at this hour, protests in akron right now. a special grand jury in ohio declined to charge eight officers who fatally shot a 25-year-old black man last year. the city s response and the live report from akron as well as legal analysis plus, caught in the cross fire secretary blinken confirming a u.s. diplomatic convoy was attacked in sudan as two rival militaries fight for control quote, when hell freezes over that s the timing for one republican reogting to the possibility that democrats will try to replace dianne feinstein. plus, with more and more parents saying it s just financially out of reach, any minute now, president biden is set to speak in the rose garden about his administration s plan to make childcare more affordable our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments and i want to start with cnbc s senior white house correspondent. kayla, we are going to hear from the president any minute now he wants to make childcare cheaper. how s he going
range of colleagues have been working on this story all day and have learned the justice department has subpoenaed more than 30 people, people in the former president s orbit. people like bill steppian, donald trump s former campaign manager, dan scavino the former trump chief of staff. these are wide ranging subpoenas seeking things that have to do with the save america pact, donald trump s fundraising and political vehicle, information related to the fake elector spot, any information handed over to the january 6 committee, a number of them seeking documents some also seeking testimony. we also learned in the new york times tonight that investigators appear to have gone another step further with some witnesses including boris epstein and mike roman the new york times reporting both men had phones seized. cnn has not independently confirmed this. it is a sign the justice department s investigation is intensifying particularly as they are about to head into the quiet peri
silver bowls. so where are they now? let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. erin burnett outfront. russia s epic meltdown in a stunning and rapid turn of events. ukraine now has putin on the run. you can see over on the top right of this map highlighted in solid yellow, you can see the land that ukraine has recaptured in a week. that is now land that russia captured in five months. in one week, more land taken from putin than he was able to gain in more than five months. ukraine has now taken back more than 2,300 square miles total according to president zelenskyy. the onslaught was so swift and so unexpected that russian troops fled any way they could, disguised as locals literally taking bikes and stealing them and trying to bike away. this was far from an organized planned retreat. it was chaotic. these are some of the images we are now seeing of ukrainian forces. this is just one village. look at the utter destruction there. just completely destroyed. repor
defending his decision to visit saudi arabia as he travels to the middle east next week against criticism and controversy surrounding the trip. the president set to meet with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. biden vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah. now as president he says his visit to the country is critical to u.s. security. that s right. washington post op-ed the president writes it s my job to keep our country strong and secure. we have to counter russia s aggression, put ourselves in the best possible position to outcompete china, and work for greater stability in a consequential region of the world. to do these things we have to engage directly with countries that can impact those outcomes. the president s trip has come under criticism because of saudi arabia s role in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. the saudi crown prince was said to be responsible for ordering khashoggi s murder. let s get some perspective on president biden s trip. a historia
an off the rails oval office meeting between rudy giuliani and sydney powell that almost erupted into a fistfight between mike flinn and a white house aide. and new allegations of possible attempted witness tampering by the former president. president trump tried to call a witness in our investigation, a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings. that person declined to answer or respond to president trump s call. and instead alerted their lawyer to the call. their lawyer alerted us. and this committee has supplied that information to the department of justice. president biden is in israel today, the first leg of a middle east trip that includes a controversial visit to saudi arabia, the oil-rich company he said during the campaign should and pariah for killing jamal khashoggi. but now the president does plan to meet with the crown prince the cia concluded was responsible for khashoggi murder. another big goal for the white house is to get the saudis to pump more oi