challenger takes s new slogan to a key state. then the largest bank failures since 2008. s v b, silicon valley bank imploding in just 30 hours. how did it happen and what are the consequences? and our friday night cap is here talking all about the biggest stories of the week and some you may have missed. the 11th hour getting underway right now. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. it is finally friday and you know what that means! means we are closing out the week with a friday night cap and you do not want to miss a minute. so get comfortable and settle in because that is coming right up. but first, the twice impeached ex president, he s getting ready to spend his weekend huddling with lawyers in florida to figure out a strategy for dealing with an escalating legal threat. we told you last night donald trump has been invited to appear before a manhattan grand jury investigating the 2016 hush money payment to former porn star stormy daniels. trump s lawyers tell nbc
have enough police to secure the streets of san francisco. jonathan hunt is live with more. reporter: a brutal and brazen attack, those the words of the san francisco police chief describing another high-profile example of the kind of violent crime that s leaving many people in the city by the bay terrified and angry. the victim on this occasion was the former san francisco fire commissioner attacked by three men as he left his mother s home in the marina neighborhood at 7:00 p.m. wednesday night. he was beaten with a pipe and suffered severe head injuries including a fractured skull. now, the assault happened the day after tech executive bob lee was stabbed to death in another area of san francisco generally considered safe. lee s final moments partly caught on this security camera video. the san francisco police chief says the killer will be caught. as much as i know people want to know, but i don t want to do anything or say anything to compromises what is going on rig
tonight, you wonder how many tru americans even know it s good friday. so after hundreds of years, s this has finally become a nonry christian country. but it s not a secular country. i m sure people call call it tht they are wrong. there are no secular countries .gion every country has a religionrs because every personon has has a religion. f it s even if it s atheist. everybody worships somethingthen born that way, we can t get away from it. so what does america s religio n now? well, as it happens, we haven video. thisnow? is from st. mark s lutheran church in fargo, norths dakota. it was taken is from april 2nd.r that was the first sunday after kill the mass killing in nashville te in which three adults and three children were murdered at a christia n school for being christians in the old america. tian. christian pastors would have preached about this. they would have acknowledged. the evil on display and they would have prayed for those who d been killed, a forled.m oo
manhattan da s investigation no one is above the law that is the defining principle of the republic and has been the case for 247 years it s another example of two tier system. it s outrageous, and ther is no too low i can t reach. every time you think he ha bottomed out, he goes even further. i think he s building a lot of sympathy for the former president. i think the fact i was wit coffee this morning with folks none of them were big trum supporters and they all said, they felt like he was being attacked also this hour, we are just hours away from a meeting that has the u.s. and the world o edge russian president vladimi putin and his chines counterpart, xi jinping, later this hour i will talk to congressman seth moulton about the threat of unified russia and china. as another state targets the abortion pill, we will look at what may be the next big hop for abortion rights advocate in ohio. more on that ahead, but we wil start with breaking news tha attorney robe
doubts today. about whether they could accomplish that invasion. as china, russia, united states reached a critical point in the ukraine war. the cia says beijing s having second thoughts about potentially invading taiwan. and a significant from the head of fox move. rupert murdoch acknowledging the hosts on his network promoted election lies. what this means for the billion dollar lawsuit against fox news. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the. world i m wolf blitzer and this is a special edition of the situation room. tonight, major new questions right at the center of a deadly coronavirus pandemic. that may change so many lives. where did covid-19 come from? the white house weighing in the same thing on the u.s. energy departments assessment. that the lethal virus most likely came from a lab leak in china. emphasis on the caveat here. cnn sources tell us that the assessment comes with quote, low confidence. tonight they say withi