is the crowded gop field playing right into the former president s hands? 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 straight to the scramble to avoid a historic default on the u.s. debt. president biden and speaker mccarthy are both working the phones tonight as they try to rally support from skeptical lawmakers. cnn is covering the race to pass the agreement from every angle. the stakes right now for the american people and, indeed, the world economic situation are enormous. our correspondents are over at the white house and up on capitol hill. we re getting new details right now and a key democratic leader, congressman james clyburn, is standing by live. we ll get to him in a few moments. first to cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. what is the latest where you are over at the white house. reporter: this entire negotiation process was driven by the understanding this was
of ayman, damning you evidence in the middle of the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. what this could mean for jack smith s investigation, and why the republican national committee could also be punished. then, the ex president triples down on his authoritarian rhetoric and draws eyebrow raising comparisons. and, what biden allies are doing right now to stop trump s revenge driven campaign should he win reelection. i am ayman, let s get started. we start this hour, some new bombshell reporting revealing what we all assumed was the case that just like in georgia, donald trump pressured republican officials to overturn the 2020 election results. this time, and michig. just like in georgia, there are now tapes to prove it. th detroit news reports that then president donald trump, personally pressured to republican members of the wayne county board of canvassers, not to sign the certification of the counties 2020 presidential election results. according to recordings reviewe
were so many running that debates, they had a kids table. this time trump announced first and then nikki haley and then vivak, larry elder, asa hutchinson, tim scott, and now ron desantis, who by the way is only 44 years old. by biden/trump standards, he s got three more decades to run for president. so why run now? why get into the steel cage with a wrestler who always carries a foreign object? mike pence said he ll soon make a decision. chris christie sure sounds like a candidate. sununu might get in. even glenn youngkin is taking a second look. so what s going on? maybe that they don t think they ll have to beat trump. that that work will be done by a combination of alvin bragg, fani willis, jack smith and merrick garland. this week trump appeared remotely in a manhattan courtroom in connection with the stormy daniels case. the judge told the parties not to make any plans around the scheduled start of trial, march 25, 2024. trump reportedly reacted by shaking his head. the
trump for the gop presidential nomination? think about it. he s a former president, essentially a gop incumbent, who is consistently polling around 50% of the gop vote in the polls. and we learned in 2016 that give continue hard core support that trump enjoys from some, he s the beneficiary of a large field. remember, in that cycle there were so many running that debates, they had a kids table. this time trump announced first and then nikki haley, and then vivek ramaswamy, larry elder, asa hutchinson, tim scott, and now ron desantis, who, by the way, is only 44 years old. by biden/trump standards, he s got three more decades to run for president. so why run now? why get into the steel cage with a wrestler who always carries a foreign object? mike pence said he ll soon make a decision. chris christie sounds like a candidate. even glenn younk gkin is taking second look. what s going on? maybe they don t think they ll have to beat trump. that will be done by a combination of al