writing that they lacked evidence at the outset of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. this stands at odds with the 2019 justice department inspector generals conclusion, that there was adequate basis for opening the inquiry. we ll talk shortly with andrew mccabe, who is at the fbi at the time. he joins us. he s long invested the investigation. the former president has seized on the report and claiming indication, though it certainly does not as he once claimed it would, reveal, quote, the crime of the century. for more on what s actually in today s report, we re joined by cnn s evan perez. so what stands out to you in this? anderson, the lack of any new prosecutions. that stands out because we were expecting, certainly we were led to believe by th e former president, by the former administration, that this investigation was going to find crimes. they were going to find conspiracy by the deep state, to go after donald trump. john durham concludes here is that
conclusion n. a 360 -page report released today, durham says the fbi should have never opened the investigation at all, concluding that the bureau overly relied on raw and unconfirmed intelligence, writing that they lacked evidence at the outset of collusion between the trump campaign and russia. this stands at odds with the 2019 justice department inspector general s conclusion that there was basis for opening the inquiry. we ll talk shortly with andrew mccabe. he ll give us his first reaction to the report. the former president is claiming vindication, though it certainly does not, as he once claimed it would, reveal the, quote, crime of the century. for more of what s in today s report, we re joined by evan perez. what stands out for you in this? the lack of any new prosecutions. that stands out because we were expecting certainly we were led to believe by the former president, by the former administration, that this investigation was going to find crimes. they were g
13th, impeached, indict-able, and unrepentant. as he pursues another bid for the white house, the former president in the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination continues to tessa limits of the law even as he remains tangled up in a multitude of legal troubles. all of this on full display for the public over the past week. on tuesday, a jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer and former magazine columnist ej carroll, who accused trump of raping her inside a bergdorf goodman dressing room back in the mid 1990s. yet just one day later, trump appeared on a nationally televised town hall event and mocked carroll again, and continue to claim that her allegations were quote, a fake story. now this is not an isolated incident for donald trump either. it s a pattern of behavior, he has a long history going back decades of weaponizing the legal system to his advantage. in just the last few years, we ve repeatedly witnessed
governor intensifying and apparently costing the state thousands of jobs just days af before the republican is ex expecting to announce his campaign. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a new u.s. message about the war in ukraine. a significant development as president biden is out there on the world stage right now and in a potentially very pivotal moment in the conflict. phil mattingly is with the president at the summit in japan. kn nic robertson is in eastern ukraine. phil, as the president prepares for this summit, the biden administration is signaling a major shift on ukraine. what can you tell us? yeah, wolf, it would be a significant development. the president is just a few hours away from starting the first day at the g-7 summit here meeting with leaders. leaders that have been integral to the steadfast support of ukraine since russia s invasion oaf the course f the year
chatbot known as chatgpt is going to be testifying on capitol hill just hours from now. also, in ukraine a top chinese diplomat set to arrive in the capital on a peace mission. his visit comes after russia launched a huge barrage of missiles overnight and drones against the ukrainian capital. and the nba conference finals begin tonight. lebron james and the los angeles lakers will take on two-time mvp nikola jokic and the denver nuggets. cnn this morning starts right now. all right. here is where we begin. president biden will meet with members leaders of congress today trying to get some sort of progress on a debt ceiling teal. treasury secretary janet yellen reiterating the u.s. could default on its debt two weeks from now in a letter to howard liebengood the treasury will no longer be able to satisfy the government s obligations if congress is not acted to raise or suspend the debt limit by june 1. house speaker kevin mccarthy echoed yellen s urgency in the halls o