listen to the governor and buffalo native kathy hochul. we are in a war. this is a war with mother nature. she has been hitting us with everything she has since the late hours of thursday into friday, saturday and now on christmas morning. i cannot overstate how dangerous the condition still are. we need people to stay off the roads. we will persevere. we will battle and we are not going anywhere. a war with mother nature. alexis mcadams live with the very latest on this. how s it looking out there now? here in new york, that death toll is expected to climb after that historic storm in buffalo, new york, just land the area with several feet of snow and they are still in that cleanup process. take a look here on your screen. the latest video coming out of buffalo new york just out of the past few hours. this is what the streets of buffalo are looking like again this afternoon. at least seven people have been killed during this massive winter blast. authorities found
trial in his federal election interference case, and for the very first time revealing a key case against donald trump. for months now, questions house world about how much donald trump s state of mind matters in this case. did he actually believe that the election was stolen from him, and prosecutors need to show that the ex president knew he had lost the election? well washington post is now reporting this. the justice department weighed in on thedete for the first ti saying that what they need to prove it is not that trump liev the big lie of the election being stolen, but that he knowinglyspread associated lies in a criminal scheme stay in power. so from the special counsel s filing,quot just as the president of a company may be guilty of fraudfor using knowingly false statements of facts to defraud investors, even if he subjectively believes that his company will entuly succeed, the defendant may be guilty of ing deceit to obstruct the government function by which the re
the british government says that the group has some 20,000 mercenaries fighting in ukraine and national security council spokesman john kirby says that the group is spending more than $100 million per month in ukraine. let s bring in joel rubin former deputy secretary of state under president obama. joel, thank you for coming in today and happy holidays to you. happy holidays, anita. thank you. i wonder if i could have you start by explaining to our viewers what the group is. described as a private paramilitary organization like private army of vladimir putin. is that correct? yeah, you ve got it right. a mercenary group. a private army that is ran by a best friend and chef of vladimir putin, ironically. the world s leading mercenary. they have conducted operation operations throughout syria and africa. they are now in ukraine, as you