stuff did not stop the relentless pressure campaign to overturn the election. the scheme spanned several states and trump s attempts to draw in republican officials from
in some migrants. cnn goes in a hostile that is hosting asylum seekers. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in ukraine where officials are claiming progress in the south as russian shelling rains down on the east. ukraine has been pushing forward with its counteroffensive in the kherson region and president zelenskyy says another area has been cleared of russian troops. here he is. translator: the ukrainian military gradually liberates the territory of the kherson region. today a village was returned to our state. there are some successes in the zaporizhzhia region as well. fierce street fights continue in severdonetsk. donbas is holding firm. the losses the occupiers suffered are very heavy. the russian army has already about 32,000 dead souls as of today. what for? what benefits have you gained from this, russia? but russian casualties haven t stopped the kremlin s war. russian artillery is dismantle willing buildings used as sh
know, we just learned in the last few minutes. they are setting up a 7:30 vote to kind of start this process. it s a procedural vote but kicks it all off. very significant development indeed, thank you very much, jessica dean on capitol hill and to our viewers, thank you very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room, erin burnett, outfront starts right now. outfront next, republican officials one by one taking down trump s election lies, testifying about a widespread fake elector scheme and the death threats endured just because they told the truth, plus new details about trump tapes now in the hands of the january 6th committee, interviews with trump himself, along with children and mike pence. what were they saying in the days just before and after the insurrection? and disturbing developments in the uvalde shooting investigation. officers wasting precious time looking for a classroom key when the door wasn t even locked. let s go outfront.
security at all times. we ll have to leave it there. thank you for joining us. thank you so much. russia expected to officially reopen some of the mcdonald s restaurants. they first opened in russia some 30 years ago, but the war compelled them to business in the country. now the franchise has been sold to new owners and the trademark golden arches, they are gone and the new logo will look like this, it is said to represent a burger and fries. the new name hasn t been revealed yet. just ahead, a texas community preparing for witness testimony in the uvalde shooting investigation. and activists say it is time for congress to act. hundreds of protests across the u.s. demanding lawmakers pass