hello and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. the chairman of the house select committee investigating the capitol riot says january 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup by donald trump and his supporters. the panel held its first "prime time" hearing filled with never before seen video and new revelations about the insurrection. democratic chairman bennie thompson and republican vice chair liz cheney laid the blame

squarely on donald trump and his baseless conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen. listen to this. >> president trump ignored the rulings of our nation's courts. he ignored his own campaign leadership, his white house staff, many republican state officials. he ignored the department of justice and the department of homeland security. president trump invested millions of dollars of campaign funds, purposely spreading false information, running ads he knew were false and convincing millions of americans that the election was corrupt and that he was the true president. as you will see, this misinformation campaign provoked the violence on january 6th. >> cheney played testimony from the top u.s. general, confirming it was then vice president mike pence, not donald trump who called in the national guard to quell the riot. she also showed video of trump's closest advisers, including his

own daughter rejecting his voter fraud claims. listen here. >> i had three discussions with the president that i can recall. one was on november 23rd. one was on december 1st, and one was on december 14th. and i've been through sort of the give and take of those discussions. and in that context, i made it clear i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which i told the president was bullshit. >> how did that affect your perspective about the election when attorney general barr made that statement? >> it affected my perspective. i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he was saying. >> the committee heard from capitol police officer carolyn edwards who was knocked unconscious by reuieuiot rioter. they also played a 12-minute video showing some of the most

violent scenes from that day. >> get back, get back. >> we just had protests breach the line. we need backup. >> we're going to get riot warnings. trying to get compliance. but this is now effectively a riot. >> declaring it a riot. >> be advised capitol police one rioter trying to get into the capitol. >> capitol resources are going to start moving resources inside. we'll start with m4 first. [ bleep ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ]

you back up! >> and more on this groundbreaking hearing from cnn's chief congressional correspondent manu raju. >> over the course of two hours in a "prime time" hearing, the january 6th select committee for the first time revealed some new details about the investigation that has been going on for the better half of the past year. more than one thousand witnesses have been interviewed. hundreds of thousands of pages of documents have been obtained. we've got a glimpse of some of the things that they found and some of the witness interviews they had, including members of donald trump's inner circle. people such as the former president's daughter, ivanka trump. her husband jared kushner, as well as his former attorney general bill barr. barr and trump, barr and ivanka trump both indicating the issues of fraud that donald trump continually claimed after the election simply were not true. in fact, bill barr called it bs.

ivanka trump said she believed bill barr. donald trump was told repeatedly than, according to the testimony that was shown in these video excerpts by congresswoman liz cheney. now at the same time, they also detail some new revelations, including that there was some republicans in the house who were concerned about their role on january 6th and actually asked donald trump for pardons of their actions. now she says one of those is congressman scott perry. he is a conservative from pennsylvania. others -- others as well. but they would not detail members of the committee did not say who those other members were. now the committee also showed new footage of just how harrowing an experience it was that day on january 6th. all the violence that occurred, the deadly massacre that occurred in the capitol and heard testimony from a documentarian who was close to the proud boys as well as one officer who was injured in responding to the deadly events of that day. now this is the first of a

number of hearings that will take place through the course of this month, including three next week and ultimately the goal of this committee the members say is to show that donald trump was at the center of what they call a conspiracy to overturn the elections, mount a coup of sorts and try to stay in power despite what actually happened on november 2020. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. >> donald trump responded to the hearing on his social media platform and he called the committee, quote, political hacks who refuse to play the many positive witness statements and refused to talk about massive election fraud and irregularities. joining me now to talk about this from los angeles, criminal defense attorney sara azari and retired special eight steve moore. thank you both for being here with us. sarah, as an opening statement, how effective was this?

>> kim, good to be with you. it was extremely -- it was a sober and compelling presentation, but really, it was more like a tight organized opening statement by a prosecutor than a hearing by lawmakers. you know, this was -- it was almost like this is the trial of donald j. trump. and the lawmakers went right to the crux of this case, which was there was no election fraud and that donald trump knew there was no election fraud. everybody around him was telling him that is -- yet he engaged in this misinformation. and then with intent, and that's key here for him to be a co-conspirator. with intent, he energized two very violent groups, the proud boys and the oath keepers to essentially insight this insurrection on january 6th. and you have to wonder, kim, you know, is attorney general merrick garland and the doj, are they paying attention to this and looking at this with the eye that donald trump could be a

co-conspirator in a superseding indictment to the pending indictment against the proud boys that was just issued not too long ago. and, you know, that that might be me wishful thinking. but donald trump, this is not the first time donald trump has been a co-conspirator in criminal conduct. he was number one in the michael cohen indictment. and yet he goes unscathed. and so you have to wonder whether this is just about the accountability of donald trump for what happened on january 6th or is it even -- does it extend to the trumpists, the maga people that are out there, because this was a domestic terror attack on our democracy. and those people are still out there. >> yeah. i want to get back to some of the points that you raised in a minute. but i want to go to steve now for from law enforcement perspective, those compelling videos of the attack, even if you've seen some of the videos before, what we saw last night was quite stunning. caroline testifying she was

slipping in people's bare as she battled rioters. it really laid bare the ferocity of what happened. >> yeah, it was pretty devastate ing the type of mob action that went on in there. i think people sometimes don't realize what goes on during these riots and who the victims are, even if you don't see these big death tolls or something. if you have people who are wounded, if you lose police officers, there were deaths in this, and it's important to show the magnitude of it. >> so sarah, you call that the trial of donald j. trump. committee members called what trump did illegal. so one of the key questions was weather this committee could provide new allegations or evidence of criminality. so when it comes to conspiracy, of course, criminal conspiracy has a much higher standard than maybe how lay people like myself might understand that. so explain the causal link

they'd have to make between donald trump and the insurrectionists if they want to pursue those charges. >> two or more people have agreed to engage in criminal conduct. they don't are to know each other. and so when what we saw tonight, and this is just the beginning of these hears is this direct sort of causal line between donald trump and specifically the proud boys, right? we saw these time-stamped -- the footage of what the proud boys were doing in the morning of january 6th. and then what donald trump was tweeting, doing and not doing. i thought that was really brilliant on the part of the committee because it really ties donald trump in with the proud boys. and that's how you get to a criminal conspiracy. but, again, kim, what do we do with that, right? let's say that now the committee with 11-month investigation that they've done have established this intent that maybe was missing before. what will the doj do with this?

will donald trump finally be held accountable, because he is accountable. >> that's the question. and we are going to hear more in the upcoming committee hearings about those links between trump and specifically groups like the proud boys. have a listen to this. >> i am not allowed to say what's going happen today. because everyone is just going have to watch for themselves. but it's going to happen. something's going happen. >> whose streets? our streets! >> what pressure do you think the doj will feel to maybe pursue some charges here in adding maybe trump as sarah said as a co-conspirator to the indictments of the proud boys? >> well, there is going to be some strong political pressure for them to add donald trump to the indictment. i think, though, the doj doesn't

need any motivation to follow this case where the facts lead them. and i think as they go forward with the hearings, this opening statement as sarah said correctly that these opening statements are going to lead in to more of the in the weeds type of information that will possibly make these links stronger between the white house and proud boys, things like that. and that's going to be key. and the strength of those links are going to affect potentially the doj case. >> so looking ahead, sarah, there are several more hearings, three hearings next week, for instance. what are you looking forward to hearing? >> well, i think we're going to hear from more witnesses. i think that we are expected to see text messages. tonight we saw tweets that we were familiar with. we had seen the tweets before.

the footage was more extensive. the footage had time stamps. obviously, we saw jared. we saw ivanka, bill barr. but i think as these hearings proceed and unfold, we're going hear from more witnesses. we're going see more documentation, and it's really going to be damning. i mean if this was the opening, imagine what the rest of this hearing is going to be like. and i just hope that it leads to full accountability because we have to protect our democracy. >> steve, ending with you, do you think we will get accountability in the end, or will this just as some people suggest, this will be sort of the historical record and no more. >> i think that it's -- as much as the circumstantial evidence is extremely strong right now, i think it's going to come down to direct links and whether or not they can put a communication between them. if they can give this more than

the circumstantial evidence that they presented today. not that it's weak, but the doj, before you take a former president and prosecute him, you are going to need some very strong links. >> absolutely right. we'll be watching as this unfolds. sara azari and steve moore in los angeles. thank you both so much for helping us break this down. really appreciate it. >> thanks, kim. good night. one of the suspected rioters who is trying to become the governor of michigan was arrested by the fbi on thursday. ryan kelly is facing misdemeanor charges related to his involvement in the insurrection. and the fbi has executed a search warrant in his home. kelly initially claimed he never went inside the capitol building on january 6th and left early, but footage shows him climbing the scaffolding and waving for rest of the crowd to follow him. kelly has since been released on bond. he is part of a crowded field of

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new details are emerging about the timeline of the school shooting in uvalde, texas, and how law enforcement responded. "the new york times" is reporting what officials discussed before they finally confronted the gunman. cnn's omar jimenez has details from uvalde. >> reporter: law enforcement was aware there were injured individuals alive inside this classroom before deciding to breach. that's according to a "new york times" review of investigative documents and videos. i want to read you some of the high points again, according to "the times." one, people are going to ask why we're taking so long, a law enforcement official on the scene of the shooting could be heard saying according to atimes review of body camera

transcripts. simply, "we're trying to preserve the rest of the life" part of the transcript reads. by our timeline, it's around 11:44 in the morning that day that officers first ask for backup. then 20 minutes later, as many as 19 officers were in that hallway. around 12:30, again, a few minutes later after that, chief arredondo, pete arredondo the school chief here is heard saying according to "the times" we're ready to breach, but that door is locked. simply, one officer is heard saying if there's kids in there, we need to go in there, according to "the times." it wasn't until 20 minutes after that at 12:50 p.m. that officers used a key from a janitor to breach this room and shoot this suspect. but again, officers were aware there were injured individuals, and a law enforcement official said according to "the times" people are going to be asking why we're taking so long.

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they say they found blood traces in his boat along with drugs and ammunition used for illegal hunting. much more on the investigation into the january 6th capitol riot. coming up, a republican on the committee lays out the maximum danger posed on that day and what the white house knew about it. stay with us.

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for the first time since the january 6th riot at the capitol, we're learning damning new details about what was going on behind the scenes that day. after months of exhaustive investigation and hundreds of interviews, the house select committee is laying out its case that the insurrection wasn't simply a peaceful gathering of trump supporters that got out of hand, rather it was an attempted coup by donald trump's most militant supporters and planned by trump as he stubbornly refused to concede the 202010 election. here is vice chair liz cheney on what was happening inside the white house. >> the white house staff knew that president trump was willing to entertain and use conspiracy theories to achieve his ends. they knew the president needed to be cut off from all of those who had encouraged him. they knew that president donald trump was too dangerous to be left alone.

at least until he left office on january 20th. these are important facts for congress and the american people to understand fully. when a president fails to take the steps necessary to preserve our union, or worse, causes a constitutional crisis, we're in a moment of maximum danger for our republic. >> senior political analyst ron brownstein joins us from los angeles. ron, great to have you here. so start big picture here did the committee accomplish what they set out to do on day one, do you think? >> i think it was a day possibly unlike any other in american history. i don't know we've ever seen as comprehensive and damning an indictment of an american president as in effect the architect and orchestrator of what they called a seven-step plot to undermine american democracy. i was -- one thing that really struck me, particularly in liz cheney's almost prosecutorial

presentation of the case against donald trump was how often she said that what he and others around him did was not only wrong or violating the constitution, but flat-out illegal. you know, the committee both seemed to me both paving a path for and pointing a finger at merrick garland by making a very clear case in their view the evidence shows that donald trump not only violated his oath of office in a broad sense, he violated the law in a very specific sense. so i think this is the beginning -- far from the end of a very significant drama that is going to unfold in the coming months. >> yeah, absolutely. and part of that drama, ivanka trump admitting that she and trump's inner circle knew that the big lie was just that, a big lie, or bs to quote former attorney general bill barr. having trump allies making the case against trump, how effective was that? and will it move the too needle at all among republicans, do you

think? >> well, i think before the question of what it means for public opinion, it's very significant for what we were just discussing for, you know, in terms of establishing the kind of crimes of obstruction or, you know, conspiracy to prevent the lawful functioning of the u.s. government. the state of mind of the president is critical. and what that testimony very clearly showed was he had reason to understand that what he -- that he lost the election and he proceeded in this manner leading toward the culmination being the january 6th attack. nonetheless, and i think from a legal point of view, that crossed a significant threshold in terms of providing the foundation for possibly moving against him. on the question of what this means for public opinion, it's going to be an enormous test to the extent which red america is living under a bubble trucked by conservative media.

obviously for most of donald trump's supporters, this is not going to matter. they viewed all of this as a conspiracy against them as he presents it. but that may not be all of his supporters. you know, it would be -- i think the indications of what they are coming forward with from the first night are such that it would be both shocking and ominous if there is no impact on public opinion. maybe not massive, but hard to imagine there won't be some. >> yeah, i just wonder whether it will be among republicans. as you say, republican politicians already characterizing this as a distraction, a farce and so on. i checked in with a few republicans i know, sort of regular voters. and they didn't watch. they didn't care. it wasn't on fox news, of course. i suspect it won't go very far to convince many republicans. but maybe sort of the few undecided, the middle, some of those folks who went over to biden. is that where you think this might sort of push people in the

next election? >> well, you know, i don't know -- i don't know if it's going to have -- i don't think this will have any impact on the next election, immediating the midterm election. meaning the midterm elections in american politics are really snapshots on conditions in the country at that moment. and democrats have all sorts of problems there centered primarily on inflation and very high gas prices. but what this means about trump's personal future viability as a presidential candidate, plus of course the larger possibility that we're discussing of actual legal action against him and those around him based on their, you know, actions in this whole episode, that's another question. i have always felt that january 6th is a threat to his personal long-term politics. again, not that it undermines vast amounts of his support. but it could be enough for some share at the edge of his vote to say this is what we are going to get if we give him the power of

the presidency again. and i don't think he comes out of this completely unscathed on a personal basis. not likely to affect the midterm. but the question of whether americans will entrust him with the power of the presidency again after this, just, again, hard to imagine that there is no one who would have second thoughts about that, even if it's not, as you say, a massive shift among republicans. >> i want to tap into your experience and your sort of view of history here. if the point of the hearings wasn't necessarily to change minds, then one of the intentions was to create a permanent record of what happened. and we heard liz cheney talk about the dishonor that will haunt republicans who enabled donald trump. here she is. >> in our country, we don't swear an oath to an individual or a political party. we take our oath to defend the united states constitution. and that cote must mean something. tonight i say this to my republican colleagues. you are defending the

indefensible. there will come a day when donald trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain. >> but, ron, do you think that's true? putting your political historical hat on here, it's hard to see the future. but do you think there will be a time when republicans will look back in shame? or do you think that partisanship that we're seeing, the direction of the political trends means this will for the foreseeable future always be viewed differently depending on who you support and how you vote? >> well, first of all, i think it's pretty clear tonight that the principle goal of the committee is to lay out a case that donald trump broke the law, and to encourage the justice department to pursue him on those grounds. i think that was the unequivocal message of the first night. at least to me. second, it's interesting. in some way, liz cheney understated the case because republicans are not only trying to look away from donald trump or to ignore all of the evidence of his wrongdoing that has

steadily come out and is being collected and amplified by this committee. they're also acting upon it. and as you know, we are seeing i think 19 states passed laws making it more difficult to vote. multiple states passed -- red states passed laws, increasing partisan opportunities to interfere with the tabulation of the vote or to harass election workers or to have more aggressive, you know, observation of polling places. it's not only that they are refusing to acknowledge the misdeeds that the committee are pretty persuasively put forward tonight, they are moving in the other direction and bending policy in the service of the big lie. so the challenge is even greater i think than she laid out there. it's not just a question of history and how they will look in history. it's a question of what they are doing right now. and as i said earlier, since midterm elections in the u.s. are historically about current conditions and inflation and gas

prices are dominating americans' attitudes about the direction of the country, it's entirely possible there will be no consequence for these in the 2022 election for these assaults on american democracy and the service of the big lie. so we are moving into very choppy waters where 2024 could be as contested an election, not in a kind of a political race sense, but in the sense of half of the country not trusting the outcome as we have seen possibly in american history. because the actions that are springing from -- still sprouting from trump's big lie and efforts to convince his party that the election was stolen are ongoing and uninitiateive diminished and accelerating. >> you can't be understated ron brow brownstein. thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate it. >> victorthanks for having me.

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an update on the latest developments in ukraine. there is no sign of a letup in the brutal street-by-street battle for the city of severodonetsk. ukraine says it's still holding on to about a third of the city. regional officials are denying russia's claim that his offensive has succeeded. in russia, president putin is doing some chest-pumping over his invasion of ukraine. on thursday, he compared himself to peter the great, a russian emperor who defeated sweden in the 18th century. he said he's only fighting for the land that belongs to russia like peter did. keeping a eye on all developments in ukraine, she joins us from kyiv.

putin raising eyebrows with his comments there, forget about his claims that nato expansion was behind his invasion of ukraine. he seems to admit it's an old-fashioned land grab, pure and simple. >> absolutely the intention here, the very imperial intention of president putin is revealed in those comments. his absolute disregard for modern nation states, for the rules of sovereignty, for the rules of states. he shows an absolute disregard for that and justifies this horrific conflict that has displace millions, killed hundreds, destroyed villages and towns by disregarding ukraine as a nation. and you can see that playing out on the ground, kim. because this land grab, as you described it, this territorial brute force taking of ukrainian lands is being put into action. president putin's forces are creating realities on the ground, facts on the ground by essentially what we saw in 2014 with the annexation of crimea,

ignoring the international community and through brute force, using those territories. i just want to pull up the larger map here of the front line. because that will reveal what president putin is larger goal is here and that is to create a land bridge that connects russia down to crimea where there are those all important strategic ports in the black sea. those are warm water ports. they would function year round that is something that russia needs crucially for trade, for economy, for security. moscow considers those extremely important. and of course they had been disconnected up until this invasion. now we understand according to russian officials that those territories are now connected by rail. they've repaired hundreds of miles of rail that connect russia all the way down to crimea through the donbas, through those newly taken territories of kerr sobb and mariupol. they're reopening the ports in mariupol and berdyansk. they're demining these ports as

well. we understand they've taken a very important canal in kherson. that's now functioning to provide fresh water for crimea. so they're essentially building the infrastructure, use these territories as russian territories whether or not the international community recognizes it. now let's go to that battle, the key battle that president zelenskyy says will determine the fate of the donbas, although you could argue the facts on the ground say that the fate of the donbas has already been determined. that has been used as the administrative capital for several years by ukrainians. and now ukrainian forces are essentially fighting for every single inch. kim, this is an artillery war, and ukrainian officials tell us they are running out of artillery. they're outmanned. they're outgunned. for weeks now, a superior russian artillery force has been able to pound them, to grind them down. and it's really about a competing timeline here. how much faster can russia claim inch by inch severodonetsk.

how quickly with western weaponry arrive to support ukrainian forces. it's hard to imagine how much longer they can hold out without that support. kim? >> really appreciate the update, salma abdelaziz in kyiv, thanks very much. a ukrainian agricultural official warning next year's harvest could be cut in half. 25% of ukraine's farmland is now under russian control. even though turkey is trying to facilitate safe passage of grain exports, no deal has been struck. we get more from clare sebastian. >> reporter: just a day after talks between russia and turkey seems to lay the groundwork for at least some kind of negotiation, perhaps even on a temporary solution to the problems of ukraine's grain exports, more and more obstacles now seem to be getting in the way of that. one is that russia may already be putting in place deals to sell ukrainian grain through occupied areas. on wednesday, the head of the

russian military administration in occupied parts of ukraine's region said the first rail shipment of grain had departed the town for crimea to be loaded on to ships to turkey and the middle east. kremlin spokesperson said no agreements had been signed with turkey or the middle east, but the work was under way. ukraine meanwhile will accusing russia of stealing grain to sell for its own gain. this is what the country's deputy agrarian minister told cnn's julia chatterly. >> unfortunately we have the situation where about half million ton of grain has been stolen by russians on the partly occupied territories of ukraine. we do know this because we have received that information from the people on the elevators that russians came, just took this grain, came with military power,

and also did of cars and railcars bringing this grain towards the direction of russia or occupied crimea. >> elevators are of course storage facilities for grain. the minister also said he'd seen satellite images of the grain leaving crimea for other countries. ukraine is stepping up the rhetoric. president zelenskyy calling for russia to be expelled from the united nations food and agricultural organization, accusing moscow of potentially causing the starvation of at least 400 million people. and thirdly, there are still fundamental disagreements about how to unravel this situation. russia, which has blockaded ukraine's ports claims it's ready to open up grain shipments. but first it says ukraine needs to demine the coastal waters around its southern ports. ukraine says the real threat to world food security comes from russia and is wary of any

russian talk of humanitarian maritime corridors. and meanwhile, time is not on their side. an estimated 20 million tons of grain are stuck in ukrainian storage facilities, and the u.n. warned this thursday that the situation could tip 47 million more people into acute hunger this year than previously estimated. clare sebastian, cnn, london. all right. coming up, more than a dozen golfers have been suspended by the pga tour for taking part in a controversial saudi-backed event. we'll take a look at what this could mean for future of the sport, next. stay with us.

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the pga tour suspended all members who are participating in this weeks controversial liv golf tournament. some of the sports biggest names including mick elson and dustin johnson helped kick off the saudi backed golf series on thursday. all the talk was off the course with the future of the game now up in the air. >> today we talk about the action at live golf event will come. not yet. the controversy off the course remains too compelling. a simmering war of words boiling over and lifting the lid on the split at the top of the professional men's game. the new invitational series has become the ultimate pay as you play golf. play in it, and pay with a suspension from the pga tour. within minutes of the short gun start at the club outside

london, pga tour commissioner sent out a scathing memo banning the players who jumped ship whether or not they resigned their tour membership in advance. a barely concealed fury radiating from almost every line of the two page, nine paragraph letter. addressing only the current members the players who decided not to take saudi money. almost a movie style you are dead to me vibe aimed at the break away players. >> focus on the golf. >> yes. >> where they want to. >> that's one of the reasons we signed. i didn't want to get into a legal battle. it would be nice for everyone to get along. unfortunately, some don't want to. and we live with that. >> so anything regarding pga tour matters and i put that in there, i'm not ready to discuss publicly at this time.

>> i'm very flattered so many people are interested. >> the memo emphasized the importance of the pga tour long established history and prestige and derided the rival's focus on money. the response was swift and direct. saying today's announcement by the pga tour is vindictive and deepens the divide between the tour and its members. this is certainly not the last word on this topic. the era of free agency is beginning. backed by billions of dollars of saudi arabia money, liv golf had already offered to fund any legal challenge. and that's where this bitter now appears to be heading. we'll be back in a moment as cnn "newsroom" continues. stay with us.

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