tapper. wolf blitzer is over in the situation room. have a great day. happening now, president biden just announced new action aimed at easing student debt after the u.s. supreme court blocked his loan forgiveness program. he s slamming the ruling as wrong and accusing republicans of hypocrisy. we re also following the fallout from the high court s other major decision today putting limits on lgbtq protections. the senators warn the ruling may open the door to discrimination of all sorts of protected minority groups. and growing questions right now about the fate of the russian mutiny leader yevgeny prigozhin. are kremlin spies plotting to kill him as ukraine s intelligence chief claims? i ll ask top white house official john kirby about that and much more. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. we begin with today s one-two punch by the u.s. supreme court, decisions limiting lgbtq protect
strikes on ukraine. power facilities in key cities taking a direct hit and leaving residents in the dark and cold. also tonight, we re digging through a new batch of just released january 6th transcripts including testimony by donald trump jr. and we re getting new insight into melania trump s mistrust of her husband s inner circle. and the southwest airlines meltdown drags on now for an eighth day. with thousands more flights canceled. will southwest get back to a full schedule tomorrow as the company claims? 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 this hour in ukraine after one of the biggest russian missile assaults since the start of the russian invasion. let s go straight to the capital, kyiv. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is on the ground for us. ben, so what are you seeing and hearing over there? reporter: well, what we heard at about 9:00 this morning l
trump s call to walk to the u.s. capitol on january 6. it turns out the secret service actively considered options to get him there. stand by for our new reporting ahead of a pivotal prime time hearing on the insurrection this thursday. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight we re getting the most detailed and gut-wrenching account of what happened inside robb elementary school two weeks ago. a wounded teacher is now opening up about the slaughter as local officials keep failing to answer critically important questions. here is cnn s omar jimenez. our priorities are for the families who lost children reporter: despite a special security council meeting, tonight few answers from public officials. there is an investigation going on and we ll find out what happened. i want those answers just like everybody else. i want to be transparent. i want to be clear. there is a lot of
forward is going to bring some relief to borrowers, and i encourage folks to kind of hang tight and get all the details in place. this is huge blow to students, to the economy. and honestly the hopes and dreams of so many young people across this country. i want to turn to the court s other significant decision today that a christian website designer can, in fact, refuse to work on same-sex weddings. as an openly gay member of congress, congressman, what went through your mind hearing that ruling today? i was devastated. it s not a surprise but you have to have some hope that the court s going to do the right thing. this is huge step backwards for our community, for the lgbtq plus community. we are already under attack in state legislatures by members of congress, by republicans running for president, every day on these issues is to have the court essentially look at us as second class citizens in this country. it s shameful and it s very, very hurtful. this is a dangerous time for
commentator charlie dent. he s a former republican congressman. joey, as a new yorker yourself what goes through your mind hearing there may be reason to question santos s account of his mother s death being linked to 9/11? quite a bit, wolf. you know, you re talking about obviously a day that will go down in history, right? for all that it meant, for all the losses, for all the tragedy, for all that people endured, for the real people who lived through that. you know, for everyone on not only new yorkers but the country in general. so what goes through my mind is that i think people certainly need to have and deserve a representative who is honest, who is straightforward, who tells a story that relates to people, and who obviously represents people in a way that they could know has integrity and has character. and here i think, you know, there s very little of that. wolf, briefly i think there s three ways this resolves itself even the way the first way of course would be the hono