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words in the grand jury, in his testimony, what is obviously donald trump s vice president mike pence. that is the only way that those words could appear in quotation marks, on page 33 of today s indictment. your two on us. page 33 contains a description of, quote, several private phone calls in late december 2020 and early january between the president and vice president at the united states. the only person who could possibly have told jack smith and the grand jury about those phone calls is mike pence. the january six committee invited mike pence to testify, but he refused. the january six committee did not bother to issue a statement to mike pence since they knew he would ignore it, just as some other elected republicans ignored subpoenas from the committee. mike pence could not ignore jack smith s subpoena. mike pence went to court in what he knew was a legally hopeless attempt to block jacks mitt subpoena. mike pence went to court to try to show trump s quarters, ....
i m jake taper on the campaign trail with governor desantis in south carolina. today the world learned donald trump is a target in the criminal investigation into 2020 election interference. this morning trump revealed he received a target letter from jack smith. the special counsel has not commented but cnn confirmed trump s attorney got the letter on sunday. it s notable that trump did not go public until today. the same day as a key pretrial hearing for the special counsel s other probe into trump s mishandling of classified documents. trump s attorneys and his indicted aide, walt nauta were sen entering the federal courthouse in florida. just a short time ago prosecutors are set to make their arguments in front of the presiding judge in the case for the first time, judge aileen cannon told all parties to be ready to discuss a specific trial date. we are tracking all of these fast moving details from all angles. let s begin with this target letter trump recei ....
good morning, and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, january 20th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for joining us. we re starting with breaking news out of syria. several people are reportedly dead, after an israeli missile struck a multi-story building in damascus. cnn s ben wedeman is following the story, joining us now from beruit. what can you tell us about what happened? reporter: well, what we know, a few hours ago, there was a large explosion in a district of damascus, an upscale neighborhood where many embassies are located. what we ve seen on social media, there was a huge explosion, massive column of smoke apparently brought down a three-story building. now, syrian state media is saying it was an israeli air strike. cnn has reached out to the israeli military. they have yet to comment on that. but we understand from the news agency, a semi-official iranian news agency, they are quoting the irgc, the islamic revolutionary guard ....
hello, i m samantha simmonds. the us military has blamed iranian backed militants for an attack on an airbase used by its forces in iraq. the us said the attack involved multiple ballistic missiles and rockets some were intercepted by air defences but others hit the al assad base. at least one iraqi service member was wounded and a number of americans are being assessed for brain injuries. attacks on us forces in iraq by militias linked to iran have increased since the gaza war began. the attack on the iraqi airbase came just hours after iran warned that an air strike on the syrian capital would not go una nswered . the iranian president, ebrahim raisi, claimed israel was to blame for the air strike which killed five senior members of iran s security forces. israel hasn t commented so far. live now to sydney where i m joined by dr ali mamouri who s a research fellow at deakin university. welcome to you, thank you for being with us. what is your assessment of the latest str ....
williamson is back. she is now polling 10%, no, i m not kidding, in the democratic primary and robert f. kennedy s at 21%. we re going to ask her why biden and the dnc are so afraid of competition. but first tonight, the oh, so by as mob and the media and their close friends and willing allies the press secretary and democratic party living in an alternate reality. let s give you exhibit a. hillary clinton, we all know james comey admitted it, she mishandled troves of top-secret classified material. she attempted to cover it up. that s the 30,000 e-mails they had. she destroyed 30,000 other e-mails that were subpoenaed during an ongoing investigation. hillary, a democrat, she was never raided or charged with a crime. and north carolinas of course, lacking in and all self awareness which is typical of all things bill clinton and hillary clinton my little pumpkin is calling the allegations against trump beyond anything she has ever thought possible in this country. you su ....