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we should point out nbc news has not yet verified that reporting half what we do have this afternoon is new reaction from a spokesperson for mark meadows. joining me now, luke broad january broadwater, matt miller, and joyce vance. luke, who exactly could be picking up these legal fees for at least it seems a dozen witnesses testifying before the january 6th committee? well, there are two funds that are funding witnesses lawyers. one is the save america pac which is run directly connected to donald trump. the other is the cpac first amendment fund which its director says consults with donald trump and donald trump s allies directly to decide which witnesses it will cover. so these are they offer both free legal advice to the witnesses and then also will pay for their attorneys fees if needed. this came to a head this week when cassidy hutchinson said she had to switch attorneys because she felt only with a new attorney could she be more forthright and testify publ ....
amazing spouse back at home. i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to put in jeopardy the russian population. i never meant to break any laws here. i made an honest mistake and i hope that it doesn t end my life here. i know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. i want to say again that i had no intent on breaking any russian laws. i had no intent. i did not conspire or plan to commit this crime. i hope they can take into account all the documents, all the character lists everybody sent in on my behalf. i want to apologize to my teammates and the organization for any damage that i may have done to them. i never intended on hurting them. this is my second home and all i want to do is just win championships and make them proud. cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is outside the courthouse near moscow. fred, visibly emotional, griner, apologizing to the court, taking responsibil ....
prosecutors as we speak are asking for a sentence of nine and a half years in prison. i m going to go straight to cnn s fred pleitgen who is live outside the courtroom near moscow. fred, what is the latest? what are we hearing about how that sentencing will go? yeah, i mean it really is significant information that we re getting, dana. first of all, you re absolutely right, the court has found brittney griner guilty. as we see on our screens right now, the judge is still sort of reading out the verdict and what exactly the specifics of this verdict are. but there s something that s very important that the judge has read in saying that they have found brittney griner guilty with criminal intent. that means that the court believes what the prosecution has said, that they believe that brittney griner intentionally took narcotics to the russian federation, obviously talking about those two vaping cart ridges. you ll recall one of the cases or one of the things that the de ....
Story in russia. other than the wife, there s no public outcry to say free him or anything like that, so it s a very different situation geopolitically and politically. i want to get to where you think, jill, the prisoner swap negotiations stand. lindsay gibbs, though, griner pleaded guilty on the advice of her lawyers there. we re going to hear the sentencing perhaps before this hour is out. is it your understanding that griner is getting advice from the u.s. as well as to how best to handle this? yeah, you know, i think her team is very plugged in and certainly trying to do what s best for the case to move things forward so they can move to most people think that this trial is a mere formality. that whatever the verdict that comes down that hopefully gets closer to the prisoner swap and that ending the case will hopefully get us closer to that ....
Lies he s made directly to the parents of those slain children. during a wild day in court yesterday, jones did finally admit the truth. it s 100% real, as i said on the radio yesterday, as i said here yesterday. it s 100% real. in another stunning development in that courtroom, the plaintiffs attorney revealed that jones lawyer had in an apparent mishap sent him two years worth of jones cell phone records which included every text message jones had sent. cnn national correspondent erica hill is following the story. erica, we re waiting on this verdict now. but in the meantime you have this, i think you could say, bombshell dropped in the middle of that trial. just a remarkable oversight here. what s the impact on this? paul callan called it a colossal error on the part of jonesen ....