the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, president biden has started trying to convince voters that a much-needed victory for his agenda is a win for them as well. the senate approving the democrats flagship economic package. let s go to our chief white house correspondent, kaitlin collins. final passage is expected in the house of representatives later this week. it will be a very big moment for the president. reporter: it absolutely will, wolf, because it s been a very tough few months for this white house. so this is a welcome change of pace for many of the officials, including president biden as they are now cruising into what appears to be the passage of this major piece of legislation. you re right, going to the house later this week and then the white house hopes on to president biden s desk for his signature. while the bill is very different from what democrats were negotiating over just last summer, wolf, it is still something that is we
hard virtual learning was, math and reading scores plummeting to their lowest levels in decades. welcome to the lead. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the florida courtroom showdown unfold thing afternoon over the classified documents found at trump s mar-a-lago home. the hearing ended a little over an hour ago, with no immediate decision from the judge on whether or not to appoint a special master in the case. a special master would be a third party attorney put in charge of reviewing the evidence seized from trump s florida home, his newest lawyer in his first appearance as part of the legal team today argued a special master is needed to restore order and lower the temperature in the nation. and another trump attorney compared the battle over the classified documents to a dispute over an overdue library book. let s get straight to our reporter in florida. tell us more about what arguments these lawyers were making, but a
president to go to places where there has been tragedy and dove station. he has the first lady with him. it is the compassion of the presidency to deliver. he is known for being able to connect with people going through hardship so expect to see some of that today. but then also to be able to talk about federal resources that are being brought to bear in kentucky. money that s already been delivered but then also being able to talk about the legislation just passed by the senate that deals with climate and to connect it to the devastation from flooding and storms that kentucky experienced and the communities around the nation have in all kinds of weather related events and to say part of what washington and his administration are trying to do is to find ways to releigh the climate crisis by putting in new steps that will address some of that and so look for it to be part empathy and part policy as they visit kentucky today. of course just coming out of covid isolation and thi
with trigger laws. and a preview of the g7 summit in germany this weekend where ukraine will top the agenda. all right now a bomb shell decision by the u.s. supreme court is rocking the american political landscape this weekend. ending nearly a half century of constitutional protection for abortion. that right was abruptly erased on friday in a 5-4 ruling, striking down the landmark roe v. wade decision of 1973. it immediately triggered an outpouring of large and angry protests across the country, with many more expected. this decision is an outrage. this decision is absolutely terrifying, but more than anything, it just makes me angry. we, the people, who it is going to affect need to come into the streets that six people do not dictate our lives. it s important to note that roe v. wade has been challenged and upheld by the high court before, but this time conservative justices were in the majority, by ruling that abortion is not a right protected by the u.s. c
president who wanted the extra near oig legitimacy from doj to back his bogus claims and overturn the election and stay in power. even some trump allies now privately acknowledging to cnn that some of the testimony from yesterday was, quote, damaging. this is the room where it happened. a dramatic high stakes meeting in the oval office just three days before the capitol riot in january of 2021. the witnesses testified that trump leaned on them to publicly call the election fraudulent and corrupt, something that they wouldn t do. and that when the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen there refused, trump threatened to replace him with this little known environmental lawyer from the civil division jeffrey clark. the justice department officials in the room all pushed back threatening to resign. he said so suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rosen, with him, jeff clark. what would you do? and i said, mr. president, i would resign immediately. i m not working one mi