to earth cam, thousands of revellers are expecting a soggy countdown. we ll go live to the big apple later in the show. gillian: first to our top story this hour, the world is now mourning of loss of a historical religious figure. the vatican is announcing death of pope emeritus benedict xvi. and charles has more on his long lasting legacy. what a story he had. pope benedict xvi had an impact on catholics across the world in a position he never imagined himself in. for decades cardinal joseph ratsinger had been a key advisor to pope john paul ii, as a staunch conservative. and took the cardinals just two days to give the job to a german, scholarly man who didn t appear to want it. as pope benedict xvi, he rattled relativism, what might be true for someone, might not be true for someone else. and he will be remembered not only for his birthday celebration in the white house, a stop at ground zero and a mass in yankee stadium, but also, by the way in which he addressed the ca
mother is under scrutiny after he linked her death to 9/11. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight we have a new window into the previously unseen testimony in the january 6th investigation. the house select committee going public with a significant new batch of transcripts including the panel s interview with donald trump jr. cnn political correspondent sara murray is here with me in the situation room. she has been going through all this new material. sara, this round of transcripts involve some members of trump s inner circle. what have you learned? we ve reported on how important mark meadows texts were for this committee. and we see it again in the committee s interview with donald trump jr. he is texting mark meadows during the riot while it s infurling, saying we need an oval address. we need to leave now, talking about his father. it s gone too far and gotten out of hand. th
strikes on ukraine. power facilities in key cities taking a direct hit and leaving residents in the dark and cold. also tonight, we re digging through a new batch of just released january 6th transcripts including testimony by donald trump jr. and we re getting new insight into melania trump s mistrust of her husband s inner circle. and the southwest airlines meltdown drags on now for an eighth day. with thousands more flights canceled. will southwest get back to a full schedule tomorrow as the company claims? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour in ukraine after one of the biggest russian missile assaults since the start of the russian invasion. let s go straight to the capital, kyiv. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is on the ground for us. ben, so what are you seeing and hearing over there? reporter: well, what we heard at about 9:00 this morning l
northern california that left 7 form workers dead, accused 6-year-old gunman beenraged with his boss billed him $1 hu $100 for damaging a forklift. ukrainian forces await tank deliveries, russia is now launching new attacks on eastern ukrainian f ferterritory. following a barrage of missile assaults in donbas region. back to never give an inch now. when president trump came to office he was briefed by president obama that north korea nuclear program would
criticism on both sides of both zelenskyy and putin for not being i don t want to put words in your mouth, invested in or entirely serious about a peace settlement, as an end to this war. i hate to criticize zelenskyy. i understand why ukrainian people and zelenskyy do not want to enter peace talks, they don t trust putin, they have good reason not to trust him. i think that zelenskyy would like to fight until the end and i think eventually if we gave zelenskyy the weapons he need, ukraine would eventually win. i m just worried if it goes on for years and years, there will be nothing left in ukraine. and simply arming ukraine to the teeth until the point that russia is force today withdraw because the continuing missile assaults on ukraine are doing devastating damage and think about what s going to happen as the winter rolls on with these missile attacks. gillian: while the u.s. continues to cut checks for the ukrainians, one of our, you