Impeachment trial of donald j. Trump. A new brief says the former president holds unmistakable responsibility for the capitol riot, and that it was obvious and foreseeable that his remarks on january 6th would lead to that riot and disaster. The president s new legal team faces a noon deadline to file a response. These are two developing story lines in the biden reset. Today he will form a new White House Task force to reunite children separated from their parents during the Trump Administration. President biden would like major Congressional Action on this topic, but primary number one is covid relief. The monday night meeting between the president and ten republicans was cordial but did little to fill the gap between what the republicans want and what the president is necessary. Today this new data point in the republican fracture over the direction of the gop. Loony lies and Conspiracy Theories are a cancer. Those are the stern words of the Senate Republican leader, Mitch Mcconnell
But, without a working port, its not clear yet where the ship will actually dock or how its cargo will be distributed inside gaza. 0ur middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville is in the Port City Of Larnaca in cyprus and sent us this report. Its a drop in the ocean of gazas need, but this is the first direct aid shipment by sea about to leave cyprus. The spanish ship the open arms, seen here in larnaca port, getting ready to set sail. It has a long journey ahead of it. The barge has 200 tonnes of desperately needed essentials rice, flour and pre prepared meals. This has taken months in planning. The cargo was loaded all weekend. The final Security Clearances from israel came through in the last few hours. Well, weve done truckloads of food through the rafah crossing. Weve done airdrops with thejordanian army. This is the next step into providing food aid into gaza. But this is only a small breakthrough. Israels offensive has led to a collapse in civil order. Few Aid Organisations
i m in for nicolle wallace. the final day of e. jean carroll versus donald trump with closing arguments focused on a high-stakes question. what is the price to pay for using one of the world s most powerful megaphones to defame someone. first up her attorney addressed the factor looming over the trial, that is, trump s continued attacks on e. jean carroll. she pointed out trump spent the entire trial continuing to engage in defamation, trump dramatically stormed out of the courtroom. the judge noted the incident and kaplan continued. cnn repts that she said, quote, the case is also about punishing donald trump for what he has done and what he continues to do. shd trump tries to, quote, normalize conduct that could hardly be more abnormal. she went on to say, quote, typically when someone is found liable for defamaon, they stop making those statemeven if they don t like t jury s verdict, even if you d t like the jury s decision you follow it. those are the this trial is also
republican results out of the iowa, which show trump in the lead. as we were covering that night with rachel. but half of that red electorate open to alternatives. the top two alternatives, which are two individuals separated by just under 3,000 votes in iowa, are squaring off. there are high stakes in new hampshire. this is the more moderate independent state that could favor haley. its voters also will look more like the november electorate that the nominee will have to face. new tonight, desantis is not campaigning in new hampshire right now, having given up on the moderate-leaning state given the abysmal poll numbers, per the new york times. and while it is january, and let s remember the rest of the less political parts of the nation are probably a little more exhausted at the thought of turning back to campaigns and more focused on things like what we promised we d show you, christmas trees eventually coming down, and they re not so obsessed with new hampshire, but
for the first time since russia invaded ukraine china s president xi jinping will meet face-to-face with vladimir putin. so what could this mean for the war and also tensions between the u.s. and china? we are on it. plus a cnn exclusive, dozens of mar-a-lago staffers, members of trump s inner circle as well, have now been subpoenaed to testify in the ongoing probe of classified documents. find out who is on that list. and big banks to the rescue, 11 of them are now offering a $30 billion lifeline to one of the regional banks in danger of collapsing after this week s banking turmoil. we will be watching for reaction when the markets open in less than 30 minutes. we do begin this hour with next week s meeting in moscow between the russian president, putin, chinese president xi. cnn s senior international correspondent will ripley is with us. what more are we learning about the talks and what they re expected to focus on? reporter: the timing is certainly significant, it