the campaign, but yeah, it was great. i can t get enough of it. i want to tell our very talented camera crew that you want more of it, but we will have more of it. come on, it looked like they were having fun. i think they had fine. they don t really have a choice. but they would be appreciative anyway. getting a lot of exercise. thank you, alex. this is one of those nights when we are very lucky to be joined by former federal prosecutor andrew wise s men and because we need their expertise to discuss what would normally be a routine filing in a criminal case which special prosecutor jack smith used this afternoon to hit back hard against donald trump s criminal defense lawyers. the ten-page ruling followed by a signature page with jack smith s name at the top says that donald trump s request for an indefinite continuance for a trial date, quote, borders on frivolous. jack smith knocks down every argument the trump lawyers make for an indefinite delay. on page two,
coverage continues now with t te swituation room. a scathing report describing the president as an elderly man with a poor memory. voters concerns about the president s age weigh on his re-election bid. donald trump is courting people in pennsylvania. we will get a read on his message a day after his ballot battle at the u.s. supreme court that seemed to go his way. fresh tense between the united states and israel after president biden calls the israeli military s operation in gaza over the top. this as israel is facing backlash over a planned evacuation and ground offensive in the refugee-packed city of rafah. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt and you are in the situation room. president biden lashed out at the special counsel for portraying him as a forgetful old man who can t remember when his own son died. arlette saens has more. we saw a full court press by team biden. repo
partially correct. if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invadingef ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less aboute nato and somehow starti this war s would make that happ, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine there were 30 i countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country. and now as of tonight we know that sweden is going to join natoat as well. sweden said months ago that they wanted to join, but this is something that really until today looked like it couldn t happen and that s because for a new country to join nato, it has to be a unanimous decision. all the nato countries have to agree with h the decision, if o country doesn t agree it doesn t happen. and inre the case of sweden it s an original nato it was a nato w member, a single nato country,in turkey, that said no. they saidid finland was okay
6th. i think i have that date right. there have been 4,001 gun deaths. 4,001 in the first month and few days. i want to put the pictures back up of the four people who died at the hand of ethan crumbley. madison, justin, just 17. what do we owe those 4,001 people this year? those four oxford students, and everyone who dies at the hands of gun violence? we live in a society where we can t control everything that happens outside of our household. we expect and demand a lot of each other every day to protect and keep our communities safe. one of the things that s most important is to talk about it with each other and to insure if you have a firearm, safely store it. that means having the gun unloaded, locked and ammunition separate. that s one of the major things we can do. if all of us did that, we could change the trajectory of gun violence in this country. 76% of school shooters get their gun from a home. we would have families who have lost their children at school. let s
summit. as ukraine is pushing to join the alliance, cnn is on the ground in lithuania where the president and key u.s. allies are preparing for their high-stakes talks. also tonight, new developments in the trump classified documents indictment. the trump team now facing a deadline to weigh in on the timing of the trial. this as the former president s co-defendant is accused of unnecessary delay by the special counsel. and parts of the northeastern united states are swamped by historic flooding, a once in a thousand-year rainfall swallowing cars in west point, new york. i ll speak with the new york governor, kathy hochul. this hour we ll discuss the state s emergency response. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, on the eve of a pivotal nato summit, we re learning that ukrainian president zelenskyy plans to make a personal appeal on ukraine s bid to join the alliance. he ll atte