in a list that is about the top risks. the founder of that eurasia group. straight ahead, republican mark sanford, former south carolina congressman and governor and presidential candidate, helps us understand what s happening inside the gop following a bitter speaker bottle and what it means for the future of the american democracy. another hour of phil she begins right now. and good morning. it s out of the, january the 7th, ending up in the east, 6 am in the west. i m ali velshi. as the old saying goes, if i don t succeed, try, try 14 more times until you do. that s the attitude kevin mccarthy is bringing with him into the new year as he was finally declared the new speaker of the house after four days and 15 attempts. republicans appeared optimistic as the house reconvened at 10 pm last night for the 14th ballot. things quickly devolved as that vote appeared headed for failure, which led to a lot of scrambling and conversations on the republican side. tensions spilled o
live in concrete cells with no bathrooms. this as cnn gets access to evidence that putin doesn t want anyone to see. plus, it s debate night in america, one of the most highly anticipated face-offs of the year. fetterman versus oz. how much will fetterman s health be front and center this evening? we have new reporting from both camps. and where is former chinese president hu jintao. video that appears to be russian soldiers banished to a dark con concrete cellar for refusing to go to the front line in ukraine. you can see soldiers dressed in russian military fatigues, packed into a small windowless room. that s why there is not much light there. one of them explains how they re being treated. listen to it. translator: well, here we are. they arrested us. this is october 2nd, 22. we are part of the third battalion of the 488th motorized rifle regiment. we were arrested for refusing to follow orders. yes, refusing to follow orders. they sent us to a basement of a militar
city and north towns from 4:00 a.m. today through 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. the city of buffalo is impasseible in most areas while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondary and side streets haven t been touched yet. this will go down in history as the most devastating storm in buffalo s long-storied history of having battled many battles, many major storms. julie: adam is in the fox weather center. the snow particularly in western new york. it is unbearable. you see a lot of cold stretched across the entire country as we still see feels-like temperatures in new york city at 12 degrees. six degrees in columbus, still back across the northern plains in the negatives. some spots as low as negative 30 again this morning and then the deep cold settled well down south across the country where most folks even across texas are waking up for temperatures below freezing. 23 degrees in atlanta and it stretches as far down across much of the state of florida
know of agents faced immense pressure that day, protecting the president from himself and the vice president from the mob his boss sent to the capitol. secret service agents feeling fearing for their own lives and they rush to get america second in command away from those chanting to hang him. the secret service acknowledging records were purged as part of a systemwide update. but today, based on a letter review by the new york times, dhs inspector general has informed the secret service to, quote, halted internal search for purged texts sent by agents around the time of january 6th so that it does not interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation. that s right. an ongoing criminal investigation. all of these developments coming to light thanks to the house select committee s quest for accountability. a number of these bombshells dropping during the panels primetime hearing thursday night. the committee, taking nearly three hours to trace what the associated press calls, q
documents found by the fbi at trump s private residence and golf club. they dismissed the criminal investigation as a document storage dispute that has sfie ruld out of control. most notable aspect of their filing, trump s lawyers tip-toeing around trump s claim that he declassified any or all of the documents. it s a claim for which they can t and don t provide a single shred of evidence. instead, saying this. quote, the government has not proven these records remain classified. that issue is to be determined later. the washington post notes, a section of their 21 page filing does not say that trump declassified the material before he left office. while trump s lawyers would like us to think this is what they say, document storage dispute, it s worth remembering in the court filing last week doj made clear that the country s national security may very well be in jeopardy if the government loses access and time, even temporarily, to the documents that were seized. from the