Brand new hour. Good to be with you. Im victor blackwell. And im alisyn camerota. At this hour in washington The Spotlight is on Voting Rights. The focus is to protect and expand americans right to vote. As you know republican legislatures across the country are passing bills to restrict Voting Rights. The Vice President also warning how dangerous these new laws are. Heres what she said. These laws create obstacle upon obstacle. These laws make it harder for you to vote because they dont want you to vote. And so i will say again your vote matters. Your voice matters. Of course that event discussing voting comes on the same day the governor of texas called a Special Session to push through a restrictive voting bill. Much more on that in a moment. But first cnns Jeff Zeleny is at the White House. Jeff, the White House said today the president plans to deliver a major sweep on Voting Rights. What do we expect from the meeting thats happening . Reporter we do know President Biden momentari
election directly departed, individuals like jenna ellis, sidney powell, and a communications and legal specialist, boris epshteyn. the subpoena issued subpoenas for documents and depositions for people according to the committee that advanced unsupported election theories and lies. they want the documents by february 1st, they want testimony and depositions by february 8th from all four. the new letter from the committee outlaid, says he promoted claims of election fraud on behalf of trump. giuliani gave many public statements, press conference, interviews in his advocacy for trump. he was at the center of both trump i am impeachments. after the election loss when it was established that donald trump lost the election, when the supreme court hadn t taken cases on merits, giuliani remained in public and before state bodies and other local municipal type meetings where he continued to promulgate election fraud lies before basically whomever would have it. the committee also no
building. we have to warn you. this is upsetting. okay. i don t know who s watching. we got hit by a hurricane. i m at work in mayfield. and we are trapped. please, y all, give us some help. we re at the candle factory in mayfield. please. please. in arkansas, at least one person is dead. five seriously injured after the apparent tornado hit a nursing home. early reports say two people died and multiple injured at the amazon center in edwardsville, illinois after a 100-foot portion of the wall collapsed. we will stay with the story. a lot going on. i want to get to stephanie stanton who has been covering this. stephanie, good morning. this is a fast breaking story. we are learning about the damage and as sun starts to come up and what that damage looks like. there is still danger of more storms. reporter: good morning, ali. we are monitoring what is happening over in the several states in the midwest. from here in florida, i grew up in the chicagoland area. i m familiar
we made it. can you tell, we re happy for the weekend. but thanks for being with us today and all week. we re so happy to have you here. it s good to be here. it will be a fun day. five things to know for this friday. former vice president mike pence testified in jack smith s january 6th investigation. we re told that pence testified before that federal grand jury for more than five hours. new overnight, two apache helicopter helicopters crashing in alaska during a training mission. three army pilots are dead. one was injured in the crash. also today, the fed s preferred measure of inflation set to be released. data could be critical in determining what the fed does next with rate hikes. also, tributes and reflections are pouring in for jerry springer. the legendary talk show host lost his battle to cancer at the age of 79. also this morning, roll tide! so happy to say that. so happy to watch this last night. the carolina panthers selected alabama quarterback
engin jerry was the most influential man in my life. everything i have in my life i owe to him. cnn this morning continues now. the first time in modern history a vice president is compelled to testify about the president he served beside. mike pence has likely provided intricate, direct, first-person testimony. this lasted for five hours. gives you an indication of the painstaking detail that prosecutors want to get into. let s keep in mind, there is no other witnesses to these conversations. prosecutors say teixeira could still be a threat. he may still have more classified information. authorities say he had an arsenal of weapons just feet from his bed. court documents mention his social media post. if i had my way, i d kill a ton of people. i think he s a danger to the country and a danger to himself. on the third day, her civil battery and defamation lawsuit, e. jean carroll grilled on her allegations that donald trump raped her. the most intense mo