ruling to testify in the special counsel s january 6th investigation. pence is now poised to recount for the first time under oath. his conversations with donald trump leading up to the january insurrection. also tonight, kevin mccarthy leads a defiant show of force in the face of stern warnings from china, the speaker and a bipartisan delegation of u. s lawmakers holding a historic meeting with taiwan s president on american soil. speaking with top democrat who was in the room for the talks. and later this hour, we will go live to jerusalem amid rising tensions in the middle east. there are new fears that violence could boil over after israeli forces raid one of the holiest sites in islam for the second straight night. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today . i m alex marquardt in your in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story tonight. special counsel jack smith notches a major victory, securing a
they were threatened in exchange for testimony against him, which you know it s not true, but i think what that reveals is that trump is nervous. he thinks that the special counsel here may know quite a lot and is worried about what that means. ironically he also admitted part of this whole thing, which is to say that he openly and in the full light of day took the boxes of documents. that s a big part of jack smith s case and by rambling as he did last night about it. i think he created a lot of headaches for himself, especially as far as his attorneys are concerned. at this point. we only have a couple of seconds left. but how did you read that speech? i mean, i would i would back up at his point, and you know, it s a bit of the confession. the problem is that what matters is not what donald trump says today. but what was in his head at the time. he brought those boxes. and did he know what he was doing? did he intend to conceal them? did he intend to obstruct justice? and that s the
ruling to testify in the special counsel s january 6th investigation. pence is now poised to recount for the first time under oath. his conversations with donald trump leading up to the january insurrection. also tonight, kevin mccarthy leads a defiant show of force in the face of stern warnings from china, the speaker and a bipartisan delegation of u. s lawmakers holding a historic meeting with taiwan s president on american soil. speaking with top democrat who was in the room for the talks. and later this hour, we will go live to jerusalem amid rising tensions in the middle east. there are new fears that violence could boil over after israeli forces raid one of the holiest sites in islam for the second straight night. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today . i m alex marquardt in your in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story tonight. special counsel jack
going to be in the details about when the vice president actually was the president of the senate. now look when he s sitting and so just to back up a second what the speech or debate protectionism treats the vice president as a member in effect of the united states, congress and subject to all the protections of a member of the united states congress while he s presiding over the congress , right, um, so when he s sitting in the chair, anything he says, or does is going to be protected under the law now when he s prepared pairing to do that work. you start getting into a grayer area. so which actions of the vice president kim jack smith touch versus what he can. and i would guess this may end up back in court at some point when you try to divine sort of the gray area between mike pence demand and the candidate for office and the vice president and mike prince pence the president of the united states senate, but look, jack smith can certainly talk about questions where he felt that my
, they are very big trading and investment partners because of the chips and science act that president biden lead now, as we discussed today, with presidents i they are investing billions of dollars in manufacturing facilities in the united states for semiconductor fabrication. that s a huge event. and so we are very excited about that, as well. clearly a very important relationship. congressman before i let you go. i just want to ask you about former president donald trump. of course. he was charged with 34 felony counts. how concerned are you to hear him going after not just the district attorney in manhattan. but the judge, also in this case. i m very concerned. i mean, look, i lived through january 6th my colleagues in as well. we know that donald trump s words have kind of a power that other figures. words don t necessarily match and when he says something, unfortunately , people listen and people then