welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in washington along with erin burnett in new york. happening now, we re counting down to cnn s town hall with former president donald trump. new hampshire republicans as well as undeclared primary voters are standing by with questions for the gop frontrunner and it all comes as trump stares down growing legal troubles. multiple criminal investigations. an indictment in new york and a $5 million sex abuse verdict. all of that, wolf, as we are also following another story tonight. congressman george santos speaking out today. he pled not guilty to 13 federal charges. pulling a page out of of the trump playbook calling it a witch hunt. if convicted santos could face up to 20 years in prison for the top counts he faces. the republican from new york is facing calls to resign from many in his own caucus. speaker mccarthy is holding fire, saying santos deserves his day in court. also the sout
welcome to our viewers this thursday morning. i m christine romans. donald trump giving us a review of what his 2024 campaign will look like and sound like. the 45th president and republican frontrunner for the white house taking questions last night from gop primary voters at a town hall. trump wasted little time in airing his same old grieveness as. he repeated a core lie to kaitlan collins that he won the 2020 election. polls show that you were dominating the republican race but also under active federal investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election results. your first term ended with a deadly riot at the capitol and you still have not publicly acknowledged the 2020 election results. why should americans put you back in the white house? because we did fantastically. we got 12 million more votes than we had as you know in 2016. i actually say that we did far better in that election. got the most that anybody has ever gotten as a sitting president of the united
for example, during the pandemic what happened was all of a sudden everybody started to learn the phrase supply chain. a year ago no one knew what the hell anybody was talking about when you said supply chain but now they all know, and we lost access to these these semiconductors in which new automobiles in the united states need 30,000 of them just to build a new automobile and we didn t have them. so we started investing here and what happened was when we encouraged the investment through the chips and science act and now we have an enormous investment in the united states, over $200 billion in long-term investment in semiconductors. we are rebuilding the economy of the united states with those semiconductors. it s not designed to hurt china. the only thing i did say with regard to china, there are certain extremely sophisticated semiconductors that we have built that are useful for nuclear and or other weapons systems. those we are not selling. we are not exporting to ch
questions, ladies and gentlemen. raise more questions that we wouldn t have to be dealing with if they had simply secured maggie s phone on june 8th when they got it, we wouldn t be here. so we do know from the timeline that alex left the property at 9:07. were they killed before he left? y don t know the answer to that. i don t know the answer to that. we do know if he was in the house when the shots were made down at the kennel, that he would not have heard them. we had decibel testing from mr. sutton. they were angry with mr. suttons test, not angry, challenged his conclusion on many things, they didn t touch his acoustic testing. didn t doubt that, haven t challenged that. if he s in the house, and shots are ringing down at the kennel, he doesn t hear them. he doesn t hear them. now they say that sometime after 8:44, and they peg it 8:48, 8:50, that is when paul last responded to a text from this friend of his, they ignore the fact there had to be clean-up. buster testifi
have to be consistent with each other and have to point conclusively to the guilt of alex murdaugh, beyond a reasonable doubt. these circumstances just raise more questions, ladies and gentlemen. raise more questions that we wouldn t have to be dealing with if they had just simply secured mag maggie s phone on june 8th when they got it. we wouldn t be here. we do know from the time line that alex left the property at 9:07. were they killed before he left? i don t know the answer to that. i don t know the answer to that. we do know that if he was in the house when the shots were made down at the kennel that he would not have heard them. we had testing from mr. sutton. they were angry with mr. sutton s not angry, but they challenged his conclusions on a lot of things. they didn t touch his acoustic testing. didn t doubt that. haven t challenged that. if he is in the house and shots are down at the kennel, he doesn t hear it. they say that sometime after 8:44 they peg it 8:4