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its 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-presidents ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report "the washington post" ...

australia started the day needing 174 runs to chase down a target of 281. england have got two wickets, stuart broad taking the wicket of scott boland before moeen ali removed danger man travis head forjust 16. usman khawaja remains for australia, though, hes past 50. the target is now less than a hundred for australia. that is the latest score for you at the moment. a story thats developing in the last few hours. french police are searching the headquarters of the organisers of the pa...

things, need a thick skin to be president. >> sandra: thats all for us. >> john: the story with martha in iowa starts right now. >> martha: good afternoon, everybody. via martha maccallum maccallum and this is "the story" live in freezing, snowy des moines, iowa, the center of the political world for the next few days during the iowa caucuses which happened on monday. today my camping trail interviews with nikki haley and ron desantis coming up on "the story." but first, this. the pent...

and hot on the heels of antony blinken�*s visit to china. beijing will seek to improve its ties with europe. however, europe has also started to pull away from china to ensure it is not too reliant on their exports. still, there are strong economic ties between germany and china — for the last seven years germany has been chinas biggest trading partner in europe. so, what is at stake? im joined by gregor sebastian — economics analyst at the mercator institute for china studies ba...

man. today after being called a gutless paid, bill barr went on cbs with a damning assessment of his former boss. saying trumps look at a fight nine-year-old. that trump is all but a victim. that the indictment against him is not government overreach. >> do you believe he lied to the justice department? and >> personally, do i believe. it yes. the legal theory by which he gets to have battle plans, and sensitive national security information as his personal papers is absurd. its just a...

charges of which he and numerous other presidents would be guilty. right in the middle of a presidential election in which he is losing very badly. no other president, even those who kept far more documents than i, has ever been even investigated, let alone charged with a crime. its joe biden and his corrupt department of injustice who think they are above the law. never before have the two standards of justice in our country been more starkly revealed. >> laura: and that same type of ...

where hell finally experience consequences for some of his actions. next week, tuesday, marks the beginning of the second e. jean carroll defamation trial. news on that later on. but first things first, developments ahead of closing arguments. tomorrow in new yorks $250 million civil fraud lawsuit. the judge revealed he would not allow donald trump to deliver part of those closing arguments himself as he had requested. the reasoning, neither trump nor his attorneys ever got back to the...

and countries around the world to address that. post counter isis campaign, you know, the active operations and when isis was defeated in syria, what weve seen is isis metastasize like afghanistan. this is not only an iraq and syria challenge but a global challenge. you cant wish it away. you have to keep pressure on isto keep from a resurgence. as they demonstrated in 2014, if that is allowed to happen, disastrous consequences. >> id like to focus on isis threat in iraq as you said. i...

>> all right, hanako montgomery, thank you for being there. the news continues, the sort starts now. see you tomorrow. >> tonight, straight from the source. donald trump, formally challenging the decision in maine to remove him from its primary ballot based on the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban. and we expect other legal challenges from his team any minute now. plus, a senior leader of hamas, killed an explosion near beirut, lebanon. hezbollah warning is released this kind of acti...

obstruction, conspiracy, lying and espionage. what happens now? when it comes to republicans in congress, this time it is not so certain. a lot of them are split. some are willing to stick by donald trump, like senator eric schmidt of missouri who said that the charges are, quote, unequal application of the law. nor senator john barrasso of wyoming who said, quote, it feels political, its rotten. others are being a little more cautious. after all, these are espionage charges. theres, q...