this would play out before the electorate and whether any opinions or any votes or legislation might change. we ve also been waiting for what the person who obviously seems to be at the center of the committee s attention, former president donald j. trump, wondering what he has to say about all the committee s assertions, and there are a lot of them. like that he was told his scheme was to told overturn the election was in fact illegal, but he pressured his vice president to go along with it anyway. things like he knew that mike pence s life was in danger at the capitol but kept publicly lashing out at him during the attack anyway. well, the wayit seems to be ove because today in his first public appearance since the hearing, he didn t really deny any of that exactly. instead, he admitted he did pressure pence to try to keep him in power. but he did deny one thing. never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chanc
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of t witnesses we know are coming in, the journalist and thfoer lieutenant governor, what does that tell you about this moment, this case? we can starlet with the independent journalist. he stumbled upon the meeting of the fake electors on december 14th in the state capitol. we heard him speak earlier, and that tells us that certainly this is a situation that fulton county da willis wants to put in the grand jury, the fake elector scheme, including the level of secrecy that was involved. officials said this was a completely open meeting. there was nothing that we re trying to hide from the public, but he said, no, i was marched out and he was filming that on his iphone at the time when it happened. and for jeff duncan, he was one of the rare republicans who
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they are now in bakhmut. i will not share where exactly but it witnesses that it is not occupied by russian federation as of today. cnn s sam kiley is in southeastern ukraine. sam, there on the ground what is the feeling about the status of bakhmut? well, i think the short answer is that in ukraine it is a contested city. the wagner mercenary group does claim to have captured the urban area. the government says you haven t captured it all. president zelenskyy said that on a visit to that foothold. more importantly the ukrainian forces are flanking backward to the north and sought and could be in a position if they continue to advance to encircle wagner troops in that city. now, the city itself has been