prosecutors probing witnesses about a heated oval office meeting just weeks after donald trump s loss, during which the former president considered desperate measures to stay in power. tonight, trump on the campaign trail. once geagain trying to spin his legal problems in his favor. he is going after the justice department and his main republican rival, governor ron desantis. president biden is speaking to cnn on his decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. the president voicing his concerns with the controversial weapons but ultimately deciding they are crucial to kyiv s counteroffensive. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. first up tonight, cnn s exclusive new reporting on that chaotic oval office meeting now at the center of special counsel jack smith s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. our political correspondent sara murray is joining us. she
me save you some breath. if you re going to ask about this, i am not addressing [inaudible] i know you do. more than i d like you to have. i am not going to address this issue from this podium. i m just not going to do it. [inaudible conversations] thanks, guys. have a great weekend. maria: oh, yeah, no response from the white house to the damning message from hunter biden to the to a chinese executive demanding he keep his, quote, commitment or face retaliation from the big guy. then-vice president joe e biden. and, quote, everybody he knows. coming up, chairman jim jordan on why fbi never followed up on the potential corruption in plain sight. oversight committee members byron donalds and south carolina congresswoman nancy mace on what comes next in their investigation of the biden family influence peddling. all of this as communist china ramps up aggression with plans for a military training and spy center in cuba, 100 # miles away from the florida coast, amidst a we