rejecting a request by special counsel jack smith to decide now whether the former president has immunity so his trial can begin on time in march. it comes as new evidence emerges, the reported tape of mr. trump pressuring michigan election officials, what he allegedly said. also tonight, the tragedy in gaza. the first known american listed as a hostage confirmed dead. the fears for his wife still in captivity. the heart-pounding body cam, police responding to the deadly mass shooting at a university in prague. what it reveals. the record surge at the border and the new reporting. our cameras there as busloads of migrants are released onto arizona streets. the holiday travel crush. millions on the move and the storms we re tracking. will they disrupt your trip? the terror at sea. videos of a rogue wave slamming a cruise ship more than 250 passengers stranded. the dramatic rescue. a man trapped under rocks for days in a tunnel on a san diego cliffside. the moment h
you ve seen an exclusive, the missing binder of secrets, highly classified information related to russian election interference. what went missing in the final hours of the trump white house hasn t been seen since. what was in it? who had access? the disappearance and the mystery around it not known until now. so any moment now we could get a verdict on damages in rudy giuliani s defamation trial as the jury weighing a potentially $48 million decision resumes dleb operations. former president barack obama and president joe biden back together again at the white house, the major 2024 project behind this rare reunion. i m sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. you are looking at breaking news right now, exclusive new cnn reporting about highly classified intelligence that went missing at the end of the trump administration. the information relates to russian election interference. information that was deemed so secret it could only
biden expected to arrive in japan this hour for the g7 summit. we re live in hiroshima with a look at why this is a shortened overseas trip for the president. looking at live pictures there in fact. plus, new evidence in the special counsel s criminal investigation of donald trump s handling of classified documents. details on cnn s exclusive new reporting. and we are learning more about the paparazzi chase of harry and meghan in new york. we re live in london on what the royal couple s team is calling near catastrophic. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. u.s. president joe biden is in japan this hour ahead of a summit of the world s leading democracies. we re just waiting for him to land at this moment. this is a live picture. g7 leaders are expected to discuss the war in ukraine and how to counter china s growing influence around the world. but mr. biden has canceled visits to australia and papua-new
do you still have any classified documents in your possession? no, i don t. i don t have anything. i have no classified documents. and by the way, they become automatically declassified when i took them. a source close to trump s legal team says the former president may go to court to prevent the presidential records from being handed over, . he whether only have about a week before the national archives says they re giving if records to the special counsel. paula reed joins us right now. what does this letter mean, this letter from the national archives mean for the criminal investigation into trump s handling of classified documents? we know the special counsel is looking at several potential crimes, including the pos mishandling of classified records. this will answer the question whether the former president knowingly removed classified documents without authorization. because according to this letter obtained by our colleague, the archives says that these 16 reco
the league and political battles over abortion. one of the nation s pose conservative courts weighing it as state legislatures in north and south carolina take new action to ban the procedure. 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 cnn s exclusive reporting on new evidence in the trump classified documents investigation. cnn special correspondent jamie gangel broke the story for us, jamie, tell us what you re learning. reporter: wolf, cnn has obtained this letter from the national archives to president trump informing him that the archives is getting ready to hand over 16 new presidential records to special council. thises is far as we know we have not seen the records yet but the evidence . it suggests that trump had first-hand knowledge that you just do not declassify material with a wave of a hand. there is a rigorous process. as we have heard multiple times, trump an