happening now, death and destruction in multiple cities across ukraine, after the biggest russian air bombardment since the start of the war. president bilotta mir zelenskyy now pleading with the international community for help to respond to what he is calling an act of terror. also this hour, the trump campaign promising a quick appeal after the former president was removed from the 2024 primary ballot in mainframe the risks of chaos are rising tonight with two states now disqualifying trump based on the 14 amendments insurrectionist ban. in just 17 days before the iowa caucuses, the fallout is continuing tonight for republican presidential candidate nikki haley after her answer, or nonanswer, about the cause of the civil war. chris christie calling her a slippery, slick politician. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i am caitlin collins and you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with russia s mas
lay them out for us. that s right. two counts. one each for not appearing for his deposition and failing to a second count for failing to turn over documents that the january 6th committee demanded he turn over. but one of the interesting things that happened today, not only obviously was this was he indicted by the grand jury, but this was initially prosecutors initially asked for this to be sealed, because they felt that it was a risk of either flight or for him to tamper with other witnesses. we learned just a while ago that what happened today was he was actually arrested by the fbi, and most cases like this, the fbi allows people to self-surrender, to show up at the courthouse and surrender. in this case, peter navarro was arrested. he lives just a couple blocks away from fbi head quarters. when i talked to him earlier this week, he was really angry that when they served him his subpoena from the u.s. attorney last week, that they knocked on his door. he said they
whether to sign off on a deal to free some women and children held hostage by hamas. cnn correspondents are in the region and right here in washington covering this critical moment in the war, first i want to go to cnn s matthew chance in tel aviv, israel. what s the latest word on this deal and what it entails? reporter: well, that deal, pam, is still being debated by the israeli cabinet. they ve been meeting for hours, and it could be several hours still, we re told, before a decision is finally reached but the terms of that deal are pretty clear, it would involve the release of at least 50 israeli hostages from gaza by the palestinian group, hamas. over a period of between four and five days, so there would be about ten people every day being released. in the meantime, israel would pause its conflict, pause its hostilities there and allow for that hostage release to take place. the israelis have said they d be open to the possibility of a further pause as well as long as
shortages that we saw force thousands of flight canc cancel cancellations. pete joins us now from reagan national airport outside washington. pete, what can we expect this summer when it comes to traveling? well, remember that airlines received $50 billion in pandemic aid over the from the federal government, but airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic in terms of their work forces. now they re being put to the test. people are packing back into planes. look at the numbers from the tsa. it s been screening about 2 million people at airports nationwide the last few days. the numbers are about 87% of where we were in 2019 before the pandemic. they could go even higher. look at the cancellation numbers. bad weather hit the east coast yesterday. 16 00 flights cancelled nationwide yesterday according to flight aware. about 600 flights so far today. went to visit american airlines. they re hoping to avoid cancellations as the summer goes
disrupting last-minute shopping. demonstration against police shootings. many are calling for mayor rahm emanual on a 10-day trip to cuba to resign. i m ed henry in washington please join us for a live report at 6:00 p.m. eastern. until then, merry christmas. i m harper from air base, turkey. i want to give a shout-out to my grandma brooks in sacramento, california, happy holidays and i love you. welcome back, time for the fastest seven minutes on television. in three eclectic stories. seven energetic minutes, one enigmatic host. first, it may be the hottest jib-jab of christmas 2015. we haven t seen it yet, no one