we re getting new reaction to his message and whether it ll make a difference with the all important mid-term elections just 12 days away. also this hour a secret hearing involving the trump team and the mar-a-lago document dispute. it ended just a short while ago. we re learning also that the january 6th select committee is now moving forward with interviews of top secret service agents and officials. standby for the details, reported first right here on cnn. and we ll have an exclusive report from inside the bunker of a ukrainian powerplant targeted by the russians. i ll discuss the war and the new taunts from vladimir putin and iran going on right now with key white house official john kirby. he s standing by live. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with issue number one for so many american voters, the u.s. economy. president biden is seizing at a new report showing a re
direction of the republican ticket. what you are looking at is that that is not the reality that played out we. still have a couple hundred thousand ballots here but about 40,000 of those ballots were hand-delivered on tuesday. going into tuesday, those 40,000 are going to be reflective of most of the outstanding ballots in maricopa county and if what we saw all plays out tonight over the following days you are looking at a very tough scenario for carrie like to try to overcome day he hobbs as mount in the last couple of days this is a real testament to it, i think where independents and the state of arizona are, but even some of those conservatives that have shown willingness to vote against trumpism, again, yet again. this time in 2022, stephanie. or maybe even some of those conservatives who are sick of conspiracy theories. arizona was ground zero for cyber ninjas, the audit after audit.
hearing? well, it is a little too early to tell right now because we re starting to get this information in trickles. so what we are hearing from the phoenix police is that a 36-year-old suspect, has been arrested. he s been arrested and booked on one count of third degree burglary. what you re seeing behind me is some activity. that is a kari lake news conference. there are a number of cameras. looks like every single local news station is here to try to cover what she undoubtedly will jump on, which is that there is a lack of evidence right now that this was anything more than just a crime, that it was not politically motivated, at least based on the evidence that phoenix police have released publicly so far. my colleague, kate sullivan, is talking with police and they will not say if this was random, if this was politically motivated. and that s key here because what we saw from the hobbs campaign,