Two candidates, theyre dueling economic messages and the former president s claims about the two attempts on his life and iran, plus the very latest on Hurricane Helene now forecast to reach category four heading for the Florida Panhandle good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight, keeping them honest with politics specifically the brand of it, which runs on falsehoods and fear. And frankly, racism the latest example, louisiana republican Congressman Clay higgins, this guy, now it doesnt have much of a record of accomplishment in the house, but today, hes certainly got noticed this is what he posted on social media, quoting the congressman now, lol, these haitians are wild, eating pets, voodoo, Nastyas Country in the western hemisphere, colts slapstick gangsters, but if they dont feel all sophisticated now filing charges against our president and vp, all these thugs better get their Mind Right and their out of our country before january 20. So a couple of things to unpack he
trump s call to walk to the u.s. capitol on january 6. it turns out the secret service actively considered options to get him there. stand by for our new reporting ahead of a pivotal prime time hearing on the insurrection this thursday. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight we re getting the most detailed and gut-wrenching account of what happened inside robb elementary school two weeks ago. a wounded teacher is now opening up about the slaughter as local officials keep failing to answer critically important questions. here is cnn s omar jimenez. our priorities are for the families who lost children reporter: despite a special security council meeting, tonight few answers from public officials. there is an investigation going on and we ll find out what happened. i want those answers just like everybody else. i want to be transparent. i want to be clear. there is a lot of
a documentarian who was with the proud boys in the week leading up to january 6. and on that day, wolf, the committee considers him a firsthand fact witness. ryan nobles up on capitol hill, thank you very much. let s get some more right now on this and more from our senior law enforcement analyst andrew m he is the former fbi deputy director. how shocking is it that the secret service even considered bringing then president trump to the u.s. capitol on january 6 when we obviously saw what was going on? wolf, it boggles my mind that in the middle of a rally that was clearly kind of out of control with tens of thousands of people, the secret service were actually considering facilitating the president s clear wishes to move with his supporters from the site of the rally at the ellipse up to the capitol for everything that followed. it s just unbelievable to me that they made that call to the