mother is under scrutiny after he linked her death to 9/11. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight we have a new window into the previously unseen testimony in the january 6th investigation. the house select committee going public with a significant new batch of transcripts including the panel s interview with donald trump jr. cnn political correspondent sara murray is here with me in the situation room. she has been going through all this new material. sara, this round of transcripts involve some members of trump s inner circle. what have you learned? we ve reported on how important mark meadows texts were for this committee. and we see it again in the committee s interview with donald trump jr. he is texting mark meadows during the riot while it s infurling, saying we need an oval address. we need to leave now, talking about his father. it s gone too far and gotten out of hand. th
expected tomorrow. governor ron desantis is going to be put to the test, forced to actually do his job. when he s used to spending most of his time hanging out on fox news and owning the libs. the approaching hurricane is also changed the january 6th committee s plans. we have our hands on some documentary footage of roger stone laying out trump s plot to steal the election. which the committee is expected to show when the hearing is rescheduled. also tonight, the senate takes up the electoral count act to protect democracy. and we re going to try to answer this question of why republican lawmakers still genuflect to trump and promote his lies. we begin with florida, bracing for ian, a major hurricane that could submerge large portions of the gulf coast. and it will be a test of leadership. governing, you see, is hard. it s unsexy, and not always television friendly. and governing through a crisis, well, that is where the proverbial rubber meets the road. president bide
chairwoman betty thompson said, quote, unless something else develops, at this point, this hearing is the final hearing. just last, night committee vice chair liz cheney told a crowd at the texas tribune festival that she doesn t think this week s hearing will in fact be the last. she shared new information about what the committee obtained from the secret service around the time of the insurrection. we have received very significant production of information, material from the secret service. not just texts. the text messages themselves, in many cases, are gone. interesting. but there are other forms of investigation, like teams messages and emails, other forms of communications. we have received probably about 800,000 pages, at least, of material. now, the hearing comes just after the committee secured one of its most high-profile interviews yet, ginni thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas is expected to sit down with the panel in the coming week
bipartisan panel is set to return for a blockbuster presentation this wednesday at 1 pm eastern. we ve been telling the big story, which is this was a unorganized, premeditated, deliberated against the vice president and the congress to overthrow the 2020 presidential election and i think the public understands the basic elements of the story what we re going to do on wednesday spill in those details that have come to the attention of the committee over the last five or six weeks. earlier this week, chairman bennie thompson said, quote, unless something else develops, at this point, this hearing is the final hearing. just last, night committee vice chair liz cheney told a crowd at the texas tribune festival that she doesn t think this week s hearing will in fact be the last. she shared new information about what the committee obtained from the secret service around the time of the insurrection. we have received very significant production of information, material from t
details that the committee is aware f. i m also going to get reaction from congressman on that, plus my conversation with him about the chances we get the electoral reform act become a reality. also, we are going to talk midterms, everybody. there s lots of money. lots of ideas. but could elevating extreme candidates from supporting the former president drive a wedge between democrats and joe biden. that conversation coming up. we are also watching an election happening in one place you might not expect, italy. right now, billions are deciding whether to cast their vote for a candidate who could become the first woman to lead that country but is also leading a far-right nationalist movement. we ve also seen elsewhere we live in the ground he believes that russian president is not bluffing when it comes to nuclear threats. we have a former u.s. general standing by to give us his thoughts on this terrifying tactic. we want to start, though, with new reaction this mornin