room. happening now, breaking news. influential democratic senator joe manchin reveals he s not seeking re-election. delivering a major blow potentially to his party s chances of keeping control of the u.s. senate next year. we re getting new reaction from a key senator to this bombshell announcement. also tonight, a break in israel s bombardment of gaza. the white house says israeli forces are moving forward with daily four-hour pauses in northern areas of the territory to allow palestinian civilians to get out and humanitarian aid to get in. and cnn has exclusive new details on the prosecutors strategy in the trump classified documents trial and a potential witness list that includes a mar-a-lago plumber, a maid, a chauffeur and a woodworker. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. first tonight, the breaking news rocking capitol hill. west virginia de
The midterms in 2018. When it comes to a general election, those voters dont have the majority of the american sentiment. One thing that was interesting what you said earlier when you were reading the quote from donald trump. Ron desanctimonious. He has a nickname for him. He did not have a nickname for Nikki Haley. If Nikki Haley surprises people tonight, look for her nickname, look for trump to begin to do to her what he has done to every other candidate where he trains his sights on her and trains the forces of the maga crowd, gets them focused on attacking her. Its going to be brutal. Can i make a comment about that question. The question, its been a flawed exercise going on in the republican party about what if trump did not get the nomination. Would he actually support a different republican for president . Would he tell his people to stay home . There is a world here where he is the only electable republican because hes the only one who can get his base to turn out. I agree with
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but nobody trusts him and now it s very hard to repair that. so it s not mccarthy, who will be in the top power? that s a good question. a political minority says it s jim jordan. he s thrown his support behind mccarthy. here s what jordan told cnn. is there any chance you might be speaker of the house? no. no. i m making it clear, i want to chair the judiciary committee. jordan has been one of former president donald trump s most vocal defenders. ron brownstein has more on why he s not a favorite of the ultra maga crowd. the january 6th committee, the bipartisan committee, was pretty reticent about calling out the role of individual members of congress in donald trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election, but they specifically cited jim jordan as being centrally involved at
nomination, and he runs as a third party candidate, which is the biggest nightmare for the republicans, the democrats win the white house in 2024. and finally, if he realizes he is going to lose and lose badly, and he tells the maga crowd, boycott voting! who benefits from that? the democrats! so, donald is just this christmas gift to the democrats that keeps giving. christmas gift. i m not sure that s what they asked a santa for. i ve got to be honest. lisa, i think the entire conversation kind of goes back to this question of accountability. there s so many cases, you can get just this week alone, the number of legal news that we got, i wonder if you have a case that you think is the most likely path to accountability? or accountability comes electorally? i think they re two different types of accountability here. one is about his business, and one is about his criminality. on the criminal side, i think the mar-a-lago records investigation is the most likely to lead to accounta