a ya story airstrike against the houthi e rebels in yemen. the military action as defense secretary lloyd austin remains in the hospital. rachel: plus, just two days before the first in the nation caucuses, a blizzard is forcing 2024 candidates to scale back their events in iowa. that s not stopping them from urging their supporters to turn out the vote. one way or the other, i m getting there. you have the worst weather with, i guess, in recorded history, but maybe that s good because our people are more committed than anybody else. will: and alabama s new coach is already creating waves for the crimson tide. the final hour of fox & friends weekend starts right now. i love my country, i love my country. six strings and fiddles and skeet from kentucky rachel: good morning, everybody. it s the 9:00 hour. [laughter] florida georgia line? pete: is a.j. brown playing? i was just thinking of the philadelphia eagles. will: i was thinking about something else. sorry, w
this as new york police are now increasing courthouse security just ahead of a potential trump indictment. also tonight, trump s top gop allies are rushing to his defense and trying to discredit the new york d.a. who s investigating him. trump s legal peril and the political fallout looming over a major gathering of house republicans. and a high stakes handshake, china s president xi jinping ven v strengthens his alliance with vladimir putin, praising him as a dear friend as the russian leader stands charged with war crimes in ukraine. we ll have the latest on their talks in moscow, hours after putin s defiant visit to the war zone. 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 with the latest testimony in the new york grand jury investigation of donald trump amid questions about whether the former president is on the brink of being indicted. let s go right to our senior legal affairs corres
days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for him accusing him of war crimes. he made a stop in mariupol. ukrainian officials slamming the visit saying putin visits mariupol under the cover of night. cnn senior international correspondent ivan joining us live. what else did putin do while there? reporter: right. well, the kremlin says he arrived by helicopter. then he was shown in a pretty long unedited video driving a car, being briefed by a top kremlin aid. driving into the outskirts of mariupol. the aid was describing the situation and acknowledging that much of the city had been destroyed. that there were ruins of buildings being demolished and much of the city was also empty because ukrainians has fled. putin was shown meeting a couple of people who were living in what were described as newly constructed apartment buildings. those people thanked putin for their new homes saying they had had nothing before that. and we ve been hearing some pre
biden taking a page out of the watters playbook, trying to pin the blame on his assistant. sorry, johnny. an anonymous source leaking to the washington post that the president s longtime executive secretary may have inadvertently mishandled the document, setting off this growing scandal. now president biden getting frustrated with his friends in the liberal press over his little garage shop of classified horrors. i think you re going to find there s nothing there. i have no regrets. i m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. exactly what we re doing. there s no there there. while biden doesn t care, he apparently thinks the american people are with him. i ll answer the question, but here s the deal. you know, quite frankly, it bugs me, that we have serious problem here we re talking about. we re talking about what s going on. the american people don t quite understand why you don t ask me questions about that. ahe. then karine jean-pierre, cap
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