about gas prices as inflation weighs on the democrats and the battle for control of congress and putin s new martial law order just took effect in parts of ukraine illegally annexed by russia. we ll have live reports from kyiv and moscow. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with a major development in the probe of former president trump s claims of election fraud. a federal judge says trump signed legal documents continuing evidence he knew to be false. our justice correspondent is working the story for us. jessica, walk us through what happened. well significantly, wolf, this is the second time that a federal judge out of california, david carter, has said that the former president likely committed a crime. now this is all related to e-mails from johnny spoon, an attorney who was the architect pushing these baseless claims of election fraud. what the judge has done here is he has sa
Be Commander In Chief but trump is looking to turn the numbers around, laying some sharp criticism on Hillary Clinton. She never talks about policy. Reporter donald trump and Hillary Clinton Clashing Over whos ready to be Commander In Chief. He has no clue about what hes talking about. Reporter trump unveiling endorsements from nearly 90 retired u. S. Military leaders. And revealing his plan to demands a plan to take down isis. Were going to convene my top generals and give them a simple instruction. They will have 30 days to submit to the oval office a plan for soundly and quickly defeating isis. He says he has a secret plan to defeat isis. But the secret is, he has no plan. Rs clinton warns trump will lead the u. S. Back to war. When it comes to fighting isis, he has been all over the map. You would have to literally map it out. Hes talked about letting syria become a free zone for isis. Look at the map. Donald. Hes talked about sending in american ground troops. Not on my watch. Rep
The only people who use that many phones are usually involved in very, very and i mean very shady is activity. Rur see trump in typically colorful language there, accusing Hillary Clinton of shady activity. Hes going to go after the differences in his Foreign Policy vision versus hers. But hes also going to call for an end to the sequester and hes going to talk about what he will do to beef up military security and capacity. Hes campaigning in places that arent traditional for republicans today. Hell be in philadelphia and new york. Some call it colorful talk others call it hyperbolic and baseless talk. Well continue down this road. Sara, thank you very much. Hillary clinton returning the favor, pouncing on donald trump accusing him of concealing his foundations 25,000 donation to the campaign of floridas Attorney General, as she was considering investigating fraud claims against trump university. Now, were learning theres more reporting out there that this violation may not be trumps
they want to feel they can go on that vacation before the election. maybe they aren t feeling it in their wallets or psychologically. i think we see that a lot, jeff, when it comes to people on both sides. we do. a president has little direct control over gas prices, over some prices and even some parts of the economy. but they are blamed for it. it s uncloear if they get to tae credit for it or not, but what the house is trying to do is trying to start this campaign almost a year ahead of time. history will show how people feel about the economy going into the summer before an election, what their views are. i m struck to the degree i hear voters talking about the economy as much social issues. that s really driving the republican campaign. so as the economy continues to slightly improve, inflation sort of stays down. unemployment is low. the stock market is up. the republican campaign is
that dream. for those, except for those at the top. too many for too long and the president also made very clear that he is not declaring victory yet as it relates to the economy. he touted the significant process but said there s more work to be done and made clear as he continues to invest, to implement these pieces of legislation that he got over the first two years in office, he believes as americans see those benefits, they will begin to also see what he described as a strong economy. thank you so much. let s bring in jeff zellny and kristen holmes to talk more about this. i think we heard jeff the president kind of emphasizing in his speech today inflation is half of what it is a year ago but actually most americans, they re not sharing in the optimism that i m sure that he and his political team would like for them to. there s a cnn poll shows three out of four americans believe economic conditions are poor. the same poll shows americans blame the president.