chris jansing reports starts right now. good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. there s explosive new evidence out today showing then president donald trump got $7.8 million courtesy of foreign countries, more than half of it from china. the allegations about the money paid to trump s businesses while he was in office coming in a highly detailed new report from house democrats. so what s congress going to do about it? plus, new year, same harrowing story, a school shooting stunning a small town in iowa, multiple students and an administrator believed to be among the wounded. we ll get a live update in just a few minutes. and as the battle over the ballot heats up, will colorado be the catalyst to that finally bottoms the supreme court to weigh in? the latest on donald trump s appeal and where the legal fight goes from here. . but we begin with that brand new report alleging donald trump unconstitutionally profited while president. com
hello everyone. i mfredric i mfredrickahere in the cnn newsroom. we begin in cairo, egypt. live pictures from tahrir square at nightfall. watching the crowd go by the hour all day long. demonstrators started gathering this morning right after an egyptian judge sentenced former president hosni mubarak to life in prison for his role in killing hundreds of anti-government protesters last year. let s bring in cnn s ben wedeman who joins us now from the balcony overlooking tahrir square. ben it is getting late there. however, it appears that the darkness isn t in any way disbursing that crowd. what is the objective here? [ no audio ] reporter: outside of cairo. hosni mubarak and his interior minister did get life sentences but cleared the corruption charges and the interior of ministry got off scot-free, that s krucrux of this and why people are so angry. remember, more than 800 egyptians were killed by government sources during this proet te protest and everybody responsibl
health plans, not so much. that is until catholic leaders and some commentators began sounding off. catholics and christians all across america are fired up over president obama s approval of new regulations that require insurance plans of religious organizations to provide contraseptive coverage. why did it take news outlets a couple of weeks to catch up with the catholic protests? a former white house intern for president kennedy says she was his mistress 50 years ago. did he realize that you were a virgin? i think he did because he kept asking me if i was all right and i was all right. but she confirmed the affair nine years ago. was her book really worth an nbc primetime interview? plus are we ll look at the coverage of the sad and unexpected death of whitney houston. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. we re going to begin with the tragic death at the age of 48 of singer whitney houston, and joining us on the line from los angeles is cnn s larry