it would be his first opportunity to offer the democratic response to over an hour of trump lies delivered by cnn, and over the course of the previous hour. so, this will be his first opportunity to react to things like a former president of the united states advocating a default on the debt, stuff that we ve never heard before. you know it s been a crazy hour when we didn t even have time to get to that part of global financial catastrophe, because there was so much other crazy we had to plow through first. i am appeared to see leader jeffries response to all of that madness. thank you, alex. have a great show. thank you. well, as i said, hakeem jeffries is our first guest tonight. and our first guest tonight was in the room yesterday in washington, nothing matters more than who was in the room. and yesterday, the democratic leader of the house of representatives, hakeem jeffries, was in the room with three other congressional leaders and the president of the united
he is of course the democratic leader of the house of representatives, high striking democrat in the house. and it was a scheduled engagement for him to be here tonight. what we did not know was that it would be his first opportunity to offer the democratic response to over an hour of trump lies delivered by cnn, and over the course of the previous hour. so, this will be his first opportunity to react to things like a former president of the united states advocating a default on the debt, stuff that we ve never heard before. you know it s been a crazy hour when we didn t even have time to get to that part of global financial catastrophe, because there was so much other crazy we had to plow through first. i am appeared to see leader jeffries response to all of that madness. thank, you alex. have a great show. thank you. well, as i said, hakeem jeffries is our first guest tonight. and our first guest tonight was in the room yesterday in washington, nothing matters more
e. jean carroll. we re getting new reaction to the jury s verdict and the order for trump to pay $5 million in damages. cnn has learned that federal criminal charges have been filed against republican congressman george santos amid investigations into his astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications. stand by for details on our exclusive reporting. and president biden and congressional leaders just wrapped up critical talks at the white house, and there is no sign of any breakthrough on raising the nation s debt limit as the clock ticks forward a potentially very very dangerous default. 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 our coverage tonight in new york with the bomb shell verdict in e. jean carroll s civil case against donald trump. the former president found liable for sexually abusing carroll and defaming her. cnn s jean ka satellite and radar genjean casaras is joig us. gi
thanks, ari. thank you. we re tracking these two big legal breaking news stories. we have just learned the controversial new york republican congressman george santos has been indicted by the justice department. that s a federal indictment. we re tracking the story, as you heard nicolle just say in the handoff. this is as breaking as it gets. we don t have exact details, don t have the paper, but we do have reporting that that very controversial member of congress known, if nothing else, for his many lies that he was busted for, is now indicted. indeed, this is a fast moving story because he s expected to appear in court as soon as tomorrow. we re tracking that story as well as the other big legal development a jury finding donald trump liable for sexual abuse and lies the defamation this jury says he found he committed against e. jean carroll. that s a huge story, an important one. we have been covering that trial continuously, and i have two essential experts to lea
about the 14th amendment getting involved is that the most likely unilateral executive path, worst-case scenario? i don t think that s a problem now. and it can only solve the problem once the court has ruled that it does apply for future endeavors. joining us now is professor laurence tribe who has taught constitutional law at harvard law school for five decades. as the new york times noted in his latest opinion essay about the debt ceiling, he has advised three democratic presidents unconstitutional issues, involving the separation of powers, and the 14th amendment. professor tribe, i was hanging on every word that the president said about the 14th amendment and you. what is your response to what you just heard the president say? well, i m glad their president is considering the constitutional reason that i think he has really a duty to spend the money that congress