good morning and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, juul 8th. i m victor blackwell. look who we have with us this morning. erica hill joining us. good morning, my friend. nice to be with you today. good to have you. so i was wondering if i would acknowledge this or not, so i guess i m going to do it right off the top. i have, i think, glitter all over my face, if you see me shiver. i think the makeup artist hit the wrong powder. it s not your natural glow because i notice any time around you you do sort of radiate a little bit of a glow. you know, element in the room. if you see a little shimmer, the brush hit the wrong makeup pad. we re going to take care of it later. i like the fact that you say it wasn t from being in the club. okay. here s what we re watching for you this morning. it was a very difficult decision on my part. by the way, i discussed this with our allies. in an exclusive interview with cnn, president biden defends his position
You had pat cipollone and eric herschel, and then you had the raucous debate with the president at the time, donald trump wrrk this team crazy was trying to influence trump to declare martial law and use the military to seize vote machines. named sidney powell as special counsel to oversee an election review. fortunately these ideas were rejected, and then another meeting happened apparently at the residence. a that meeting you had sidney powell, you had rudy giuliani and mark meadows, which led to donald trump s tweet which said come to the meeting on january 6et. it will be wild. you know jack smith is going to wonder why did you send that tweet and who knew what when. when you see all of this and the new reporting about there being a renewed focus on this meeting that came down, my first question that i have is in looking at everything we know about this meeting, is there