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with the grand jury investigating donald trumps attempts to overturn the election and his role on january 6. the former president reacting to john allen. >> mr. president, what do you think of mike pence testifying today? >> i dont know what he said. i have a lot of confidence in him. pressure rising. calls for president biden and house speaker mccarthy to restart talks on raising the debt ceiling and mounting fears over the real-world impact of a potential and historic u.s. default....

>> a lot of fronts. barbara, garrett, thanks to both of you. extreme embrace. while on the campaign trail in new hampshire, the former president hugging a january 6 convicted rioter who called for members of congress to be executed. more on that ahead. first, the rocket attack. russian strikes inside ukraine. a civilian apartment building destroyed, killed at least 19 civilians, including children. a live report from the scene next. "andrea mitchell reports" is back in 60 seconds. stay with ...

Political bath. >> when you tell me youre too busy to be at the table all day long to get a deal done, you tell that to our parents and those kids who are suffering and depend upon us, depend upon us to do the right thing. >> todd: as you can imagine, we are also hearing from plenty of parents who are missing work or other duties because they are kids are stuck at home waiting to see which side blinks first. >> her children need to be in school with masks, with social distancing. they are doing ...

Longer shutdown than was originally anticipated. this is being played out in the court of opinion here, alex, and really the way this is going to be broken is whichever side blinks first, whichever side emerges behind in that battle for public opinion. we see republicans led by president trump trying to boil this down to a fight between those young immigrants, so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers theyre holding out for. they want anything that passes to fund the government to allow those that were brought he...

Each other. we will see which side blinks first. >> manu raju live for us this morning, thank you. have you checked your 401(k) lately? you might want to. for a little bit of good news. excitement about what a donald trump presidency might mean for the economy has sent stocks on wall street to record highs. this morning the dow nearing a major milestone closing in on 20,000 for the first time in history. cnn business correspondent alison kosik has more. >> this is an incredible way to end the ...

To invite me for the weekend to spend time with them, to have tea and cookies, because they had never had these one-on-one human interactions. i mentioned one of the saddest things for me was my job covering voters was to understand where folks were coming from, to empathize with them. in some cases, people did return that empathy but at times, like when i was on that ohio porch, i dont think that voters reciprocated that empathy. >> i must say, it never came out in your reporting. you are a won...