bridges, the houthis continue to launch attacks that threaten civilians. >> haddias gold, thanks very much. to our viewers thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room" and you can follow me on twitter and instagram. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >> up next, russia responds to president biden as the president lobs a new threat at russia amid more troops massing at the ukranian border. is the situation heading to war? plus, breaking news this hour. the january 6th committee now in possession of trump white house records. some at the national archives say they were torn up by former president trump, documents that we now know were actually physically taped back together and trump dangles pardons for the rioters were stormed the capitol. did he cross the line.

that's "outfront." good evening, i'm aaron burnett. putin responds. russia's president has now replied to america's written response to putin's demands. now, the state department tonight is tight-lipped. they are saying they won't publicly discuss what putin has put in writing. but as putin delivered his response, we learned something important, that as he was doing that he was pumping up his military forces on the ukraine border. according to the biden administration, putin is now ramping up his presence on the border adding 30,000 more troops. that's the plan they say or the next coming weeks that. brings it to 160,000 troops on the ukranian border. these are actions that speak as loudly as russia's u.n. ambassador did today when moscow tried to blame the u.s. for russia's mass military buildup. it was during a security council meeting that russia tried to derail t.failed to cancel it. russia's ambassador said they brought pure nazis to power in

kyiv telling the u.n. ambassador to the u.n. in this contentious meeting, quote, you're almost calling for this. you want it to happen. incredible for this to happen in a diplomatic environment, and america's ambassador to the u.n. then responded. >> you've heard of from our russian colleagues that we're calling for this meeting to make you all feel uncomfortable. imagine how uncomfortable you would be if you had 100,000 troops sitting on your border. if russia further invades ukraine none of us will be able to say we didn't see it coming, and the consequences will be horrific which is why this meeting is so important today. >> they continually use the word horrific. they want them to understand the import of the largest land war since world war ii if this happens. while that was happening at the u.n., the white house, president biden was trying to deal with an unpleasant truth which is that after seven years since putin took crimea from ukraine american allies in europe have not done the one thing that was

needed to be done to cut putin's power over ukraine and that is to stop relying on russian energy that comes on a pipeline under ukraine. russia supplies half of germany's gas, nearly as much for the rest europe. the world's largest gas exporter the united states hasn't done nothing stop that so today biden was forced to try to get the number two gas supplier to help. that was the meeting that he had in washington with the emir of qatar. qatar is under all of its drop sell all of its gas to russia's ally china and biden tried to put a positive spin on the overall situation saying, well, the two countries were there to talk about security in the gulf and middle east global energy supplies. let's not worry about the whole german problem. the president then turned his attention to ukraine. >> we continue to engage in non-stop diplomacy and to de-escalate tensions. with russia continuing its buildup of its forces around ukraine and we are ready no

matter what happens. >> and what happens question is the big one. nato and the pentagon warning that russia's military is on the move. more troops to tanks moving into the region over the weekend, right? it is a dangerous escalation. according to administration there's evidence it's about to get worse. there's the 30,000 additional troops that i mentioned just a moment ago. the fighter jets and russia bringing in supplies of blood, a sign it is preparing for war and inside ukraine break news. cnn learning that putin's plan to destabilize the country in any way possible may already be in place. police in ukraine arresting a group of people that are planning violence in the capital. the group's leader said to have strong links to russian-backed rebels. matthew chance is out live in ukraine breaking this part of the story. obviously, matthew, very concerned about the possible urban warfare and russian-backed

troops already in the country. what more are you learning about this plot? that's right, ukranian officials are telling me tonight that this is the most serious attempt that they have seen. basically it was a plan that's now been foiled to have a mass protest here in the ukranian capital kyiv. the protests would have involved a provocation to have drawn the police into some kind of violence against the crowd which apparently was being paid to be there and that would -- the plan being that it would sparked a broader unrest. not just in kyiv, but according to the security services and the interior ministry i'm speaking to tonight, similar protests planned all over the country, particular in areas close to the russian border in towns and cities there. now, of course, the suspicion is that the russian -- that russia's hand is behind this, and tonight the interior ministry told me that the main

organizer of this plot is somebody who has in their words strong links to russian-backed rebels. he's said to have been a member of the bostok ballotion, the eastern battalion set up in 2014 to battle government forces in the dombas area of eastern ukraine so he's known to the authorities. it's not conclusive never-before-seen, of course, the authorities here say they are searching and interrogating and looking for evidence that would firmly link this to russia but it does fit with the idea that russia behind the scenes is trying to destabilize this country. >> right, right, it certainly does, and as we all know they would, of course, they would prefer to do it without having to go to full war, if they could so it certainly fits with what we understand. >> thank you very much. that report from kyiv. i wanting to to mark hertling, former commanding army general in the seventh army and steve hall, the former cia chief of

operations. let me start with you, the contentious meeting at the u.n., the russian ambassador accusing the u.s. of whipping up tensions and rhetoric saying you're almost calling for this. you want this to happen. those are the quotes. what did you make of this diplomatic brawl that we saw so in the open at the u.n. today? >> yeah. it was quite vociferous, erin. it's sort of the russian version of i know you are but what am i sort of kindergarten tactics, just condemning and saying that, you know, the west has it wrong. everybody has it being were. we have no interest. you guys are making this all up. you want this to happen that. stands in stark contrast, you know, to all of the overhead imagery that you and other networks have been showing. it's obvious what's going on on the other side of the border and for the russian ambassador to the u.n. simply to say no, it's not there. you guys are making this all up. it's ludicrous. but i thought american ambassador's response was very strong which is to say you'd be

uncomfortable, too, if there were 100,000 troops amass and we're not going to let this go so it's very interesting how the russians tried to skurn back at the unit of the west in this. >> you know, it's very interesting. it was tens of thousands it and now it's 127,000 and now they are saying it's going up to 1 of 0,000 troops along the border. right, the numbers are incredible, and the pentagon says they have seen a buildup even over the course of the weekend so they are not stopping. president biden says we continue to urge diplomacy as the best way forward, but when you look at those images, russia billing up around ukraine, we have a marriage right? it's three sides and there's a lot of red boxes that i'm going to show you, and on every one of those red boxes there's some combination of tanks, missiles, armored vehicles, artillery, soldiers. there's air and navy bases around ukraine. given what you see right now,

general, do you think biden will move putin with diplomacy at this point? >> i continue to think he also, erin, and i'm going say that i've look at those kind of photos all of my professional career. >> yeah. >> they tell you the capabilities and in fact what you have is a large force, but when you're trying to trying to equate when they are trying to do going into ukraine they could certainly do that. that's not what i'm paying attention to. you'll hear this term repeatedly over the media now when we're really starting to get similar. it's a type of warfare that's hard and it destabilizes what the government is trying to do. it has to do with cyber activity, civil unrest and external support for weaker actors like belarus,

manipulation of the media. the use of civilians in spreading false information and i can go on and on and the russians are experts at this. they have a guy at this saying don't worry about the man behind the curtain. at the same time you have all of these things going on in kyiv where people are being arrested and there's attempts to conduct protests so all of this is part of the russian way of war. it's exactly the same thing they have done in places like georgia and syria and moldova and ten other places where they have used this kind of goals. look at all the troops, look at all the troops. did they get what they wouldn't

and i suppose that's the game he's playing. they now say they have seen the inner most sanctions. here's the press secretary. >> the individuals we've identified are within the inner circle of the kremlin and play a role in government decision-making. we have developed a package of sanctions for russian elites and their family members. >> are sanctions to those in or near putin's inner circle enough to stop putin from invading? >> well, we'll see. i think the only person that knows that is putin. the idea is not a bad one. if anyone can change putin mind. he can simply repress them. the ole garks are a little more difficult because he's given them more money and power. i think it's worth noting that in the past such sanctions have

not been particularly effective. talking about the swift protocols which is how banks internationally pay each other. i think putin will take that more seriously. with personal sanctions, individual sanctions in the past. i think they are prepared to say we can overcome that. >> i'm glad you've mentioned the swift. it's an acronym for banking sanctions and that could be very significant. general, let me ask you about another thing. you're talking about how putin may be working other ways as well, whether it's cyber and he is putting troops another ukraine's border and there's

intelligence telling you that he did it and what does that tell you about the they will of seriousness he has about this? >> i personally thought that this was another attempt at propaganda, of ceding information. hey, they must really be serious, and that occurs with any operation when you bring medical sbubts forward. >> do you think the u.s. played into their hand. it was a u.s. pentagon headline? >> i think, yes, they did, truthfully. it's just another facton of milt buildup. they have tank-moving trucks that can move around the battle field. medical equipment is part of an

operation. there's 120,000 troomps. when the united states went into iraq there were 160,000 forces and that's a much smaller country with a smaller populace that ukraine has so when you're talking about ukraine and mugs forces, if you're comparing the two, you have to say what's the nato buildup and the potential for russia to counter this native attack and as general milley said the other day is this going to be horrific? yes. it will be very painful for both sides and more painful for the russian side. >> thank you both very much. appreciate your time. >> new details tonight about some of the trump white house

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tonight exclusive reporting. we're learning that mark short, the former chief of staff to vice president pence testified at length last week with the january 6th select committee. short, of course, is one of pence's closest longest serving advisers and he was with the president at the capitol during the insurrection and also a firsthand witness to crucial events that the committee is investigating including how former president trump pressured pence not to certify the election. this comes as trump openly said that pence should have overturned the election. he said actually overturn it. trump said he didn't exercise that power. he could have overturned the election. that's what he said. ryan nobles is out front. what more are you learning about mark short's testimony to the

select committee. >> it was a pretty lengthy meeting. we don't know how long it went. it's been a bit of a departure from the select committee after omicron cases started to surge. they moved to more depositions. this one took place in person. he was under speena and was compelled to testify and what exactly he revealed we don't know yet. for the most part, some of the allies of mike pence have been willing to come forward and tell their side of the story. we know keith kellogg, his national security adviser, also a key player in the west wing in the days leading up to january 6 has testified as well. we know the fact that his ski

allies are coming in to talk is significant and the big question is will the vice president himself appear before the committee? >> such a crucial question and i have to ask you about a question i alluded to going into the commercial. your new reporting about getting white house documents that were ripped up and taped back together. i don't know what people find more shocking the ripping up or the taping back together aspect of this story. that's all incredible. what do you knoll. >> we learned of this story late last week and the national archives in a statement confirming that some of the documents that they received from the trump white house that were of interest to the january 6th select committee came to them ripped up, shredded up and they were forced to take them back up before they were given to the january 6th select committee. we don't know which documents that these are but we do know that the former presidentp

donald trump had a habit of tearing up documents that white house staff hers to tape back together. that is practice that went back to 2018. it is significant that this continued right up until the end of the trump administration and it is now a part of the january 6th investigation. >> anyone who is in that office knows exactly what the rules, are right, to be true to your office, to preserve documents. thank you very much for your reporting. i want to bring in elie honig, former federal prosecutor and senior legal analyst along with dana bash, co-host of "state of the union" and he heard, he saw and now he's talking to the witness. >> one, it has to be a person powerful enough and well-connected enough that he was in the room when the see conversations with happening and, two, it has to be a person that has that access and power

but not blindly trump loyal hand mark short may meet both of those criteria. there's a real rift forming here, it's obvious between the pence people and trump people. we now the committee has already gotten available information because general keith kellock has gotten information that the committee has quoted in his filings where he's given details about detailed conversations and the other thing is the committee has to start thinking about who their witnesses will be for the live hearings and need to figure out whether someone like mark short will tell what he saw. >> trump is still blasting pence for not overturning the election. trump is not trying to keep pence close to him if you look at that statement but even before that shocking statement from pence this weekend pence said something very revealing last week. here's the exchange. >> when is last time you talked to former president trump?

you guys good? >> you know, we talked last summer, and, you know, i've said many times, you know, it was difficult. january 6th was difficult. it was a tragic day in the life of the nation. i know i did my day under the constitution of the united states. >> dana, we talked five months ago and then he goes straight to january 6th and talks about how he did his duty and how it was such a horrible day. that's a pretty incredible thing for mike pence to actually do there. his state sealed in terms of history in terms of history and politics and the republican party and his relationship. yes, they spoke last summer which is telling in and of itself but the most important thing to think about here which

you were talking about elie and ryan is mark short testified last week under subpoena and yet did so and did so extensively. there is nobody who any of us can even think of who would be closer to the former vice president, particularly at that time than mark short and all of the meetings about whether the vice president should comply with what the boss was basically ordering him to do, ceremonial position overseeing the formalization of the electoral college to overturn is. mark short was there. he was in that room and he was there physically on january 6th with the vice president so if the committee doesn't have a

deal with mike pens himself they came pretty darn close with mark short. >> let's talk about mark short because there's obviously a question whether he will or will not cooperate. sew lofgren was asked by my colleague pam brown whether they will ask pence to testify. they have not made that decision. obviously there's been reporting in the "new york times" that pens said the whole thing is political. if they can get that information from others how important is mark short himself? >> mark short or keith kellogg, you have the information. on the other hand though, there's really no substitute for hearing about this from mike pens. imagine if he did the courageous thing and said i'll tell you the truth. i think he's kidding himself if he thinks he can keep one foot in both camp and kind of apiece

the trump people. imagine if he shows some spine and comes forward. that will make a much bigger impact as much as mark short has to say. >> the final word on the documents, the fact that they were still being ripped up at the end and somebody sent to the archives ripped-up pieced. i don't know what part of story is more incredible. >> you can just see it, right, erin. that's why you're so gobsmacked because you can see the scene with the then president ripping up the document. anger because he didn't care about the basic law of the land that you have to preserve federal document it's one more disregard for the offers and the

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new tonight, republican senators forced to respond. or manu raju speaking to some of them in the past couple of hours just as they returned. did they call trump out for saying he pardoned the convicted rioters who attacked them at the capitol? >> if he had some specific cases that he thinks would meet a pardon criteria, that's up to him, but the reality is he's the former president. >> the former president said he would pardon january 6th rioters. do you think that's appropriate? >> what i always said is i went through every case and would look at the facts of every case.

>> i believe the former president has -- i never judge the appropriateness or not of his comments so i think that that's his view, then that's his view. >> okay. >> here is what trump exactly said which obviously should be a pretty basic thing for anyone to say not okay. here's what the former president said. >> if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6th fairly. we will treat them fairly and if it requires pardons we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly. >> people died that day. people died. manu raju is out front on capitol hill. manu, these exchanges that you had making it crystal clear that there is still a very large group of republicans where you are in the senate where you

spoke to the three senators whotismly are just not going to go there when it comes to trump. >> you're out of office despite having been impeached twice and despite the fact that he presided over losing both chambers of congress while being president for four years he still has a significant hold over the are party given the fact that the base of the republican party. many republicans do not want to get on the other side of donald trump, very similar to what we saw with this president. talking to a number of republicans, some did not want to criticize him, side step the issue, chuck grassley a ranking republican and could potentially be chairman of the judiciary committee in the next cook says there's speculation when asked about comments. others you mentioned.

rick scott pointed to his pardons that he gave out while he was governor and said it should be done on a case-by-case basis and senator braun said he didn't think much of what donald trump said. things he says at a rally, neither here nor there. he said he was the v.mike pens at that time could have overturned the election results back on january 6th and it was clear he did not have the ability to do so and everyone on capitol hill said that and even after donald trump made his remarks over the weekend that pence could have done that. very few took issue with that. >> don't want to talk about it at all. thank you very much. mike pence standing up for his constitutional duty saying that's what he did. >> joining me now the former congresswoman from utah, mia love. i'm checking the date, january 31st, 2022 and this is still

what's happening. what's your reaction when you hear that this is still happening, that there are just still people who can't say something very basic, like, sorry, that's not okay? they just can't say it? >> well, this is classic, first of all, for former president donald trump. it's lather, rinse and repeat and honestly he is desperate. it wreaks of desperation. he obviously wants to be relevant and frankly i -- i really think we should do everything we can to just ignore him. he has no power. he can't do anything. he can't pardon anybody, and, you know, i can understand as a former representative, i can understand trying to side step or try to stay out of it. you don't want to be on his bad side, but i would actually say this to my former colleagues. if they are courageous enough and able to stand up and represent the party that's what fills the void instead of donald trump. if they want people to stop

saying donald trump is the republican party, they have to stand up and show what actually is the republican party by saying i am, not him. this is wrong. this is not what we represent. >> so well said and here's the thing. there's a group of people. i mean, obviously republicans like yourself, but in terms of people on capitol hill, republican congresswoman liz cheney. she has stood up and she's vice chair of the january 6th select committee. she voted to impeach trump so i wanted to ask you about something that just came out about her today. she raised more than $2 million in the final quarter of 2021. now, mia, that was her highest quarter ever, right, so for her it shows, that you know, again, what donors are giving money to doesn't necessarily reflect that there is suddenly a shift in the republican party. god knows we know that. democrats have hopefully learned that themselves, but what does that tell you? >> well, it tells me one thing. it says that the national sentiment for donald trump is waning, and there are republicans out there that support liz cheney. they want to show, that hey, i

believe in what you're doing or she wouldn't raise the amount of money that she's raising. however it doesn't really tell us very much about what's actually happening in wyoming, and -- and, i mean, $1.9 million is incredible. she has more than five times all of her opponents combined, so -- but i think that show has to make this more about local politics, about what's happening in wyoming and she does tell me that there are republicans out there supporting what she's doing and i'm certainly one of them. i think that her being courageous and standing up and actually this is the national national security issue in making sure that we're not hurting the innegative our elections. liz cheney did what she had to do for the country and at the end of the day i don't think she will regret your decision. >> i agree with you wholeheartedly on that. thank you so much. always appreciate your time. >> thanks, erin.

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the 2022 olympic bid, the first city to host a summer and winter games, but the buildup game as china's relations with the west rapidly fell apart. under an increasingly ruler xi jinping china is on a different path than most hoped, from a trade war to threats of an actual war in the south china sea. in hong kong beijing quickly squashed pro-democracy protests and it's now mounting pressure ton taiwan pushing for the government to fall under beijing's control and then there's the widespread allegations of china committing genocide against its uighur population. the u.s., uk, australia and

canada are among the countries protesting through a diplomatic boycott of the beijing olympics. >> the biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the beijing 2022 winter olympics. >> the diplomatic boycott punctuated with the case of chinese tennis star peng shuai. it was the same official who led the beijing bid for the 202 games. among a global outcry peng has resurfaced in multiple state media reports denying she made the acquisition. some have accused the international olympic committee of being complicit in china's control over peng's story. as its president thomas bach tried to reassure the world of her well-being after two video calls with her. the ioc advocating for silent diplomacy to better handle the

matter. bach in beijing is expected to meet with peng soon. the olympic bubble is holding the athletes, the person pell and incoming media kept separate from the rest of china. this as the number of new covid-19 cases continues to rise and spread across the mainland. >> china facing a renewed challenge to halt this latest surge. snap lockdowns, mass testing and contact tracing and all a bit stepped up as the country works to show its superiority in containing the virus. state media continuing to label the virus as an imported threat, even dating back to the initial outbreak in wuhan, a consistent propaganda effort to deflect blame and refocus global attention on what's supposed to be a spectacular and unifying event. and threatening to cast a darker shadow over these games, growing tensions between russia and ukraine with russian president vladimir putin.

these olympics playing out amidst an increasingly divided world. erin, as you and i have been talking about, there's so much going on geopolitically and chinese leadership thought they would find a win amongst the domestic audience. the chinese audience love an olympic games, especially when they are hosting. the worsening covid restrictions, they have kept many chinese families separated during the chinese new year and here in beijing folks are feeling disconnected from any olympic spirit because you've got barriers going up everywhere, erin. >> the barriers are just incredible. it's like a totally different world. thank you so much for your reporting, david, from beijing tonight. next, a captivating new documentary follows putin's top cricket as he takes on the russian president and investigates how alexei navalny was poisoned. and british prime minister boris johnson apologizes again as he tries to save his political life, but is it way too late?

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tonight, russian president vladimir putin threatening war and silencing all opposition as his top critic alexei navalny is at a brutal penal colony where he has been behind bars for about a year now and it comes as a new documentary shows never before seen footage of navalny investigating the alleged plot to poison him and you see for the first time, his reaction when he first woke up from the poisoning. >> and he opened his, like, blue eyes wide and looked at me and said, very clear, [ bleep ]. come on. poisoned? i don't believe it. like he's back. this is alexei. putin is supposed to be not to stupid to use this novichok. if you want to kill someone, just shoot him, jesus christ.

like, real alexei. impossible to believe it. it's kind of stupid. the whole idea of poisoning with a chemical weapon. what the [ bleep ]? that is why -- so smart because even reasonable people refuse to believe like, what? come on, poisoned? seriously. >> and of course, putin's seen the film denying he had anything to do with navalny's poisoning. the film is named "navalny" and the director, daniel roar, is with me now. and obviously, daniel, this -- we will be lucky enough to have this air later-this year on cnn as well. but this dock documentary coming out at a pivotal moment. he's been locked outside moscow for about a year. putin we now understand going to be 160,000 troops on the border of ukraine. what do you hope people take away from your film? >> erin, first and foremost,

thanks so much for having me on your show. i understand you have been following the story for a long time so it's wonderful to be here. first and foremost, i want people to know the name alexei navalny, and i want them to understand his courage and charisma but at the same time, i want them to understand his political message which is rather simple. alexei navalny envisions a russia without vladimir putin. as alexei says in the film, he envisions a russia where rule of law, freedom of expression, and democracy are the norms. this is what he has been campaigning for, for the last ten years of his life and this is why vladimir putin tried to murder him with a nerve agent called novichok. >> so let me ask you about this because your documentary reveals that one of the men who allegedly tried to poison navalny is missing. after this man was duped into revealing the whole plan in a phone call, right? so, navalny is on the call taping it. sort of, you know, saying he is a member of russian

intelligence. say, what's going on? what went wrong? he released the video on his youtube page. i am just sort of showing it here. you hear the chemist say it was applied to a pair of navalny's underpants. he said if his plane had not made that emergency landing, everything could have gone differently, right, but navalny would be dead. and then, after the call ends, your documentary shows him say, quote, poor guy, they will kill him. they will kill him. he is a dead man. what have you heard about what happened to that chemist after that call? >> well, this is something, erin, that i think a lot about. the chemist's name that you are speaking to is constanten teen and he was home sick, i understand, with covid when alexei and his colleagues called him. um, there is no sugarcolting him. he has disappeared. no one has heard from him. his family have not heard from him or seen him. his wife divorced him. in vladimir putin's russia, it

is not a good idea to commit such a flagrant and irresponsible breach of security, to share such sensitive information on an unsecured line. we must remember vladimir putin in his heart is a kgb man. for someone from his own spy service to do something so irresponsible, perhaps that is a foe paw that is unforgiveable but the last thing i will add is two of the investigators in the film are trying their best to locate and find constantine. >> incredible. right? he has all these details. he thinks he is sharing them with someone he is allowed to share them with and as you lay out, i mean, it is horrifying. you end the film with navalny's message for the russian people in the event that he is killed, right? that he does not get out of this penal colony, that he is killed. and he says to you quote you are not allowed to give up. when you take a step back at everything you have learned and seen and that case you just went through, do you think navalny will ever get out of prison

alive? >> erin, it's a question that obviously weighs on my mind every single day. and i was asked recently whether i would ever revisit this subject. whether i would ever make a sequel about the navalny story. and the answer that i gave to that question is that i would love to make a sequel and the sequel that i want to make the story i want to tell is that one day in moscow, years from now, on the inauguration of alexei navalny as the president of the russian federation as he is installed as the first democratically elected president. if you spend time with mr. navalny, you learn to dream big and -- and to not be fearful and to be ambitious. i don't know whether alexei navalny will make it out of that prison. i hope that he does, of course. but at the end of the day, this story is not yet over. it does not have a happy ending at this time. all we can do is hope for alexei and spread his message. >> well, daniel, i really appreciate your taking the time. and i hope that everybody will watch your documentary

"navalny." it will be coming to cnn later this year. and thank you. and next, british prime minister boris johnson says he is not quiting despite a scathing report about his personal lockdown activities. . strypaper? luckily, there's biotrue hydration boost eye drops. biotrue uses naturally inspired ingredients. and no preservatives. try biotrue!

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worse than expected. a damning report savages british prime minister boris johnson for his behavior during covid lockdown. johnson attended chool-fueled party, while ordinary brits were ordered to steer clear of groups even if it meant missing a funeral. prime minister apologized yet again, ignoring increasingly loud calls to resign. >> mr. speaker, i get it and i will fix it. and i want to say -- and i want to say to the people of this

country, i know what the issue is. yes, yes. >> metropolitan police are currently investigating and criminal charges are now possible. thanks so much for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. we begin tonight with a stunningly simple fact. the former president of the united states has just loudly and proudly confessed to the very thing the house select committee is hard at work trying to prove. he has also just dangled pardons in front of the people who attacked the capitol and leveled straled threats, hinting at potential mob violence at those who would investigate or prosecute him. yet, that fact that he did all that in just a single weekend shocking as it is, also comes with the depressingly familiar corollary. it has always been this way. he haltz always said the quiet part out loud, whether after the fact or before or both. he is consciously or not a serious confessor.