Photo. We begin with nbcs Aaron Gilchrist in New Hampshire where President Biden just touched down a short time ago. Aaron, what are we expecting there . Reporter chris, good afternoon, we expect to hear from the president near the bottom of the hour here, and this is an official event as opposed to the Campaign Events we saw on saturday and on friday in philadelphia area, and in atlanta. Today the president s focus as we understand it from a white house official, will be on lowering health care costs, something he talked about during the state of the Union Address and will reiterate today, highlighting in particular his call on congress to make some changes to enact some policies that he believes would Lower Health Care costs, proposals that are in the president s budget that was released today, the 2025 budget. In particular, theres one portion of the president s policy plan that would reduce rather, cap costs for prescription drugs, theyre drugs that are already capped for people wh
Deadline in the 2020 election interference case. Hes got until 5 00 p. M. This afternoon to respond to special counsel jack smiths request for a protective order. Smith is trying to block trump from disclosing evidence and making Public Comments that could intimidate witnesses or undermine the case. Smith asked the judge to step in after trump issued a vague threat on social media on friday. He wrote in all caps, quote f you go after me, im coming after you. This morning, were also keeping a close watch on Fulton County, georgia, where trump is facing another potential indictment for trying to overturn the election. The streets around the courthouse are being shut down as the grand jury considers charges. Trumps lawyer went on a media blitz and appeared on all five networks sunday morning. He floated a new defense for trump, alleged will pressuring mike pence and georgia officials to overturn the election results. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking i
Right now. Martha thank you very much, guys. Good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum on this monday. This is the story. Nikki haley will join us live on this day before Super Tuesday. Lots to speak with her about today. Also john kirby is here as the white house faces huge chal challenges electorally, israeli and the border. But first, former President Trump celebrating the Supreme Courts unanimous decision rejecting State Efforts to keep him off of the ballot. You cannot take somebody out of a race. The voters can take the person out of the race very quickly. But a court shouldnt be doing that. The Supreme Court saw that very well. I really do believe that will be a unifying factor. While most states were thrilled to have me, there were some that didnt. They didnt want that for political reasons. They didnt want that because of poll numbers. The poll numbers are very good. Were beating President Biden in almost every poll. Martha okay. Well talk about a lot of these polls. These are the n
happening now, colorado s top election official joins us live just hours before donald trump is expected to appeal decisions banning him from the ballot in that state and also in maine. also this hour, breaking news out of japan, multiple deaths now confirmed after a powerful 7.5 earthquake. dramatic pictures from the disaster zone are coming in to cnn. in the midst of war, a potentially divisive ruling by israel s high court, striking down a key part of the netanyahu government s controversial judicial overhaul plan. what will it mean for israel as it s already em broimed in conflict and crisis. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is offer today. i m brianna keilar. this is a situation room special report. we begin this hour with former president trump s unprecedented legal fight against his removal from primary ballots in colorado and maine. the formal appeals expected tomorrow. let s go right to cnn s senior justice departmen
over e-mails showing teacher s union helped coordinate the cdc s school s reopening guidance. weingarten says it s way out of proportion. to summarize, aft was provided with a full draft of the copy suggested line by line edits we did not, sir. did not suggest line by line edits to the document. well, do you remember how many edits that you suggested? we suggested concepts, sir. do you know how many edits were included? one. it s unusual for political union to have such a role in scientific guidance process and hopefully we can find more answers. weingarten forced to admit that she had a direct line to the cdc director, rochelle walensky. do you have a direct number to her? do i have her direct number? yes. yes, i have her directed enough. hopefully she will give it to me, too. the school lockdown fallout does not end there. dr. fauci said show me a school i shut down and factory i shut down. never. never i did. i gave a public health recommendatio