Behind the cyber attack. I think its the case that we can say pretty clearly it was the russians that engaged in this. How far are you willing to escalate with a Nuclear Power . This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning to you on this saturday morning. There is the capitol and we are so grateful to have your company as always. There are two Coronavirus Vaccines authorized for emergency use in the United States now. The fda saying modernas vaccine can start rolling out. Vaccinations can begin once cdc advisers vote. Theyre expected to do so today and the cdc criesor will sign off. More people than ever getting infected. A Record Number of people fighting the virus in hospitals and another sobering number here. More americans are dying from covid every day on average than ever. Lets go to cnns Paulo Sandoval for the latest. These numbers are going in all the wrong directions as we get new information about the vaccines. Victor, the latest fda approval e
The next president of the United States on wednesday. Cnns Shimon Prokupecz is up on capitol hill for us. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is over at the white house. Shimon, we get more information about the arrest of the virginia man. What it says about the scope of the potential threat here in the nations capitol. Update our viewers. Reporter yeah, certainly, wolf, it does do that. This man was trying to enter a zone and according to our cnn reporters is that when he tried to enter the zone, he was not authorized. Secret service, Law Enforcement police checked against a list and when they looked at the list, his name wasnt on the list, so he wasnt authorized to enter. What then happened was they found that he had a weapon in his car, a gun. A 9 millimeter glock and as you said, over 500 rounds of ammunition. So he was arrested and does not appear right now, at least, that its unclear what kind of threat he potentially posed. We dont really have much more information on what he was doing in the a
January is now the second deadliest month for coronavirus. So far 64,000 deaths recorded, more than 8300 in a few days. Our biggest problem is lax of sax seen. Did the last year cost lives . You know, it very likely did. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning to you there. In st. Louis. And good morning, wherever you are watching this morning. Former President Trump will face an impeachment trial for the second time. We know the date now is february 9th, monday, House Democrats will walk over the single charge of incitement of insurrection to the senate. The trial will start two weeks later. Senate leaders reached a deal to delay it. Yeah, meanwhile, President Biden is attempting to push ahead with his agenda, of course, hes taking executive action to address the pandemic, the economic crisis including expanding food aid and raising the federal minimum wage. He says we need to act like were in a national emergency. Theres another urgent matter as w
Haystack. Did the issue of adoption, its near and dear to my heart because i have two adopt edisons. Did that come up . Yes. In the meeting . Like i said, it was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. You know, thats not the premise that got them in the room, and then they started it was essentially a baitandswitch to talk about that, and everyone has basically said that in testimony already. So this is nothing new, but, you know, like i said, im now understanding it is an important issue to you and near and dear to many peoples hearts, but this was nothing that was a Campaign Issue to us. This wasnt relevant to us, and it wasnt something we were going to do anything with. Except thats not what the president said over the weekend. Trump jr. Was not pushed to explain the shifting explanations behind the story. Meanwhile, vanity fair has reporting on former Communications Director hope hicks reappearance at the president s side over the weekend, just hours before he tweete
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Alongside manafort and even stole several hundred thousand dollars from him. I want to quickly go to our justice correspondent jessica schneider, monitoring all these developments. Whats the biggest takeaway so far from todays dramatic testimony . The biggest takeaway, woman, just how elaborate this financial scheme was and how involved is Paul Manafort really seemed to be, directing the movement of money here. Rick gates has been testifying about these hundreds of emails where manafort actually signs off on transferring the money their Consulting Company earned throughout these various foreign bank accounts. Paul manafort would always write back, approving these transfers and signing it with his initial p. This is the prosecution laying out that it was, in fact, Paul Manafort in charge. Also, rick gates is talking about some of these fake invoices that he actually created. We heard about them from the accountants