and with tourism roaring back to life across europe, italy seeing a two-wheeled invasion that many want curbed. what rome plans to do about the influx of e scooters. well, donald trump lashing out at the january 6th committee hearings, accusing them of doctoring video testimonies that cast him in a very negative light. yet both taped and live witnesses over three hearings have consistently shown trump illegally tried to overturn the 2020 election, culminating of course in the capitol riot. the next hearing on tuesday is expected to include two prominent georgia election officials who were pressured by trump to, quote, find nonexistent votes after he lost. and there are growing questions over the potential role of ginni thomas, wife of clarence thomas. the select committee has requested an interview with her which she has indicated she is willing to do. for the latest on trump s continued defiance and what lies ahead, here is cnn s jessica schneider. never called mike penc
Loni coombs, really appreciate it. we re right out of time, but thank you so much. great to be with you. ukraine has just cleared the first hurdle on a path to join the european union. ukraine beyond and eu flags flew side by side after the yoon commission recommended ukraine be given candidate status. the move does not guarantee membership which could be years away in any event. but president zelenskyy says it still brings ukraine a step closer to winning the war. the ukrainian leader says ukraine deserves to be in. we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us the european dream. british prime minister boris johnson made a surprise visit to kyiv on friday, his second since
Move to that sort of insurgency, which would be bloody and irregular, don. all right. michael holmes, thank you very much. i appreciate it. i want to bring in now cnn military analyst and retired army major general spider marks. so glad to have you here. thank you very much. let s get into this because you re going to take us inside here. the president calling this an invasion today, finally saying that. he says that they are carving out a big chunk of ukraine beyond where the russian separatists already control and that putin is looking to take even more. show us where these russian troops are and where they could be headed, general. well, when you look at the map, don, you can see right there that there is a clear red line that indicates where the russian forces have been in ukraine for the last eight years. so that s the portion of donetsk in the south and luhansk up north. what you see beyond that is the white line. that s the rest of the donbas. that s the rest of the province
You re going to take us inside here. the president calling this an invasion today, finally saying that. he says that they are carving out a big chunk of ukraine beyond where the russian separatists already control and that putin is looking to take even more. show us where these russian troops are and where they could be headed, general. well, when you look at the map, don, you can see right there that there is a clear red line that indicates where the russian forces have been in ukraine for the last eight years. so that s the portion of donetsk in the south and luhansk up north. what you see beyond that is the white line. that s the rest of the don pdon pas. that s the rest of the provinces. we can expect with an increase in that russian presence that in very short order i think one of two things will happen. one is i think there will be a quick election that validates putin s decision to go in.