the wait right now up to 13 hours. king charles iii and prince william greeting some who have gathered there to grieve, to mourn, shaking hands with well-wishers. prince william and the queen s other seven grandchildren will all stand vigil by her coffin in just a couple of hours from now. cnn s ar is let signs and anna stewart pick up our coverage. arlette, to you first. give us an idea what the president s schedule is. reporter: president biden and first lady jill biden are currently en route to the united kingdom to pay their respects to queen elizabeth ii. and also offer their condolences to the royal family. now, biden s departed joint base andrews a short while ago. they didn t answer reporters question as they left. they will be landing in the uk around 10:00 p.m. local time later this evening. and tomorrow the couple is expected to pay their respects to queen elizabeth at westminster hall before signing a condolence book for the queen. they will also be attending a
glimpse of what s happening behind the scenes in the documents investigation. prosecutors are reportedly laser focused on a witness that could lead them directly to the impeached disgraced president himself. and witness for prosecutors is walt nata who worked as a valet and cook when trump was president and him later personally in mar-a-lago. the president s private residence in florida. prosecutors have indicated they re skeptical of an initial account he gave investigators. that s according to two people briefed on the matter. and here is what prosecutors hope to learn from nauta from the timers reporting, quote, security camera footage obtained by investigators showed mr. nauta moving boxes out of the storage area at mar-a-lago. raising the questions about whether they were moved at trump s behest, to conceal them from the authorities. or trump s own lawyers who were dealing with demands that he return the documents. both the justice department and the attorney for walt na
superstar brittany grine ner russia, what the white house is now saying about a potential prisoner swap with moscow s, spoiler, it s complicated. i will tell you what americans saw today when griner had the first in opinion person visit in months. the one time adviser to former president trump getting immunity from the d.o.j. and why the government is giving kash patel a pass to try to get him to talk to the grand jury in the larlg case. and the huge amount of conservative cash pouring into midterm races that typically fly well under the radar, school boards and how it affects education across the country. i m hallie jackson. we want to bring in kelly o donnell, shaq brewster is in wisconsin, and ellison barber is in georgia, where we expect to see senator raphael warnock out this hour. kelly, i ll start you with. teeing up the speech that we expect to see from the president, if he s on time at some point this hour, talking student debt relief, coming at a time as you kno
soledar is important more than anything as a symbolic victory after months of defeats in and around kyiv, kharkiv region, and kherson as well. so for them, after suffering these defeats to take soledar would be a victory, a symbolic, if not strategic victory. ben wedeman, thank you very much. appreciate that. cnn this morning continues right now. lisa marie presley, good morning, everyone, friday, january 13th and we are remembering lisa marie presley. looking back at the life of elvis only daughter. she was so young. we ll look at her life. also a special counsel now appointed to investigate joe biden s classified document scandal. who is robert hur and what does this mean for the president? in just a few moments senate majority leader, chuck schumer is going to join us at the desk. what he thinks of the president s handling of classified materials. we begin with more than 30 tornados have torn through the south with georgia and alabama hit the hardest
analyst, julia cayenne. good evening. sarah, bad news for the doj tonight. the judge, rejecting their request to continue the premiere lobe into classified documents while the review plays out. what more do you know? that s right. the judge, basically, set, one, i won t take the government on face value that these documents are classified. she wants a special master to review them. to, she says, she doesn t think it will cause irreparable harm for the justice department to press pause on their ability to review these documents. she said, you can still go forward with parts of their investigation. if you want to talk to witnesses about how these documents were moved, or storage, you can do that. when it comes to reviewing the documents, forensic may be presenting them before a grand jury, which is a helpful thing to do when you re in the middle of a criminal investigation. you can t do anything like that. she does say, they can brief congress, so, we are waiting to see if th