and another stain on rudy giuliani s legacy. the former-mayor, turned trump lawyer, has his new york law license suspended for pushing election lies. we want to welcome 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. all right. you are looking at live pictures coming in from surf side, florida, right now. awful situation that has unfolded. our correspondent, randi kaye, is son thon the scene for us. randi, local officials just a few moments audio, they gave us an update on the condo collapse. what is the latest? update our viewers. some good news and some bad news, wolf. they are telling us now, that 102 people have been accounted for. which is very good news for some families. but they are still saying 99 people remain unaccounted for. so those families, certainly, on edge at this hour. but i should emphasize this is,
of new york, before joining former-president trump s legal team. mostly, defending that client in the court of public opinion. the collusion part, we re pretty comfortable with because there has been none. reporter: the former president issued a statement today defending his longtime friend as a great-american patriot and the victim of, yet another, witch hunt. giuliani s team issued a statement saying they were disappointed by the ruling but once the issues are fully explored at a hearing, mr. giuliani will be reinstated. the former mayor has been actively retweeting supporters and his son, andrew, also, posted this video. i stand by my father. he did everything, ultimately, by the book. reporter: but following news of his suspension, giuliani did not attend a federal-court hearing in washington today on a defamation lawsuit brought by dominion-voting systems. sending a lawyer to argue, on his behalf, instead. rudy giuliani actively propagated disinformation to
i know, you ve read the statement. what line did giuliani cross that led to this specific suspension? well, the court sent out a bunch of things, including saying repeatedly that pennsylvania received more absentee ballots than they sent out. and he kept repeating the lies. he went in the court and in a court of law said that there was election fraud. and, of course, there was no election fraud. so it s one thing to lie to the public. that s bad enough. but you really cannot lie to a judge. and for those who think that all lawyers are like that. we re not. but there was an example of a lawyer like that. roy cohn. and ironically, wolf, this week marks the 35th anniversary of the disbarment of roy cohn in new york by the very same appellate court. in new york. and roy cohn was trump s lawyer, as well. and trump holds him up to be the model of a lawyer. but keep in mind that, roy cohn later died penniless and disgraced. and unfortunately, rudy seems to
purposely mislead voters. because giuliani and others incessantly repeated the false claims about dominion voting systems, on a range of media platforms, some of our own family and friends are among the americans who were duped. reporter: the company alleges giuliani and others put it at the center of numerous conspiracy theories related to the election. giuliani, along with former-trump legal team member, sydney powell, and my pillow ceo, mike lindell, are all asking a judge to dismiss defamation claims dominion has brought against them. lindell continue today attack dominion on his way into court today. you are all out there talking about my pillow and you re all going there s rocks and knives in my pillows. no, i d open it up and say, it s beautiful patented fill. that s what i would do. dominion didn t do that. powell, who famously vowed last november to release the crackin to prove widespread
conservatorship and all her personal issues, she s still been one of the top earners in hollywood in recent years. she even has a movement behind her. still, one attorney says conservatorships can often be difficult to get out of. the conservetee has a condition that doesn t get better, a lot of times it involves significant mental illness that stays with the person. so there s always the risk that if you release them, they may go back to the beginning. reporter: but the attorney says she believes the judge could grant britney spears more freedom and her father could be removed as the conservator. the father has always said he was doing what he had to do to keep his daughter safe and healthy. a lawyer for the father said he s saddened to see his