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states, in 2020. fani willis gave a deadline for everyone to turn it themselves in, and beginning yesterday morning again started showing up arrested. i was scott hall, a bail bondsman from the atlanta area, involved in the breach of voting systems in the georgia county of coffee. next, one of the architects of the conspiracy to overthrow american democracy, john eastman, lawyer to the ex president, also the author of the infamous cool memo, suggesting vice president mike pence could unilaterally declare don trump the winner on january six. to fake electors from georgia, david schaffer, former state senator and former chair of the state republican party, and kathy latham, former head of the party in coffee county. then came to the lawyers, ray smith, georgia attorney on the trump team, who made false claims about election fraud flawed, kenneth cheeseborough who authored no less than three coup memos pushing the fake electors and sidney powell one of trump s most public ....
a public inquiry into the scandal at the post office, which led to hundreds of workers being wrongly convicted of fraud and false accounting, will resume later. the inquiry into the post office horizon it system is entering its third year, and returns after a christmas break, aiming to get to the bottom of what caused the faulty software to make it look as if money had gone missing. the uk government has announced a plan to overturn hundreds of convictions, with some sub postmasters, who were genuinely guilty, also likely to be liable for compensation. the scandal is back in the spotlight after a tv drama aired over christmas. ben boulos has the latest. i haven t got that money. and i don t know where it s gone. joe hamilton, the don t know where it s gone. joe hamilton, the sub don t know where it s gone. joe hamilton, the sub postmistress provided in the recent itb drama has played a key drama in the fight forjustice. drama has played a key drama in the fight for ju ....
eastern for cnn s coverage of that iowa caucuses. anderson cooper and kaitlan collins are going to pick up right now with more on the debate. so you tomorrow. [applause] you are looking there at the debate stage at drake university and dumoulin, iowa. tonight s cnn republican debate, that last one before monday s iowa caucuses just now wrapping up. joining me here in just a moment, one of tonight to contend with florida governor ron desantis. anderson, he ends s, nikki haley former south carolina governor went one-on-one for the first time on the debate stage with far more focus on each other on the debate stage then they re competitor who was not there, donald trump, the former president, who s holding arrival town hall a few miles away. that s, right kaitlin. but their respective records and state office, the two also political punches right from the very beginning of the debate when it came to questioning the others sincerity and honesty. nikki haley is r ....
the lead starts right now. this hour, hunter biden is going into court, donald trump is coming out of court, we are following it all. the lead starts right now. donald trump gets a second chance, he is allowed to speak at the closing arguments in his civil fraud trial. what you said and why a judge and then shut it down and one day after hunter biden s shop appearance on capitol hill, he is now back home in california facing federal charges. and now, the first lady, his mom, is weighing in. and a stunning rise in public officials targeted and dangerous swatting incidents, that s when hoax 911 calls report fake violent crimes to get a police response and possibly real police violence against innocent victims. i am going to speak with a republican who has faced threats and ask them what needs to happen for these cases to stop. [ music ] welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper. we start with the final moments of donald trump s civil fraud trial, playing out right now ....
a 60 day state of emergency was issued in ecuador on monday. will grant reports from guayaquil. viewers in ecuador watched in disbelief as masked and armed gang members entered a state tv channel and held staff hostage all of it televised live. translation: they shot one of our cameramen in the leg. | broke the arm of another one. they were shooting bullets inside the studio. the police were called and came in minutes. the gang was soon arrested and the hostages released, but the tv station ambush was just part of the descent into chaos. panic as gunmen stormed guayaquil university, explosions around the country, schools and businesses shut down and widespread rioting inside ecuador s prisons. in response, president daniel noboa called a state of emergency and imposed a curfew. by decree, he designated 22 gangs terrorist organisations and ordered the military to, as he put it, neutralise them. translation: we are practically living - in a state of war against terroris ....