tonight straight from the source. we have exclusive new information on the january 6th investigation. special counsel jack smith has another key witness and she s about to join us live. plus, the fbi director coming face to face with some of his harshest critics during what turned out to be a tense hearing on capitol hill. blasting republican claims of bias against conservatives as, quote, insane. some democrats didn t give him a pass either and a lawmaker who was there will join us. also, menning fences. a high stakes sitdown between president biden and president zelenskyy ending on a high note tonight after tensions have been simmering about nato membership. how were they able to smooth things over? a top white house official will tell us about it. i m kaitlan collins. this is the source. tonight we have cnn exclusive reporting. the special counsel s team that is investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election has now interviewed michigan secretary of state jocely
ahead of his scheduled court appearance on tuesday. trump s legal team is preparing for the first ever arrangement of a former president, the u. s and russia s top officials, speaking by phone about two detained americans. but russia has to say about the fate of the arrested wall street journal reporter and a violent explosion rips through a saint petersburg cafe, leaving a popular pro war russian blogger dead. what? we re learning ahead in a live report. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with leila harrack. we begin here in the united states and the coming hours. former u. s. president donald trump will head to new york for a moment we ve never seen before. sources tell cnn. he is expected to appear in court tuesday afternoon. his legal team says trump will voluntarily surrender but plans to file substantial legal challenges. we will take the indictment. we will dissect it. um the team will look at every every, um, potential issue that we will be able to challenge him. w
blackwell. good to be here. we re back together. now i feel like it s really privileged to actually be sitting together for once. here we are, all right. and here s what we re watching this morning. it s just surreal. you know, you just everything you ve worked. we ve lived in this house 44 years. and you know everything we worked for and paid for it. it s gone. it s gone. communities across the south are and the midwest are cleaning up after powerful storms ripped through at least seven states they left behind catastrophic damage. our team is standing by live in arkansas ahead of fema s arrival and that state and we have new cnn reporting on the mood among former president trump s advisers ahead of his court appearance tuesday. the concerns they have about the about where a potential trial could be held . outpouring of love and support in tennessee as two more victims of the nashville school shooting were laid to rest yesterday. we ve got to look at the tributes that are pou
russian military blogger has been killed in an explosion at a cafe and st petersburg, russia. here is new video showing the aftermath. several others were injured in the blast. that s according to russian state media . the explosion also caused the building s facade to collapse. cnn s matthew chance is in russia. matthew what are you learning? wow. i mean, you know you can see the pictures there. there s a police cordon all around that cafe in st petersburg, where there was an explosion inside, and it is killed, one of the country s most prominent pro war military bloggers. his name is vlad lynn to task. at least that s what he goes by, and his blog he s got his real name is something else called maxim farming, but that s that s what his blogs called that s. that s the name under which he writes and he is well known in russia has got more than half a million followers on his channel, his telegram channel and is well known for being very aggressive, very pro war he wants in
is. i can promise you i would hurt myself before i would hurt one of them. the alex murdaugh trial in the deep south captivating the nation. there are a lot of conversations i had where i misled my clients and i stole their money. reporter: a case of weltd, po wealth, power, privilege, and murder. once i lied i continued to lie. reporter: but is there enough evidence to convict the man at the center of it all. i didn t shoot my wife or my son anytime ever. reporter: tonight we lay out the facts, the mysterious clues, and the trial s stunning turns in this cnn prime time special. good evening, everyone, i m laura coates and closing arguments today in the double murder trial, and they will resume tomorrow and come after five weeks of tense, emotional, and graphic moments. as the jury of 12 in walterboro, south carolina, will soon decide alex murdaugh s fate. for the very first time today, they visited the scene of the murders of maggie and paul murdaugh trav