they have major objections. it is a feature of this trump era that several of these former officials and others are just openly defying the probe leading to contempt of congress citation and also one criminal indictment for steve bannon. but here is the thing. those stories draw attention because they re unusual. not only across history but unusual inside of this probe. and that is something that i want to you remember as we turn to a big development tonight. because the house committee continues to sit most of these witnesses down, including recently trump s own family members an grill them and get evidence and fact check them and compare notes. that process is playing out in the vast majority of the time it is working. today something very important happened. the lawyers who serve at the top of trump s white house went through the same process as jared and ivanka and so many others. two of them facing a grilling by the january 6 committee, trump s white house council pat ci
unhinged rally in ohio for an hour-and-a-half, he delivered some migrants, animals and warning of a quote, bloodbath asked if he loses to joe biden, trump, spread more lies about the 2020 election saluting those convicted of crimes. on january 6th for their attempt to subvert democracy ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated january 6, tass ditches. you see the spirit from the hostages and that s what they are as hostages. they d been treated terribly, unbelievable patriots and they were unbelievable do you it s nr that was met with fierce backlash from a handful of republicans, including trump s former vice president mike pence, who has now refused to endorse his former boss well i think it s very unfortunate at a time that there are american hostages being held in gaza that the president or any other leaders would refer to people that are moving through our justice system as hostages. and it s just it s just unacceptable all right, let
joe manchin has a lot to say about that. the outgoing senator is here with me tonight. fresh off his announcement that he won t be running for president. is he now ready to endorse joe biden for a second term? glasgow. and speaking of capitol hill, george santos, the ousted congressman who tried to dupe everyone, is now suing a late night host saying that he duped i m kaitlan collins this is the source tonight. it is a tangled tail all of two presidents on this presidents day, one, who blames vladimir putin for the deaths of alexey navalny and another, nothing but the sound of crickets really for three days, donald trump did finally mentioned navalny s name and a social media posts today. but only saying that his death reminds him of his own persecution and that america is quote, a failing nation, not russia. america, that s right. and so it goes trump again, failing to condemn putin, or is a pattern here that is developed over the years. and recently saying that he wou
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in the newsroom. we begin with a potential invasion of moscow by mercenaries, suddenly stopped in its track and a coup attempt on vladimir putin is averted for now. the wagner group was seizing control in the city earlier today. they claimed to capture the 60 without firing a single shot and here you can hear the soldiers cheering. prigozhin claimed to seize the city about halfway to moscow, and that s when prigozhin said he ordered his mercenaries to turn around. we re seeing the heroes welcome. he said he struck a deal to avoid a bloody conflict. translator: therefore realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sites, we turn our columns around and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps according to the plan. recovering all the angles. let s begin in london with cnn s reporter. do we know what caused this sudden about face? they seemed to be on the way to moscow
is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more tha we have. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. then president trump georgia secretary of state - in order to overturn the election result in that state. the phone call remains shocking, no matter how many times you hear it. but the call was over an hour-long. and there are other parts of that call that prosecutors may now be taking a closer look at for instance, there is thi part so, it did people voted and i think the number is clos to 5000 people and they went to obituaries. they went to all sorts o methods to come up with an accurate number. and a minimum is close to abou 5000 voters. that was president trum insisting, again, to the georgia secretary of state that thousands of dead peopl voted in georgia during th 2020 election. today, the washington post reports that one day befor that infamous phone call, report commissioned by donal trump s own campaign had found that nowhere near 5000 dea