command. also breaking, a new agreement on a broad frame ocfor a potential release of hostages and cease-fire. we re told a proposal is being given to hamas. even as donald trump and house represents working actively to try to kill the bill. gop divisions on display as one republican senator is being censured by his own party for taking part in the talks. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. tonight we now know the names and the faces of the first u.s. service members killed since the war in gaza sparked a wave of attacks. our correspondents are covering all the breaking news on the deadly drone strike against u.s. troops in jordan and the biden administration s response. first, let s go to cnn s national security reporter natasha bertrand. she s over at the pentagon for us. first of all, tell us about the victims of the attack. reporter: we are
mr. wolf blitzer in the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, republican presidential candidates ron desantis and nikki haley are preparing to take questions from iowa voters live here on cnn. we re setting the stage for our back-to-back town halls with donald trump s top gop rivals. i ll speak with chris christie this hour. also tonight, newly released documents reveal that they spent millions of various trump-owned property while he was president. we re following the money trail. isis is now claiming responsibility for a pair of deadly explosion. how this attack could impact wartime tensions in the middle east. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. behind me are live pictures in des moines as they will soon appear in back-to-tack town hall events. let s go to kristin holmes, live from sioux city in iowa. with the caucuses only is 1 days away, what are we hearing from the c
the tape from donald trump discussing a very sensitive military document could be a game-over moment for the ex-president in the classified documents investigation. it s a recording that not only significantly increases trump s legal exposure. but it also blows a gaping hole through many of the defenses that team trump has been peddling in public in the case. the ex-president s lawyer jim trusty went on cnn last night, playing defense in the wake of the bombshell news first reported by cnn of the tape s existence. and repeated a line that will be familiar to anyone who s been following this case. will trump display documents at will or as trump puts it even by just thinking about it. what i will tell you is there is no doubt as commander in chief when the president left washington, d.c. for mar-a-lago, he was actually still president, when he left with boxes that he brought he was the command in chief. there s no doubt he had the authority as commander in chief to be classi
never seen. and if this trial doesn t go forward because of the court s delay, in answering this question, the american public may literally never see this evidence. everyone, thank you so much, and really appreciate your analysis and expertise. that does it for us today. for now, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. thank you for being with us. chris jansing picks up our coverage right now. good morning. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern. 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m chris jansing in for jose diaz-balart. we re going to pick up with that breaking news from the u.s. supreme court, issuing several major decisions as its term is coming to a close, but most particularly that ruling in favor of a january 6th rioter, and another one that sweeps aside the long-standing precedent. let me bring in nbc s ken dilanian outside the u.s. supreme court. barbara mcquade is a former u.s. attorney who is also an msnbc legal analyst. let s reset the stage here, ken. what did the court say in its ruli
that number is likely only a tiny fraction of the overall payments that trump businesses actually received. this report only covers two years of the trump president set and only accounts for a handful of trump businesses. so the question is whether that money influenced the policymaking. one example is trump declined to issue sanctions on the chinese bank despite the fact that doj had issued a complaint and accused the chinese bank of conspiring with north korea to avoid sanctions. that was one of the larger tenants of trump tower. a lot of these lease agreements were before trump became president. it s complicated, and meanwhile, the trump administration has denied any wrongdoing, this is coming as house represents are pursuing an impeach mint of president biden over his son s