benjamin netanyahu openly rejects american plans for postwar gaza. cnn has learned that donald trump contacted a former mar-a-lago employee who witnessed his alleged mishandling of classified documents, repeatedly calling him in the months before trump s criminal indictment. we re going to get reaction to cnn s exclusive new reporting from legendary journalist bob woodward and carl bernstein. . welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news tonight. president biden and president zelenskyy trying to present a united front here in washington as aid for ukraine right now hangs in the balance. our correspondents are standing by over at the white house, up on capitol hill, and in ukraine and in russia. first, cnn s senior white house correspondent, m.j. lee. what stood out to you from what we just heard from presidents biden and zelenskyy?
politicsnation. tonight s lead, insecurity. right now, with liz then three weeks remaining in 2023, nation s security commitments hang in the balance. after senate republicans this week blocked a spending package that tucker s israel and ukraine aid with hopes of border security. the clock is running out to get something passed and then an election looms. and last, not republicans in georgia just gutted another congressional district led by a black democrat ahead of 2024. the democrat, georgia congresswoman lucy mcbath joins me shortly with reaction this week to what happened to her district and washington. just days after a mask shooting in las vegas. a kind of gun violence she spent more than a decade protesting against. we ll discuss that. later, i m joined by the eldest loving daughter of the late, great nelson mandela. here in studio. her new biography on her father looking at his human rights outcome from an internet angle. i ll ask her what she ate make of curr
office. and in the midst of all of this, president biden will meet with stacey abrams, the woman widely credited helping flip the state of georgia and hand democrats control of the house. it comes at a critical time for voting rights in the peach state. sweeping new voting restrictions could be voted on as soon as monday. more on all of that coming up but first i want to bring in my colleague kelly o donnell at the white house and blayne alexander in atlanta. kelly, this trip has taken a whole different meeting since the shooting. what is the focus going to be? there are definitely dimensions to this day. it s the first time the president and vice president are traveling together. given the tragedy that unfolded in atlanta and wider reaction, especially in the u.s. asian american community, the white house decided to add a component to speak to those issues and the president and vice president will have a private leader with the leaders of the asian community and be makin
which may well be his signature achievement. the white house is also dealing with an escalating situation at the southern border, the biden administration employing fema to take care of hundreds of migrant teens and children who are arriving in such large numbers, there aren t facilities to shelter them. so almost 4,000 kids are being kept in border patrol facilities and even jail cells designed for adults. we re going to go live to the border in a moment. there is also breaking news involving a lingering mystery of an insurrection at the capitol. two men have been charged in the assault of capitol police officer brian sicknick, who died a day after the riot. the men were caught on video spraying officer sicknick with an unknown substance, possibly bear spray. much more on that in a moment as well, and why the mystery may have just deepened. as we await the president, we want to get to the latest reporting on that relief rollout as those checks begin to land in bank account
measure. ro kiana calls it an ideological revolution on behalf of justice. which is this, is this covid relief, or some epic anti-poverty measure? when we announced the american rescue plan, we had a set of very specific goals. one to provide the resources to get shots in people s arms and support a national vaccination campaign, provide the resources to get schools open so we get parents back to work, and provide families and businesses with the relief they need to make it to the other side of this crisis. and if you look at the legislation that the president will sign tomorrow, it does all three of those thin things in a direct and aggressive way. we re going to be able to now accelerate the national vaccination campaign. we re going to be able to provide the resources finally so schools can accelerate the reopening, and we targeted the relief in this package to those who need it most. the people who need it most are people who are working families who are struggling to m