president trump to fight as commander in chief. also, former president trump making an emergency request to the supreme court asking the high court to intervene in that dispute over materials the fbi seized from mar-a-lago over the summer. they request the 100 or so documents become part of the special master s review. and next hour, president biden and jill biden will head to florida to var the destruction in the wake of hurricane ian so far claimed 109 lives. the president will meet with florida governor ron desantis. also he ll speak with homeowners, business owners, people that have been wiped out by the storm. we ll get to that in a moment. first, let s begin with our cnn law enforcement correspondent on this on what was a secret reporting played in this second day of the oath keeper s trial. what more can you tell us? this is a huge moment very early on in the trial. the doj is passing this audio recording as proof that these five people on trial for conspiracy be
there where he expected to be briefed by florida governor ron desantis. of course, the two men have many political differences between the two of them. but the white house is insisting that this is a moment where they re going to put politics aside and focus on the recovery and rescue efforts that are under way in florida. the president will also be meeting with small business owners and individuals who were impacted by this hurricane. and it also thanks local, state, and federal officials who have been working tirelessly on the ground there. he is also expected to deliver remarks while in ft. myers. but certainly this is a moment for the president to once again put on his consoler in chief hat as he visits with those who have been impacted by the storm. and also sees firsthand the damage that has been brought by hurricane ian. the president, of course, has said this is not just a crisis for florida but an american crisis and has pledged that the u.s. and federal government will be the
silent this morning on a sex scandal surrounding a top republican party official. steve wynn has stepped now do you as the finance chair of the republican national committee amitt reports that he forced dozens of women to perform sex acts on him at his casino. we are learning new details about the bipartisan effort to stop the president from firing special counselor bob mueller in the midst of the russia investigation. let s start with president trump s anticipated state of the union address. cnn politics reporter dan merica joining us now. i know the president is calling out democrats ahead of this speech. walk us through what has been said thus far. the president, we are told, is really going to put on his salesman and chief hat on tuesday night and try to sell this unpopular immigration plan. the white house rolled it out last week. they managed to upset both democrats and republicans. you remember the plan would include a path waway for
operative who only a few weeks later was communicating with both sides of the theft of the hillary clinton e-mails. he was communicating with communicating with julian assange the wikileaks person who was publishing this russian hacking. what you re finding here is more and more what were allegations before now seem to have a lot more credibility. a lot more credibility. michael, put your former rnc chief hat on. what did gop leaders do with this new news that doesn t stop coming out even if two days ago they said, listen, it was just a meeting. 20 minutes. nothing came of it. the fact that more information comes out and yet another person in the room with a name like this, a person with this kind of profile. how was this not mentioned and how are republicans supposed to manage this information? how they re supposed to manage it is very different from
the reason is that these generics rely on two pills rather than one pill. doesn t seem like a huge hurdle even for a relatively young woman or girl to figure out. why the about face? i think it has a lot to do with the fact that there s a lot of politics involved. when the president got involved in this and he spoke on this, he put on the cap of father 234 nchief and actually referred to his daughters and said, my goodness. i don t know how i would feel to think my daughters can go and get this kind of medication without me knowing about it. but he firmly put the politician in chief hat on because there have been losses in the lower courts and all indications this would lose yet again on a much larger scale in the larger context of the battles brewing in washington the president can t afford another loss. thank you all for joining me. appreciate it. if you didn t get enough of the