newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington, and we begin this hour with a developing situation in russia near the ukrainian border. the russian defense ministry says 11 people are dead and another 15 are injured after two men or two gunmen, i should say, opened fire on russian military recruits during a training session. russia says the two men were from former soviet states that russian state news agency is reporting the incident occurred during a shooting training session with volunteers preparing for a special operation when the unit was attacked with small arms fire. details are still coming in to cnn at this hour. we ll update you as we get more of that information as it s coming in, but we ll bring that to you just as soon as that story develops. in the meantime, the shooting happened as the violence inside ukraine is once against escalating violently. in just the past week, russia launched hundreds of missile strikes, including yesterday and today in zaporizhzhia. they
appreciate it. and thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. a lot to monitor with the trump hush money in case and the jury s hands as we speak, make it a decision any moment. the lead with jake tapper starts right now 30 before counts of falsifying records. 12 jurors, three notes to the judge, 11 hours down. the lead starts right down the drop. hush mon fate of the first ever us president to face a criminal trial of former juror from a different high-profile cases here to break down what s actually going on behind that door. plus boeing rolls out as sweeping new plan hoping to convince skeptical flyers that it is safe to travel on their planes, but it s not just a matter of boeing planes that has so many flyers nervous we re learning today about another near miss on the runway in a moment before takeoff, what is really going on at airports and in the skies and cnn s exclusive reporting on the dramatic negotiations between the us government and haitian gang leader
and sidney powell were telling me, no, you won, i can believe who i choose to believe. but the testimony we just heard, jim, is different, because that is donald trump himself acknowledging, according to those various witnesses,i know that i have lost. so, that s even more powerful evidence, and if i m at doj looking to follow this up, i would want all of those pieces of testimony line up to shown what s really a criminal state of mind of criminal intent. thank you so much. appreciate it. and i mentioned in trump s response to the january 6th committee that he doubled down on false claims about the to 2020 election. cnn s fact checker daniel dale is here to debunk those claims. daniel, take us through it. jim, it is october 2022, and former president trump is still repeating election lies that were debunked 21, 22, 23 months ago. it is frankly hard to believe we re still having to do this, but here we are. trump began this letter with a lie that the election was,
they can say, even the president s bought and paid for ambassador pick, even that guy has come around to acknowledge the obvious truth of the matter, plus you get the pleasure of looking at donald trump s tweet from october 22nd, the ambassador to the european union has testified, he said there was no quid pro quo, he said the president had told him that. that is the president of the united states a couple weeks ago. that is now inoperative too. the benefits of having sondland s testimony line up to getting him off the side of being the one contradictory, the outliar is way more important he s not going to be a good witness. but this guy was never going to be the witness you wanted to make your case, anyway, in public. just to pull the michael cohen testimony, the original testimony, that transcript was released today. that was the occasion for the update. and from the original testimony, sondland is clearly another