are the children being used as pawns against could you say yes or no to that? the children are not being used as a pawn. we re trying to protect the children. how is this not specifically child abuse, these innocent children who are being separated from their parents? i want to be clear on a couple other things, the vast majority, vast majority of children who are in the care of hhs right now, 10,000 of the 12,000 were sent here alone by their parents. that s when they were separated. according to baker and glass, are behind the scenes, secretary nielsen was ready to pack her bags and resign over that policy, which she opposed. one trump immigration advisor stephen miller first began floating in 2017. bigger and glass are right, once the public began sounding the alarm, quote, suddenly, trump officials who had pushed to take away children where denying that was their intent. attorney general jeff sessions who had privately told prosecutors weeks earlier that we
of living crisis bites? the most successful female golfer of all time, kathy whitworth, has died at the age of 83. she won a record 88 ladies professional golf association titles. hello and welcome to bbc news. a russian air base hundreds of kilometres from ukraine has come under attack for the second time in less than a month. the russian defence ministry says the engels base in the southern saratov region was targeted by ukrainian drones during the night. russia says it shot down the drones, but that three of its servicemen were killed by falling debris. the base is host to long range russian strategic bombers, the type of which have launched numerous missiles strikes on ukraine. from moscow, our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. caught on cctv. an explosion at a russian airbase. russia says it shot down at ukrainian drone and three russian soldiers were killed. engels is deep inside russian territory. hundreds of miles from the ukrainian border. the base hosts long
happy holidays. we begin the special edition of the readout with a look back at what has been a monumental year for the democrats historic performance in the midterm elections, to the january six hearings, to the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. the fbi rating the home of a former president, and everything in between. 2022 has been incredibly consequential for and politics. i hear that s left us rights as human beings, and whether you have more of those rights if, say, you re a former president. or if you are if you have a uterus and live in a red state. well, 2023 maybe the air we finally got some answers. to start, we ll learn who exactly will be running for president in 2024, and, who if any in the republican party, will stand up to donald trump. though, maybe don t hold your breath on that one. speaking of which, we could find out if the twice impeached disgraced former president will actually be held accountable and any of the laundry list of investigations that
it, everything that we ve heard late in the broadcast, but first we have some new cnn reporting to bring to you, let s get straight from cnn s evan perez on that. evan, good evening to you, mark meadows i hear responding to a subpoena from the doj, what are you hearing? what are you learning? yeah, don lopez has been one of the big mysteries during all of the recent uptick in activity from the justice department. what happened to mark meadows? now we know the answer. the answer is that he has responded, he has complied with a subpoena from the justice department, part of the january six investigation, now this makes him the highest ranking trump official to comply with a subpoena as part of this criminal investigation. in addition to him, we also know that ben williams in one of his aides, a very top aide, of mark meadows, has also been subpoenaed as part of this big push. we recently reported that more than 30 subpoenas went out in the trump orbit. now with mark meadows, w
he had to be ruthless, but he could be friendly. in other words, he was a complex hero. we re here in the nappa vally on a rainy day to interview francis ford coppola. now, he s one of greatest movie directors of all-time without any question. if you google the best movies of all-time, the greatest movies of all-time, the godfather is number one usually. i m going to make him an offer he can t refuse. but the godfather 2 is often on that list of top ten, and so is apocalypse now. so of the 10, 15 greatest movies of all-time this man has made three of them. i m really interested in talking to him for another reason. when i came to america first i was in college and i took a class, classics of american cinema. it was in some ways helpful for me because it gave me a sense of the culture and the country that i was now living in. and i wrote my final paper on the godfather, actually on the opening four or five minutes of the godfather, the first scene, and i had