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January 6th certification process. The electors plot is one of the schemes that spans from trumps early efforts in the states to Wider National efforts to create confusion about the results, and it went all the way up to mike pence, all the way up to an attempted, ultimately thwarted pretext that was going to be presented by pence to help stage a coup on jan 6th. In essence it involved Fraudulent Electors or getting states to appoint Trump Electors in the states that biden won or was winning and try to send those to congress. Unlike some of the other plots that weve covered, this ones already at the center of three different cases, including indictments by dojs jack smith, plus the probes in michigan and now georgia, where d. A. Fani willis just charged several Trump ....
tonight on the reidout companies call dominion voting. several days ago, dominion came under heavy fire after allegations their machines caused thousands of votes in one michigan county were switched from donald trump to joe biden. we talked about the dominion software. there were voting irregiarities. that s to put it mildly. that s what they were saying on the air. when the cameras were off, those same fox hosts were calling election fraud claims bs, because on fox, it is all a performance. they knew trump lost but continued to lie to their audience to keep their maga viewers happy. also tonight, the real giuliani. although some called him america s mayor, there were disturbing signs long before he became trump s lawyer that he was willing to do or say anything to get rich and grab another moment in the spotlight. plus, senator john fetterman s battle with clinical depression and how things have changed since another senator caused a firestorm with his o ....
struggling first republic, the hope is that this massive cash infusion will calm markets and stop a panicky selloff. plus trump special koubl takes sweeping steps to get questions answered. subpoenas for workers from trump s communication handlers to the staff member caught on video helping move boxes in ask out of a storage room. and next week china s president makes a state visit to russia. the trip has consequences for ukraine s war of survival, and it happens the day the hague issues an arrest warrant for the russian president. up first, another bank saved from ruin. 11 banks, $30 billion, that s how much money is and how many lenders it took to save first republic from going the way of silicon valley bank. $5 billion from bank of america, wells fargo, jpmorgan and citi, $2.5 million from goldman sachs. this deal from the mega banks included behind the scenes talks between the treasury secretary, the fed chair and the jpmorgan chase chief. the goal, the rescue ....
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. and we begin this hour with the war in ukraine and its global implications. the director of the cia confirms what cnn has been reporting that the u.s. is confident that china is thinking about providing lethal aid to russian troops in ukraine. the agency does not believe a final decision has been made. and today, the white house is urging caution. you know, beijing will have to make its own decisions about how it proceeds. whether tell provides military assistance. but if it goes down that road it will come at real cost to china. and i think china s leaders are weighing that as they make their decisions. but let s begin with the latest in the fighting in ukraine. alex marquardt is there for us. reporter: jim, some of heaviest fighting, with some of the worst casualty rates on both sides is now taking place around the eastern city of bakhmut. russian forces before the mercenary groups of convicts ....
Way over his skis suggesting president biden provided some service to the chinese. republicans have presented sezero evidence of that. but it s an important but, the legal team is also wrong to say there is nothing new here. let s walk through the facts. this is the new memo from the accountability committee. they say they are concerned about a $3 million wire from a chinese energy company to a hunter biden business associate. now this is it in the memo. the $3 million is simply not new. senate republicans documented that payment to a business associate november 18th, 2020. so back in late 2020, the senate republicans did document that payment. and they suggested there was something amiss with it. here s what s new. the new house republican oversight committee does detail some new bank records. now in the committee s hands and those records do show of the $3 million payment, more than $1 ....