One of the windows of the capitol. She was also accused of using a bull horn to direct rioters. This all comes as were days away from the start of trumps second Impeachment Trial. One person we wont be seeing or hearing from, however, is donald trump himself. His defense team confirming trump wont testify. A new reaction this morning from congressman ruben gallegos. Well, this is more a typical trump move. This is not about defending his presidency, its not about defending his actions, its about, again, dividing america. Its a very cynical move because he believes and he understands the Republican Senate is not going to hold him accountable. Theres a lot of new information to run through with the trio of nbc reporters and we will begin with nbcs mike memoli, joining us from wilmington, delaware, where President Biden is spending his weekend. Mike, welcome to you. In the past few minutes were learning more from the white house on the former president and intel briefings. What do you kno
the u.s. treasury pushes back the possible default deadline from june 1st to june 5th, giving debt limit negotiators to reach an agreement. the house minority leader, hakeem jeffries, joins me in just a moment r for an exclusive interview. in ukraine, at least two people are dead and 30 injured after a russian attack on a medical clinic, ukraine claims was deliberate. we ll have a live report from the war zone. and as americans prepare to set out for the memorial day weekend, cnn is at the airport and on the highways with everything you need to know about one of the busiest travel days of the year. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. our top story this evening, the u.s. treasury says debt limit negotiators have slightly, slightly more time to try to strike a deal. but it s still not clear if the two sides can reach an agreement before the nation defaults. from congress to the white
punxsutawney, pennsylvania. get your arms around that. they re waiting to see. i love it. will the groundhog see his shadow? fantastic. band is on stage. everyone is ready to go. we have to do the show live from there sometime. oh, my god, i d love to do that. can we do the show live from punxsutawney? groundhog day for me is one of those things, i can never remember whether the groundhog sees its shadow, it s good or it s bad. it just doesn t stay with me. maybe because i don t care. i don t know. i don t know. but that would be fun. yeah. gobbler s knob. exactly. that s where we all want to go. we have a lot to get to this morning. i really want to hear that. including president joe biden s meeting at the white house with speaker kevin mccarthy. both sides were upbeat about their conversation. it appears we re not any closer to a deal on the debt ceiling, but we will follow the developments there. gave him a box of white house m&ms, and mccarthy le
it said that trump s launch reached over 13 million more americans than desantis did. i think the other level of concern here and i know michael has talked about how they aren t that different on policy. but one thing that desantis is able to do when he s running on trumpism, without trump, without trump baggage, is pick and choose which policies he wants to double down on. what we saw today was striking. desantis said he was going to repeal trump s criminal justice reform act. it was a landmark act, and he said that it was just basically jailhouse bait that was too lenient. this is something that we know trump himself has been concerned about. this is something that was passed in 2018. he didn t even run on this in 2020. desantis now has the opportunity to pick and choose the kind of policies of trump that he wants, that he wants to latch onto, but also disregard those that weren t so popular within the gop. thank you very, very much. thanks to all of you. be sure to catch michae
moved with him since. to your point, joe, it s become more radical, more extreme. it s moved more to the right. that s in line with where trump took them. so it s going to be hard for a mainstream a, quote, mainstream republican to find some other lane, to find some other place to try to beat him. that s why the candidate everyone is looking towards because, like, pompeo, pence, haley, what is the constituency? for now, the flavor of the month is desantis. we ll see when he actually gets out there, when he is nationally vetted, where that goes. but what desantis is trying to do is take on trump from the right on a bunch of issues, including on pandemic response and culture wars and the schools in florida and such. he s making the bet that you have to take on trump on trumpism. when we saw others try to out-trump trump, they lost and lost badly. trump, to this point, he s still got the base. speaking of ron desantis, the florida governor will head to alabama next month to headline t