also tonight, there s growing frustration inside the biden administration right now, as the kremlin refuses to engage with a u.s. offer to exchange brittney griner and paul weelan for a russian arms dealer. i ll speak with a key white house official john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to cnn s exclusive new reporting on the u.s. justice department s criminal probe into january 6th. federal prosecutors preparing to fight in court to force former white house officials to testify about their conversations with then president trump. our senior crime and justice reporter kaitlan po lance helped break the story here in the situation room. this could be the clearest sign yet that justice department is honing in on trump s efforts to prevent a peaceful transfer of power. walk us through your exclusive reporting. well, wolfe, evan perez and i are learning from several s
explain what you mean by that. as i said, wolf, i was at the press conferences yesterday. a golfer named paul casey, a european ryder cup veteran and the best known of the three up there, and i asked him a question, and the other two now, and with the forum, and the platform they have with the saudis and mbs would they speak out on behalf of women s rights and the rights of the gay people, and the lgbtq people in saudi arabia, and we know how awful the track record there is, and he immediately, paul casey talked about playing golf with the 17-year-old saudi girl, and never otherwise addressed the girl, and when i followed up about gay people, he said that he knew nothing about the issue, and could not talk about it a.45-year-old man saying things exactly the way that saudis want to hear them. christine brennan, thank you for joining us. and we will have more news just ahead.