let's send him more funds without any reporting sneers trump jr.twitter, we recall earlier in the lviv region have already banned the activities of the ukrainian orthodox church. at the beginning of october, the london police spent almost $ 7 million on increased patrols to counteract environmental activists , this was stated in scotland yard, i remind you of a demonstrator and blocked roads, poured paint on luxury car salons and paintings by artists, for example, sunflowers poured soup on a van gogh painting, he all poured soup in 2 months police detained 755 violators of the order. not a lot, taking into account the spent seven million. the head of the european commission again said too much in her speech at a meeting of the irish parliament in dublin ursula von der lein compared the ukrainian crisis with the struggle of ireland for independence from britain after such a policy even started talking about a possible break in diplomatic relations , and the british themselves criticized the head of the european commission. is stupidity a necessary r

the committee in their interview with donald trump jr. follows up. don jr., i think the gravitas of the situation and oval office address, an address to the people of the united states, it would do a lot more than a tweet. even if they say the exact same thing. sometimes you have to do it in person. so donald trump jr., who is not with his father while this was happening was trying to make it clear to mark meadows the urgency of the situation that his dad needed to act. we also got some interesting revelations from the christina bobb transcript. she was member of trump's legal team. she is recounting a conversation she had with south carolina senator lindsey graham, who was very eager apparently to help the trump team with their claims of election fraud. so in their recollection, the senator said to her just give me five dead voters. give me an example of illegals voting. just give me a very small snapshot that i can take and champion. now obviously a small snapshot, five dead voter, that was not going swing the election into donald trump's favor, but

anchor and trump jr.'s girlfriend. stephanie grisham, alexa farah griffin, stephen miller, a former top adviser, christopher miller, the former acting defense lawyer and paula reid joining us with the latest. what did he tell the committee? >> a lot of news in this batch of transcripts. we have a whole team of people poring over them but some of the highlights from donald trump jr.'s transcript, he was asked about money, all the money raised after the election, $250 million. now, about 10 million was spent on litigation but he was asked, hey, where did the other $240 million go? now, donald trump jr. was not able to answer that. he said he didn't know so definitely more questions than answers on that topic. then it came to these text messages he sent to former white house chief of staff mark meadows on january 6th. cnn previously reported on many of these but, am remarks we are getting new details according to the transcripts donald trump jr. acknowledges texting former white house chief of staff mark mead

can i focus, abby, on another -- following up on another aspect of the trump jr. deposition that i think is really critical because as you know, i mean, i don't know, i don't recall, i don't remember, if you take those words out you might reduce it from 105 pages to 5. but there is one critical thing, there is one critical thing that he acknowledges and, you know, in the report the first mention of the idea of having state republican control state legislators throw out the vote in their state and simply substitute donald trump electors is from donald trump jr. to mark meadows two days after the election. it's somewhere around page 260 of the report. and in this deposition, he's asked, where did he get that idea? and he acknowledges that it was, quote, a cut and paste from someone else, that he did not develop this himself, but he says i don't remember who gave me the idea initially. i'm guessing that as they investigate the fake elector scheme and the broader conspiracy to obstruct the official proceeding that that is something that the special counsel is going to

now donald trump jr. has also texted mark meadows urging him to get his father to hold an over office address and do something more forceful to denounce the violence that was taking place on the capital. we are also learning in another transcript from an interview with a trump attorney that senator lindsey graham and mark meadows discussed ways that graham could help them to amplify the false claims of election fraud. graham told meadows that he only needed, quote, five dead voters. he just needed a little bit of information that he could latch onto and then amplify these claims. now there is also additional testimony from stephanie grisham, a top aide to former president trump and his wife milani a. grisham testified that the first lady did not trust mark meadows. she was concerned that he was not getting her husband the best advice that he was telling him. she also had concerns about some of his attorneys. basil we learn from this investigation and the transcripts, those concerns appear to be well- foun

donald trump jr.'s lawyer said essentially the same thing he said in that deposition. donald trump jr. was not the author of this text and they don't know where it came from. >> i don't think donald trump jr. was the author of it. we have operational control, total leverage, moral high ground. that grandiose language rings a bell, but we'll get into that with our guests. >>> we will get into details on how melania trump was feeling. >> she was pretty unimpressed. this was according to the congressional investigators, stephanie grisham, a top aide to melania trump while they were in the white house. stephanie grisham was disenfranchised with the people around her husband at that point. she felt like he wasn't getting good advice. here's part of what stephanie grisham said. there didn't seem to be anyone pushing back. at least push back. at least look at another side. it didn't seem that anybody, mark meadows included, would have offered him other advice. she was always pragmatic, more realistic, give u

we previously reported that donald trump jr. t to mark meadows essentially laying out a way to keep donald trump in power, keep him in the white house. it was very similar to the strategy that his allies actually put forward, as you said. so the committee is asking donald trump jr. essentially why did you send this text. this is what he says. he says perhaps in reading it, it was the most sophisticated and detailed again about things i don't necessarily know too much about. but it sounded plausible. and i wanted to make sure that we were looking into the issues brought up in the text. now donald trump jr. notes in his interview with the committee that he thought this was a copy and paste job. he was not the one who wrote it. and that's what his attorney had told cnn originally when we reported on the mark meadows text. >> you're also learning about senator lindsey graham's offer to support then president trumps election fraud claims. >> we know the south carolina senator, a republican has been a close ally of the former president

donald trump jr.nd lindsey graham. >>> a new claim from congressman-elect george santos is putting his own mother's death into question. that's right. >>> this morning we start with southwest airlines saying it is resuming a full schedule after a meltdown led to mass cancellations. currently flight aware shows 39 southwest cancellations for today compared to the thousands we've seen the last few days. transportation secretary pete buttigieg called it unacceptable and laid out how to fix this. >> the airline said to me they were going to go above and beyond what's required of them. i'm looking to make sure they actually do that. i'm in a position to levy tens of thousands of dollars per violation, per passenger in fines. i can't go in and fix an i.t. system for an individual airline that is failing to do its job. but as a watchdog our department is going to do everything it takes to hold them accountable for their treatment of their passengers. >> adrienne broaddus is live at chicago's midway internati

i know that guy was close to donald trump jr. i'm just saying, donald trump jr. has some, i think he has some dirt on his hands here and it is probably a good thing he can't recall anything because i think he's got some explaining to do. >> shan, that leads us to you. with all of this evidence now what? what accountability will there be? don jr., mark meadows, donald trump? who is most -- not most in trouble -- who will be in trouble? >> i would say meadows leads that pack. trump sr. next with don probably a little lower down there. to ron's point absolutely, special counsel will be very interested in that but there are tools to compel further disclosures are limited and it is really interesting because you're seeing some of the advantages of the congressional investigation where they have these sort of free wheeling depositions with the witness's lawyer being present. it is not as intense or curated an experience as a grand jury. if it was a grand jury to begin with most likely he would have said nothing just constantly taken the fifth. here they were able to te

>> look, we're getting more insight into the interview that donald trump jr. gave to congressional investigators. it's interesting because the former president son, there was this text messages -- laid out a plan for donald trump to stay in power, similar to what played out. congressional investigators asking why did you send this tax to meadows, and don junior says, look, this looks like a copy and paste job. perhaps in reading it, it was a sophisticated details about things i don't necessarily know too much about. it sounded plausible, and i wanted to make sure that we were looking into the issues brought up and detects, and this was a text that don junior sent to mark meadows on november 5th, and a part of the text at the time, it's set we have operation control, total leverage, moral high ground, protest must start 2nd turn now. there's more of that there. very similar to what played out. again, cnn reported on this earlier, meadows techs, donald trump jr.'s lawyers said the same thing, that look, donald trump jr. was not the author of this tax. all of the

okay, fast forward to january six, when they tried some of these things instead of a donald trump jr. is texting a different tune. here it is. we need an oval address. he has to leave now, it's gone too far, it's gotten out of hand. i mean, what did they think their shenanigans would lead to? >> it led to chaos and violence. >> yeah, there is a dangling threat in the first series of text or emails that i cannot imagine the special counsel will be interested in investigating because as you know, donald trump jr. is really the first one to suggest, this in the report, suggests the strategy of trying to the stable -- and simply substitute donald trump electors for joe biden electors based on the actual verified results in their state. in this deposition, he is asked about that because as you point out, this is very specific and in language that does not seem to flow naturally with donald trump jr.. he says, alison, andy deposition, that is, quote, a cut and paste job. he acknowledges that, it came from somewhere else, but then he insists that he can't remember where it came from. in fact

digging through a new batch of just released january 6th transcripts including testimony by donald trump jr. and we're getting new insight into melania trump's mistrust of her husband's inner circle. >>> and the southwest airlines meltdown drags on now for an eighth day. with thousands more flights canceled. will southwest get back to a full schedule tomorrow as the company claims? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin this hour in ukraine after one of the biggest russian missile assaults since the start of the russian invasion. let's go straight to the capital, kyiv. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is on the ground for us. ben, so what are you seeing and hearing over there? >> reporter: well, what we heard at about 9:00 this morning local time, wolf, was several loud explosions. according to the mayor of kyiv, 16 russian missiles were fired at the capital. they were all intercepted but in some cases the interceptions led to debris falling to the ground. p we went to two separate r

now, what's also interesting here, donald trump jr.ays he doesn't remember where the ideas came from. who sent him the strategy. he was just passing along the idea that he said seemed the most well laid out. also notable that mark meadows, throughout the transcript, over the past week or so as we've been looking through these, sara, mark meadows is at the center of so many of the most interesting and notable moments in everything that's been laid out. here, you have him being the one receiving these ideas, receiving these outlines, also being the one that people are trying to communicate to the president through. also in the past few days, questions about him burning paper in his office, helping people get pardons, so many questions from the former white house chief of staff out of these transcripts. >> it seems that all roads lead almost through mark meadows. then there's an interesting quote from trump lawyer christina baab regarding senator lindsey graham. tell us about that. >> this is interesting, sara, i will say. baab bobb remem

now donald trump jr. is texting mark meadows two months later on january 6th urging him to get his father to hold an oval office address, to do something more forceful to denounce the violence that was taking place on the capitol. we're learning of another transcript from christina babb that senator lindsey graham and mark meadows discussed ways graham could help them dispel the myth. he only needed five dead voters. he needed a little bit of information he could latch on to and amplify these claims. now there's also additional testimony from stephanie grisham, a top aide to former president donald trump and they said the first lady did not trust mark meadows who was concerned he was not giving her husband the best advice. he was telling him what he wanted to hear. she had some concerns about his attorneys, sidney powell, rudy giuliani. two years later batsed on the information, all of this appeared to be well founded. all of this will go to special counsel jack smith to determine any criminal charges are

now, donald trump jr. knows in his interview with the committee that he thought this was like a copy and paste job. he was not the one eroded. that is what is attorney had told cnn originally when we reported on these mark better texts, pam. >> and you are also learning, perry -- senator lindsey graham's offer to support than president trump's election fraud claims, what more can you tell us about that? >> yeah, i mean obviously we know the south carolina senator, republican has been a close ally of the former president, this really gives us an indication of how much he wanted to be out there supporting donald trump as he was trying to challenge the election. this is his transcript in an interview with christina bobb who was a member of trump's legal team at the time. she is rounding a conversation she had with the senator. and the senator says, you know, just give me five dead votes, give me an example of a legal voting. just give me a very small snapshot that i can take and champion. this is of course in

there are some nuggets of truth, i believe don trump jr. can't speak to his father unless it goes through an immediate area. but do you take value from think, knowing the caveat is they're all self-serving and they're doing it to save their own hides? >> this is a familiar thing to me. i used to investigate a lot of cases in the securities and commodities fraud area, where build following the s.e.c. investigation, and there would be all these deposition transcripts, very carefully prepared testimony where no one could recall anything and everyone was obfuscating, and there was still value. it made sure if i knew i indicted someone, they were locked in. i knew what they would say or not say from certain things it's hard for your memory to get better over time in preparation for trial, but also gives you a sense of where your fault lines are, how you can improvure case using different tools -- grand juries, subpoenas, search warrants, things that prosecutors have that the s.e.c. or in this case the congressional committee don't have to make t

mark meadows is the one texting with donald trump jr. about a plan to try to keep trump in power. a plan that looks exactly like the one that was adopted over the next two months. meadows was involved in pressuring states to overturn their elections. we also learned that he was the one trying to keep some meetings about the election results off the books at the white house and allegedly burning papers in his white house office, including after some meetings with a gop representative who was involved in pressuring the justice department to overturn the election results. we also know meadows is the one many people reached out to on january 6th to convince the president to come out and be more forceful in denouncing the violence. i think it's really interesting what stephanie said in her interview, how she talked about how the former first lady didn't really trust meadows, and had some concerns because she was especially, according to stephanie's testimony concerned about people who just told the former president what he wanted to hear, and she felt like meadows was one of those peop

but i want to start with donald trump jr. the committee asking him about the $250 million that trump raised after the election. 10 million does was spent on litigation. but what the committee asked is, what happened to the rest of the money? he said, he didn't know. is it strange to you that he wouldn't have any idea where several hundred million dollars went? >> yes, it is strange to me. and look, every day seems to bring another cluster of mini bombshells from the january 6th committee. today's release is no exception. and that particular portion, donald trump jr.'s testimony about where the money went did jump out to me, i mean, i would put it squarely in the category of things that make you go hmm. it's a lot of money, it didn't happen all that long ago. and they're going to be aware of this massive amount of money they're raising, the use that it was being put to. so, again, not saying it's false testimony, but it's the sort of thing, when you hear it on its face, doesn't quite seem plausible. >> it's an idea that dove ta

donald trump jr. drew attention to the persecution by the kiev authorities of the ukrainian orthodoxrch of the publication on twitter, he wrote that zelensky is banned by the opts, and also conducts raids within churches and arrests priests and ironically suggested that, probably, that is why zelensky is the superstar of the us democratic party and is considered liberty supporter also donald trump jr. mockingly stressed that now is the time to send even more money to kiev without any reporting. next year, the west will spend from 3 to 5 billion dollars a month to support ukraine, this forecast was presented to the imf by the end of october, the country's state revenue exceeded 100 billion dollars and continues to grow. will kyiv ever be able to pay off its creditors? dmitry morokov will tell the country will not be able to pay off creditors not in the near nor in the long term as of the end of october, public debt. it increased by another 5 billion dollars and fell over the mark of 103 billion. at the same time, the lion's share of more than 60% is accounted for by external borrowing

they include revelations about the text donald trump jr. fter his father lost the 2020 election. and also insights into melania trump's distrust of the people in her husband's inner circle. cnn's kaitlan pollance is here with me now. and we learned more about lindsey graham's search for fraud claims after the election and what he was saying about that. >> and the perspective is somebody in a meeting with senator graham and mark meadows, the committee interviewed hundreds of people getting all different kinds of perspectives, flushing out what was happening. we knew that campaign was trying to spread this lie of election fraud. and christina bob, a lawyer for trump, said to committee, that in this meeting senator graham was saying five dead voters, give me an example of illegals voting, give me a small snapshot that i could take and champion. graham obviously was looking for even any hint of election fraud that they then could spread as trump wanted to do after the election. the lawyers did send him a memo about dead voters apparently. that w

we already knew that donald trump jr. had sent a text message to mark meadows the chief of staff on november 5th essentially saying, you should look into the state legislators blocking the vote or electoral using fake electors to help trump win. and then what he says to the house select committee when they ask him about this, he says, the idea sounded plausible to him. that it seemed like an idea that was sophisticated and that he wanted someone to look into it. so he was going directly to the person that was the closest conduit in the white house to the president his father at the time. that was mark meadows. and he was pushing this to mark meadows. meadows eventually did respond to him that he was working on things like this. we see later in other people's transcripts other actions that meadows took. others were recounting what they remembered from meetings and interactions with the white house chief of staff. one of them comes from christina bobb, the lawyer working with donald trump. she remembered a meeting where mar

speaker, they handed the flag the united states ridiculed the whole action on his twitter donald trump, jr he published a post hinting at participating in the organization of the visit. hunter biden. the latter, let me remind you, fell under an avalanche of criticism. art of the laptop scandal, when the juicy details of his life became known biden jr. was captured in an inadequate state in the company of a girl of easy virtue twitter actively blocked such materials at the request of the authorities, usa at this time, the president of france seemed to confirm his position on guarantees for russia after completion of hostilities in ukraine, while emmanuel macron, rejected criticism, therefore, about the ukrainian authorities. he made a loud statement on the air of the lca tv channel. we will need to build a lasting peace and this lasting peace implies that the parties concerned, and therefore russia, will be at the same table and i'm sorry for saying this, but let anyone who accuses me of projecting myself on such a topic will explain to me, what do they propose, what do people who refuse to

the text was from donald trump's son, don jr. and described in detail the plot to use republican legislatures to keep trump in office regardless of the actual vote count. if that failed, republicans in congress could keep dump in -- keep trump in power. it matches up with the scheme that trump and his allies tried to carry out by replacing biden electors with fake trump electors in states that joe biden won. today the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack released the transcriptsse of the interview with donald trump jr. and he told the committee he doesn't remember where the idea came from. quote, question. is that something you wrote, or did you cut and paste that from somebody else? junior,me i imagine i cut and paste it from somewhere. question, who wrote this? don jr., i don't know. question, do you at least have a sense of who it could be within the universe of people. don jr., i don't know. there was a lot of, a lot, a lot that the former president's son claimeden he did not know durin his interview. same for

, all the forces to strengthen the throne of the ungrateful queen of international benefits , as trump jrelensky, and this was not the most offensive comparison. last night, zelensky arrives dressed as a strip club manager and starts demanding money. surprisingly, no one kicked him out, on the contrary. everyone is fawning over. even more billions are being handed to him before him, the point was to serve the manager of the ukrainian strip club, probably. it is difficult to imagine a more humiliating scenario for the greatest country on earth. however, as the washington post notes, zelensky has no use for exhausting pompous ceremonies. for zelensky himself, the goal was calls for more powerful weapons to boost ukraine's ability to launch major offensives against entrenched russian forces. the next year there was little sign that he succeeded, at least in the short term. perspective, in the same article it is written that the white house, in fact, expected zelensky to think about diplomacy, did not think in this way, recalling that the hill was already visited by many and often. at the end

donald trump jr., this is a short interview compared to some of the others.0 pages of transcript. he left very little on. he's asked about lots of different things. i made a list about all of the things he didn't remember anything about. he didn't remember anyone trying to convince trump from declaring victory on election night. he didn't remember telling people he lost after the election. he didn't remember whether there was any fact checks of fraud or the claims trump was making after the election and he also didn't remember that there was any concern for the allegations that they might not be true. he didn't remember anything about a rally organization. he spoke at the ellipse rally, was paid several thousand dollars. there's a lot of him not sharing much, although he was given text messages that he had sent, including one to mark meadows, where he forwarded a message about using fake electors, state legislators to block the elections. when he was asked about why he did that just days after the election he said the idea sounded plausible and sounded pretty

i probably used a worse cuss word when it comes to donald trump jr.'s comments.l forgive you on that one. look, these guys are so ramped up in their own bubble. if you had turned over -- i suffered through what was happening on arrival network earlier tonight after that speech. and just the vitriol being pushed over the outfits, the absurd defenses of trump and the point of the tax returns, on the 1/6 release today and all of this stuff is tied together. this is a majority of the republican coalition that is representing a minority of the country. but a significant minority and one that they feel like they need in order to keep power. and so they've lost control of this beast and, you know, when it comes to what seems to be obvious things like standing up for liberal democracy and freedom and making sure that our president's elected officials do basic transparency measures, don't steal classified documents, they're grasping around something that is going to make their base that's in this bubble happy rather than saying the obvious things that appeal to the broad

in the list we're seeing donald trump jr., we're seeing stephen miller, kimberly guilfoyle, and melissaleft the white house and stephanie grisham. these are the people that i would go to first. and we're looking for any new information and we've gotten a lot of new information in a lot of these transcript dumps. new information about what has happening inside of the white house even slightly before the 2020 election up to inauguration day when it comes to donald trump jr. did he have any conversations with his father about the efforts to block the certification of results and when it comes to stephen miller, what was going on inside of the white house, what kind of meeting were taking place and what conversations were there with the justice department and the state level officials. this is go 2ing to be really interesting. and i'm curious to see how much news, the past couple of weeks since they've released report, we've gotten a lot of new information. for example, efforts to offer bla blanket pardons to people on the hill. and the number of officials who told the former president that

yes, there was warmth and applause inside the house chamber, but donald trump jr. declared today zelenskyy is basically an ungrateful international welfare queen. as you let that sink in remember what the people of ukraine have been through. homes bombed, buildings destroyed, schools, playgrounds, trains. and for what? for existing, for daring to be there at all next to russia, separate from russia. thousands of ukrainians killed. instead of trying to grasp the enormity of those numbers, thousands, let's talk about one. i met andre last march in the hospital after his foot was shattered by a russian mine. >> and i just remember like i woke up in road. i see the broken car and i see my mother on fire. my mother was -- >> translator: why mother was still alive while she was on fire. >> the blast killed his mother. >> what do you want the world to know about your mother ? >> translator: i want them to know that my mother was a very beautiful woman. >> and that's just one story, one. there are mass graves. there are cities without power, the towns without water. that i

. >> donald trump jr. referred to president zelenskyy who time magazine made their percent of the. referring to zelenskyy as an ungrateful, international welfare queen. now that is donald trump jr., not donald trump. but i do think it gives you an idea of where the maga base is. and that is also one of the reasons moderate you, why there are a growing number of republicans in the house and senate. but more the house. opposing aid to ukraine. >> no question about, that is going to be mccarthy's challenge going forward. interesting to see on the screen, as members are walking in. you saw the woman in the blue. she is the first ukrainian member of congress. we are seeing a lot of senators, house members, going up and greeting her. obviously she has a very personal stake in this issue. potentially may run for the senate in the next election cycle as well. that is interesting. no question about it, still this question about how do republicans want to deal with this. is she going forward. one of the things lewin

into this story and if that was trump jr.'all the receipts, all those emails that have been completely verified i have a feel this would be the story everybody would be talking about on other networks and news organizations for years some conservatives, ainsley, they had insisted that there was shadow banning going on thee accounts being suppressed. they felt like tweets weren't being amplified in anyway. we you saw the outright locking of accounts and censorship after the atlanta story after "the washington post" broke that story. this now shows all the receipts. it's all true and we see so many so-called journalists out there mocking this story as hey, it's no big deal. it's a very big deal, ainsley. >> ainsley: i hate to toot our own horn we covered all three stories this morning. one other network considered one of our competitors is talking about brittney griner. we reported that another one is talking about kyrsten sinema leaving the democratic party. we reported that they are not talking about this story and we are repo

i think kevin mccarthy also knows if donald trump or donald trump jr., someone from the trump orbit comess, let's rally behind this guy, which you've seen trump jr. do in the last couple of days he will probably get the votes so he's very much trying to appeal to that flank to get a big endorsement that will get everyone else in line. you can tell his behavior over the last couple of weeks was kind of outside the white house after meeting with biden and pelosi and schumer and mcconnell grandstanding about the border and fentanyl and issues that republicans are trying to raise in the new congress trying to secure those votes to make sure heing abouts speaker then deal with what comes next. this is why mcconnell doesn't want to have to negotiate with him. >> what everyone's end game is. kevin mccarthy is to get to tomorrow and then maybe get to the next day. [ laughter ] i'm really not trying to be -- >> very valid point. >> trying to maintain everything to get the number of votes he needs to become speaker of the house. mitch emergency connell's end game, not have to deal with house republ

in one interview, donald trump jr. gave more context around texts that he sent to mark meadows about plans to keep his father in office days after the election that he lost, and trump lawyer christina baub detailed something with lindsey graham in which he pledged to become a, quote, champion of election fraud claims. sara murray with me now. i know there's a lot to go through, and there's a team of people going through them, but what else stands out to you? >> reporter: there is a team that is diligently going through these transcripts, but the don jr. transcript is tfascinating because he's the son of the former president and he lays out a little bit more about his text messages with mark meadows as the riot was unfolding. at one point, he texted meadows saying he has to condemn this. he said, he has to condemn this asap. condemn what, he said, and he said, the violence that's going on. i think i made it pretty clear in my speech we can do this peacefully. use your first amendment rights, do it that way, but violence

fast forward to thursday, when donald trump, jr.ned the pile-on, on twitter saying the biden administration was apparently worried that their dei score would go down if they freed an american marine. elena plot, the writer of that piece tweeted paul whelan begged your father for a tweet about him, adding that the trump white house did not respond to her request for comment on her story. none of this stopped trump himself from ranting on saying -- >> are we really going to pretend that trump cares about members of the military, who called americans who died in war suckers, who ridiculed john mccain saying, i like people who weren't captured. who has mocked the military his entire life. we going to believe he cares about the military? you have to wonder if any of these people attacking biden even knew who paul whelan was. according to a 2020 new yorker piece, trump raised whelan's attention with putin along with trevor reed. before yesterday's truth social post, trump never mentioned paul whelan publicly. but you know who does? joe bi

. >> donald trump jr.ut out a message on twitter in which he referred to zelenskyy as an ungrateful international welfare queen. i wouldn't normally quote donald trump jr., but there is a movement in this country, the maga movement that listens to him, and believes that zr description is accurate. what's your response? >> well, it's ridiculous. again, it's almost incomprehensible that anyone would use that terminology to describe someone who probably is the most courageous and inspirational leader since winston churchill, and defending the values that they all claim they are staunch defenders of also. you know, i can recall a few weeks ago, john bolton said if his father was in office, the russians would already be in kyiv. i think that's right. so, this is not about defending democracy, it's nonsense. >> democratic senator jack reed of rhode island, chairman of the armed services committee, thanks. >> thanks, jake. >>> coming up, we'll be awaiting zelenskyy and biden. and also the air defense system, exac

>> donald trump jr.er today referred to zelenskyy as an ungrateful international welfare queen. now, that's donald trump jr., not donald trump. but i think it does give you an idea of where the maga base is. and that's also one of the reasons, manu raju, why there are a growing number of republicans in the house and the senate, but more the house, opposing aid to ukraine. >> yeah, no question about it. and that's going to be mccarthy's challenge going forward. it is interesting to see on the screen as members are walking in, you saw the woman in the blue, that's victoria spartz. she is the first ukrainian member of congress. and you're seeing a lot of senators, house members going up and greeting her, obviously. she has a very, very personal stake on this issue, she may potentially run for the snlt in the next election cycle as well. no question about it there is still this question about how do republicans want to deal with this issue going forward. and that is one of the things that zelenskyy knows ful

a gala that showcased him and donald trump jr. whose lone accomplishment is his last name and also marjorie taylor greene. her speech was the crown's night jewel. she denied she or steve bannon helped organize the january 6th insurrection because if they had, she said, the insurrectionists would have won. >> then january 6th happens and next thing you know i organized 9 whole thing along with steve bannon here and i got to tell you something, if steve bannon and i would have organized that, we would have won. not to mention we would have been armed. >> ha, ha, ha. somehow marge forgot to tell her crowd of travelers that she did attend a white house orchestrated event to help map out a plan for maga house members to object to biden's rightful election which just so happened to be a key component of bannon's much touted green bay sweep with the goal of overturning the 2020 election results. oh, and by the way there were guns at the capitol. court records, trial testimony and accounts from police officers and rioters produced evidenc

his eldest son, donald trump jr., told the committee that he texted white house chief of staff mark meadows on january 6th to have then-president trump publicly, quote, condemn the violence taking place at the capitol. stephanie grisham, the former first lady's chief of staff, recalled that on january 6th, melania trump refused her request to tweet a message urging protesters to remain peaceful. the house committee also withdrew the subpoena to the former president ahead of the, quote, imminent end of the investigation next week. >>> well, turning now to ukraine where russian forces today launched the largest wave of missiles and drones in weeks. ukrainian officials say nearly 70 missiles were fired. the blasts knocked out power stations and forced many to flee underground for safety. cbs's ian lee reports. >> reporter: each missile and drone rush of fires carries death as it soars to its target. every one intercepted is a triumph life. russia launched dozens of missiles today hoping to overwhelm ukraine's defenses. most were shot down, officials say, but some made it through. one destroyed

donald trump jr ignited controversy by tweeting zelinsky is basically an ungrateful international welfare queen. but zelinsky insisting american aid is not charity. abc is justin finch has the latest from washington. justin good morning, andrew. good morning. ukraine's president. zelinsky says he wanted to make this trip sooner. but his visit now some 300 days into the war shows the situation in ukraine is under control, because of us support. so lynskey using this trip to appeal directly to congress and the american people about the high stakes of ukraine's fight against russia. probably in the footsteps of british prime minister winston churchill. ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, addressing congress and seeking to submit a wartime alliance, our two nations our allies in this battle framing ukraine's fight against russia as one for the future of common freedom and shared values the president thinking the u. s for its continued support and calling on congress not to waver. your money is not share itty. it's an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the m

and how much then is enough of all this already, and trump’s son donald trump jr. even called the presidentukraine the ungrateful queen of foreign benefits, they say. how much you can ask, most likely after the new year it will become more difficult to ask the lower house of congress will pass to the republicans. they are at least in mass support ukraine but the talk that it's time to stop? throwing money homelessly, kiev, too, already let's go where president zelensky went home from america. kiev or somewhere it is still unknown, they say he can visit london berlin or paris with the same mission. give more weapons and money, but the details are kept secret alexei veselovsky air bramov. vladimir vypriitsky alexander dekin ntv zelensky washington proved that neither the united states nor ukraine is really ready for peace, our ambassador to the united states said states anatoly antonov, the statement of the american leadership that the states do not intend to enter into a direct conflict with russia, the diplomat called an empty phrase washington continues to invest billions of dollars and to

they are holding back the irony writes on social networks trump jr. meanwhile in his hands.tern journalists turned out to be a document in which the smart spending of the ukrainian president and his entourage on the money of the west in period and his own, according to the reporter at only one charity evening. oh, new york, zelensky’s office rolled almost 150,000 us dollars of the gift, which already cost the chef, elite alcohol, and, of course, pr with maria’s anti-russian hysteria together. listen mishka now you are the prince of the christian soul. power will come finally, the most exciting political program of the honorary motorcyclist escort begins. why were there so many people at the closed talks in the kremlin, we saw everything again every second such cases. good evening, this week the topic of integrating new territories into the russian judicial scientific and educational social space has become a cross-cutting one in almost all events with the participation of the president, as vladimir putin said during a meeting with young scientists in sochi, people who came a

his eldest son, donald trump jr. he committee he texted white house chief of staff mark meadows on january 6 to have then-president trump publicly "condemn the violence" taking place at the capitol. stephanie grisham, the former first lady's chief of staff, recalled that on january 6, melania trump refused her request to tweet a message urging protesters to remain peaceful. the house committee also withdrew the subpoena to the former president ahead of the "imminent end of the investigation next week." turning now to ukraine, where russian forces today launched the largest wave of missiles and drones in weeks. ukrainian officials say nearly 70 missiles were fired. the blasts knocked out power stations and forced many to flee underground for safety. cbs' ian lee reports. >> reporter: each missile and drone russia fires carries death as it soars to its target. everyone intercepted is a triumph of life. ( cheers ) russia launched dozens of missiles today, hoping to overwhelm ukraine's defenses. most were shot down, offic

and how much then is enough of all this already, and trump’s son donald trump jr. even called the presidentthe ungrateful queen of foreign benefits, they say. how much you can ask, most likely after the new year it will become more difficult to ask the lower house of congress will pass to the republicans. they are at least in mass support ukraine but talk that it's time to stop throwing money around homelessly. he , too, has already gone where president zelensky went from america to home in kiev or somewhere it is still unknown, they say he can visit. london or pa? riga, more weapons and money but details are kept secret wherein tracy had already worked in moscow in the late eighties during gorbachev's perestroika, later i represented us interests in various former soviet republics, as tracy herself once said, it was russia that made her a diplomat. now she is known for her support of anti-russian sanctions and advocates for a tougher western policy towards moscow, while the new american ambassador emphasizes that she wants to expand the channels of communication between the kremlin and the

so trump jr. called zelensky and it was not the most offensive comparison of the last evening, zelenskyed as a strip club manager and starts demanding money. surprisingly, no one kicked him out, on the contrary. everyone is fawning over. in front of him give him even more billions. the point was to serve the manager of the ukrainian strip club, probably. it is difficult to imagine a more humiliating scenario for the greatest country on earth. however, as the washington post notes, zelensky ’s vain exhaust behind the pompous ceremonies is not much for the zelensky tsar himself was in calls for more powerful weapons in order to increase ukraine’s ability to launch major offensive operations against entrenched russian forces. the next year there was little sign that he succeeded, at least in the short term. the same article says that the white house, in fact, expected from zelensky that he would think about diplomacy, did not think in this way, recalling that the hill was already visited by many and often. at the end of the fall into the abyss at some point the us will act in its own inter

they're holding back the irony tweets trump jr. meanwhile in hand.ists turned out to be documenting the luxurious spending of the ukrainian president and his entourage on money. of the west during his own period, according to the reporter, at just one charity evening in new york, zelensky’s office rolled almost 150,000 us dollars of the gift, the chef, elite alcohol and, of course, pr from anti-russian hysteria, maria let’s translate from clerical to understandable it's not so scary if there is an instruction. now about the weather in the european part of russia for this this week it will become sharply warmer when abnormal frosts will be replaced by father

they do not hold back irony trump jr. writes on social networks , meanwhile, in the hands of westernists , there was a document in which the ukrainian president and his entourage were spending money on smart money. west during his period, if you believe the reporter only on one charity evening, you squandered almost 150,000 us dollars in a pussy in new york to zelensky's office, the chef, elite alcohol, and, of course, pr with anti-russian hysteria together with maria. now economy news alexander today the european union will be imbargoed and ceiling prices for russian oil. tell us how these two mechanisms are combined . tatiana the embargo affects european countries. imports limit prices. the west will try to continue the theme when deliveries to a third country. in today's eu countries, a group of families australia will try to limit the price of russian oil, which is supplied by sea, the ceiling, they set at $ 60 per barrel. however, brussels emphasizes that raw materials should be sold at least 5% cheaper than the market value. the main mechanism. here the impact on carriers the e

debatable and paradoxical articles at first glance, another photo parody was published by donald trump jrhe couch, allegedly after a hot meeting with nancy pilot , which on the contrary, not so much that it proposes to discuss the military support of the kiva, we are talking about 45 under other data about 47 billion dollars included in the us budget, and the picture itself was inspired, apparently, by too hot kisses between pelosi and zelensky after his speech in congress at the 82-year-old speaker . i would almost rush to my dear hands, which are bloody in the life of donbass colossal money 45 billion dollars, the largest tranche that the united states has ever allocated to ukraine name this year not to mention previous years, but it should be enough, according to opinion of washington until september. here, then it will have to be negotiated again, apparently. this is big money and it is obvious that, of course, the supply of military equipment and weapons will go to ukraine, uh, and uh, grants loans in uh. the ukrainian budget is here to prevent it from collapsing and, accordingly, co