establishment wing. balking over finalizing the very rules mccarthy conceded last week to hard liners to become the house speaker. is this normal? plus, president biden s upcoming meeting with the president of mexico after visiting the border. where critics say the true scope of the humanitarian crisis was hidden from his view. and prince harry dropping bombs, accusing his stepmother of leaking stories to help her image. what does the royal family have to say about all of this? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our politics lead with the first test of newly elected speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy. in just a few hours, the house is going to vote on its new rules package. this will include one of the biggest concessions mccarthy made to the hard line rebels to get the gavel. that one-person motion to vacate rule. this means just one member of congress can now force to remove mccarthy as speaker. he also made other concessions including allowing more fre
Through the Olive Branches . Theyre hard to avoid in puglia, a region thats home to 60 million olive trees. Thats one olive tree for every italian in italy. This region is italy at its most elemental simple fresh cuisine thats grown and produced here. Fragrant olive oil, beautiful vegetables, cheeses renowned the world over. Hello. Hello. One focaccia. And durum wheat for pasta and bread. Grazie. Look at that. Im stanley tucci. Im fascinated by my italian heritage, so im traveling across italy to discover how the food in each of this countrys 20 regions is as unique as the people and their past. You really want it to be like that . Need to be like this. Despite being such a fertile region, puglia is also one of italys poorest. It was nicknamed the shame of italy. Located in the south, a place the italians call il mezzogiorno, or high noon, because of the intensity of the midday sun, poverty and hardship are very much a recent memory in this part of the world. Get out of here. But today
that january six committee today released dozen more transcripts from its interviews with witnesses. these interviews are revealing even more about what went on in the days leading up to the deadly capitol attack, including in this latest batch of transcripts are depositions from ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, trump aide and longtime secret service official tony ornato, trump s son-in-law and senior aide jared kushner, and rudy giuliani, who led the ridiculously attempt to overturn the 2020 election. ginni thomas told the committee she never spoke with her husband about any of the legal challenges to the 2020 election. she did confirm, though, that the supreme court justice is the best friend that she referenced in her text today than trump chief of staff mark meadows. and she told investigators she regretted texting trump s chief of staff meadows, about you know, having a coup. tony ornato told the panel the first time here the story about trump
finding in the home and in dumpsters, including a saw and a purse. what authorities say the husband began searching for on the internet at 4:00 in the morning. stephanie ramos in the courtroom. the war in ukraine tonight. and the horrific images. a government helicopter crashing near kyiv, killing everyone onboard, including a member of president zelenskyy s inner circle. multiple victims killed on the ground, hitting an apartment building near a kindergarten. was it mechanical failure, pilot error, or was the chopper hit? matt gutman inside ukraine tonight. here at home, the republican candidate in new mexico who lost in a landslide, but then claimed it was rigged, accused of hiring hitmen to fire at multiple homes of democratic state lawmakers in court today. and what we ve now learned, where he was on january 6th. house speaker kevin mccarthy facing heat tonight, after far right members of congress, including marjorie taylor greene, who questioned the 9/11 attack at
ruhle. the january six committee released dozens of more transcripts from its interviews with witnesses. these interviews are revealing even more about what went on in the days leading up to the deadly capitol attack. including the latest batch of transcripts, we ve got the latest from ginni thomas s wife, of supreme court justice clarence thomas. trump aide, and longtime correspondent, and jared kushner, and rudy giuliani that read the ridiculous to overturn the 2020 election. she told the committee that she never spoke with her husband about any of the challenges to the 2020 election, and she did confirm though, that the supreme court justice is the best friend that she references in her tax. terror then chief of staff mark meadows. and she told investigators that she regretted check texting, the chief of staff about having a coup. tony told the panel, the first time he heard the story about trump s fight with a secret service agent going to pass the law. with from cassid