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phase of this war on ukraine. just today, president putin has made overt nuclear threats against europe. i talk with the president of finland, who knows putin well. i also sat down with the president of south korea to ask about the threat from his neighbor to the north, who just declared itself a nuclear state. also, hijabs burned, protests rage and chants of death to the dictator ring out in iran after a woman dies in police custody there. what will come of the demonstrations? i will ask an expert. but first, here s my take. let s not play down what has happened this week. the leader of the world s largest nuclear power publicly threatened to use nuclear weapons. in an address in moscow on wednesday, vladamir putin declared that russia would use all weapons systems available to us to defend the country. he emphasized it. this is not a bluff. it might be. putin s threat is an add-on of traditional soviet doctrine. now they contemplate scenarios which it coul ....
the sheriff will testify monday. meantime, police in japan say, the man accused of assassinating shinzo abe had a stash of weapons in his home. a number of homemade pistols made out of pipe and adhesive tape. he had, also considered, using explosives. new details on what might have motivated the attack. and a scramble to save yosemite s ancient sequoias, as wildfires close in. i m standing right in front of the grizzly giant with a speaker system set up around it. i m pamela brown in washington. you are living the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with the congressional investigation into the attack on the capitol and what could be a new start with this for the january 6th committee. steve bannon, former trusted advisor to donald trump now says, he will testify, and he wants to do so publicly.his offer comes as he faces trial next week on criminal contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena. bannon had argued he wasn t allowed to cooperate because ....
white house officials zeroing in on efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and with us now, state attorney from palm beach county, dave air renburg. as we learn that the talks are happening, executive privilege featuring prominently here, remind us what would not be covered protected by executive privilege? executive privilege is designed to protect the republic, not the president. and so it should not apply to a former president, but there is it some ambiguity. but it is not to cover up a crime. especially a crime involving the attempted overthrow of the united states government. but you will see that some people in trump world will invoke it and trump will certainly invoke it because he wants to delay things. he can essentially win by losing in the courts if he can delay matters long enough. and so that is why the department of justice is being proactive and aggressive to try to get out front and try to limit the ability of trump world to claim this executive privil ....
assault charges, video of the incident there. the 43-year-old man is charged congress with a dangerous weapon. cnn s evan perez is following this and other developments for us. evan, what do you know about the suspect? reporter: jim, we know he was facing, first, a state charge. he was released almost immediately after he was charged with a second-degree assault at the state level and now federal prosecutors have decided to charge him on a federal charge. that charge is for assaulting a member of congress. of course he is running for governor in the state of new york. obviously the justice department looks at this in a different lens. they view this as part of, frankly, a lot of these types of incidents around the country attacking not only trying to threaten members of congress, members of the supreme court, other public officials. there is serious focus on this at the justice department. he is 43 years old. on top of the state charge for which he was immediately rel ....