Your nose cnn news central weekdays, at seven eastern hello everyone. Welcome to the amanpour hour. Here s where we re headed this week people would play to trump s ego from the trenches while serving in the trump white house was general, a jaw mcmaster s tough this mission. Yet he wants to be regarded the way he thought people regarded strong men. Also this hour legendary actor in mcallen on why he ll never retire fat suit that saved him as i landed vault somewhere in the front row on myself screaming, help me, help me. Then quick far conversation with journalists for hersh and mark landler on the week s biggest stories, should elon musk worry about being arrested the next time he goes to france, it s not an inconceivable notion. And from my archive holy ghosting, the divine disconnect that reshape britain. And why my conversation with the author hilary mantel s is more relevant than ever. And finally there s one more on the hong the afghan women defying the taliban s latest draconian
off. norah: our exclusive reporting about the u.s. navy s mission to stay prepared. this is not a 9-to-5 job, is it? no, it s not, it s around-the-clock. the prosecution is trying to understand, when did you decide to lie about your whereabouts? i don t know exactly when i made the decision to lie about that. a brutal winter storm rips across the country, including parts of california under blizzard warnings for the first time in history. norah: and a temple university officer is laid to rest. chris is physically gone, but his spirit, love, and laughter will live on through all of us as we continue his legacy. announcer: this is a special edition of the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from the uss nimitz. norah: good evening, and welcome again, from here in the western pacific ocean, where we are on vulture s row, the commander s observation point high above the busy deck of the uss nimitz that has just returned
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. thank you for sticking with me. i m sara sidner. we re now get a look at even more witness transcripts from the january 6th investigation, 19 to be exact. the january 6th committee released key interviews from members of former president donald trump s family and staff, and conversations with people involved in the state level effort to overturn the 2020 election. in one interview, donald trump jr. gave more context around texts that he sent to mark meadows about plans to keep his father in office days after the election that he lost, and trump lawyer christina baub detailed something with lindsey graham in which he pledged to become a, quote, champion of election fraud claims. sara murray with me now. i know there s a lot to go through, and there s a team of people going through them, but what else stands out to you? reporter: there is a team that is diligently going through these transcripts, but the don jr. transcript is tfasc
want to convey to not only china, but the entire world. norah: lieutenant commander david ash, call sign skittles, is an f-18 pilot. when we are flying and conducting a routine missions, and interacting with, for instance, the people s liberation army navy, we are very close to them physically. but we are also very close to a potential conflict, we misbehave or mismanage our aircraft. norah: these close calls happen on a nearly daily basis over the south china sea. this one in december, when a chinese fighter jet came within 20 feet of an american plane. and just today, this new picture from the wall street journal shows a chinese aircraft shadowing a u.s. navy plane. does that affect how you train? it makes it more real. if something were to happen in this part of the world, with a near-peer adversary, the consequences, from a loss of hardware and personnel, would be
intercepted a u.s. reconnaissance aircraft over the south china sea last week. cnn s oren liebermann joins us from the pentagon. i hear this encounter was disturbingly close. reporter: sara, we re looking at video of that incident in just one second put out by indo-pacific command. a u.s. reconnaissance aircraft was operating in the south china sea over international waters, international territory according to indo-pacifica, when a fighter jet from the people s liberation army navy, a j-11 approached an intercept. this was conducted in a safe way. this one they say was not. this chinese jet came within 20 feet of the nose of the rc-135, and it was 30 people that can t maneuver quickly. it was close enough they had to take a basic maneuvers joint. you can see how this played out. the video itself, only a few