getting some of our biggest clues yet about the directions special counsel jack smith is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex president by the justice department. there are major developments in both the january 6 investigation and the probe into the classified documents. we ll get to that in a minute. but we begin with what we know about the sprawling criminal probe into the capitol insurrection and the coup plotted by the ex president and his allies and including those in the administration and in congress. as the new york times reports, jack smith steps us the pace, sorting through a mountain of evidence from the january 6 committee and looking to interview witnesses that did not speak to the congressional panel. from that times report, quote, did former president trump consume detailed information about foreign countries wild in office? how extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered
modern hospitals freight is not another world. given how closely related the united states is to europe and has always been, you would imagine our leaders would notic when europe began to fall apart especially when the signs were not subtle at all. they weren t. this summer germans begin clearcutting ancient forest to heat there homes. in poland, families queued up for arrows to bicol, like they did 150 years ago. in the uk, the government projected that more than 10,000 britons will freeze to death, will die this winter for lack o heating fuel. in england. that is not supposed to happen in a first world country. so europe is moving backward at high-speed. the war in ukraine is what is happening. a huge came from a shepherd those imports have been banned. with the result of his punishment, the russian ruble i now far stronger than it was a year ago. the european economy meanwhile is collapsing. europeans are much poorer than they were when the war in ukraine started. that
uap program. the hypersecrecy around that prevented the defense department and some intel communities from being as aware as they could have been about what s going on in the skies above. that was a big criticism of the secrecy of that program. that is now starting to open up. but i think we re still seeing the repercussions. and i don t want to gloss over how helene, you ve covered john kirby for a long time. i didn t have john kirby standing behind a podium saying we can rule out aliens on my bingo card for early 2023. i mean, how and we live in a moment, an unprecedented moment in our countries history with disinformation and space lasers and conspiracy theories. i mean, how concerned are they that this is going to get out of control faster than they can gather the facts? i think they re very concerned. i mean, nobody expected the word
diesel. what will happen then? everything will stop. that means trucks and trains an barges all unable to move. from equipment shutdown. there will be no deliveries as there will be no trucks for there will be no diesel generators freight in than inevitably our economy will crash because everything runs o diesel fuel. diesel is not negotiable commodity. what happens? when we don t have them? yesterday, techie heinrich apparently alone in the white house press corps is the spokesman that very question. what is the plan here? we are running out of diesel. john kirby standing at the podium representing the administration, the largest organization in human history had no answer, but don t worry he s had. we will be exporting plenty of energy to europe to help fight that progressive you for crusad
we know this is a program that they want to improve. so of course, we re concerned about efforts to do that. last week secretary austin and south koreasecretary have a telephone conversation. do you know what particular talking about north korea, next month trying i m not going to get into intelligence assessments about specifics on the north korean program. i read that call out. i m not going beyond that read-out. let me go to reuters. hi, john. following up on courtney s question about the ukrainian forces when the handover of weapons happened. can you specify? is it a pat on the back or this