former president, one of the key pieces of evidence in that inquiry, trump s not infamous phone call to georgia secretary of state, republican brad raffensperger a year ago. begging him to find the 11,780 votes to overcome joe biden s win in that state. the judges order says the grandeur will begin hearing evidence on made the second and, quote, may make recommendations concerning criminal prosecution. according to the atlanta journal-constitution, the investigation goes beyond trump s phone call and will include, quote, the abrupt resignation of the former atlanta-based u.s. attorney, be jake park, and november 2020 call with senator lindsey. and false claims made by trump attorney, rudy giuliani, during a hearing before the georgia senate judiciary committee. the report says that funny willis will previously argue that appointing a special grand jury was necessary because a significant number of witnesses and perspective witnesses have refused to cooperate. as that investig
he is of course, willing to sell books about it. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with breaking news in our world lead. one of the most consequential moments of the biden presidency to date, today president biden holding a video call with russia s vladimir putin. as u.s. intelligence leaders grow more concerned russia is planning yet another military invasion of ukraine. imminently. moments ago, biden s national security adviser jake sullivan detailed the call saying president biden was direct and straightforward with putin and warned putin any invasion would lead to strong economic measures against russia. sullivan also said that if russia does invade ukraine again, the u.s. could send more american forces and military equipment into allied countries in that region. we re going to cover every angle of this story today. cnn s matthew chance is on the ground in ukraine but we re going to kick it off with cnn s kaitlan collins at the white house. does p
sense of distance i know technically what the data is but it always felt like it was further back in time that really was. and today s event at the white house really sharp it for me that joe biden said he was 12 years old when it happened, when 14 year old emmett till was murdered. that put it exactly in the right timeline and how recent it all was. it is very much still with us and the legacy of that is something we are grappling politically and socially to this day. there really is. thank you alex. nbc news and other news organizations have been keeping a close watch on the federal courthouse in washington d.c., where special prosecutor jack s prosecution has been some investigating the associate of donald trump and his associates trying to overturn the last election leading up to and on january 6th. there appeared to be no grand jury activity at the federal courthouse in washington, d.c. today. january 6th grand jury usually meets on tuesdays and thursdays and so that
smith s grand jury has been some investigating donald trump and his associates trying to overturn the last election leading up to and on january 6th. there appeared to be no grand jury activity at the federal courthouse in washington, d. c. today. the january 6th grand jury usually meets on tuesdays and thursdays and so that means the next likely meeting of that grand jury is thursday. most observers believe that that means that donald trump will not be indicted by that grand jury until thursday but this time might be different. this time we might not get our usual tip about when donald trump is indicted. our usual tip comes publicly from the defendant himself donald trump. that is how the news media and the world learned the donald trump is being indicted the first time in manhattan and the second time in southern florida. prosecutors told donald trump and his lawyers so they could arrange his surrender for arrest and rain and then donald trump was like any defendant almost
and, we look at a treasure trove of freddie mercury s personal items collected over 30 years before they go under the hammer. and coming up on bbc news. manchester city and arsenal go head to head at the etihad, with city looking to turn the tide in the title race with a win over the league leaders. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the first plane carrying british nationals fleeing sudan is due to land at stansted airport in about an hour. the evacuees were initially taken to larnaca in cyprus, before boarding a charter flight to the uk. more flights are expected throughout the day, to move hundreds of uk citizens out of the country during a 72 hour ceasefire, which has come after more than a week of fighting. british passport holders have been asked to make their own way to an airbase on the outskirts of the sudanese capital khartoum. so far, three british planes have flown from there to larnaca. another potential escape route is by sea, from port sudan, bu