e. jean carroll. we re getting new reaction to the jury s verdict and the order for trump to pay $5 million in damages. cnn has learned that federal criminal charges have been filed against republican congressman george santos amid investigations into his astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications. stand by for details on our exclusive reporting. and president biden and congressional leaders just wrapped up critical talks at the white house, and there is no sign of any breakthrough on raising the nation s debt limit as the clock ticks forward a potentially very very dangerous default. 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 our coverage tonight in new york with the bomb shell verdict in e. jean carroll s civil case against donald trump. the former president found liable for sexually abusing carroll and defaming her. cnn s jean ka satellite and radar genjean casaras is joig us. gi
con congresswoman ilhan omar off the house foreign affairs committee. the lead starts right now. my leadership and voice will not be diminished, if i am not on this committee for one term. my voice will get louder and stronger. republicans key committee, b comments that omar has meat critical of israel. some using anti-semitic tropes. comments for which he has apologized or ones she retracted. the minnesota democrat and only muslim refugee in congress asks today, how might this look to the rest of the world? plus, a despicable act. a young new jersey politician shot to death just steps from her own home. was she targeted or was she a victim of random violence? but first, russia ramping up strikes against ukraine, with warnings of a larger offensive on the horizon. cnn is in one town hit more than 70 times in just one day. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. russia s renewed offensive against ukraine may already be beginning. that s the assessment of volodymyr ze
Begins today in oklahoma. The final state to allow early voting. Well, the road to 270 Electoral College votes runs through tampa today. Joe biden and President Trump are making appearances in the battleground state of florida. Trump also has a stop in North Carolina where absentee ballots can be counted up to nine days after the election. We have more on that in a moment. A worsening pandemic hangs over the final days of a bitterly contentious race. Biden keeps hammering home the contrast between the candidates as the reality of a dark winter ahead sets in. Another 79,000 coronavirus cases reported yesterday in the u. S. The three worst days of the entire pandemic have all come in the past week. 41 states are headed in the wrong direction. 0 states are seeing a decline in cases. Dr. Anthony fauci now warning the u. S. May not be back to some version of normal until 2022. And he went further than hes ever gone advocating for a National Mask mandate. Do we need a National Mandate . You
Describing on the campus with a locked handgun and the voicemail also mentioned Leslie Robinson president obamas niece. So at that point the university of maryland sets up security. They have under cover Security Officers near or on the bench. Obviously, we cant tell who they are. They are under cover. 96 the secret service is here because both Sonia Sotomayor happen to be here to cheer on tear princeton tigers. There is a lot going on here in terms of actual presence you wouldnt know the difference anderson pacific, i would say i would never have known any of this were going on had i not been told mimi source. We are showing pictures of this weekend. We are talking about Fred Robinson the first ladys brother, right . That is correct. This is Craig Robinsons daughter. President obamaed the attend a game over the weekend. He is not at tonights game though . That is correct, anderson president obama is not at this game tonight. He was at the game saturday when princeton played wisconsin,
Solution. I am convinced with the effort of our allies and others there will be increased pressure on assad. And you will be willing to negotiate with him . Well we have to negotiate e negotiate a deal. How does he explain the change in strategy . This isnt a change in strategy. This is where the talks were within they were parked over a year ago. Really the outgrowth of talks started back in 2013 t. Socalled geneva talks. So yes obviously, you have to talk with the outside regime. Thats a part of the process of removing the syrian president. Look i was at those talks last year in switzerland and geneva in january, that didnt work didnt go anywhere. Back then it was all about getting russia to put pressure on assad to make agreement there at those talks. That didnt happen. So you know we know the relationship with russia has really deteriorated significantly over the past year. So who is going to put this magical pressure on the Syrian Government to come to the talks . Its not clear. B