weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. the big story, of, course we have two hot wars for the president to navigate on the world stage. the republican-controlled house has voted to formally authorize its impeachment inquiry into president biden despite failing to provide any evidence of wrongdoing by the president. the vote was strictly along party lines with all 221 republicans voting yes, all 212 democrats voting no. republicans say the move will grant them the ability to better enforce their subpoenas in the courts. house oversight chair republican james comer has accused hunter biden and other biden family members of engaging in, quote, shady business practices. but as we said, has yet to reveal any evidence of wrongdoing or influence peddling by the president himself. so here is what several house democrats said ahead of the vote. see the biden impeachment investigation isn t a who done it. it s a what is it? it s like an agatha christy novel where the
to tripledemic illness on th rise. what you need to know, heading into this holida weekend. looking back at thi consequential week, and th focus on fighting for democracy, and freedom, both here, an abroad. our favorite historians, here to put it all i perspective, as a special, extra early addition of th 11th hour is underway, on this friday night. good evenin once again. i am stephanie ruhle. nearly 24 hours after its final report was mad public, tonight, the january 6th committee released a new batch of witness transcripts they are from interviews wit key people in trump administration, including, bil barr, pat cipollone, kayleig mcenany, hope hicks, and his daughter, and senior adviser ivanka trump. we will brea down what we are learning in just a moment, but first, th committee s report is wrapping up its 18 month investigation, and it is very clear about the main reason for the attack o art american democracy. th panel says, the central caus was one man. former presi
It all goes down in the dms and the dms have been turned over. Twitter gave at least 32 private messages from Donald Trumps private account to special counsel jack smith. What that tells us about where that investigation is heading. Unprecedented strike. For the first time ever, thousands of autoworkers walk off in a job stoppage that targeted all three of the big automakers. The ripple effects will be felt across the country, even if youre not in the market for a new car right now. And utter devastation. At least 5,000 People Killed by Catastrophic Floods in libya. Rescuers are still desperately searching for 10,000 who remain missing. Were going to take you there. Were following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. Special counsel jack smith has obtained some of Donald Trumps private twitter communications. Twitter handed over more than 30 direct messages from the donald trump account from earlier this year, after receiving a hig
republican friends in th house. and finally, he was the one who decided to focus everybody s attention on mik pence, and ultimately to say i the middle of the riot, he didn t have the courage to d what needed to be done, furthe inciting and exhorting the crowd which was alread chanting hang mike pence. an they had already set up in the crowd. it is just impossible t think, of this happening without donald trump being the central instigator of the whol thing. and if somebody has got a theory as to why it wa really antifa that didn t, the bring the evidence forward. bu our bipartisan committee found no evidence of involvement b antifa. i don t know what othe theories are. this is not an agatha christy novel. we kno exactly who done it. you are obviously not going
attorney-client privilege. judge carter basically followed us and he said that there was more likely than not that donald trump had engaged in federal crimes in trying to interfere with the federal proceeding. and conspiring to defraud the american people of an honest election. so, he set that for that so we re gonna lay out everything we see, but we want people to understand this isn t just like and agatha christy novel here. we know who done it. it s [laughs] a question of going forward how, we get a ourselves and fortified democratic institutions and processes against coups and insurrections and subversion in the future. this is maybe a strange question, it s a narrative and one that i have some expertise and. when you say it s not agatha christie, why it is a mystery novel exists. it exists because you want to find out who done it and the thing that pulls it through the book is precisely the suspense