select committee, congresswoman zoe lofgren. and the uvalde texas school board suspends its police force, and it s expected to discuss the superintendent s retirement, all following cnn s exclusive reporting on the school massacre. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the firestorm over president biden s surprise warning of a potential armageddon following russian president vladimir putin s nuclear threats. let s get straight to our cnn white house correspondent, mj lee. mj, we ve heard the administration say they take the nuclear threat from russia seriously. we have not heard talk of armageddon before. does the white house now think americans have reason to be concerned tonight? well, wolf, anybody who was listening to the president s comments last night may have had good reason to feel concerned, because this was a pretty remarkable warning that we heard directly fro
about the paul pelosi attack, raising serious questions about the security for u.s. lawmakers. moments from now, i ll get reaction from the san francisco district attorney trying the case against the suspect. plus, joe biden preparing for a major speech on threats to american democracy. this as an exclusive new cnn poll shows voters are overwhelmingly focused in on the u.s. economy. is the president in touch with their concerns? and new u.s. intelligence leads to very disturbing discussions inside the russian military about scenarios for using nuclear weapons in ukraine. a key white house national security official, john kirby, joins me live this hour. we ll discuss. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to our top story. new fallout from the paul pelosi attack. u.s. capitol police now facing intense scrutiny from a top u.s. house committee chairwoman. cnn law enforcemen
members of the far right extremist group talking about bringing weapons to the capitol to, quote, fight for former president trump. this was months before the insurrection. and the fbi was alerted. we ve got it all covered, but we begin in florida where the race to find the missing is entering a desperate critical phase. let s go first to boris sanchez in fort myers. and boris, update us on the search efforts. reporter: ana, this is an arduous process for this community. it is still classified as search and rescue, but it is slowly becoming a search and recovery operation. we heard from the sheriff of lee county just a short time earlier today and he shared with us the difficulty that his crews are having as they comb through communities that are now unrecognizable, sifting through debris and uncovering bodies. here in lee county there are at least 55 fatalities because of hurricane ian. this county makes up the bulk of all fatalities for the state of florida. still the she
meeting in june, and this subpoena essentially prompted this meeting where we know that the trump lawyers gave a little tour to some of the prosecutors and investigators doing this investigation, showed them where these documents were being held, and at the end of that meeting they left with classified documents, documents that were national security information. that s the reason why that meeting occurred. what it tells us is that these conversations, these discussions that were on going between trump lawyers and the justice department turned contentious much earlier, much, much earlier than the search that occurred on monday. we re also learning that part of all of this involves a witness, at least one witness. do we know, was that witness saying there s still documents you missed on june 8th? this witness told them there were definitely documents being held at mar-a-lago that the fbi needed to get, obviously wanted to get. this was information that included classified
that ballot, when they go into that voter booth. it will say because kansasian value women and children, the constitution of the state of kansas does not require government funding of abortion and does not create or secure a right to abortion. so one could argue that this is clearly skewed from an anti-abortion perspective. this is called the value them both amendment. and even if this was not the number one issue for many state residents, they have just been bombarded by canvassers both for and against this amendment for the last several weeks. how much will the outcome of this vote in kansas tell us about the potency of this issue in the mid terms? it s a key question, victor. democrats are hoping this will be an issue that will galvanize voters. and illustrate republicans have become too extreme. that is their hope. polling suggests the issue has become sort of a boost for otherwise disspirited democrats. they seem to be having success with how they re talking about ab