Happening now as the January 6th Select Committee prepares to reveal more damning

evidence against Donald Trump the former president is now lashing out at the panel and at his Vice President Mike

Pence and his Attorney General Bill Barr.

Also tonight, there's new evidence that two U.S. fighters in Ukraine apparently have been detained.

We'll have the latest on their fate,

as well as the third American fighter who is now missing in the war zone.

And President Biden is acknowledging that Americans are, quote, really, really down right now

after the strain of the pandemic and as they struggle with inflation and rising interest rates.

We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States

and around the world.

I'm Wolf Plitzer.

You're in the situation room. We begin with the first public response by former President Trump to the damning

evidence and testimony presented by the January 6th select committee.

CNN's Jessica Schneider is following all the new developments in the insurrection investigation.

I never called Mike Pence a wimp. I never called him a wimp I never called him a wimp Mike Pence had a chance to be great

He had a chance to be frankly historic but just like Bill Barr and the rest of these

weak people, Mike and I say it sadly because I like them But Mike did not have the courage to act.

Former President Trump using his platform at a conservative political conference to deny the evidence against him and blast the January 6th committee.

The con people, they're con artists.

Trump's attacks come as the committee is gearing up for several more hearings.

CNN has learned Georgia's Secretary of State

Brad Raffinsberger will be at Tuesday's hearing with his deputy. All I

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