let me tell you, i have the absolute right to do whatever i want with them. i have the right. no, no, no, he does not have the right. to keep america s most closely guarded secrets. and look how he kept them, in overturned boxes alongside newspapers, keepsakes and maybe junk. also tonight, julian assange is set free to some, he s a champion of truth. to others, he s a dangerous and reckless criminal who put many lives at risk by revealing sensitive information to the public. plus, the polls remain open in new york as progressive democrat jamaal bowman faces a tough primary battle to keep his seat in the most expensive house primary ever. but we begin tonight with the continued efforts by a trump appointed judge to defy legal norms in order to show deference to the man who put her on the bench. of course, i m referring to one judge aileen cannon, who for a third day has decided to give donald trump and his lawyers a forum to put on his newest form of a reality show. and
but they conceal some very real dangerous designer drugs blamed for horrifying acts of violence. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. it may be the most crucial of the battleground states, and today barack obama and mitt romney are turning ohio into their personal battleground. the slug-fest takes the form of rival speeches. but one candidate started swinging before the bell. let s go to jim acosta. he s watching it all unfold. what s the latest, jim? wolf, they were almost duelling speeches, campaign events in the same state on the same day at almost the same time. but mitt romney perhaps fearing losing the battle of the cable news double box got the early jump on the president. he started early. and it was probably a good thing for mitt romney. his speech was only 18 minutes. the president s, nearly an hour. in the first round of what will be a knockdown-dragout fight to november, mitt romney threw the first punch beginning his speech ten minutes earlier
hurt on the raid on osama bin laden s compound. what s going on? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com as they should be, republicans are ecstatic over their victory in wisconsin where republican governor scott walker empress ofly survived a recall vote. democrats are on the defensive and president obama is taking heat for not going wisconsin to help his fellow democrats. what does all of this mean for november? let s go live to dana bash. she s in milwaukee right now and working on the fallout. dana, there s a lot of fallout. reporter: there sure is. the democratic chairwoman, debbie wasserman schultz told our candy crowley that it would be, quote, a dry run for democrats in november. if that s the case, the president is in trouble in wisconsin and the re-election prospects could be in jeopardy. the results here are far from clear cut when it comes to the presidential race. the energy in scott walker s victory hall was pa
who might have helped pay for the ads, people who work for the company the obama camp is hammering. that would be bain capital. and a terrifying discovery. radiation from the meltdown of a nuclear power plant actually built into the foundation of an apartment building. wolf blitzer s off today, i m gloria borger, and you re in the situation room. and it could happen any minute now. a suspect finally charged in the disappearance of etan patz. exactly 33 years ago today, the 6-year-old vanished launching a national campaign to find and protect missing children. the suspect pedro hernandez allegedly has confessed to killing etan, but there are many nagging questions still out there. such as what was the motive? did police miss clues for decades? and could they have gotten it wrong now? our national correspondent susan canada yac candiotti is outside the district attorney s office in new york. susan, hernandez is going to be arraigned from his hospital bed? reporter: well
online. it includes digital, audio, video files, printed materials, handwritten documents and recording devices. peter bergen has a new book out called manhunt and he is one of the few people outside of the government that s seen these documents. what sticks out to you? u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s recovered a great deal of material. not all of it will be published today, in fact. a fraction of it. some of it is household stuff. but the things that leaked out of the documents that i was able to review, first of all, bin laden was quite conscious of al qaeda as a brand had suffered. he told them not to use al qaeda, you re going to draw too much negative attention. he was advising one of his sons to leave the afghanistani tribal regions where the drones were focused at the same time he s calling for young men to do a holy war, he was basically telling his own son to get out of dodge. it s bin laden unplugged. he was it s not like you can get on the internet and send a memo or call