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top of the hour on cnn newsroom, i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. we have two attempts of the january 6 committee. iv they are seeking a voluntary interview with ivanka trump to know why this has been kept secret for so long. this was january 2nd of 2021, georgia da requests a grand jury for the trump election probe. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. we re with sara murray. sara, tell us why the doj requested this grand jury. now ivanka trump sent a letter to the grand jury. she wants to compel witnesses to testify with subpoenas and more readily gather evidence. as you pointed out, this stemmed from the recording of this incredible call between former president donald trump and brad raffensperger. here is a portion of that. the people of georgia are angry. the people of the country are angry, and there is nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you ve recalculated. mr. president, the challenge that yo ....
reaction to the ncaa big decision. john: soft on crime policies, emboldening career criminals released too soon. happy friday eve to you, sandra. sandra: i love you look at it that way, john. a spotlight on homeless criminals who are the hardest to track in the system. california, police arresting a man wanted in the murder of ucla grad student brianna kupfer. shawn smith stabbed kupfer to death in a random daytime attack as she was working in a furniture store in los angeles. john: critics blame the lenient laws to be free on the streets. howard safer will join us in a moment. sandra: jonathan hunt is live in los angeles. what do we know about smith s criminal record? before he allegedly stabbed her, he had been bailed on both coasts. democrat and republican prosecutors, covid court delays also involved, a perfect storm of circumstances, tragically ending with the death of kupfer. smith was arrested after a member of the public called 911 having spotted him i ....
absolutely nothing to help me? look, a lot of people did expect that to happen. but joe biden, frankly, did not. and i think that is one of the areas where we re beginning to see him coming to terms, slowly, belatedly in a lot of people s view, with the washington he inhabits. you know, it s interesting about that. this was a press conference where he was trying to also say that we in the press focus too much on the negative and not enough on the positive. and he did talk about 2 million vaccines when he started, now it s 210 million sorry, 2 million vaccines, now 210 million, 6 million new jobs created, et cetera, et cetera. he didn t lean very much into the bipartisan infrastructure bill. and the money s going out the door now. and he didn t really talk about it very much. it is a very it s one of his biggest accomplishments. it is absolutely a major achievement. and i think i mean, he said something in the response to a question where he challenged a report ....
he has been meeting with president zelensky, the president of ukraine, where he is going to be briefing him on the outcome of negotiations that were held in various places last week with russian officials. what will be discussed on friday in geneva when secretary of state blinken sits down with sergey lavrov. the idea that he has come to brief the ukrainians is something that the ukrainian officials, ukrainians said they re grateful for. translator: i would like to thank you and president biden and the u.s. administration for the support, for the military aid, for the help that was already given by the u.s. we hope that in the future this support will continue. it is up to ukrainians and no one else to decide their own future, and the future of this country. so the president asked me to underscore once again our commitment to ukraine integrity, sovereignty, to its independence. and i know that is a message you have heard not just from us but from so many partners th ....
implement. there is ideology there all the way. but also number two, these people have absolutely no clue what they are doing. they are incompetent. but it s not just sleepy joe and vice president giggles who are the problem, first, let s start tonight with a name you probably don t know. eleanor holmes norton. if you are not familiar with the name, she is a congresswoman from washington, d.c. and nancy pelosi s topic to chair the transportation committee. but this potential appointment has hit a bit of a speed bump, you might say. as it turns out holmes norton can t even drive a car. no, i m being entirely serious. this is actual footage of holmes norton repeatedly crashing her car into a parked vehicle two of them and walking away. see how there is diagonal. other cars diagonal in one direction. she is diagonal in the other. keeps hitting the brakes hitting the gas and the brake and hitting the car next to her. watch the whole video it s amusing and depressing. now, d ....