and his top republican rivals are swarming the campaign trail tonight with 2024 almost here. we re getting a new read on the former president s confidence heading into the iowa caucuses. his campaign already predicting when he ll clinch the gop nomination. also tonight, a major legal challenge to a strict and sweeping new immigration law in texas. will civil rights groups be able to block the measure that authorizes police in texas to arrest migrants? a stunning explosion of red-hot lava as a volcano erupts in iceland. cnn is right near the danger zone getting updates on the threat from the oozing inferno and the toxic gases spewing into the air? 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 presidential politics at an all-out push for votes in iowa tonight. the top three republican candidates are getting ready to hold events in the lead-off caucus state. front-runner donald trump i
Come november for the general election should she ultimately lock up her partys nomination. Donald trump, and that is not only because he leads the republican delegate count or because he crushed his competition in indiana last night. We know for a fact it will be mr. Trump because he is the only republican left. Ted cruz suspended his campaign after his indiana loss and sources now say john kasich will do the same in an announcement scheduled for a little later today. So lets parse all of this out before we take Hillary Clinton live. Let me bring in our political guru, mr. David chalion, our cnn political director and cnn chief Political Correspondent dana bash, and we have m. J. Lee here in new york with breaking details first and foremost on the Ohio Governor. M. J. , what do we know about governor kasich . Well, john kasich, it sounds like, is out of the ration, and, remember, brooke, he has really had no path forward for a long time. This is not a sudden development, not even surp
I was deeply shocked and alarmed this friday to hear my opponent attack, slander, smear, demean these wonderful, amazing people who are supporting our campaign. It was, perhaps, the most explicit attack on the American Voter ever spoken by a major Party President ial nominee. Total disrespect for the people of our country. Now, back to secretary clintons comments from friday, she did tweet out her regrets, admitting it was wrong for her to say half. She did not back down, though, on linking racists to the Trump Campaign. But you will not be seeing Hillary Clinton today making a case for herself. Shes been forced to call out sick from the trail. Critics are knocking her for her lack of transparency over her illness. The question being, why didnt her Campaign Just come out and tell vote rz she was sick when she was first diagnosed with pneumonia friday . Instead her doctor revealed clintons illness two days later, only when this video came out. A pass erby happened to grab ths on a cell
Muellers investigators have also interviewed attorney general Jeff Sessions. A source says that the conversation lasted several hours and inquiried about whether the president obstructed justice. The president just weighed in about the sessions interview toda today. Are you concerned about what the attorney general told the special counsel . No, im not at all concerned. Did you talk to him . Sbl no, i didnt, but im not at all concerned. And responding to the current fbi director, a source says that Christopher Wray threatened to quit after attorney general Jeff Sessions pressured him. Sessions wanted wray to make senior staff changes, firing andrew mccabe. The president spoke out a few minutes ago and said thats not true. That didnt happen. Did Christopher Wray threaten to resign . Not at all. Not even a little bit. Hes going to do a good job. Lets go to jim scuitto, national correspondent. First on the story of the fact that we now know muellers team interviewed comey at some point la
Democratic politicians, the mayor of dayton, ohio, and ohio senator sherrod brown. Well, they shouldnt be politicking today. I had it had with Sherrod Brown. He and the mayor, nan walley. They asked to go in could we go in and make the tour with you . I said yeah, lets do it. They couldnt believe what they saw. And they said it to people. They had never seen anything like it. The entire hospital, no different than what we had in el paso. The entire hospital was, i mean, everybody was so proud of the job they did because they did a great job. They did a great job here. And then i say goodbye. I took them in at their request. We made the tour. They couldnt believe it. She said it to people he said it to people. I get on air force one where they have a tchgss. I turn on the televisions there they are saying well i dont know if it was appropriate for the president to be here. Et cetera, et cetera. The same old line. They are dishonest people and thats why he got i think about zero and he