14, 2020. that s the day that alternate republican electors signed bogus certificates falsely claiming that trump won the election. here to break this all down for us is cnn s senior legal analyst elie honig of the southern district of new york, former federal state prosecutor. elie, for people watching this from the periphery, let s start with the fake elector scheme. what was it? victor, this was a key part of the effort of trump s team to try to steal the 2020 election. it s important to understand this effort was focused on seven crucial swing states all of which voted for joe biden but by fairly narrow margins. the way it s supposed to work is after the votes are counted in each state, state officials certify the election and send in paperwork saying these will be our allotted number of electors. they will be casting their vote for joe biden. that was done. the problem is people who supported donald trump tried to send in their own set of electoral paperwork. let s loo
the country has set a modest target for economic growth this year of around 5%, as it kicked off the annual session of its national people s congress, which is poised to implement the biggest government shake up in a decade. last year, successive strict lockdowns slowed growth in china. official figures show the world s second largest economy grew by 3% last year, which was way below the government target of 5.5% and its slowest for decades. now, compared to many economies, a 5% growth target sounds very positive but as janet mui, head of market analysis at brewin dolphin, explained china is an exception. i think economists were pretty disappointed at this conservative growth forecast, as you mentioned. it is actually a high figure for the developed market, but china is still an emerging market that should be growing strongly. so this is slower than expected, because i think in the previous year the government has missed this gdp growth target and i don t think that they
former met police officer, wayne couzens, serving life for murdering sarah everard, has now been sentenced to 19 months in prison for indecent exposure. police in wales, searching for five people missing after a night out, say three are dead and two seriously injured, after a car crash. after a century personally preserved at the bottom of the antarctic 0cean, lloyd s of london locate the insurance policy for shackleton s ship the endurance. it s a month now since the earthquakes which killed more than 50,000 people across turkey and syria. many of those who survived are homeless, living in tents and even train carriages. 0ur corrrespondent, anna foster, who s been covering the tragedy from the beginning. she reports now from antakya in southern turkey. these trains haven t left the station for a month. they re homes instead now, to earthquake survivors. yilmaz and five of his family live in this carriage. they sleep on the seats, the few possessions they have around them. tr
long lines for gas stretching for hours after a gas pipeline shutdown sparks panic buying i ve never seen it this bad crash at l.a.x a plane hits a shuttle bus on the runway. five people hurt why have there been so many accidents on our nation s runways shutdown a college takes the unprecedented step of suspending its entire division 1 men s basketball team. why they did it. countdown to the super bowl we go inside the massive security operation to keep 1 million people safe. plus, there s good news tonight why these students gifted their favorite teacher tickets to the big game announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening just 24 hours after the u.s. military took down an unmanned flying object over alaska, another one was spotted and shot down today this time it was over northern canada. prime minister justin trudeau tweeting, a u.s. f-22 successfully fired at the object. the search is still under way for the remnants of the one th
afternoon, i mean it s one of the soup he. unbroken use. flight restrictions just lifted over lake michigan after a fears of yet another aerial object spotted this after u.s. forces shut down the third one in a week. and the death toll rising. more than 33,000 in turkey and syria from the devastating earthquake. they re continuing to be miracles amidst the rubble. this is the child coming out now. nearly five days underground. a horrible ordeal for a child. we re gonna show you moment by moment. the trauma of one of those rescues. plus new information on donald trump s plan to try to fight that subpoena for his former vice president mike pence. a bombshell new report from the washington post. involving an effort by the former presidents campaign to prove his 2020 election lies and why it s been kept secret until now. we are just days away from the fifth in the first three of the horrific parkland florida school shooting. and the two hours ahead, i m going to talk to two p