the one for donald trump to respond to the doj s target letter just a short time from now. we re all waiting to see if he in fact will respond today, according to the deadline. we re also learning one of his advisers abruptly left grand jury testimony today when he was asked about their interactions while trump was still in office. all that is ahead. but first, the politics and gnarlization of misinformation. that s a mouthful. it was also on full display in congress as republicans gave a platform to a noted conspiracy theorist as he s being called now. robert f. kennedy jr. he s also a democratic presidential hopeful and candidate. he testified during a hearing that was focused on the federal government and censorship. but then after going under oath, well, the train, it fell off the tracks promptly. cnn s fact checker senior reporter daniel is here. kennedy said today that he has never voiced opposition over using vaccines. listen to this moment. i have never been antivax
good evening everyone. i am sara sidner, welcome to cnn tonight. former president donald trump predicted he was going to be at the criminal investigation into election interference. tonight he is waiting to see if he will be indicted, the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn joe biden s election victory has been going on for months, the deadline for former president donald trump to respond to the doj s target letter is less than an hour away. that is tomorrow s news, tonight. also coming up, we have a stunning new developments in a murder case that has gone unsolved for almost 30 years. who killed tupac shakur? the hip-hop star died in a drive-by shooting in 1996 after he was leaving a mike tyson fight in las vegas. ever since the ministry has grown. now the police have searched the home of the wife of a self proclaimed witness to that shooting. what do they find? it tonight i will talk exclusively with a member of tupac shakur family. and, robert f. kennedy junior
look at the american armor protecting ukrainian fighters. plus a special and rather odd gop invitation for robert f. kennedy jr., the presidential candidate, how rfk jr. attempted to defend his years of lies and conspiracy theories. but the room it happens, the federal grand jury that could decide whether donald trump will be indicted for his role in the january 6th insurrection. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. donald trump waiting to hear if prosecutors are going to try to hold him accountable for otryin to overturn the 2020 election. right now the grand jury investigating those efforts is meeting at the courthouse here in washington d.c. the grand jury is expected to hear from two witnesses, after which they could theoretically vote on whether to charge donald trump or anyone else in this case. we ll likely not find out about potential charges until trump announces it himself on social media, how he did in the other special
interference into the 2020 election is meeting right now. this could mean 1/3 indictment for the former president. we are following these major developing stories and many coming in right here to cnn news central. [music] cnn has learned that ukrainian combat troops are now hiring this controversial cluster munitions that the u.s. gave them. sources telling us that tactic is part of ukraine s counteroffensive and the pentagon officials are waiting to hear how effective they are in combat. cnn pentagon correspondent lauren lieberman is joining us on this.oren ããtell us what you are hearing. breonna, is only about last week that ukraine began receiving the u.s. provided cluster munitions. and part of the purpose of this was first to make sure that ukraine had enough artillery ammunition with its counter offense of going slower than anticipated and slower than both ukraine and the west would like to see. but also to be able to use the effect of the cluster munitions to sat
into that in a moment. he also said he s never told the public to avoid vaccination as an nbc news reporter first on it on twitter, publicly said less than two years ago that he had personally confronted strangers, just around the people he encountered, and told him not to get their babies vaccinated. listen to what kennedy said on a 2021 podcast. our job is to resist and to top out of everybody, if they re walking down the street, and they do this now myself, which is [inaudible] i ve seen somebody on a hiking trail carrying a baby and i said [inaudible] they heard that for me. if he hears are from ten other people, maybe he won t do it. maybe he will save the child. of course there s a whole lot more, four years kennedy has been the country s most famous promoter of the debunked notion that there is a link between childhood vaccines and autism. he has spread all manner of misinfo about covid-19 vaccines. he even started in recent comments, laura, that the 1918 spanish