that little black and white box that will take you right there. that s it for me, for now. now, it s time for the last word. good evening, lawrence. rachel, the audiotape that you played in the last hour, we are gonna run it again. the audience gets to hear all two minutes of it, uncut, once again. and it brings to life page 15 and 16 of the indictment against donald trump in which there is a partial transcript of what we hear tonight. and that issue, when you are reading the indictment, the words sound like, as you read them, like donald trump is showing a document. but the audio, the audio sounds, you hear those paper sounds. you hear that it sounds like he is holding up a document, which he describes as being pages long. this audio recording is, again, i m not a lawyer, i don t even play one on tv. it is like if you are charging somebody with a bank robbery, and you had an audio recording of them being like, okay i got my beliklava on. i m walking into the bank. i m
bring ryan riley, i want to thank him as well, and everyone who was here tonight. i want to throw to another big gun, chris hayes. i toss it to you, my friend. this is one of the biggest nights i think for any of us who are in this business. it is a night of pathos not joy in the sense that the american republic is having to witness this integration of the presidency or the former presidency in the form of the apparently now confirmed indictment of donald trump. now c there is something so different about the manhattan district attorney indicting donald trump for actions that he took in the run up to him becoming the president in in that hush money payment scheme. we have a multi jurisdictional form of justice. they re from different jurisdictions for different crimes. the united states department of justice, this is the sort of republic at its, defending itself against itself in some senses here. it does feel like we are at the, you talk about all the clichés we is about g
Im one of those people who admit to going to davos. Cisco has the chalet on the promenade where you can go in and i i get a with it because you can watch in realtime what they are tracking nefarious activities on the global web. Im fascinated by the sources and how the sun moves and how cybernefarious activities move and i always thought connectivity created this problem. Do you trust the connectivity or should you hear it you look at that equilibrium point of how you deal with risk and resilience and what you should be worried about and whether or not we are getting it wrong. To make it such a great question and i think its a mistake to trust. I dont think we should fear but i think we should manage. I think we need to have our eyes open about the nature of the risk and its an increasingly interconnected world. 43 billion estimated 43 billion connected devices by the end of this year. Thats a massive attack and the mistake that you make is entrusting up to the point where we make ours
you still believe them to be true? yeah, of course they ll sue me again when i say that, but yeah i do. they want me to lie. basically they re suing me in order to lie to them. i m sorry, i can t do it. and the most important thing it doesn t have to be absolutely true. it has to be supportable. they have to prove i was deliberately lying, which i wasn t. rudy giuliani continue said to standby his lies about two former election workers from the state of georgia just days after a federal jury decided he must pay the women $148 million. but those women aren t done yet with the former new york city mayor. plus an update on the biden administration s push for a scaled back israeli offensive in gaza. it comes as israeli officials say they are considering what the next phase of the war will look like. and also ahead, we ll explain how trump administration immigration policies are playing a large role in ongoing negotiations over foreign aid. good morning and welcome to w
this as new york police are now increasing courthouse security just ahead of a potential trump indictment. also tonight, trump s top gop allies are rushing to his defense and trying to discredit the new york d.a. who s investigating him. trump s legal peril and the political fallout looming over a major gathering of house republicans. and a high stakes handshake, china s president xi jinping ven v strengthens his alliance with vladimir putin, praising him as a dear friend as the russian leader stands charged with war crimes in ukraine. we ll have the latest on their talks in moscow, hours after putin s defiant visit to the war zone. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we begin with the latest testimony in the new york grand jury investigation of donald trump amid questions about whether the former president is on the brink of being indicted. let s go right to our senior legal affairs corres