what a story over the weekend. two teenagers were shot outside of new york congressman lee zeldin s long island home. one of the bullets hitting the congressman s fence. his twin daughters were inside doing homework at the time. they ran upstairs. closed themselves into a bathroom and called 911. the detectives now investigating this incident as gang related. zeldin, who has made rising crime one of his top campaign issues, boy did it come home for him over the course of this weekend. here he is earlier today. we get a phone call from our daughter, mckala, we hear our other daughter in the background crying. they were at the kitchen table doing homework. all of a sudden they hear multiple gunshots. they hear screaming. they run upstairs, lock themselves in the bathroom. this is day after day after day. the reality right now in this state is that new yorkers don t feel safe. that feeling of safety may be less common with numbers like this, violent crime in new york city up
donald trump. the panel also playing harrowing never-before-seen footage of congressional leaders sheltering from the mob during during the attack. also tonight the u.s. supreme court deals another legal blow to trump s defense in the mar-a-lago investigation, rejecting his plea to intervene in the fight over classified documents seized by the fbi. plus, a gut punch for the families of the parkland school massacre victims. a florida jury recommends gunman nikolas cruz not receive the death penalty and instead spend the rest of his life in prison without parole. 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 dive straight into the very dramatic developments up on capitol hill today. former president donald trump now facing a subpoena from the january 6th select committee. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju has a closer look at all the latest news from today s hearing. those in favor
presidents in the white house medical unit and he was the chief medical advisor during the trump administration. he also served as former president obama s first personal white house physician. in 2020 he ran and looked when a congressional seat in texas. it was during that time that jackson called out the media for ignoring then candidate president biden s gaps in the campaign trail. including this one. have a simple proposition here. i m a year to ask you for your help. where i come from you don t get far unless you ask. my name s joe biden and on the democratic candidate for the united states and the pair looked me over if you like what you see if not give me a look though. that s all i ve really got to say to you. that led jackson to tweed remember the cognitive test that i gave a real donald trump? the one he aced? sounds like some deals might need some duct testing done. scary. jackson writes that within 20 minutes of posting that tweet he received a scathing emai
security detail tackling the suspect. a local resident in his 40s. the gun he used appears to have been handmade, a motive not known at this time. as brianna said abe was japan s longest serving prime minister and was still a towering figure in japanese and international politics. he had crucial working relationships with both president obama and president trump. this assassination causing shock waves around the world this morning. let s get right to cnn s blake essig who is in tokyo with the very latest. blake, what can you tell us? reporter: brianna, john, devastating news here in japan. doctors at nara medical university hospital have confirmed that japanese former japanese prime minister shinzo abe has died after being shot twice, once in his chst and once in his neck. doctors treating former prime minister said that his heart had actually stopped by the time that he reached the hospital, they said that he was bleeding profusely and that the bullet that killed abe w
coal mine moment for the democratic party. last night, there was a special congressional race in south texas. it saw a very deep blue sea turn bright red. now, republican mayra flores easily defeated her democratic opponent by eight points in district 34. now, get this, it s the first time in 150 years this district ever elected a republican! in 2012, obama won it by 23 points. 2016, yeah, hillary won it by 22 points. biden only won it by four, but now republican mayra flores, she won it by eight. all right, that would be a 12-point swing in two years, a 30-point swing if you go back to 2016. keep in mind, this is a majority hispanic district. it borders mexico to the south along the rio grande valley. now, mayra actually immigrated to the u.s. from mexico making her the very first mexican-born woman to be elected to congress. she s also married to a u.s. border patrol agent. she made border security a huge focus of her campaign. take a look. too many to many, the borders