welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in washington along with erin burnett in new york. happening now, we re counting down to cnn s town hall with former president donald trump. new hampshire republicans as well as undeclared primary voters are standing by with questions for the gop frontrunner and it all comes as trump stares down growing legal troubles. multiple criminal investigations. an indictment in new york and a $5 million sex abuse verdict. all of that, wolf, as we are also following another story tonight. congressman george santos speaking out today. he pled not guilty to 13 federal charges. pulling a page out of of the trump playbook calling it a witch hunt. if convicted santos could face up to 20 years in prison for the top counts he faces. the republican from new york is facing calls to resign from many in his own caucus. speaker mccarthy is holding fire, saying santos deserves his day in court. also the sout
. the note he left behind and how we live, streamed the attack as it was happening and new moves to freeze a ruling that could block access to a widely used abortion pill. starting this week, the u. s. justice department asking a federal appeals court to intervene and slamming at texas. judges quote , misguided assessment of the pills. safety welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news and let s get right to the breaking news, one of two african american democrats ousted from the tennessee state house is getting his job back. cnn s ryan young is joining us live from nashville. right now we re rallies clearly are already underway in the vote to reappoint state representative justin jones happened only minutes ago. what s happening now? wolf. we re in the middle of this crowd. right now. you can see the representative standing here at the top of the capital, getting ready to go
legal process, which he is, obviously, under threat, the ethics process and the political process, by which he would return to the congress in the next election, he is under siege. mccarthy saying he wouldn t back him for re-election. obviously, their primary candidates running up to run against him. if the republican party wants to store support someone else, they can. they should. and i suspect now that the voters know who this charl tan is they will want someone else. so all the doors he could possibly escape are being closed in his face today. ambassador, people think about the doj, don t think certainly in the context of recent broader conversations, don t think of speed, okay? but this was fast. this was fast. but that doesn t surprise you? no, not at all. what they are relying on are his personal filing. as you know, you have the fec filings, ethics filings and that s you. you have submitted these documents. so they have what s called a paper case. and if they are saying did
normal to me about it. but in reality, according to propublica , this is where thomas sometimes stayed. a stone lodge on the water in the adirondacks in upstate new york, owned by harlan crow. with the exception of one trip in 1997, propublica says thomas didn t disclose any of these trips on ethics filings , thomas issued a statement saying he was advised he didn t have to report them. but watchdog groups say some laws and ethics rules were likely broken. here is this billionaire who s got lots of rich friends and can court the justice and bring his friends who are ceo to potentially influence the justice with his lavish gifts and trips and other benefits? now will the supreme court investigate or discipline clarence thomas in any way? chief justice john roberts did not respond to cnn s request for comment. in a statement to propublica, harlan crow, said, quote justice thomas and ginny thomas never asked for any of this hospitality. we never asked about a pending or lower court case,