So good to see you again. When this all happened last night, i thought of many things, but i did think of you, and ill tell you why. Its evidence related. You have used your knowledge, your program over the many months of this to talk about how initially it was pretty clear that the Justice Department was not going beyond the events of that day, and you and i talked about that. Other reporters have weighed in, and im curious even though i know you have been talking about it for two hours how you think we got here. Because what we saw in this indictment that i thought was both strong, gripping and bad for the indicted donald trump, was how long and repeatedly they tried to end democracy in america. Yeah, the indictment is so harrowing, and i think that jack smith was at this for just ten months, obviously he built on all of the good work of the committee. I have learned that things are never as clean as what they appear, and we dont always have all the facts before them. But i think the
closer to victory. president biden s visit to kyiv, a defiant review of vladimir putin, as the world asks, when will this war and? how far will the u.s. and allies go to defend democracy on the brink, and what will putin do next in his unprovoked attack on a sovereign state? russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war is failing. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. and this is a special edition of the situation room. president biden is back in poland tonight, after a day that will go down in history, preparing for another momentous day tomorrow, when he and vladimir putin will be delivering dueling addresses, nearly 800 miles apart. president biden traveled under a cloak of secrecy to the capital of ukraine earlier this morning, the city that russia thought it would be able to capture right at the start of this invasion. but kyiv still stands almost one year into this war. what a dramatic
russia. the lead starts right now. two world leaders two different messages a nato rallying cry for biden while putin blames the west for forcing him to invade, vowing to stay the course as russia s brutal invasion nears the one-year mark. i ll speak with a congressional democrat from minnesota assaulted in her d.c. apartment building. why she s blaming a segment on fox for threats to her that came afterwards. as the epa demands norfolk southern clean up its train wreck in ohio, democratic governors are blaming the company for corporate agreed. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with president biden s big speech in poland today marking nearly one-year since russia s unprovoked invasion of ukraine. biden reaffirmed the u.s. s commitment to ukraine reminding the world there s more at stake than one country s sovereignty. the freedom for all future generations he says. there s no sweeter word than freedom. no goal than freedom. all we do now must be done
that democrats have closed the enthusiasm gap with voters less than three months before they cast their ballots. 66% of democrats expressing a high level of interest in midterm races compared to 68% of republicans with the surge of the democratic side attributed at least in part to anger over the supreme courts reversal of roe v. wade, also factoring in to the midterm picture. the web of investigation that appears to be tightening around former president donald trump. nearly three and five americans pulled by nbc news saying that those investigations into trump s alleged wrongdoing should continue after the fbi raid of the florida estate. and the revelation that it was related to possible espionage violations. of course, all of this new data is about to be field tested in a pair of state primaries tuesday. when in florida, when in new york, whose base comes out more energized ahead of november. we will be watching. alaska not one, but two state wide candidates in trump racist
declining to answer more than 440 questions during a civil deposition in new york on wednesday. i will be joined by former national security advisor and u.n. ambassador john bolton to talk about the iranian plots to kill him and four other top trump national security officials and to get his reaction to the new legal troubles surrounding his former boss. and i will speak to chef and global humanitarian jose andres from ukraine to update the work by his non-profit to keep communities fed after more than five months of war. he met with president zelenskyy today. let s talk about the internal deliberations within the justice department. barbara, we understand that there are concerns inside the fbi and others that the fbi chief chris wray was so careful about the justice department guidance that he did not push back when he was in nebraska yesterday against the false claims by the president and others the fbi could have planted information there. yeah. that is a baseless piece