we ve been waiting for you. glad to have you along. good morning. i m victor blackwell. glad to see you this morning. and i m amara walker. happy to spind the holiday with you. more than 42 million people expected to head out this memorial day weekend. we re going to tell you what to expect if you re going to the airport or driving to your destination. plus lawmakers racing to reach a deal. now treasury secretary janet yellen has more. and a plot to kill the queen? 40 years ago when she was getting ready to visit the u.s. the details ahead. all by myself anymore every time i hear that for all these years, i still get chill bumps. the best 15 minutes of celine dion for any of her songs. now she has canceled her world tour for 2024. she battles health issues. health officials say she may never be able to tourn again. we ll have the latest on her condition. first, travel season. experts say it will be a busy one. aaa expects 42.3 million americans to travel 50
ongoing threat to democracy. and in ukraine cnn is speaking with the anti-putin rich shan fighters claiming responsibility for cross border attacks. they say they re using american military vehicles during the raids. we ll get reaction from a key white house official, john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s begin with new ve developments in the special counsel s criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified documents. josh, tell us what you and your colleagues are now learning. right, wolf. what we re learning is that one day before federal authorities came to mar-a-lago last june to pick up classified documents in return for a subpoena that video employees, two employees of the former president in mar-a-lago, moving boxes back into the storage room. as you remember, when the feds arrived at mar-a-lago, trump s team said, come with us to the storage r
potentially of indictments in georgia, perhaps on the federal level from the special counsel, including in connection with january 6th. also the clear republican front-runner for 2024 at this point still lying about the 2020 election and january 6th, saying this when asked about those who attacked the capitol and people trying to protect it. will you pardon the january 6th rioters who were convicted of federal offenses? i am inclined to pardon many of them. i can t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control. when you look at what antifa, what they ve done to portland, if you look at what antifa, look at what they ve done to minneapolis, so many other, so many other places, look at what they did to seattle and blm, blm, many people were killed. these people, i m not trying to justify anything, but you have two standards of justice in this country. and what they ve done, and i love that question, because what they ve done to so ma
2020. but if you look at polls among republican voters, it is, this man is who they want, as of now. he s far ahead of everybody else. we have not had a debate yet. i mean, not even a single debate. the field is still yet to be defined, whether it s myself or other candidates. you think the debates really matter that much? oh, my god, yes, absolutely. i think those debates, folks are going to see he is not the same. guy this is not 2016. he doesn t bring the same fire. there s no new ideas. he s just going to try to re-litigate what happened in 2020. but we all know exactly what happened there. he s going to be on the defensive. he s not gonna have the energy. so, i think there s a huge opportunity for the new generation, the new voice the republican party, new ideas to come to fruition. there s still a lot of play here before we even get to the first of the nation primary in new hampshire, which is next january. so, i understand the polls. when someone pulls and says
endangering our democracy. plus, crickets from the republican field who should want to defeat donald trump. and fox news fires up the outrage machine over a human crisis invented by trump republicans. you can t survive with the money one makes even to have food. one day, one day we will be able to see each other again. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. last night, let s talk about last night. last night at this time, the man that led the insurrection against our democracy was spewing vile nonsense on another network. of course, i was here hosting this very television show, hopefully with many of you watching. i did not see the whole thing play out live. but i ve seen enough. i ve seen enough to have to have the same visceral reaction as many others. that it was disgraceful, despicable, gross. if you had that reaction as well, i will just say i think that is the correct response. i don t think you really need to second gues