progress of emotion putting florida as the center of the political universe. the stormy daniels hush money investigation entering a new dangerous phase for donald trump? also, tonight, a series of politically motivated shootings in arizona shows us how there is a new era of fuel political violence in america. the new york times. investigation into how the new york restaurants are keeping minimum wages down. this, is american voices. but a weekend of protests over abortion access is once again shining a light over the battle of reproductive rights. it is a battle likely to shape american politics for years to come, it will be a key issue as we begin to talk about 2024. tomorrow, vice president kamala harris will mark the 50th anniversary of roe v. wade in florida. this, of course, is the first anniversary of the first 1973 ruling since the supreme court reversed it. harris is expected to lay out how the white house fights these restrictions on state level. there is a reason
of the state. buffalo and other cities are struggling to dig out of 43 inches of snow and freezing temperatures and power outages. i ll talk with the buffalo police commissioner this hour. many americans are still feeling the effects of the arctic blast, including millions of air travelers. southwest airlines experiencing massive disruptions, with more than 65% of its flights canceled just today, adding to the holiday travel chaos. also tonight, vladimir putin claims he s ready to negotiate a solution to the ukraine war, but a key ukrainian official says the russian president needs to get back to reality, as moscow continues to slaughter innocent civilians. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with the deadly weather emergency in western new york. governor kathy hochul is calling it, and i m quoting her, the blizzard of the century and she is warning it is far from over.
the us state department has called for a demiliterized zone to be set up around the station in zaporizhia. tonight with the context, the republican strategist rina shah and the writer and broadcaster chris morris. hello, welcome to the programme. it is three days since fbi agents executed a search warrant on the florida home of donald trump. there are reports today the feds removed 11 boxes of documents, on top of the 15 boxes they took away in december. there are also reports within the us media today that the raid on mar a lago was based largely on information from an fbi source. someone from within who was able to identify what classified documents the former president was hiding and where they would find them. so unprecented was that search that some within thejustice department have been calling for the attorney general to give an explanation. and in the last hour, merrick garland called an unscheduled press conference to announce he will make the warrant public. the dep
we ll also look at the crisis in sri lanka. the president has confirmed he will step down after protesters stormed his palace. and we ll look at twitter s share price, which has fallen welcome to college green in front of parliament, where the process of selecting a new leader of the conservative party and new prime minister is under way. if i m occasionally glancing this way and that, sir graham brady, the committee chair, will be speaking in the next few minutes. he will outline the rules of the tory party leadership contest. bear in mind since thursday, effectively that contest began. we still don t know precisely how that will work. what we do know is what the stages of the contest will be. first, each candidate will need to find a number of conservative mps to back them. in previous contests, it was eight. this time, it could be as high as 20. then the 358 conservative mps will vote for their favourite candidates in a series of elimination rounds. let s speak to our poli
this room and the next contain my archives. it s magazines, newspaper articles, depositions, documents. everything relating to watergate. i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. we re not on the road to fascism. but we re dangerously close to it. these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. we will never give up, we will never concede. we will stop the steal. here we are, 50 years later, and the events of watergate are as relevant as they have ever been. there will not be a cover-up, there will not be an abuse of power. weapons of mass destruction. open up, you traitor! my name is john dean. i was richard nixon s white house counsel. the morning of june 17th, 1972, i got a call saying they ve got this strange,