we are watching several stories developing at this hour. it s a moment of sadness for millions of catholics around the world. pope emeritus benedict xvi has died at the age of 95. the former pontiff passing away after what the church calls a period of ill health. benedict was the first pope to resign as the leader of the church this nearly 600 years, stepping down in 2013. also this morning, mourning the loss of a tv legend. good evening, i m hugh downs. i m barbara walters and this is 20/20. trailblazing tv news anchor barbara walters has died, known for her insightful, tough interviews. she became the first female anchor of a network evening news program and paved the way for women in broadcasting. a spokesperson says she passed away surrounded by family at the age of 93. but there are also celebrations this hour. the world welcomes in a new year. several nations already celebrating as the clock strikes midnight ushering the start of 2023. right now live pics you ar
calls staggering business fraud over a decade. we ll have the response from team trump in just moments. we re also watching blowback in russia to vladimir putin s plan to mobilize more troops to fight in ukraine. more than 1300 people were detained in rare protests. the desperate measures taken by some russians facing a potential draft. also a significant update in the january 6th investigation. a source telling nbc news it is agreed it has reached an agreement to interview conservative activist ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. what that could mean for the panel s next hearing next week. we start with the latest on the multiple investigations into donald trump. joining me now is vaughn hillyard from trump tower in new york, justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, charles coleman, the former new york prosecutor and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and senior member of the mueller probe. charles and andrew fortunate
two women ukrainian soldiers who are on the front line at the combat zone. good day. i m andrea mitchell in new york. a major win for the justice department last night after a appeals court ruled that president trump has no claim to the documents seized at mar-a-lago. two trump appointed judges and one obama appointee said that he had no claim to those documents clearing way for the investigation into the former president. trump on fox last night seemed that somehow he could magically declassify a document by thinking about it. as i understand it, it doesn t have to be, if you are the president of the united states, you can declassify by saying that it is declassified even by thinking about it. it does not have to be a process, and there can be a process and there doesn t have to be, but when you send it, it is declassified, and so i declassified everything. all of this after another stunning legal blow to former president, and another $250 million lawsuit brought again
violence before that day. plus, election deniers want to watch you view vote. i ll be joined by arizona secretary democratic head of state nominee to get his reaction. and to me too, five years later. an important conversation with the women who helped launch a global movement. activist charade up furch joins me live in the studio. i m ayman let s get started. this week, we learned that the people we trust to keep our nations safe failed on gender the sixth. it seems that some of them wanted to fail. thanks to emails newly-made public through the freedom of information act, we now know that a week after the capitol attack, a senior fbi official was warned that a, quote, sizeable percent of the employee population, quote, felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the capitol. the informant, whose identity was not disclosed as the fbi colleagues believed the ride was quote no different than the black lives matter protests of 2020. numbers of our national security apparatus a
tonight at least. and get on you for spending on time talking about that. enjoy the rest of your evening, and thank you for joining us at home. coming up on ayman dangers, now reporting that at people were sent to defend the extension and did not act on warnings of violence before that day. plus, election deniers want to watch you view vote. i ll be joined by arizona secretary democratic head of state nominee to get his reaction. and to me too, five years later. an important conversation with the women who helped launch a global movement. activist charade up furch joins me live in the studio. i m ayman let s get started. this week, we learned that the people we trust to keep our nations safe failed on gender the sixth. it seems that some of them wanted to fail. thanks to emails newly-made public through the freedom of information act, we now know that a week after the capitol attack, a senior fbi official was warned that a, quote, sizeable percent of the employee popu