happening now. new evidence connecting the capitol riot directly to former-president trump and his pressure campaign against his vice president. insiders swearing under oath that trump knew his scheme to get mike pence to overturn the presidential election was illegal but trump plowed ihead, anyway. the january 6th select committee also documenting pence s escape from that mob that was threatening his life with rioters at one point only 40 feet away. we are breaking down all the testimony, and where the insurrection investigation goes from here. 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 . let s get right to the new testimony and evidence presented by the january-6th select committee during today s hearing. it ended just a couple hours or so ago. our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles, has been following it all up on capitol hill. mike pence is going to have to come through for us.
burnett, welcome to a special edition of outfront and tonight, growing outrage in uvalde texas, new footage appears to show police knew the children were still alive inside that classroom as they waited outside for back-up. listen. a child, she is in the room full of victims at this moment. cnn not able to independently confirm the source of that audio not when it was heard exactly but this adds so much to questions about why the gunman remained inside the classroom with students more than an hour before he was killed by a border patrol tactical response team. now the justice department is conducting their own independent review of the police response and president biden vowing to get something done after meeting with the families of the 19 students and two teachers killed in that mass shooting. most who are victimized, their families, they spent three hours and 40 minutes with me. the pain is palpable and i think a lot of it is unnecessary so i m going to continue to
war, plus trump versus pence, candidates in duelling rallies just hours before the polls open, is trump about to face his biggest primary defeat yet and was it a love triangle turned deadly? texas marshalls looking for a woman who allegedly killed a cyclist dating her boyfriend. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett, pentagon confirming plans under way to send u.s. forces to protect the embassy in ukraine s capitol, planning includes potentially sending special operations forces there and that would mark the first u.s. troops into ukraine since the war began. even as president biden promised there would be none. just a short distance from the u.s. embassy, mean time, towns are still under attack like desna where according to ukrainian president volodomyr zelenskyy, 87 people were killed after four rockets hit the town. this this comes as putin faces growing opposition to his operation in ukraine inside russia, today long-time russian diplomat quit in a damning letter saying h
million times to turn migrants away from the u.s. border, they say they ll appeal it but was the resuming a big political gift to biden? let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, absolute evil, absolute stupidity, those are the exact words of ukraine s president volodomyr zelenskyy after a cultural center outside kharkiv destroyed by a missile, you can see the strike there, debris raining down. ukrainians driving by at the time of the strike later seen running for their lives as the cloud of black smoke rises behind them. and today s attack coming as ukraine s forces have been successful overall in pushing russian forces back, specifically from kharkiv, and tonight we have dramatic new body cam footage that shows the fierce fight taking place outside what is the second biggest city in ukraine. [ speaking in foreign language ] those battles that russia continues to lose is part of why putin s top commanders have been fired, because they ve be
Form of intergenerational wealth when matt we are family and you can see the rest of that story and others champions for change will air Saturday Night here at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cnn thank you so much for joining us. Well see you were special coverage of trumps trial starting early tomorrow morning for now, seeing a news night that we fill up against the sidebyside comparison that americans desperately need. That lets tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby phillip in new york tonight, a date for mustsee television right here on cnn june 27. That is one cnn will host President Biden and former President Trump or the first president ial debate. It is the earliest debate in the election cycle in modern history. And it marks an end run essentially around the commission that normally sets the terms and the times of these things happen. The debate echoes history. There will be no audience no opportunity for the crowd to make the venue home field for either trump or for biden and itll