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80087 to 4901 happening now, donald trump is back at a florida courtroom as his attorneys fight to have the charges in this classified documents case dismissed were live in florida. Meantime, in georgia, the Fulton County judge who just dropped three charges against trump could decide whether to remove District Attorney fani hey, willis from the election subversion case. And just moments ago on the us senate floor, the Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, called for new elections and israel sharply criticizing the Prime Minister, benjamin ateneo. Hello, im wolf blitzer in washington, and youre in the cnn newsroom just two days after he clinched his partys president ial nomination, donald trump is back at another familiar role today as a court defendant. The former president of the United States is attending a critical hearing in his classified documents case trump has pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges related to his alleged mishandling of highly classified documents and for obstructing the Justice Departments investigation trump and his attorneys will ask the judge to dismiss the charges or at least to delay the trial. Cnn senior crime and justice reporter Katelyn Polantz is just outside the courthouse in fort pierce, florida for us, kaitlan, youre learning more about whats unfolding right now inside the courtroom. What can you tell us . Right wolf this hearing has been going on for about an hour now, and the first people to stand up in argue are lawyers for donald trump. Theyre arguing that the records he took the end of his presidency and kept at maralago after the presidency or personal records, his to keep and the judge already has some harsh questions for Donald Trumps lawyer, aiml beauvais. She has been asking if trumps request here is premature, so hes come to her and said these are personal records. And because im telling you that you should be dismissing this hes on the legal grounds here. What judge cannon is asking though, is this something that is a legal question at this time that she should be looking at or is this something that is a factual dispute that perhaps could be something that would be picked up later by a jury for your that the parties could argue at a later date. And so shes questioning trumps attorneys, not making any rulings just yet on this. They also are arguing trumps team is arguing that she should be looking at what happened with joe biden and how he had records after the Vice Presidency that were found and articulated, memorialized have that report of special counsel, robert hur, just a few weeks ago . That is what theyre trying to qanon to do. But the Justice Department is going to come back here. Theyre going to have a chance to argue and underline just how different this case is in their investigation, how these are National Defense records . About very sensitive nuclear and military secrets of the United States and other foreign nations. And how in this situation, there is an obstruction in component that this isnt just about having documents after the presidency or choosing to keep them. Its about donald trump awarding a subpoena from a grand jury federal investigation, huge, huge developments unfolding. Kaitlan. Well get back to you. Thank you very much. Katelyn polantzs in fort pierce, florida for us any moment now, there could also be a Seismic Shift that in another criminal case against donald trump, the judge or the Georgia Election subversion case is decided if he will if he will disqualify the District Attorney, trump and his codefendants want fani willis removed accusing her of financially benefiting by hiring or her Special Prosecutor in the case disqualify fani willis would derail the trial set for august, right in the thick of the president ial campaign cnns Nick Valencia is at elana for us, nic, judge scott mcafee said he would announce his decision by friday. Thats namely tomorrow. So the clock is clearly ticking the clock is ticking wolf, will she stay or will she go . We are standing by for that monumental decision from judge mcafee with tomorrow being the deadline for the two weeks selfimposed timeline he gave himself to make a decision. He said hes gonna make this decision with the best understanding he has of the law. But what is that understanding . Thats the big question it is the threshold for disqualification, an actual conflict or simply the appearance of one. This case is unprecedented and we are here because fani willis was able to secure an indictment, a Stork Indictment against the former president and some of his closest allies. And while the last several months it may have seen like shes the one on trial. She made it clear during those disqualifications that she wasnt in fact, she was insulted by the very essence of these claims highly offensive with someone lies on you and its highly offensive when they catch implicate that you slept with somebody the first day you met with them. And i take exception to you started dating shortly thereafter, correct . A lie. Thats one of your allies if fani willis is dismissed, this case gets handed over to the prosecutor, prosecuting attorneys council. Thats a ninemember panel of solicitors general the former District Attorneys, and it would be up to them to pick a new prosecutor if she stays, then this potentially could get back on track for a trial in august. But with every day that passes because by that seems less and less likely wolf, well watch it together with you, Nick Valencia, the stakes, there are enormous as well. I want to continue this conversation right now, joining us now, the former federal prosecutor and cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig, also with us. See this chief Legal Affairs correspondent, paula reid, and cnn national correspondent, Kristen Holmes has been doing a lot of reporting on all of this. If the judge, elie decides to remove her from this case, what happens . Well, its a major setback for the case, perhaps a permanent setback for the case. So heres what happens. Because fani willis is the District Attorney, her entire office would be disqualified if a normal prosecutor, a lower level one, like i was getting disqualified, you just plug in the next person down the hall, but shes the boss. So her whole office would be disqualified, then the case goes over to this independent Prosecutor Counsel that nick just referenced. And what they do from then on is highly unknown, just as one point of reference, wolf, there was a point in 2022 during the investigation of this case where fani willis was disqualified, she subpoenaed somebody and then attended a fundraiser for that persons political opponent. And the judge there disqualified her from that narrow portion of the case. That portion of the case is still sitting with this independent counsel here we are nearly two years later. So if she gets disqualified, it will be an enormous blow to this case. Paula, if she remains on the case, will the optics therell be there and potentially could benefit the defense . Namely truck. Oh, yeah. Even if shes not disqualified plenty for the defense team to work on because this is not just about the substance of these charges. This is also about optics, about trust in the Justice System. And you can bet that trump and his attorneys would take every opportunity to remind everyone about the romantic relationship, about the hundreds of thousands of Dollars Nathan Wade was paid no Intelligent Minds can disagree about if that is the market rate. But to the Average American who is gobsmacked by the price of groceries right now, this has a real ick factor and thats very effective for trump as he wants to undermine credibility of the Justice System and also the prosecutions against him. The Average American could be on a jury down the road as well. So well be watching that. If i guess no matter what happens, appeals are likely. This could drag on and on and on. And we know the trump Legal Defense team there, their whole thrust has been to delay delay. Delay. Yeah. And then this will play right into that. If fani willis is disqualified, she will have the chance to appeal. Her office can go to a court of appeals, say the judge, judge mcafee got it wrong, but thats a really tough argument to make on appeal. And heres why we i believe that judge mcafee ruling will be based heavily on his determinations about credibility i believe this witness i did not believe that witness. And those determinations are uniquely set aside under the law for the trial, judge. Thats the kind of thing that courts of appeals will not reverse him on. Now, if fani willis is left on the case, if shes not disqualified, the defendants, trump and mike roman and the others well probably get to appeal, but probably not now, they would probably have to wait until after the trial, which could be way way, way down the road. Yeah. This is going to go on and on and it looks like christine, i know youve been doing a lot of reporting on all of this at a source is telling cnn, as you well know, the house republicans, theyre convening right now offcampus, off capitol hill for this little session, they invited trump to come, but he decided not to attend this republican retreat, this congressional retreat for republicans. But instead of ten, these legal matters, what do you think . Yeah, thats right. So first of all, donald trump isnt really go to these kind of big group grope events. Thats not really his thing. He does his own rallies and then he has people visit him at maralago and court him at dinner. So he doesnt usually go to a big conference or Convention Even if he is the star of that in and out. So thats not that surprising, but when it comes to today and him being in court, we are told that he wants to participate in his defense once he won, he wants to lets see what exactly everyone is saying. You know, donald trump, he wants to have all the details. He also wants to court the judge to show that he is a willing participant in his own defense, and thats what youre going to see, not just here. Were actually going to see that in new york as well. He is hold to steve now, obviously thats different. He has to be there, but there are some procedural days. Hes told assume he wants to be there for every single full day in new york because he wants to court the jury courts. The judge to show that he is a willing participant in his own defense. I want to get to the classified documents case, paula, what while i have you the arguments that trumps lawyers are making as president of the United States, or even as a former president United States, he could declassify documents he could take classified documents with them. It was his right. Well, hes arguing that these were his personal records and thats just not true. He points to the president ial records act saying, look, these were mine to keep and we know that is not true. The president ial records act does not allow you to take Classified Information back home with you. We also know hes on tape acknowledging the fact that he cant declassify things once hes out of the white house and some of these documents should not have been in his possession. But the merits of the argument are secondary to the fact that even filing this even having these arguments helps to push the case back a few days, a few weeks, which is why what were really watching today is if the judge, judge aileen cannon gets any indication of how far back shes going to push this case penciled in for may 19. Shes indicated that she will push it back. She thinks july as unreasonable, so august at the earliest and look if he can get it pushed back to august. Try again to get a pushback even further. Thats really the crux of their strategy. Interesting in our leas you, know cnn spoke exclusively to a central witness in the classified documents case. The witness was previously known as trump employee number five. I want you to listen to this exchange that he had listened to this you noticed that he had thought they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember loading and did you have any time any idea at the time that there was potentially Us National Security secrets in his box . No clue. No i had no clue so elie, how can this impact the case against trump right now . Well, this individual, mr. Butlers going to be a crucial prosecution witness. You can see that just in kaitlans interview of him, this is what prosecutors want in a witness. Do you want someone whos inside this man was inside maralago. He was there when boxes were being packed and moved around. He does not appear to have any Credibility Problem towards trump. He doesnt. In contrast, when you see Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen makes no no secret of the fact that he did spices trump. He talks about it all day long. This mr. Butlers seems like hes if anything, loyal to trump and sort of bothered by the fact that hes going to be a witness that happens, but that makes for a more powerful witness in court. So i think mr. Butler Think Caitlin gave us a good preview of what his testimony is going to be do you like in court . Trump employee number five by five. I like his real name better than mr. Trump, employee number five, viewed our krystyna, the hush money case in new york is, you know, youve been watching very closely as well its been delayed. I mean, the Trump Lawyers wanted to delayed arguing that the Supreme Court is considering trumps immunity as a president of the United States, president ial immunity give us an update on that. I think we have to remember is that Donald Trumps lawyers are exhausting every single avenue that they possibly can to delay all of these cases as long as they can. I mean, the ultimate goal here was to push every single case past the november election with the hopes that donald trump would win and then get these various cases dismissed. If you are talking about new york in general, theyre not banking on any kind of delay. They believe this is going to happen. They are planning his entire schedule around it happening. They are looking at how they are going to be on the Campaign Trail. And also in the courtroom, because as ive said, donald trump, even on the days he doesnt have to be there procedural day is Jury Selection wants to be in the courthouse. We know wednesdays and saturdays or two days that hes not going to have to be in court. Likely those are the days are going to see him on the Campaign Trail theyre planning for this trial to start at the end of the month. Obviously, if something were to happen that was shocking to them, they would be thrilled if it was delayed, but that is not something that they appear to be banking on at all. Interesting, i will see what happens on wednesdays and saturday as part of the campaigns europe, well watch that as well, guys. Thank you very, very much. Still ahead. The Senate Majority leader, Chuck Schumer, is now calling for new elections in israel. He says the Prime Minister benjamin of time you know, has lost his way. Plus Vice President Kamala Harris is set to make history today. No sitting Vice President has ever toured an Abortion Provider maybe center until now. What does that tell us about the campaign thats coming up . And spacex loses its starship after an impressive launch why the company is still claims today was his will update you on this. Stay with us. Youre in the cnn newsroom the source with Kaitlan Collins tonight at nine sorry, parties canceled wayne on the cable internet guy. 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Hes up on capitol hill. Very significant developments. Bano yeah, thats right. Because Chuck Schumer, in fact, has been israel hawk for much of his career. He has actually aligned himself with a lot of the things that netanyahu has done. Remember back in the barack obama era, he voted against the iran nuclear deal. That job Benjamin Netanyahu, netanyahu was lobbying furiously. Again and so all of this though, comes as there has been growing concern, particularly within the Democratic Party about how this war is being waged in israel and calls for changes in the israeli government. And thats exactly what Chuck Schumer did on the senate floor just moments ago, calling for new elections and suggesting that benjamin neon then yeah oh, is an obstacle to peace that israelis need to take stop the situation and ask, must we change course . At this critical juncture i believe a new election is the only way to allow for a healthy and open decisionmaking process about the future of israel at a time when so many israelis have lost their confidence in the vision and direction of their government i also believe a majority of the israeli public will recognize the need for change. And i believe that holding a new election once the war starts to wind down, would give israelis and opportunity to express their vision for the postwar future and wolf, this has already generating a furious pushback from republicans, including the Top Republican mitch mcconnell, who went to the senate floor moments afterwards to blast Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumers called for new elections over democratically elected leader of israel this is unprecedented. We should not treat fellow democracies this way at all things that upset leftwing activists are not a Prime Ministers policies there is israels policies mcdonalds sake. The Democratic Party doesnt have an anti a baby problem. It an anti israel problem and of course this comes at a critical time on capitol hill as well as aid to israel is tied up in the larger foreign aid debate on capitol hill along with aid to ukraine and many democrats, either, our new conditions on that aid to israel or simply say that it should not be any two given to the netanyahu government. So wolf, so many things are riding on how members of the Senate Leadership in particular view, whats happening in israel. And when you heard from the Senate Majority, theyre very significant with implications for israel played as well. Yeah, very significant indeed, manu raju, up on capitol hill. Thank you very much. I want to turn to the president ial race here in the United States. President biden will campaign in the key Battleground State of michigan today, its his first visit there since a protest vote in the democratic primary saw more than 100,000 people in michigan select uncommitted, largely over President Bidens handling of israels war against hamas cnns chief National Affairs correspondent, jeff zeleny is joining us now from the walkie, where the president held a Campaign Event yesterday, jeff, President Biden faced another protests last night are they expecting more today in michigan well, if the president is beginning his day here in milwaukee and then making his way to michigan. As you said, but that speech from Majority Leader Chuck Schumer certainly is also going to resonate on the Campaign Trail and as well, the question is, will that be enough to assuage the concerns of some demonstrators the early answer is probably no oh, they have been calling for a ceasefire. They are calling for a complete change in Us Administration policy. But as the president heads to michigan today, hes going to sagen on michigan that is north of detroit, north of the dearborn area. But certainly this is its still an issue that is playing out across key Battleground States. And indeed the country as well on College Campuses and elsewhere. This is a central political concern for this white house. Of course, a Policy Challenge as well. But the president did not have his speech interrupted yesterday by protesters as he has before, it was a fairly small speech. But there were many protesters here on the ground in wisconsin wolf, its just making clear as we are Going Forward toward the general election campaign. This is going to be It Soundtrack of this campaign. This is going to be part of the campaigns something that president has to deal with. So clearly the speech by Senator Schumer is an attempt to distance democrats from the netanyahu government. We will see if that is enough for some democratic voters here on the Campaign Trail. At the same time, geoff, the Vice President , Kamala Harris, is also hitting the Campaign Trail today and she said to make, what is widely seen as a truly historic visit. Tell us about that shes traveling to minnesota today. But whats significant about this wolf is she will be visiting a planned parenthood Abortion Clinic that provides the board portion services. And this is just the latest in a stop that she has really made the central part of her Campaign Piece of this reelection campaign, uh, putting Abortion Rights and abortion freedom and reproductive freedom at this center of the campaign. Of course, this comes in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn roe versus wade. Shes been campaigning across the country beyond this. And this is something that does say a political matter has been a strength for democrats. So certainly the Vice President going there to minnesota to visit that clinic. Today. Again, well another example, even though the candidates are the same in this election the issues are entirely different, or at least significantly different than 2020 theres no doubt Abortion Rights for women here in the United States will be a big issue in this campaign. Jeff zeleny, thank you very much for that report. Lets discuss this and more with cnn senior Political Analyst and Senior Editor over at the atlantic, Ron Brownstein and cnn Political Analyst and Washington Bureau chief for the boston globe, Jackie Kucinich becky Kamala Harris, planning, senior white house officials are planning to meet with arab and Muslim Leaders in chicago today. Give us a sense of whats going on in chicago i dont even want to pretend that i am up to speed on that because its such an important issue, perhaps ron knows a little bit more about that than i do. Well, let me get ron on it because theres concern among a lot of democrats that the president s support for israel providing more weapons to israel during this war. Again, hamas in gaza is undermining, politically undermining President Bidens chances of getting reelected. And so clearly theres an effort now to try to go after arab american and Muslim American leaders and win their support yeah, look, its a complex political calculus for biden more complex than the critics make out because as you know, polling still shows clearly that most americans support israel, even though opinion is much more divided among democrats, i think the distinction that he is increasingly making and schumer is the pilot fish year is between support for israel and support for the netanyahu government. I mean netanyahu has openly scorned almost everything. Biden has asked him what to do, particularly in envisioning the postwar reality in gaza. And that seems to be part of his electoral strategy to show that he will stand up to the us and push back against the us. And of course, netanyahu, as ive often said, has been identified with one Political Party over the past 30 years, more than i think any foreign leader with either party has regularly clash with democratic president s and work to support republican interests. To some extent, when schumer, went out i made that speech today. My first reaction was what took so long. I mean, bidens Hugging Netanyahu Strategy clearly has not delivered on a policy basis, much less on a political basis. And i do think that this is the direction that its going to go to try to thread this needle of maintaining continued support for israel but increasing criticism of the way the net, new netanyahu government is prosecuting this war and particularly planning for the aftermath. Yeah, theres real tension there right now a jackie, i id other sensitive issue. What do you make of a Kamala Harris is decision to go to this Planned Parenthood Clinic today, Abortion Rights for women clearly emerging as a huge issue i mean, Kamala Harris has been on this campaign for months now to making reproductive rights, really her central issue of this campaign. And democrats writ large believe that Abortion Rights are going to be in some places theyre actually going to be on the ballot. But more broadly, are going to be on the ballot. Ill let in 2024 and weve seen in the midterms and in wind, abortion is on the ballot. Voters have tended to vote with democrats. And when it is on the ballot, it had these initiatives have been 100 successful interesting point. Ron. As you probably know earlier today, trump backtracked on some recent comments saying he quote, and im quoting him now would never do anything that would jeopardize or hurt Social Security or medicare. And quote, earlier this week, he suggested he was open to cuts during an interview with cnbc. So whats happening here well, i think the comments on cnbc were the misstep that trump from the beginning has recognized that in a Republican Coalition thats increasingly dependent on older white voters cutting Social Security and medicare as the paul ryan era Republican House wanted to do, particularly voucher rising. Medicare was a nonstarter and hes been consistently opposed to it. But those lows that language from monday does play into an argument that biden wants to make. And as i wrote this week on cnn. Com, biden is facing a Battle Add Retrospective Assessment of the economy under him versus the economy under trump. More people say they were better off under trump the way hes trying to deal with that is by focusing voters on the prospective choice between the agenda of each man and biden is the economic agenda each man and biden is putting a lot of chips on a broad odd populous message of Raising Taxes on the rich. Funding more subsidies and support for middleclass families, and attacking special interests, for instance, by having medicare lower negotiate negotiate lower Prescription Drug prices, Social Security fits, right in the center of that. And it is really part of i think bidens effort. If there is way to narrow trumps substantial lead now on who can better handle the economy, its by not by avoiding the comparison, looking backward and focusing voters forward on whose agenda might help them more in the future. And trump, i think did give them a quote that is going to show up in a lot of ads this fall, whatever cleanup hes doing now Social Security, medicare critically important issues. And lets not forget that Older Americans vote and bigger percentage numbers than younger americans do. Ron brownstein, Jackie Kucinich to both of you. Thank you very much. Also new this morning, spacex sends up the most powerful rocket on earth after two previous explosions. But now its lost. Lost. 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Spacex was always going to lose starship because this is a flight test. Absolute bestCase Scenario. Starship was going to splashdown in the indian ocean in the end, it ended up breaking up just over it the indian ocean. So it made it so very close to its ultimate target. And when youre putting together a flight plan for a test plight, you have to think through what the ultimate dream Case Scenario would be even if that is much further than what the ultimate goal or the initial primary goal of that flight test is. And so the goal for this flight test was for starship to reach Orbital Velocity or orbital speed. And it did that, it flew further and faster than starship has ever flown before. And then it also completed these two really incredible milestones. It demonstrated a propellant or a Fuel Transfer in in space from tank within starship. And then it also opened up a payload bay door, which on future, future missions would allow up perhaps satellites, satellites, starlink satellites to come out. So really the only thing it didnt do was splashed down, but still nasa and spacex calling this a huge to access. And if i can also note wolf, i mean you and i were sitting here during that odysseus Lunar Landing mission and we were lamenting the fact that there were no live videos or images and you know granted that was the moon. And this is very low earth orbit, but the fact that we were able to get this incredible hd video yeah, throughout most of the mission. This video, in particular, what youre seeing here, is the plasma, the incredibly high temperatures that starship has to endure upon reentry. Ive never seen anything like that before. Wolf, really incredible that spacex was able to kinda take us Along For The Ride and watch the mission along with them in real time to go, we didnt have that video on the day that we saw that landed on the moon, South Pole Of The Moon to be very specific, spacex says that its considers its Starship System Central to eventually putting a person on the moon, getting somebody not on the moon on mars. Should we say whats going on there . Moon . And mars, spacex wants to use this spacecraft to eventually land the first humans on mars. But first it is the centerpiece of nasas artemis program. This is the spacecraft that nasa wants to use to return american astronauts to the surface of the moon for the First Time Since the apollo program, which is why nasa is hes watching these flight tests so closely. And the nasa administrator, just a few moments ago congratulating spacex on this successful third test flight, ready to go to the moon or mars for that matter. Sure. You would go cnn. Cnn can send me right. We got the budget for that word, who are courageous kristin fisher, thanks for all the good room. I appreciate it very, very much. Other news were following as the crisis deepens right now in haiti, a us official tells cnn that the Biden Administration might use one tanomah bay in cuba for migrants fleeing the violence or speak to the former us Special Envoy to haiti. Thats coming up next if you work in spaceflight. This is the worst possible thing i could ever happen my dad died doing what he is loved Space Shuttle columbia have final flight from your sunday, april 7 at nine on my moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis helped me back now with sky rizzi, im all in with clear skin weve sky rizzi three out of four people achieved 90 clear skin at four months and most people were clear even at five years. 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We share, maybe well, the us isnt a situation where they hold the cards right now, the weave intervene six or seven times in the last hundred and ten years in haiti, each time it has had amazing deleterious effect on the people in the country to the were now failed state incredible humanitarian catastrophe. And the biggest reasons because the us has never let the haitians choose their leaders and their path forward. And we have a chance to do it now they havent done it over the past 32 months since the assassination of Jovenel Moise and its cost the country has cost Us National Security now are flailing a little bit and hopefully well do the right thing by the haitians. Lets help the secretary of state, anthony blinken, Travel To Jamaica this week what else should the us be doing now . To try to help the haitians well, right now the us and caricom are trying to impose another Foreign Government construct. And the haitians, which has failed each time and theyve chosen seven haitians, including the party that is reviled and hated. Thats driven haiti the end to the ground over the past 14 years but they chose seven people, the white people chose seven people. They didnt even go to haiti. And theyve empowered these seven people to choose the next government of Haiti Haitians are up in arms. They cant believe that the americans have the hubris to try to do this again and think its somehow going to make things better ambassador dan foot, lets continue this conversation down the road. Sadly, this crisis is not going away. Appreciate it very much. Theres more news. Were following here as well, including the russians. Theyre heading to the polls tomorrow for an election that well see Vladimir Putin sailing to another term. Were live in moscow, thats coming up next. Stay with us. Youre in the Cnn Newsroom Chasing Life with dr. Sanjay gupta. 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So people who are in, for instance, very remote areas of the Russian Arctic for instance, or people who live inside the recently annexed areas of ukraine, which russia now regards as part of the russian federation. So people there have been given passports and theyre voting in some instances, instances as well. So in Subways Voting has already got underway. And according to all the Opinion Polls which we have to take with a pinch of salt, but theyre probably right in this regard, its a near certainty Vladimir Putin, the russian presence is going to win a fifth president ial term. Now, part of the reason for that is because any significant opposition in the country has essentially been silenced. And were talking about a crackdown on dissent across the country. Were talking about Opposition Figures have either been jailed, theyve gone into exile, or theyve been killed. Alexey navalny, the main opposition figure, died in unexplained circumstances in his Arctic Penal Colony just last month. And so you look, its a very dark period in russia at which comes of course, against the backdrop of that ukraine war, which russia of course calls its special Military Operation which is taking a heavy toll both on the russian economy and in terms of casualties on both sides. So its in that environment with no opposition at a sort of Crisis Situation in terms of the conflict that millions of russians with the next 24 hours will we will be casting their votes. And the voting last for three days. And so its going to be through the weekend until we get the confirmation as were expecting the Vladimir Putin gets a fifth term as russian president wolfe. Now if youre working to tell us about the other candidates, do russians have a choice . Well, i mean, look, i mean, as i say, the significant opposition has not been allowed to stand theres no nobody in the field who is actually opposed to putin, for instance. But there are three other candidates that the russian population have the option of voting for, but they rate very lowly in terms of public recognition, theres a hardline communist candidate who wants to return russia to the old days of the soviet union. There are various other low level politicians as well, but nobody of the same status as Vladimir Putin interesting Matthew Chance in moscow for us. Thank you very much for that update into our viewers. Thanks very much for joining us here in the cnn newsroom. Im wolf blitzer in washington. Ill be back later tonight, 06 00 p. M. Eastern in this room right here tomorrow morning, 11 00 a. M. Eastern. Stay with Cnn Inside Politics with dana bash starts right after a short break on the chasing life podcast, dr. 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