chief legal correspondent ari melber, legal analyst, andrew weissmann, and my friend and colleague, msnbc anchor katy tur. rachel, we re about to hear from jack smith himself. if i have to interrupt you abruptly, i apologize in advance. your thoughts right now. reading the indictment, nicolle, i was struck by the simplicity of it structurally. this is not a case where we need to wait for somebody to flip. there s no allen weisselberg character out here who we need to find out how much they re going to tell prosecutors. there s no opaque question of intent that we need to wait to see if prosecutors have some access to. there s no, you know, contingent second crime that elevates these things to a more serious thing. all things that we ve seen in other serious cases involving trump and his business. in this case this is straightforward. what they re laying out, it s an accusation. it is not a conviction. what they re accusing him of is that he was not allowed to have this stuf
to you in real life. you are, okay. we re going to need another chair over here. bring mine from here. rachel, as you know, i am crippled with a boston accent. rip pronunciation across the board is wicked hard for me. you ve been saying ultra all day, and i just heard you say, ultra, there is something? it comes at also add some people say it. i ll throw or ultra, as long as people don t know they are talking about light beer, it s fine. i am ultra excited to be talking to you about that, because i listened this morning when america got his first chance to listen to the podcast. i still don t know why it s called ultra. that s one of my questions. i have just been dying to talk to you about it all day, and we will talk about some other stuff here, for a few minutes, i ll be right there. to make your way through the building and get over here we have to get a chair. i ll see you in a minute, thank you, thanks lawrence. donald trump has confessed. he confe
talking about you. i listen this morning when america got its first chance to listen to the podcast. i still don t know why it s called ultra that s one of my questions. i have just been dying to talk to you about it all day, and we will talk about some other stuff here, for a few minutes, i ll be right there. to make your way through the building and get over here we have to get a chair. i ll see you in a minute, thank you, thanks lawrence. donald trump has confessed. he confessed. this weekend, the appropriately titled case of donald j trump versus the united states of america took a turn that no tv drama writer whatever rights because it is so absurd, and the prosecutor would never expected, because nothing like it has ever happened before. happened before. in decades of tv drama and movies, we have seen the criminal suspect worn down by clever police interrogation, or prosecutor cross-examination to the point where the suspect defiantly gives up and could fast
consequences if lawmakers fail to raise it. a bill to eliminate the irs will soon come to the house floor. it s the result manufacture deals that kevin mccarthy made in order to become speaker. and also ahead, former president trump offers up a in you reason for why he had hundreds of classified documents stashed at his palm beach country club. they were cool keepsakes. we ll trin to explain that just ahead. we ll try to explain that just ahead. good morning. welcome to way too early. the united states is expected to reach the debt ceiling today. that means the country s borrowing limit is maxed out. that forces the treasury department to take extraordinary measures to keep the payments going through early june and prevent the united states from defaulting. there is little progress on capitol hill to resolve the problem. white house, senate democrats and republicans are all refusing to budge on the stances. the white house is warning that there should be no negotiat
evidence. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. russia s military said to be divided tonight over ukraine s stunning military offensive, retaking thousands of square miles from moscow s forces, which are now on the defensive in eastern and southern ukraine. cnn s senior international correspondent matthew chance has the latest for us. matthew, cnn s reporting that putin himself is giving directions to generals on the battlefield as russia s military appears increasingly divided on how to proceed with this war. tell us more of what you re learning. reporter: that s right, wolf. tonight another illustration of just how much intelligence u.s. authorities have, the u.s. intelligence has, on the thinking of what s going on inside the russian command structure. they re talking about intercepts that they ve sort of made available to cnn. we re reporting on that. about how there are disagreements on the