Its the biggest election day of the year so far. Welcome to cnns Special Coverage of super tuesday im wolf blitzer in washington and im kate bolduan in new york. The first polls are closing in just a few hours from now. And turnout in states like North Carolina is strong as millions of americans and six next extreme states are now voting for republicans. It is a big day, 865 delegates are at stake. Donald trump expected to win most of them making the republican front runner almost unstoppable potentially. By the end of this light tonight, trump is expected to be within striking distance of the 1,215 delegates needed to win the republican president ial nomination, which raises the big question, what does nikki haley do next . Our less than an hour will be getting our first early clues about the outcome of tonights vote. Thats where we get the first results from our exit polls. We have our reporters fanned out across the nation right now is better. Voters are heading to the polls. I want
Him convicted came out of his mouth. This is a very sad day for america. Donald trump has never respected this country. He said this country was trash and garbage. The filth and the decay. And now he wants to lead it again. None of this is normal. This is our life now. After that i think we need to start tonight with a deep breath. Good evening once again, im stephanie ruhle. Americas 45th president , Donald John Trump returned to washington, d. C. Today as a criminal defendant. Trump appeared in federal court for his third arraignment since april, this time pleading not guilty to seeming to over the 2020 president ial election. This afternoon, trump traveled from his bedminster, new jersey home to the d. C. Courthouse just blocks from the capitals few blocks from the scene of the january 6th riot. Some protesters gathered inside but, they were over numbered by the media. Jack smith was there and seated just ten feet away from the former president. After trump pleaded not guilty, the j
republicans voted no. chad we heard yelling and cheers from the floors what could you tell us question mark democrats were yelling at republicans to close the vote democrats did not to want to impeach mayorkas. they kept yelling at regular order shut off the vote here s what happened at the end. there were 4 republicans who voted no but i wanted to point it out. here are the 4 and i want to explain why. mike gallagher, the republican of wisconsin tom mcclintock republican of california ken buck the republic of colorado and blakemore the vice chair at the end of the vote he switched his vote so it was 216-214 it was t215 to 215 and why does blakemore who wanted to impeach mayorkas switch his vote? republicans want to call this back up somewhere in the future at some point they re going to get steve scalise the majority leader out he has been out for cancer treatment and there is a on long island if the republicans win that seat this was a major defeat and this is embarrassin
I get to work here. And itjust makes me like show up more. You feel happy being in this space. I can see that. And im actually quite. When i cook, im quite manic about cleaning up as i go along, unlike my husband, who leaves a sort of minor nuclear disaster. Thats me iam. How can you cook like that . A total disaster. And then ijust Throw Everything in the sink and its a big pile of dishes. And then wejust. We work our way through it. By the way, you have so many cookbooks. I have a few. Out of the corner of my eye. I collect cookbooks, but nothing like on the scale that you do. Im obsessive. Can we have a peek . Can we have a look . Come on. I love that. This is my collection of things that i use almost all the time. If im looking for. Like, what would a good french bavette, like a flank steak be . Ill just start looking in french cookbooks and just say, oh, thats interesting. Julia child would do this and Patricia Wells would do that, and just kind of collect information for myself a
jean carroll after trump lost to her in this previous case about defamation regarding sexual assault. now, donald trump s trip to court is a stark turn from his recent victory in new hampshire. that was just tuesday. this is not how any candidate in any party, in any point in history, it has ever wanted to follow up on a primary when. let alone try to get momentum while under oath. regarding such serious allegations of defamation. now, trump s time on the stand was deliberately brief. he answered a single question from his lawyer, the judge overseeing what would be allowed. the lawyer asked if trump stood by the past deposition that he gave, which denied the underlying sexual assault that is the issue in the defamation, and trump replied, simply, 100%, yes. the lawyer tried to then bulldoze on and get donald trump to say more about denying the actual allegations, the judge intervene and struck those answers from the record. and that, very briefly, shows how court is different