to have suffered minor damage. let s start by hearing from the us national security adviserjake sullivan, who called on all countries to join together to stop the houthis from what he said was hijacking the world. he was in speaking in the last few minutes. we speaking in the last few minutes. - anticipated the houthis would try to hold this at risk, and we continue to reserve the right to take further action. but this needs to be an all hands on deck effort. this comes down notjust do the decisions of the countries that took strikes last week, but the broad set of countries, including those with influence in tehran and other capitals in the middle east, making this a priority to indicate the rejection of wholesale that a group like the houthis can hijack the world as they are doing. the us has struck and destroyed four missiles that were a prepared to launch from houthi controlled territory in yemen. barbara slavin is a distinguished fellow at the stimson center in washingt
piece of stripe gum. the situation room with wolf blitzer starts right now. see you tomorrow. happening now, breaking news. closing arguments just wrapped up in donald trump s new york civil fraud trial. the former president taking his campaign to the courtroom, launching into a rambling speech before being cut off by the judge who urged trump s attorneys to control their client. plus, we re now in the final stretch before iowa decides with the first in the nation caucuses just four days away. nikki haley and ron desantis trying to capitalize on last night s heated cnn debate and close the gap with republican front-runner donald trump. a key haley supporter, new hampshire governor chris sununu joins me live this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. and let s get straight to the breaking news. donald trump s new york civil fraud trial comes to
and withholding and concealing records. later today, trump will campaign in georgia and north carolina, where voters will hear from him for the first time since the indictment was unsealed. on tuesday, he s expected to be arraigned on those federal charges in miami. nbc news justice joins me now. can, i appreciate you joining us once again to get our 8:00 hour kicks off. tell us what we can expect to see from donald trump s arraignment on tuesday, a lot of us, and all of us, saw his arraignment when he was arraigned in the manhattan d.a. s office for those hush money payments that remains to stormy daniels. is there going to be a different process this time? slightly different, and many ways the same, katie. as you know, the federal system is a bit different from a state court in new york. i just think, as a matter of history and moments, it s a much bigger deal, in part because this is the federal government that donald trump used to run. he presided over. these people
room one day before a doj official came for the classified documents. the worker was reportedly helping trump val l.a. matt nauda move the boxes but didn t know what was inside of them. nbc has yet to confirm that account. it comes on the heels of a similar the washington post report which says workers allegedly carried out a, quote, dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers his office received a may 2022 subpoena. and more shocking details from that report reveal trump showed those classified documents to other people. quote, prosecutors have gathered evidence that trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others. trump has insisted he s done no wrong. i have every right to under the presidential records act. you have the presidential records act. i was there and i took what i took and it gets declassified. i took the documents i m allowed to. but reports indicate special counsel jack smith
it s 4:00 in washington d.c. a hail mary move by the disgraced ex-president that serves as an indication that special counsel jack smith may well be close to making a decision on whether or not to indict donald trump. we re at donald trump s dear attorney general, the special counsel is being mean to me phase. make no mistake we have been here before. late yesterday lawyers for the ex-president asked for a meeting with merrick garland. the letter itself was brief, filled with the usual trump rhetoric about being persecuted despite the fact that the ex-president is the one who has resisted handing over some of the nation s most sensitive intelligence secrets. documents he kept just one lock, one door away from hundreds of people at his pay for membership club to the government who rightfully owned the documents and asked for them back. the new york times says the letter asserts that trump is treated unfairly in the investigations led by jack smith. the washington post is r