there is a congressman giving a tour, there is another one, again, they didn t directly alleged anyone involved avenue these stories later infiltrated the building. but they do know that that these tours were supposed to be off limits at the time and so they want people to come unanswered questions, if it was only tours, what weather names, what else can you tell us about them, why were they in washington at this time, and, you know, you get to see these congresswoman actually come in and submit to the interview. i think what is in part interesting to me, is we have these public hearings that are forthcoming, at this point there few days away. how this piece, what happened in the lead up to january six, the role that sitting members of congress had in the lead up to january six, as the committee tries to build that part of the narrative, these congressman torres how important there to tell that story? , well i, think there is a
passed in the senate just days ago by an overwheping bipartisan majority, just 11 republicans voting against this aid. president biden signing that bill while here in south korea. this bill actually has to be flown over from washington over to here. i was told by a national security official that it was flown over by a government official who was flying on a commercial plane who was already scheduled to fly from washington over here to seoul. and so president biden signing that, providing billions of dollars in additional military assistance, assistance for the ukrainian government to keep its funding going and also global disaster assistance as well as funds to replenish u.s. stocks, u.s. military stocks depleted by sending weapons to ukraine. that officially to seoul. joining me now is gordon chang, a columnist for news week and written several weeks on north
on january 6th. cnn s annie graer joins me live. thank you for being with me. how is congressman loudermilk defending this tour he gave? well, alex, he denies he did anything wrong with the tour he gave on january 5th, the day before the capitol attack. he claims he was meeting with families from his own district including with children and he wasn t even in the capitol building itself. he was in the office buildings that surrounded it. he released a video statement yesterday adding more to explain. take a listen. i took a family with young children and their guests who were visiting washington to lunch in a cafeteria in one of the house office buildings. so what was so awful about this fammy that caused this committee to make false accusations about them? well, some were actually wearing red baseball caps. now, it s important to know,
definitively linked and you don t have one without the other and giuliani was working to undermine election results right up until january 6th. giuliani has taken different routes than other associates of the former president including steve bannon and mark meadows who have both defied the fitty s request to appear before them. they re now facing a criminal contempt of congress charge. so the question is what does the committee do with this information giuliani provided to them? of course they do a series of high stakes public hearings that will take place in the month of june, and we ll have to see if giuliani told them this week will be a part of that report. ryan nobles, cnn, washington. our thanks to ryan nobles for that. and one of the most restrictive abortion bills in the country awaits the oklahoma governor s signature. and if he signs it, that law would allow private citizens to sue providers who knowingly offer women an abortion. we ll have that full story next. stay with u
One week after his latest meeting with a Turkish envoy, a senior Armenian official urged the United States and other Western powers on Tuesday to support Armenia in its normalization talks with Turkey.