That question is actually more difficult than you might think. They embraced the ones about the election. Not to mention, of course, the many deranged Conspiracy Theories pushed by President Trump about ted cruzs dead, muslims and much, much more. Marjorie Taylor Greene is not the only Republican Office holder who has been pushing but the only one republicans are contemplating admonishing. Senator thune, i regret to inform you when it comes to embracing Conspiracy Theories and dangerous lies in general, House Republicans have already made their decision. Ryan nobles is on capitol hill. Lets start with congresswoman liz cheney. What are you learning about how this meeting might go . Might she have enough support to hold on to her Leadership Position . Reporter right now that is an open question. It is very difficult to find a republican in the House Of Representatives who is willing to predict the outcome of what is expected to be a very tense meeting behind closed doors. On one hand, y
latest. reporter: in what would be an historic case, the manhattan district attorney closer to bringing criminal charges against former president donald trump in a long-running investigation. we will look at the facts and the law and let the investigation and justice and what justice requires will dictate how much time we take. reporter: prosecutors are giving trump the chance to testify before a grand jury investigating his alleged role in that $130,000 hush money payout to adult film star stormy daniels days before the 2016 election to cover up their alleged affair a decade early. since potential defendants are required by law to appear in front of a grand jury, it indicates a decision on whether to charge trump could come soon. it s one thing to lie on your untruth social. it s another to lie before a grand jury. i don t suspect that he is going to be coming. reporter: his former attorney, michael cohen, meeting with prosecutors friday. he was sentenced to three
what she said about a white colleague s black son and why her partial resignation may not by enough to quiet her critics. plus, one of the most inconvenient and important cancer screenings, what a new study says about how well colonoscopies works. welcome to the lead. i m in for jake tapper. russia as bombarded ukraine can more than 80 missiles in eight regions. monday s was the most intense stretch of bombing. russia is clearly targeting civilian infrastructure, walkways, water and power stations, even a playground hit. so far 11 people have died, dozens more injured. putin says it is revenge for this, a saturday morning attack on the bridge that connects russia to crimea. the explosion was a strategic attack, its dependence on rail. and for putin, it s personal. he made it a point to drive across this bridge when it opened back in 2018. the attack came just a day after his 7 0th birthday. frederik pleitgen has this report. reporter: it was in the middle of monday mor
also ahead for you, tent city, sleeping on the streets, where leaders are making homelessness a crime, but are their tactics only complicating the problem? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start in our politics lead. and strong reaction to the justice department s historic move. a search warrant executed on the home of a former president. taking boxes of items from donald trump s mar-a-lago home, a source tells cnn. the warrant escalates the justice department s investigation into his handling of presidential documents, including some classified material. with many republicans today questioning why the fbi executed this warrant now. at the time, trump himself was in new york, where a single photo outside trump tower today captures the mixed reaction. look at this. one group with a large sign that reads, arrest trump. while another group carried a flag reading trump 24, save america. on paper, trump blasted the search saying in a statement, ag
despite its record on human rights and the killing of jamal khashoggi. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper on this friday. and we start with our politics lead. and the fallout from the first primetime hearing of the january 6th committee, where it laid out new evidence and its attempt to prove former president trump concocted a massive conspiracy to stay in power, despite knowing he lost the 2020 election. republican congresswoman liz cheney detailing what she calls a seven-part plan by trump and his allies to steal the presidency. and she says as part of that plan, trump, quote, summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. and then became angry when advisers told him to call off the rioters. the committee also played a jarring new video showing exactly how the events of january 6th unfolded, including possible coordination between two of the far-right groups who were among the first to breach the capitol. committee chairman