in a matter of hours. nothing like a flat to catch to push a vote on capitol hill, right? thank you so much. sometime today, the january 6 committee could release the final report on the attack on the capitol. they released the first set of interview transcripts. they include members of the inner circle including roger stone, former lawyer john eastman central to the efforts to overturn the election and former national security visor michael flynn. joining me now cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid. so a lot of transcripts yesterday. they were fighting news. we had president zelenskyy here and help folks who were not following. you can see the committee had a lot of difficulty getting dmind of information out of a lot of these key trump allies. they made very liberal use of the fifth amendment right. now typically when you invoke the fifth amendment right you at least answer buy graphical questions. but, for example, roger stone,
energy infrastructure system, but also with the timing here in the united states. the political landscape about to change with house republicans some of whom who cast doubt of aid coming into ukraine coming into power next month. a senior white house officials says that they feel that president zelenskyy made a very compelling case, with unthat the white house hopes will help them in the funding fight ahead, particularly as it relates to additional aid to ukraine. president zelenskyy, of course, he made that case to lawmakers for additional aid going forward. but he also made a case directly to the american public. something that the white house hopes will help pressure the lawmakers who are unsure about the future of aid to ukraine. and president zelenskyy was expressing gratitude to americans. he also made clear that he needs more aid ahead including when he was talking about those patriot missile systems here at the white house yesterday. what s going to happen after patriots are
signal to president biden that we would like to get more patriots. your smoney is not charity. it s an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. we also heard president zelenskyy in that speech to congress making that same claim about, look, we re appreciative of the artillery. is it enough? no. and prompted some laughter. the reality is that while president zelenskyy is leaning on the comedic chops here, it was joking but not joking at all at the same time. he is trying to make the case that, yes, he is grateful for the u.s. support and aid. he still needs much, much more. he hopes the message would resonate in the hearts of the american people as well. jeremy diamond, thank you so much. will rippley is live in the ukrainian capital, kyiv. watching it here, it was quite a moment to watch and witness. i wonder, of course, middle of
west. and ukraine. i thought that president zelenskyy was quite persuasive in making that very point. again this is not just charity for ukraine, this is investment in western security, u.s. national security to be sure. in fact, i thought it was very compelling and a very skillful speech. you know, if you recall, he is, of course, the former actor. he played the president. that is part of how he got elected. this is the part of a lifetime and he deserves an academy award for this. he s been positively churchillian in his leading. but certainly there is an element to that. they re fighting our war. of course, that s true. the more that russia depends on ukraine, the less it has to expend on nato and the western world. and i would not subscribe to the
you know, plunging temperatures and all of the associated risks and dangers that come with that, you know, they re having a hard time and some places keeping the lights on in hospitals at critical infrastructure. that is how bad things are here. and yet, you have russia now after, yes, a triumphant moment for president zelenskyy. they re proud of their president and glad he s coming back with more money and weapons and pledges for deliverables for this war effort. you have people dying on the front lines every single day here. they re holding the lines. but they re not making offensive gains. and the kremlin is saying that bringing patriots in will prolong people suffering. they say they didn t hear anything from president zelenskyy s visitor president biden supporting, you know, addressing russia s safety concerns whether they re legitimate or not. i guess that depends on your point of view. and then they say that the west, the collective west is basically bracing, jim, for a prolonge