donald trump there doing what he can to flip the script in response to the recent january 6th hearings. we ll have more from his first public appearance since they began, and what we can expect next in the next round. and colombia is poised to lead latin america s green energy initiative. we ll tell you how politics are getting in the way of that. we begin in ukraine, which has just cleared the first hurdle on a path to join the european union. ukrainian and eu flags flew side by side after recommending they be given candidate status. vladimir putin is okay with that because the eu isn t a military alliance like nato. boris johnson made a surprise visit. he offered ukraine a major military training program he said would fundamentally change the equation of the war. and new videos of the wars appeared on pro-russian sites that appear to show two u.s. volunteers missing in ukraine. this is a photo posted earlier. cnn isn t showing the new videos because the men appear to
hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me, i m fredricka whitfield. at any moment, the cdc s vaccine advisers will announce their decision on covid-19 vaccines for children, 6 months to 5 years old. pfizer and moderna are seeking authorization for their vaccines. if approved young children could begin beginning vaccinated as soon as next week. are we hearing anything more about how close they re getting? reporter: they are getting closer. they have been taking questions for an hour, and it sounds like several more questions came up. they were supposed to vote a half hour ago but they re going to take as many questions and time as need be to get through everything. after two and a half years of all of us dealing with covid, this is the last sort of big piece, you know, the last tool in the tool box to get all americans covered by vaccines and hopefully sort of squelch this pandemic to something near an end. several questions that they have been centering on and
portion of an hour and a half speech today, making it clear he is spending a lot of time watching everything the committee says and does. there s no clearer example of the menacing spirit that has devoured the american left and disgraceful performance being staged by the unselect committee. the unselect s entire sham presentation is based on video that has been deceptively edited. they re taking six, eight, and nine-hour depositions and putting up five-second clips. that guy letig, whoever the hell letig is, a former judge, he was saying pence had no choice. not actually what he said at all. look, here s the thing. trump s day of having the world stop to listen to a 90-minute ranting, roving speech are over. not even fox news took his speech live. now, that didn t stop trump, who spent time denying he called mike pence a wimp. he spent time even though to make sure the record s clear on this, his special assistant said he did call pence a wimp and testified to this under
reporter: the last time the national spotlight was so on the treasure state might have been in 2017 when gianforte body slammed a reporter during his congressional campaign. i m sick and tired of you guys! reporter: this week s game of governor s where s waldo has echoes of senator ted cruz heading to cancun last year during a cold snap and power outages in his home state of texas. cruz caught heat. today in montana, the post delouvrian governor is in trouble. we re going get this rebuilt. reporter: so the governor was in italy on vacation. the office says he handed over authority to the lieutenant governor who he worked closely over the last four days to take swift, decisive action. there is an eight-hour time difference between italy and montana. many people have been caught on vacation when something big
waters along the yellowstone river that closed the national park. we are closely monitoring the flooding in south central montana, he tweeted monday. didn t say where he was monitoring the flooding from. it turns out it wasn t anywhere inside montana. questions started tuesday morning when the lieutenant governor, not the governor, signed the state s disaster declaration. gianforte s office told local media he left the country saturday with his wife on a personal trip. so the day before the waters rose. and he d be back asap. they wouldn t say where he was, citing security protocols. a federal disaster declaration came thursday, but still no sign of the governor in the flesh. these floods are a big deal for montana. millions of dollars worth of damage, the state s north entrance to the national park will be closed for months, leaving residents of the gateway town gardner fearing for their future. it became this ghost town. i mean, there is nobody here.