donald trump's political and legal worlds are colliding. fresh off of his big win in iowa, trump is now in court for a second defamation case that was filed by e. jean carroll. then he's off to new hampshire in his campaign for the white house. congress also facing down a government shutdown deadline, but while the house speaker is cutting deals with democrats, members of his own party won't make it easy to pass a deal in time. >> and going for gold, a handful of shows dominating the emmys last night. we're going to look at the one and the moment that left so much of the audience in tears. we are following these developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. ♪ ♪ ♪

>> one day after donald trump's decisive victory in the iowa republican caucuses, the former president is on trial yet again in a new york courtroom, again. waiting to find out how much he has to pay for defaming e. jean carroll. also, again. it's a stark example of the campaign courtroom zigzag that's now a standard feature of trump's election year schedule. >> yeah, certainly is. and this is a civil trial, so he doesn't have to be there. in fact, he completely skipped the entirety of the first carroll defamation trial last year. in that one, a jury found trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming carroll. that verdict applies here, so keep that in mind. this jury will only decide how much more trump must pay the pain cliff. we have cnn's paula reid tracking all of this in new york. we have kristen holmes on the trail in new hampshire. paula, tell us where things stand from inside the

courtroom. >> well, a jury has been seated. they will remain anonymous throughout this process because, as we've seen another trump related cases, when they are not anonymous, some of these jurors have faced pretty serious threats. now, in a short time. we expect that they will get underway with opening statements and the judge apparently came to move it's along once to wrap those up today. but as you noted, trump is clearly bringing the campaign to new york again today. instead of spending the whole day in new hampshire or another key state. and as you said, this is a choice. he does not have to be in court today. he did not have to attend any of the court proceedings that he has sat in on in the last ten days. but he and his legal team, they appear to be making this choice as part of a way to amplify this larger narrative that he's somehow the victim of an unfair system. and at the beginning today, we saw trump's lawyer, alina hava, who is also his spokeswoman, spar with a judge over trying

to not have court thursday because on thursday, trump's mother in law, they're holding a funeral for his mother in law. now, the judge had already considered a request to move the whole trial back because of this funeral. denied that. judge seemed a little irritated they're ringing it up today, but how much did nero nero who requested just thursday. now, that was denied but even something small like that, administrative, where the judges like look, he doesn't have to be here, he has no role, and already told you, we're not going to move these proceedings, because of this funeral, something like that. it helped feed into this larger -- narrative. now, these jurors, now that they have been selected, they were whittled down actually from a group of dozens. and it was interesting. in the course of selecting the jury, we learned that there were some trump supporters, folks who have donated to him, his political opponents, a few even thought the election had been stolen. again, they are anonymous, so we're not going to reveal details about exactly who was selected. now, they need to decide how

much in damages trump will pay to e. jean carroll. i will note that last spring, a jury found him liable for sexual abuse against e. jean carroll and that he defamed her. they ordered her $5 million. now, she's asking for $10 million. addition -- take a few days, but i will note that last trial that i covered, along with our colleagues, trump did not attend even a minute of that case. >> and to that point, paula, with trump attending today and carol also being there, this is the first time in decades that they've come face to face. >> yeah, it's wild, alex. that's a great point. i mean, i remember when she testified in the trial last spring. it was incredibly emotional for her and having covered many trials that relate to survivors of sexual abuse or sexual assault, this is likely going to be a very emotional time for her. it's unclear how many days he will show up. it's unclear if he's going to cooperate with the parameters that the judge has laid out, in terms of putting limits on his

participation. but i think we should remember, even when we're talking about the campaign, or the potential damages, we also have to remember that there's a survivor in the courtroom there, someone that a jury has found was sexually abused and it's a lot for her as well. >> and kristen, to you on the politics of this. trump is in new york today after coming from iowa. he then heads to new hampshire, snowy new hampshire, where you are. so, what happens once he arrives? >> well, we expect him to give remarks that it will note, he's likely going to run late because of the weather,. as you can see, it's not the perfect flying weather. but then he's allegedly going to be back in court tomorrow before another a event in new hampshire. now, he did ramp up his schedule in new hampshire after we saw that rise in polling from nikki haley. we know that his team is very concerned about what they have seen with nikki haley in this state. we've seen him sharpening his attacks, we've seen the campaign putting out a series of ads hitting her on

immigration, as well as social security and medicare. these are the issues that they believe are critical to new hampshire voters. now, they do feel good coming off of iowa. they weren't sure what that margin was going to look like. they have been tempering expectations, saying they thought that anything over 12 points would be historic and would be worth celebrating. obviously, it was well above 12 points. the point of even watching things such a large margin was to set the momentum going into new hampshire. they're looking at all the data today. i'm told that they're going through their strategy, how exactly to hit nikki haley. they do not believe florida governor ron desantis is a player in this state. but they do believe that nikki haley has been on the rise. the other thing i want to point out, i spoke to one adviser this afternoon who says that they believe that vivek ramaswamy dropping out of the race here in new hampshire will help donald trump. they don't know how much he had polling, but right now, they're at the point where they believe every single vote counts. they believe 98% of people who supported vivek ramaswamy would

turn to donald trump next, after he dropped out. >> the reason why we're looking at new hampshire and expecting something so different from iowa is that it has such a different makeup, when it comes to who's going to be casting these ballots, kristen. tell us about that and why the trump team is actually worried his legal problems could be a vulnerability there. >> yeah, whether we're looking at here, in particular, is independents. independents can vote as a primary. you have independents that go through a wide variety of self-identifications when it comes to politics. you have independents who had a divided conservatives, liberals, moderates. when they saw the polling from cnn, which show that nikki haley had trimmed down trump's lead to single digits, they saw the same thing that we saw, which was that 55% or haley won 55% of moderates while donald trump won 60% of conservatives. they knew that he would get the 60% of conservatives, but when it comes to new hampshire, you just have such a large swath that could go either way. again, because they identify it

as independents, but could be more left leaning or right leaning. now, i will say that they're taking all of this into consideration. they, being trump's campaign. they launched a series of ads attacking haley on immigration. i'm told that was to shore up that conservative base. they believe that donald trump has a grip on the conservative base. they want to make sure that they held on to that. the other thing that adds on social security and medicare, that's going to target more moderate, independent. they want to chip away at that. they know people are going to show up to vote against donald trump because they don't like him. but they want to chip away at that number and hope more republicans come out the moderates or independents. >> all right, we will be watching. kristen holmes, paula reid, thank you to both of you. the republican race for the white house, of course, moving on there to new hampshire after donald trump's historic landslide win in the iowa caucuses, where he got more than half the vote. besting ron desantis and nikki haley by 30 points or more. trump winning in nearly every voter category and in 98 out of

the 99 iowa counties. just look at all of that red. >> that one yellow county, johnson county, unbelievable. nikki haley is betting on the larger moderate vote in new hampshire that kristen was just talking about, where polls show that her seven points, where polls do show her seven points currently behind trump. the first signs of a real crack in his dominance. new hampshire's primary is just a week away. that's where we find our omar jimenez. he's in manchester, new hampshire. so omar, talked us about how nikki haley plans, as she says, to make this a two person race, just between her and trump, forcing rhonda scent is out? >> yeah, so she really wants to lean into some of that, again, moderate support and some of those undeclared or independent voters that we have here in new hampshire, to try and bolster a real challenge to the former president, a challenge in which we have not seen actually materialize to this point at any point in the primary process.

so, one of those ways is she's changing her framing. we've heard her a little bit last night talking how she's viewing this as a two person race. specifically, she seems, has discounted ron desantis as a candidate, altogether. desantis started his day in south carolina as opposed to hear. she says that she is really looking forward to trying to challenge trump. in particular, she painted her red line today. she says, she's not debating anymore unless former president trump is on that stage. we know he's not appeared at any point on the stage to this point. but take a listen to how, in her own words, she's framed this next phase of the campaign. >> when we know it's a head to head, you heard me last night say look, we have a choice. are we going to do more of the same or are we going to go forward? and more of the same is not just donald trump, it's joe biden. both of them are exactly the same. they're both in their 80s. they both put us trillions of dollars in debt, they both are dealing with investigations better distractions.

>> and that's the thing. she, again, it's framing this as a trump and biden future that she's campaigning against and we've been talking to voters throughout today, and what's interesting is, none of the voters we've spoken to have identify themselves as a democrat or republican. all of them have identified themselves as undeclared and they've all said we've taken a hard look at what they've gotten coming up to vote in the next week. >> all right, omar jimenez, thank you for that report from manchester on the trail there. let's turn now to kim right, she's a co-chair of nikki haley's campaign in new hampshire. she's also a former state representative. thank you, kim, so much for being with us. you watched the results, i'm sure, coming in. now haley is saying that this is a two person race between her and trump, but she is so far in third place after iowa. so, explain why this is not nikki haley, maybe looking at your state, being a little bit presumptuous. >> well, i think that, you know, she did, in the past 11 months,

she started 2%. i think she had a strong showing in iowa and now we're going into new hampshire, where she's pulling very well in single digits behind donald trump and we had a new poll come out today that's showing she's neck and neck with donald trump. i think she's going to have a strong showing and i think she's going to, you know, do very well. she's a hard worker, she's doing everything right. the retail politics in new hampshire. she's got the backing of our very popular governor sununu and she's doing everything right. i think it's going to be a great time in new hampshire for the next week. >> she's polling higher in new hampshire, in part because of the very high share of undeclared or independent voters that can vote in your gop primary. how is her popularity in your state? not just a one-off, then? how could she carry that through the later states? >> well, i think that once she does well in new hampshire, then people are actually going to start looking longer also.

they're going to say, stand up and take notice. >> you think it will carry over even in states where independents can't have a say, like they do in new hampshire? >> i do. i do. let's remember that nikki haley was on original tea party governor. people that want to call her a moderate and, you know, give her names like rhinos, she was a tea party governor. nikki haley is a conservative and i think people will see that. >> we are learning that abc is now giving halle and donald trump a five pm deadline today to commit to a scheduled debate that was to be held there thursday in new hampshire. your candidate said the next debate that she's going to do is either going to be with trump or biden. trump, of course, hasn't been doing debates. do new hampshire voters deserve to see a debate, even if it's not with trump? >> well, i think that we've seen plenty of debates with nikki haley and ron desantis, and i think seeing another one is the definition of insanity. she smoked desantis time and

time again. it's time to have the debate between her real challenger, either donald trump or joe biden. >> as we are hearing her -- omar jimenez, she's going after trump now. she says, we can't have four more years of chaos, but then separately, another reporter asked if she were to win, would she pick donald trump as a running mate? and she would not say no. should she have said no, when she's very clear about what is she thinks donald trump represents? >> so, nikki is very laser focused on in the moment. she's not looking six months down the road. you know, i'm not going to say what she should say. i'm just going to say that she's laser focused on what is happening right now. not what's going to happen in six months down the road. >> all right, kim, thank you so much for being with us. we really appreciate it. >> thanks so much for having me. >> still ahead, israel withdrawing a key military division from gaza.

this could be the biggest sign yet of a new phase in the fighting, and we're going to discuss that. plus, what iran is now saying about these overnight strikes inside iraq and syria.

israel's defense minister says that the israeli military will soon and what he calls the intensive maneuvering stage of the war against hamas and gaza. even as the fighting is expected to continue in the gaza strip for quite some time. that's right, israeli soldiers, they continue to encounter what's being described as pockets of resistance across the enclave. today, hamas fired some 25 rockets into israel,. it's actually the largest barrage seen in weeks. we have cnn's jeremy diamond in tel aviv, covering all this for us. jeremy, what more are officials they're saying about the ongoing military operations? >> well, it's clear that what we're seeing on the ground today it's a significant shift in the course of this war effort that israel has been running now for the past three months. we are seeing not only the defense minister, you of gallant, saying in the clearest terms that the israeli military has concluded its intensive ground operations in the north. also saying that that will soon

happen in the southern part of the gaza strip, around the area of the second largest city in gaza, of khan younis. but at the same time, as we are hearing the rhetoric, we're also launching the action on the ground match that rhetoric. and that is with the withdrawal of one of israel's full divisions that have been operating inside the gaza strip. to put this in context that could be somewhere in the range of 8 to 12,000 troops being withdrawn from the gaza strip in the northern part, but also some of the central part of the gaza strip as well. this is a clear sign that israel, after weeks of pressure from the united states, it's finally bowing to that pressure, acknowledging that it needs to shift to a lower intensity phase of operations. that's exactly what the defense minister yoav gallant outlined today, saying that the next phase of this operation will focus more on raids on airstrikes, on special operations designed to continue to live eliminate hamas's lingering capabilities in the northern part of the gaza strip, but also in the southern part

of the gaza strip, to continue to go after hamas's leadership. but amid this shift, what we're seeing is that hamas still maintains the ability to fire rockets towards southern israel. a barrage of at least 25 rockets hitting the southern town of 90 vote along the israel, gaza border there. most of those rockets intercepted by the iron dome system, but some of them were not, although no injuries were reported. and so, amid that barrage of rockets, using already some criticism from right wing members of prime minister benjamin netanyahu's governing coalition. notably, minister itamar ben-gvir saying that it's an error that will cause life to withdraw troops. but also -- a member of the israeli war cabinet, a member of the opposition who joined the war cabinet and is kind of a center right politician. he also said that it's a mistake to reduce the strength of israeli forces inside of gaza. at this critical moment. >> yeah, israel believes there's a lot of unfinished business in gaza, when it comes to hamas. jeremy diamond in tel aviv,

thanks very much. now, tension remains high amid fears that the israel, gaza conflict could expand the violence that we've seen even further all across the middle east. today, iran, defending what it called targeted strikes on monday. ballistic missiles struck what iran says was a spy base for israel's intelligence agency, move side. that is in iraq. as well as anti iran terror groups in syria. both the u.s. and the united nations have condemned those strikes. joining me now is cnn military analyst, retired army lieutenant general, mark hurly. general hertling, thank you so much for being with us. throughout the past few months in the violence that we have seen beyond just gaza. we've seen iran's hand really everywhere, when it comes to hamas, of course, hezbollah, the houthis in yemen, and then those proxies in iraq and syria as well. but iran, themselves, general, they haven't fired any missiles until now. so, what does that signal to

you? what do you think it could lead to? >> it's a couple of things, boris, and it's fascinating to watch iran ramp this up right after the attack on the houthis in yemen. i think they've seen one of their proxy groups get a kinetic strike against them. i was going to use the term whacked, that sometimes what we, in the military, use. but when the houthis have the strike against them, it was a significant one. 110 munitions, 16 targets, 13 different locations throughout yemen. i think it put the houthis back on their heels quite a bit. iran, being the leader of this proxy group, even though the houthis are somewhat independent, they're taking some of their orders from iran. you know, realize they -- into the fray. a combination of that, the strike inside of iran by i.s.i.s., the attack by the united states against the iranian-backed proxies inside of iraq. multiple targeting in syria,

and lebanon, and in iraq by both israel and the united states. the fact that iran then reacted by sending a missile into their neighbors territory, into iraq, and striking into -- caused some tension. what i mean by that, having spent a significant amount of time in northern iraq, i know that there's contest between the kurdish sections and the iraqi section. so, by striking in -- their riling up the kurds, creating some tension both from a military and an economic perspective. it's a huge oil growing region and an independent, semiautonomous region by kurdistan. so, it's only increasing the complexity and i think it's a signal by iran that they want to land this fighting, they're not going to let their proxies continue to be struck. >> and general, just up until a few days ago, we hadn't seen this fighting between the u.s. led coalition and the houthis.

today, we have the third round of strikes by the u.s. against houthi rebels. they targeted anti ship ballistic missiles. we also saw that on operation seized weapons made by iran that were on a boat heading to yemen. do you expect this back and forth, this-for-tat, to continue for sometime? >> i do, alex. and it's interesting the timelines for the attacks today by the u.s. forces and the houthis. at 1:45 this morning, -- time in yemen, the united states independently took action against what they saw was for anti ballistic missiles inside of yemen, looking like they were being prepared to fire. so, the preventative measure of striking those targets first, before they could be used against shipping, it is part of the deterrents method. then later in this afternoon -- the houthis fired one missile

at a cargo ship and struck it. so, i think they're trying to show that they have not been completely depleted by the u.s. strikes, but they are still active in the area and they will still attempt to interrupt shipping in the red sea and the gulf of -- sonia, this is getting more and more complex by the day. you know, a couple of months ago, i said there is a 10% chance of this expanding, this war expanding into a regional conflict. my percentages are little bit higher today than they were back in october. >> yeah, we also saw the israeli military launching air and artillery strikes against hezbollah up in lebanon. general mark hertling, we have to leave it there. thank you very much on this, we appreciate it. >> thanks, alex. >> lawmakers are scrambling yet again to avoid a partial government shutdown. they're battling the clock. bad weather and hard-liners in the house. we will be discussing with republican congressman warren davidson, that's next. plus, we're keeping a close eye on the weather today, as a

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start today at contracosta.edu the government will partially shut down here in just four days, unless lawmakers pass a deal to avoid it. today, senate majority leader chuck schumer will be taking the first step to try to advance a short term spending bill, to keep the government funded through early march.

the resolution will need bipartisan support to pass quickly, but both chambers are facing challenges that could threaten the shutdown. then on top of that, the house scrapped any vote today because of severe weather here in washington. speaker mike johnson is also facing some fierce criticism from hard-line conservatives over this legislation brokered with democrats in the senate. the house freedom caucus writing on x, formerly twitter, quote, this is what surrender looks like. joining us now is a member of the house freedom caucus, congressman warren davidson of ohio, who also sits on the financial services committee. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. especially this very snowy afternoon. we appreciate it. and i may already know the answer to this question, but will you be voting for the short term deal? >> well, it's an honor to join you. thanks, breonna, no, i will be voting for it unless it changes. so, the deal that's presented right now, basically just continues the status quo. it's called --

supposed to be this new, novel approach and in theory, it was going to go -- we didn't get more of the same and unfortunately, what's coming at us as more of the same. >> if you and three other republicans do not vote for this, which is easy to see how that could happen, it would require democratic votes to pass to keep the government open. is that acceptable, to you? something that ultimately former speaker mccarthy was ousted for? >> well, speaker mccarthy passed the fiscal responsibility act in may. that was two thirds of the house, two thirds of the senate, and it spent less money. so, if we stuck to that deal, what past, not the alleged rumors of side deals, but what actually passed, we would spend less in fiscal year 24 than we spent in fiscal year 23. but a planet speaker johnson has agreed to personally with senator schumer spends more money than we spent last year and it, frankly, spends outside of what was passed by two thirds of the house and senate.

so, it was bipartisan to spend less money back in may. now the framework is, we have to spend more money. i think that's unacceptable. >> do you have confidence in jonathan? >> well, he's a good man. i do hope you develops more resolve and, you know, frankly, when he was seeking the position, if he said he was going to do the things that, frankly, he's felt that he needed to do since taking the job, i don't think he would build a kind of consensus that he's built. so, i think that shows that we definitely have a lot of confidence in him personally. we put a lot of confidence in the person and the reality is we haven't done enough work done to get behind a plan. this will get democrat votes and -- at least 70, i think 70, 80 republican votes, if all the democrats vote for it. that will continue this quote a little bit longer. it should get democrat votes because it's essentially the democrat plan. it's the plan that speaker pelosi passed, when she was speaker. >> will you rule out bringing forward or voting for a motion to vacate, which would ask

johnson? >> i mean, for what he's doing right now, no. but i don't think the right answer is to bring somebody else in. the problem is we haven't done the work to unite behind one plan. some people say that's not possible, but we certainly haven't done the work to get there. >> what do you want, specifically, when johnson is going to the white house? we just found out that he's been invited with other congressional leaders. so, he will be heading there with them to talk about supplemental national security spending, ukraine, israel, and border security. what do you want him to tell the president during that meeting? >> that border security is national security and we're not going to fund america's government unless we're going to secure the border. he's left begging the president to change his mind. i mean, joe biden didn't accidentally develop these policies or frankly, his administration didn't. at the border, there are for the border policies because of the implications in consequences of their border policies. they've been holding them for

the entire presidency and we've, look, 39 states have a smaller population than the amount of illegals that have been processed through under joe biden. i mean, there's only 11 states with a bigger population than what joe biden put into our country illegally. he's not going to change his mind. we are going to have to make the debate and i expect speaker johnson to make that demand. >> what you're saying there is there are only 11 states, what? >> that have a bigger population than the amount of illegals that have come in under joe biden's presidency. so, that's how many -- >> let me ask you, at this point, because you know that some of your progressive colleagues are frustrated with him, right? because he's actually considering changes to asylum and i can't fact-checker numbers on that exactly right now, to be clear. i just want to be clear about that. but he is taking off some progressive members of his party because of what he is willing to consider on changing

for asylum in border security. i mean, does that give you any pause in what you're looking for here? >> no, that doesn't change what i'm looking for, but look. the premise is joe biden made are in conflict with the promises republicans made. so, it's going to involve a fight. you can't fold and fight at the same time. -- >> does it involve a compromise? >> it might, but where is the senate counter offer? we passed h.r. to seek to secure the border seven months ago and we just took a trip to the border in speaker johnson was totally on message. we want to find -- >> their negotiating a bipartisan, they're negotiating right now, right? you have a republican who's in the negotiations. they are discussing -- >> senator langford is negotiating something in the framework for that deal, he says that's not the whole deal. i mean, it better not be. what they are talking about in the senate right now is worse than doing nothing. it'll make the problem worse, it'll make america a bigger attraction -- >> he says he's using h.r.2 as

a starting point. >> well, he needs to check his asthma because he's of course. >> and you say that you sent a bill over. i mean, joe biden also sent a bill to congress. the senate is discussing a compromise. so, it's not as if the house is the only entity here that has sent some legislation or is working on legislation. there is -- >> the senate has not signed legislation. >> i said. working >> were working on it and we should continue to wait for them to work. our position should be, we, of course, want to fund the government, but we're going to find a government that secures their border. our proposal is h.r.2 and we are anxiously awaiting senator schumer's proposal. >> h.r.2 has some things that, understandably, are non starters. you have, what? a three-vote majority? it's about to be i think to. and you're talking about a bill that moves, children can be in adult detention facilities.

it would be going from three days now, going to 30. it would reestablish indefinite family detention. you talk about moving all of the asylum processes to points of entry and then you don't provide any resources to fund that. so, there are some big holes. i mean, you can see that even from a conservative perspective, someone should come in and improve your bill. so, i don't understand where the compromise is a dirty word or something -- >> well, the compromise happens after there is a counter offer. the compromise happens after there is a counter offer and frankly, the indefinite detention with families's families get a stay together. before, it was all, we've got kids in cages. now, how do we hold families together? the underlying part of that you didn't mention is, you're free to leave anytime you want. you can go back to mexico. you can't come and stay in america while you away the processing of your -- i mean, perhaps, you know, we would agree to something less

than h.r.2. but why would we continue to negotiate against ourselves? that's fundamentally the problem. people around the country are frustrated because republicans continue to negotiate against themselves. we haven't even held out for a counter offer from the senate. so, of course -- >> some dialogue between the two. >> you have a bill from joe biden. you're just certainly not, i mean, understandably, it's not something that you would be okay with in the same way that a democratic white house and democratic senate isn't going to accept what you have sent, as a whole. that's obviously the way it works. but look, these negotiations are going to continue. congressman, i really appreciate the discussion with you. we will have to leave it there, unfortunately. but thanks so much for being with us today. >> thank you. >> and it's ahead, the justice department is set to release its findings in the uvalde school shooting investigation and into the police response here. that's expected sometime this week, according to the superintendent. we are going to dig deeper into some of the questions that still remain, next.

>> this thursday, the department of justice will be releasing its critical review of how the police responded to the 2022 school shooting in uvalde, texas. >> that's right. that's what the district superintendent told school board members at a meeting last night and -- may help answer why it took more than 300 officers, more than an hour, to stop the rampage that killed 19 students and two teachers at robb elementary. we have cnn senior justice correspondent, evan perez, here with us. all right evan, we don't know what is in the doj's report of this at this point in time. but remind us what we do know so far about the response and what questions remain unanswered, especially, we should mention, these are

things that have been ascertained largely by reporting. >> right, exactly. i mean, shimon prokupecz, of course, has done a lot of the work that has exposed some of the shortcomings where more than 300 officers stood outside for 77 minutes before this gunman was finally stopped. and of course, that's what the justice department review is now looking at. what we are told is that they've looked at 13,000 pieces of evidence. they've interviewed more than 200 people, they've talked to some of the people who responded that day. they looked at some of the interviews those people have provided, so they've done all of that. they visited the school, they've walked that horrible hallway that we've now seen some of that police response video. and look, this is going to be a very, very difficult day for the families in uvalde have had to deal with, obviously, for more than a year, a lot of their questions still unanswered. a lot of the things that went wrong that day still a part of the problem. we now have heard from the justice department, they've

confirmed that they are going to release this report on thursday and one of the things that we expect to come from this is, you know, some suggestions for police to be able to deal with these things in a different manner. obviously, everything that could've gone wrong that day did go wrong in uvalde. we've learned so much about what could've been done in some of these shootings and because, obviously, we know that there is going to be more of these -- if this keeps happening that it's important for police and families to know what to expect. >> evan, do you think that there could be criminal charges that are then fire old against law enforcement officials in uvalde or school officials as well? >> we don't anticipate that. this review is done by the agency inside of the department that's aimed at improving policing. so, there is a separate investigation down there in uvalde, which they say could have some kind of criminal element to it. >> interesting. we will be watching that as well. >> evan perez, thanks very much,

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>> televisions biggest night finally returning after a four- month delay due to the hollywood strikes and it did not disappoint. >> it was pretty entertaining. some great, well-deserved awards. let's get to some of the major moments with our entertainment correspondent. elizabeth, what did you see?

what do we expect -- i believe we have a package, let's roll that. >> the enemy goes to succession. >> succession closed its fourth and final season best drama, best actress and best actor. >> best comedy was more of a cliffhanger. the bears big win he came more clear as they racked up more wins. >> thank you for believing in me when i had trouble, believing in myself. >> are you leaving or are you going to sit there? >> reporter: beef won five emmys including cast wins for allie wong and stephen young.

>> judgment and shame is a lonely place. but compassion and grace is where we can all meet. >> reporter: the emmys opened with a standing ovation for christina applegate, more than two years after announcing she has multiple sclerosis. >> very few of you probably know me from that debut, i'm going to cry more than i have been, baby bert gressel hot days of our lives. >> reporter: be telecast honored groundbreaking shows like cheers, martin and the sopranos. >> it truly warms my heart to see how well men are doing and comedy. >> reporter: tv legends carol burnett and marla gibbs, not afraid to pick poke fun at what has been a man's game. >> what is the secret to working in hollywood for so long?

>> that's easy, the wage gap. >> reporter: social commentary was a theme throughout. >> i accept this award on behalf of every black and brown women who have gone unheard. of >> rupaul addressing the politics of drag queens story our come after winning best reality tv competition. >> knowledge is power. if someone tries to restrict your access to power, they are trying to scare you. listen to a drag queen. >> reporter: it was a great night, anthony anderson did a fantastic job. big night for diversity, five of the 12 acting awards going to actors of color. >> what a night. elizabeth, thank you for that. we will be right back.