trump s intent. the new york times reports that prosecutors have questioned multiple witnesses over the past few weeks, including jared kushner, and questioned them about whether trump had privately acknowledged in the days after the 2020 election that he had actually lost. the line of questioning suggests that prosecutors are trying to establish whether trump was acting with corrupt intent. remember, kushner also spoke to the january 6th committee last year. jared, are you aware of instances where pat cipollone threatened to resign? i kind of like i said, my interest at that time was on trying to get as many pardons done, and i know that, you know, he was always him and the team were always saying, oh, we re going to resign. we re not going to be here if this happens, as that happens. so i took it up to just be whining, to be honest with you. we also just learned moments ago special counsel jack smith requested a reply memo by trump and nauta to delay the documen
stories today including developments big ones in jack smith s prosecution of donald trump and the classified documents case. trust me we ll get to them shortly. but we begin with the breaking news on a story that has captivated the world s attention all week long. late this afternoon exploration company oceangate confirmed the titan and all five of its passengers onboard have died. the vessel went missing over the weekend as it attempted to tour the wreckage of the titanic at the bottom of the ocean more than 2 miles beneath the surface of the ocean. in just the last hour the coast guard announced the end of a days long rescue effort. this morning an rov, a remote operated vehicle, from the vessel horizon arctic discovered the tail cone of the titan submersible approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the titanic on the sea floor. the rov subsequently found additional debris. in consultation with experts from within the unified command the debris is consistent with the ca
of the jewish community in pittsburgh who said they felt a lot of relief when that conviction came down. just to describe the tone inside the courtroom, it was also silent as they read the first charges and the first guilty verdicts. it shows you intently the community has been paying attention to this trial. i want to touch on the charges that robert bauers was found guilty of. 63 federal charges, also guilty of 22 of the capital offenses, it was the instruction of the free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death. the jury said robert bauers killed jewish worshippers while they were exercising their religious freedom. it has been a long time coming and a hard trial to listen to over the past three weeks. i ll bring up one testimony we heard. we heard from carole black. she was a survivor of the shooting. she described hiding in a closet while bullets were ringing out above her. she saw her friend mel wax be killed. she testified he immediately went down on his back.
president. we re getting new information right now on the multiple fronts in this trump investigation. tonight, the u.s. justice department details systemic violations by the minneapolis police department, saying the problems of excessive force and racial discrimination led to the murder of george floyd. dozens of guilty verdicts against the gunman behind the 2018 massacre at a pittsburgh synagogue. now that a federal jury had its say, will the killer be sentenced to death? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with a new request by the special counsel in the classified documents probe. the filing reflects prosecutpro fears donald trump might go public with information about the investigation. paula reed is joining us now. walk us through this protective order as it is called, this request. reporter: wolf, this is a request from prosecutors that we would expect in a ca
and most of them have other professional schedules and lives, and that is not a basis to delay a trial and not have a trial date. similarly, one of the arguments that he really eviscerated in his reply was the argument that, well, under the presidential records act donald trump was entitled to these documents this is a novel theory. it s not novel. it s baseless. when it s baseless it means it s going to be that much easier for the judge to dispose an it. the discovery, that was another issue he took apart in his reply. he said we ve given you everything, the unclassified discovery. we re making available the classified discovery as soon as you fill out the forms giving you clearance, what you haven t done. it s a strong reply. i would expect if judge cannon is following the law, which we expect her to, she ll set a trial date.