news. the new house speaker just cleared a very significant hurdle, getting his plan to avoid a government shutdown approved with the help of democrats. at the same time, anger amongst some house republicans is clearly boiling over with one gop lawmaker accusing another of elbowing him in the back. we re following the rapidly worsening health care crisis in war-torn gaza. the united nations says there s now only one working hospital left in the north as fighting rages and civilians are dying. thousands of americans rally in washington, showing their support for israel and its war against hamas, as anti-semitism is surging in the u.s. and around the world. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news out of washington. the house of representatives voting tonight to keep the federal government open until at least early next year, as t
as bill barr said if trump want to go down that road and say it s a counsel defense or i have first amendment protection, he s got to testify and take the stand and that s walking into a perjury trap. i think jack smith has the former president into a bit of a trick bag here. yeah, no question trump s best defense would require him to be on the stand. we know how that s gone in the past. let s talk about trump s calender is obviously filling up quickly, and we should never lose sight of the fact all these legal proceedings come in the backdrop of the campaign as i m sure he s going to be moving rally site to rally site next year. what s your best sequencing of these trials? we know about the one in new york. we can only speculate about the one in georgia. we have the two federal cases, classified documents and now this one on attempts to overturn the election. what do you think that counter is going to look like? in a recent interview alvin
the rally site. and they notice something significant of the crowd. tens of thousands of people were outside the rally site, but did not want to go through the magnetometer s, metal detectors that were used to screen for dangerous weapons. since our last hearings, the select committee has received greater cooperation from the secret service. nevertheless, secret service text messages from this period were erased in the days and months following the attack on the capitol. even though documents and materials related to january six had already been requested by the department of justice and congress. but we were able to obtain nearly 1 million emails recordings, and other electronic records, from the secret service. over the month of august, the select committee began its review of hundreds of thousands of pages. multiple hours of that material, providing substantial new evidence about what happened on january 6th and the days leading up to it. that review
that morning, agents reported more than 25,000 people outside the rally site. an hour later, the secret service reported that the crowd was on them all watching, but not in line. the head of the president secret service protective detail, robert engel, was specifically aware of the large crowds the magnetometer s. pass that information along to tony ornato, who worked for mark meadows and the chief of staff s office. the documents we obtained from the secret service make clear that the crowd outside the magnetometer s were armed and the agents knew it. take a look at what they were seeing in the hearing on the ground. one report from the rally site at 7:58 am said, some members of the crowd are wearing ballistic helmets, body armor, carrying a radio equipment and military grade backpacks. another from
monument would not enter the raleigh area because magnetometer shoes and screening attendees would detect any prohibited i ll dims that carry. mr. trump knew this, his secret service had told him about it that morning. even in spite of these warnings, cassidy hutchinson overheard the president say this, shortly before he took stage. he wanted it full and he was angry that we were not letting through the magnet departments. what the secret service teams as weapons, and what our weapons i was in the vicinity of a conversations where the president say among five times, and i don t think they have weapons. they are not here to hurt, may take the mags away let my people, in they can march the capitol from here. let the people in, take the effing mags away. and when he went on stage, president trump, himself, asked law enforcement to lead his supporters in the rally site.