weekend of campaign rallies to try and fire up his base ahead of the caucus there. president biden travels to the valley forge area, home to george washington s war encampment, to deliver a speech on america s democracy, marking three years since the capitol insurrection on january 6. secretary blinken overseas for high-stakes diplomacy, with tensions flaring throughout the middle east. a new u.s. drone strike in iraq calls for revenge from hezbollah. all as the idf is pressed by nbc on civilian casualties in gaza. good to be with you. andrea mitchell is on assignment traveling with secretary of state antony blinken in the middle east. it s january 5, 2024. president biden is beginning his campaign season, heading to valley forge where soldiers trained to fight for the new promise of america. using the historical site to warn voters that donald trump is dangerous, a threat he says to that idea of america, to our democracy. just remember what happened three years ago
wolf blitzer s on assignment. i m alex marquart, and you re in the situation room. and first up tonight, our exclusive report on a federal criminal investigation into former president donald trump. attorneys for the former president unable now to locate a classified document that he referenced on an audiotape now in possession of prosecutors. kaitlan collins is on the team that broke the story and has the latest. take us through what we know. reporter: what happened is mario martin, this press aide to former president trump who was in the white house and now has followed him to mar-a-lago, went and testified as many people who were in that orbit these days have gone before jack smith s investigators. she was in there in mid-march, we re told it was shortly after she left that grand jury that prosecutors sent a subpoena to the former president saying that they wanted any and all documents related to iran and general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs that trum
good evening everyone. i m john king. welcome to cnn tonight. debt ceiling drama. we are closer to a deal but not there yet. the fact that janet yellen essentially gave them four more days means, well, we have a ways to go. even if they make a deal tomorrow morning can they get it done in time? plus can a trump-like candidate beat donald trump? that is the question as ron desantis gets his campaign in high gear. the florida governor not shy at all about taking on the former president, ripping him on the border of all things, calling him a big spender, and blasting his covid policies. i don t know what happened to donald trump. this is a different guy today than when he was running in 2015 and 2016. i think the direction that he is going with his campaign is the wrong direction. no other republican in the trump era has been able to walk that tight rope. the question is can ron desantis? and here is a sobering thought this memorial day weekend. whenever you go in the wate
a very good wednesday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. we begin this hour with new details about the victims and also the gunman in that deadly mass shooting at michigan state university. first, the three people killed who have now been identified and so young, 20-year-old brian fraser, 19-year-old arielle anderson and 20-year-old alexandria verner. the 43-year-old gunman we ve learned apparently did leave behind a note and a criminal history that includes a gun charge, but what is still unknown this morning, the motive, and also how he got the firearm, which was reportedly used in the shooting. you look at pictures of their kids you think of their poor families. also ahead this morning, former south carolina governor nikki haley makes the first stop of her 2024 presidential campaign, we re going to take you live to charleston, south carolina, and just in a key report shows that retail sales surged in january, beating expectations. more signs of a ve
murder charges this evening over the death of a black motorist during a traffic stop. memphis officials are worried about civil unrest tonight. the district attorney says the city will release body cam video tomorrow. correspondent charles watson is in memphis tonight with the latest. good evening, charles. good evening, bret. all five memphis police officers face second degree murder charges in the death of nichols. steve announced the charges this afternoon after a grand jury convened this morning and indicted the officers in their roles in the beating death of nichols during the traffic stop earlier this month. today all five officers were booked in the shelby county jail this coming nearly a week after the memphis police department fired the officers following an internal investigation that revealed multiple policies were violated during a violent confrontation with nichols on january 7th. body cam video of the encounter has not yet been released but folks. described it