for the entire team at "anderson cooper 360" and cnn worldwide, i'm tom foreman wishing you all the best and none of the worst in 2022. ♪ ♪ at the copacabana ♪ ♪ don't fall in love ♪ hi, anderson. hi, andy. it's barry manilow here in palm springs wishing you a happy new year. and i want my audience to say something to your audience. ready, guys? one, two, three -- >> happy new year!

don. >> tom foreman, thank you very much. me now, asha rangappa, cnn legal and national security analyst. asha, thank you for joining us. so you say the trump team's legal strategy was the epicenter of everything and that the january 6th insurrection was just the muscle. is that why investigators are so keen to find out what was happening in that war room? >> yes, don. the legal strategy that was led by eastman, who was part of this war room, was a multi-pronged effort to derail, disrupt, and delay the electoral count certification process. and, you know, the insurrection is a part of the delay. when they realized that pence can't go along with this, they need time to send this back to the states, and this is why the conspiracy can touch trump in this way. this is the conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, not necessarily the conspiracy -- the seditious conspiracy that the oath keepers were involved in, which we don't have any direct tie to. but this legal strategy that was intended to block the certification to send

i'm tom foreman, welcome and congratulations. we all survived a tough 12 months packed with upheavaled and conflicts and difficulties and victories and hope and happiness. that is saying something given we are were up against a raging pandemic and the deepest social divide the united states has seen in decades. so how did we make it through. let's sort that out by starting with the biggest news. >> that sounds like gunshots. >> worse story of the year. the violent invasion of the u.s. capitol by people angry over joe biden winning the last presidential election. >> the idea that 2021 was going to be better, i think probably lasted for about exactly six days. >> the january 6 insurrection was straight up crazy. >> the losing candidate then president trump stoked the fury with the big lie that he had won. >> they rigged an election. they rigged it like they've never rigged an election before. >> it was really traumatizing and tragic to see the people's house overtaken by american citizens. >> police were beaten, congress ran, peopl

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >>> now, u.s.ate democrats are pushing forward with voting rights legislation despite almost certain failure. lawmakers are expected to vote later today, but it looks likely republicans will remain united in blocking the legislation. now, on tuesday, senate majority leader chuck schumer laid out plans to try to steer around the gop obstruction. >> if the senate cannot protect the right to vote, which is the cornerstone of our democracy, then the senate rules must be reformed. must be reformed. if the republicans block cloture on the legislation before us, i will put forward a proposal to change the rules to allow for a talking filibuster on this legislation, as recommended by a number of our colleagues who have been working on this reform for a long time. >> now, if passed, the rule change would allow democrats to pass the bill with a simple majority instead of the usual 60 votes needed. but that effort also appears destined for failure. democratic senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema said they

wolf. >> tom foreman reporting for us, thank you very much.ett outfront" starts right now. >>> outfront next, one year after the deadly insurrection, president biden addresses the nation, placing the blame squarely on trump, as we're learning new details about the former president's actions one year ago today. >>> plus she lost her long-time partner. officer brian sicknick after the deadly riot. tonight, she has a message for those in washington. >>> also this hour an alarming report. how so many republicans are seizing of trump's big lie in order to win their elections a

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thank you very much, tom foreman, for that detail.ll gates to talk about this. he is the republican harimann of the board of supervisors in mayor cola county, arizona, at the center of this. chairman, you see this executive order. trump considered signing it. he actually never is. when you look at it, the order was written with all this detail, empowering the pentagon to seize voting machines, such a thing was drafted and ready, what in the world is your reaction? >> well, erin, thanks for having me. it's really frightening to think that we got this close to that executive order being signed, that this sort of executive order would even be written. but instead what we saw here in arizona was that the state senate did president trump's bidding and specifically subpoenaed the election machines and the 2.1 million ballots from maricopa county. so they decided, we actually saw that play out here as your viewers know. >> so, the executive order, you know, alleges that those debunked conspiracies about the dominion voting machines that you

more from cnn's tom foreman. >> reporter: as rioters raged inside the u.s.esentative mark finchem was watching and tweeting. "this is what happens when the people feel they have been ignored and congress refuses to acknowledge ram pepant fraud." >> you begin to think racketeering, organized crime. >> reporter: now, the republican is running to become arizona's secretary of state with donald trump's endorsement. and he is keeping the big lie boiling with claims of fraud coast to coast. >> when you see the same kind of activity going on in multiple states at the exact same time using the same tactics, that ain't no accident. >> reporter: secretaries of state are key election officials in most places. democratic and republican secretaries alike played a critical role in defending joe biden's legitimate and legal defeat of trump in 2020. >> congratulations, mr. president. >> reporter: so now, in several key states, the defeated president is endorsing individuals running to take those positions. people who have embraced his unproven claim the election was stolen.

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want to bring in tom foreman at the magic wall because there are several countries involved here. all of the different players and what everyone wants? >> if you take everything that we've heard since the press conference began, anna, you come down to a situation where it is complicated. because ukraine is caught between a lot of competing forces and everybody wants something different. what is does ukraine want. they want to maintain their independence and maintain u.s. and european support and as we just heard pointed out there, they're not sure russia will actually attack. so they would like everyone to tamp down the language a little bit because if they are on a knife edge, they don't want to tip toward the direction that would make this even tougher. what does russia want out of this. this is a different equation entirely, because when you look at vladimir putin, what he wants to do is keep ukraine out of nato, and he wants to restore soviet territory, soviet territory. look at the map from back in that time. remember, 1991, at that time the soviet union had a lot of territory

. >> tom foreman reporting for us, thank you very much. and to our viewers, thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer on capitol hill. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> outfront next, one year after the deadly insurrection, president biden addresses the nation, placing the blame squarely on trump, as we're learning new details about the former president's actions one year ago today. >>> plus she lost her long-time partner. officer brian sicknick after the deadly riot. tonight, she has a message for those in washington. >>> also this hour an alarming report. how so many republicans are seizing of trump's big lie in order to win their elections and change voting laws. let's go outfront. >>> good evening, i did erin burnett. outfront tonight, one year since the deadly assault on the united states capitol. just a short time ago members of the house and senate gathering on the steps of the capitol for a prayer vigil, the site where one year ago today the world watched in horror as thousands of trump supporters stormed the capitol in an effort to overturn the election. it was a

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tom foreman is out front with tonight's inside look. >> you ought to keep corrupt politicians from rigginge from arizona, brick jones running for lieutenant governor in georgia, and lou barletta running for governor in pennsylvania. >> we need to take back our elections. >> reporter: what do they have in common? they are all republican and all their names appear on these papers, which were presented as authentic election documents for the 2020 presidential race. barletta's office says this was done in case it was later determined that different electors were needed but others see the documents as misleading in every way. >> i think you are talking about a conspiracy to overthrow the united states government. i mean, at the end of the day, that's what we are talking about. >> reporter: at issue is a scheme involving seven states where joe biden beat donald trump in the 2020 vote. what happened? after the election, as they should, those states sent certificates to washington signed by the official electors. making it clear their electoral votes would go to biden and kamala harris. but small

for the entire team at "anderson cooper 360" and cnn worldwide, i'm tom foreman wishing you all the best and none of the worst in 2022. ♪ ♪ at the copacabana ♪ ♪ don't fall in love ♪ hi, anderson. hi, andy. it's barry manilow here in palm springs wishing you a happy new year. and i want my audience to say something to your audience. ready, guys? one, two, three -- >> happy new year! ♪ >>> tonight from new york to new orleans, from vegas to san juan, this is cnn's new year's eve live with appearances by katy perry. regina king, lessry jordan, patti labelle, sherry oterry. k.t. tunstell, kris jenner, james taylor plus more surprises and from the heart of times square, your hosts, anderson cooper and andy cohen. >> and happy new year, everyone. we are live in times square for what is going to be a very fun night. >> it is going to be a fun night. >> it's the warmest -- i don't know how many years i've been doing this. this is the warmest it has ever been. >> it feels great. >> and katy perry, regina king, william shatner. so many more surprises. now i had thought the roaring '20s would have