welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in washington along with erin burnett in new york. happening now, we re counting down to cnn s town hall with former president donald trump. new hampshire republicans as well as undeclared primary voters are standing by with questions for the gop frontrunner and it all comes as trump stares down growing legal troubles. multiple criminal investigations. an indictment in new york and a $5 million sex abuse verdict. all of that, wolf, as we are also following another story tonight. congressman george santos speaking out today. he pled not guilty to 13 federal charges. pulling a page out of of the trump playbook calling it a witch hunt. if convicted santos could face up to 20 years in prison for the top counts he faces. the republican from new york is facing calls to resign from many in his own caucus. speaker mccarthy is holding fire, saying santos deserves his day in court. also the sout
northern ireland secretary says he will call an election on the 28th of october to if the stormont executive has not been convened. there were more than 3 thousand heat related deaths in england and wales this summer with more than 250 excess deaths a day recorded during the hottest period and we ll find out later which city will host next year s eurovision song contest the competition will be held in either liveprool or glasgow in place of ukraine social care providers are warning millions of people could be left without support unless there s a complete overhaul of the system. care england, which represents independent providers, says services for people who can t look after themselves, must be restructured or the nhs will be on its knees. the government says it s investing £5 billion in social care in england over the next three years. jeremy cooke reports. are you all right? have you been in the shower? for wendy, it is the first call of the day. i have got some
biden of course pinning the wall street journal and urging support for the 9 to 5 billion-dollar aid package chad laid out for you. the white house also putting out the president s statement saying the house must pass the package this week and the senate should quickly follow. i will send this into law immediately and send a message to the world. we stand with our friends and won t let darren or russia succeed. johnson is rolling the dice obviously but the white house is watching closely. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle voicing these concerns. listen here. there be no more new ukraine funding until we secure our southern border. we are being told this week that we ve got to give that up and we can t do it because of what s happening in ukraine to this point. it might make sense that our country would gravitate to the war but because it makes sense doesn t make it logical. so now we will sea whether or
or did you not, you said you did, how do you explain it, those move quickly and they are fairly easy to prosecute. he could face 20 years. as you read through these charges, ryan, how solid is this case? is it as the ambassador is indicating a black and white paper case? super solid. it s all based on documentation. they didn t really need testimony from witnesses or things like that. for example, he either he did or did not receive over $100,000 in salary while claiming unemployment insurance. did or didn t. he did or did not tell the house in his disclosure forms that he received the unemployment insurance checks and he apparently didn t. either he did or did not communicate with donors and say you give me $25,000, i put in political advertising, instead he funnels it and pays for luxury goods. mccarthy in a sense doesn t really have a choice. if the ethics committee comes out and says guilty, he was going to have to probably call for resignation anyway. he comes out and says t
what were they arguing about? well, my understanding is they were arguing or at least presenting two different viewpoints as to how the constitution should be interpreted. and i would say just as an aside before talking about their positions, that while i have been on the bench for nine plus years, the issue of constitutional interpretation in that sense doesn t come up very often. it comes up to the supreme court for sure. but it doesn t come up very often in the lower courts. what justice scalia and justice breyer, i believe, were debating was the justice scalia s notion of originalism, meaning the words of the constitution should be interpreted as they were written by the founders in the founding era and that they