Happening now, breaking news, Republicans on the House Ethics Committee vote to block.

The release of the panel's report on Matt Gates.

President-elect Trump's battle choice for Attorney General has been on Capitol Hill trying

to shore up support among GOP senators.

And now, we're learning of another controversial Trump pick heading to the hill tomorrow.

Also breaking, the U.S. just reopened its embassy in the Ukrainian capital,

where fears of a significant air attack by Russia briefly prompted it to close and drove scared residents in the Ukrainian capital to take cover in the suburb.

We'll have a live report from Kiev.

And the highly publicized Lake and Riley murder case comes to a close with the Georgia student's

convicted killer sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Stand by to hear the raw emotion as Riley's family and friends choke up

and spoke out in the courtroom.

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States

and around the world.

I'm Wolf Fletzer.

You're in the Situation Room.

This is CNN breaking news.

We begin with the breaking news up on Capitol Hill.

The findings of a House Ethics Committee investigation of Matt Gates still under wraps.

Republicans on the panel falling in line with the GOP leaders and voting to block the release of the potentially very damning report on President-elect's choice to become the next

Attorney General of the United States. Let's go to CNN's chief congressional correspondent Manu

Raja. He's up on Capitol Hill. Mano, walk us through this very significant day in the Gates'

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