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in in loens exception you obviously know who it is, donald trump. now, to compensate, president biden t held a lengtsy news conference thursday looking to set the record on his first year straight. look. i didn t know a promise, what i have probably outperform what anybody thought would happen.ha can you think of any other president that s done as much in one year? let me be clear, before you think it s only the gop and its followers that are not feeling the love for biden, let s note the criticism of this administration, actually coming from across the political spectrum, including members of the president s own party, the democrats. people are frustrated, and people feel like government continues to not deliver for them. kre, we should still brate the american rescue plan, we should celebrate thee bipartisan infrastructure framework. but we have failed at connecting with realfa americans, particularly americans of color, on the ground, day-to-day, to hear their ....
scaled back build back better bill but how much can you scale it back and have it be building back better? will democrats go along? let s go out fron. good evening. i m erin burnett. closing in on trump. big blows to the former president tonight. first closer to criminal charges in georgia. the fulton county da writing tonight her office found, quote, possible criminal disruptions and has opened an investigation into any coordinated attempts to unlawfully alter the outcome of the 2020 elections. the operative word there, criminal. and tonight the georgia prosecutor requesting a special grand jury to force witnesses to testify. all of this investigation centers around the trump phone call with georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. and georgia just one of the hits trump is taking tonight. the january 6 committee taking a huge step today. they sent this eight-page l ....
price. talks between u.s. and russia begin in the coming hours. the latest to resolve the standoff with ukraine over diplomacy. we are live in geneva and moscow this hour. plus, the damage is extensive and the country s needs are dire. we ll have a live report on the aid that s timely arriving in tonga after a devastating volcanic eruption. and grammy award-winning singer meat loaf has died. we ll take a look back at his legendary music career. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is friday, january 21st. we ll begin with a flurry of diplomatic activity scheduled to get underway this hour angrily prev preventing an all-out war between russia and ukraine. u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken and sergei lavrov will meet in geneva, switzerland. negotiations have done little to ease tensions so far. and ukrainian leaders say the u.s. and president joe biden must do more to deter a russian inv ....
and cnn s latest poll of polls, it is a low outmatched in modern times only by the former president. the figure reflects his his decisions on covid, shortages, inflation, and more broadly speaking, it speaks to a question president biden was asked this evening when he spoke to reporters in the east room does he now, after a year on the job, think he overpromised on what he could accomplish when taking office? the fact of the matter is that we re in a situation where we have made enormous progress the number of deaths from covid. it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down. everything s changing. it s getting better. i did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that president biden didn t get anything done. think about this. what are republicans for? what are they for? name me one thing they re for. well, the president came back to that theme over and over, again, hitting republicans o ....
we have made enormous progress, you mentioned the number of deaths from covid. it was three times that not long ago. it s coming down. everything s changing. it s getting better. i did not anticipate that there would be such a stalwart effort to make sure that the most important thing was that president biden didn t get anything done. think about this. what are republicans for? what are they for? name me one thing they re for. well, the president came back to that theme over and over, again, hitting republicans on what he says is their lack of policy or vision beyond just standing in his way. he did acknowledge that his signature build back better legislation was unlikely to pass, as is. but he was optimistic it seems about getting major pieces of it done this year. as for the package of voting reforms on the line tonight, he expressed hope of salvaging major portions of it as well and expressed confidence in his point person on it. you put vice president harris in ....