to broadcast the hearing and whether trump s indictment will be unsealed before it begins. we re also tracking the massive security operation underway right now, as officials prepare for the former president s movements. through the city and the courthouse. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. our top story tonight. we re less than 24 hours away from the arrangement of former president donald trump had a new york city courthouse. cnn correspondents are on the ground in manhattan with new information about the case. we also have a team of experts ready to break down this truly historic moment from every angle first, let s go to our senior legal affairs. correspondent paula reaches just outside the courthouse for us. give us the latest paula great. we learned that trump s lawyers are opposing having cameras in the courtroom for tomorrow s historic arrangement. a media organizations, including cnn,
94% of democrats near nearly universal on the democratic side approve but 62% of independence . that s a big number for the critical voting block in the middle there. and even one in five republicans approve of the indictment. we asked folks is donald trump s behavior in this stormy daniels matter. illegal unethical, but not illegal or not wrong at all. take a look. 37% of americans say it s illegal. what donald trump has done here, 33% say it s unethical but not illegal. so if you add those up the big majority, say donald trump s done something wrong here illegal or not only 10% of americans, wolf say, donald trump has done nothing wrong at all in this case and then sort of along the lines of donald trump has been arguing to his supporters. do americans see this as a political matter? overwhelmingly they do 76% of americans say politics played a role in bragg s decision in the
change, battling these types of things is one of the key areas the white house has been saying all along that the president can address in his so-called year of action. they say he can do this unilaterally through executive action without congressional authorization or approval. he has done this on several earlier occasions. he now says that in 2015, 2016, you put greater standards on fuel efficiency on these trucks and these school buses and all sorts of other larger vehicles, you are going to save in terms of gas and greenhouse gas emissions. that s going to be a significant advantage. he says he can do it right away. he is going to make the announcement at a safeway distribution center right outside washington, d.c. safe way has been involved in more fuel-efficient trucks. that s why he decided to make the announcement out there. athena, let s bring you into the conversation as you heard wolf say, plans to do this without congress in this year of action, taking action on things
greece. ali, let s begin with you. just about an hour from now president obama is due to hold the news conference right there at the summit. greece, as we know, a linchpin. before you tell us why americans really need to pay attention to this, if you don t mind, just give us some perspective on this morning s new jobless numbers that i just talked about. okay, well, because i love you, kyra, we worked so long, i ll make this a choose your own adventure. what do you want from me? upbeat and positive or down beat and optimistic? i want you to be balanced and give me both. the reality check, no nonsense ali velshi. here s what we got. we expected 100,000 jobs to be created and we got 80,000. in my world, that s not that big of a deal. the unemployment rate went down to 9%, again, not a big deal. it tells us less about the economy than a whole bunch of other indicators. but as you said, the big deal was the numbers for the previous two months always get revised and they wer
the united states to deal with as well. wolf, i ll let you go. maybe you will join us again later. i know you will be in place for the situation room at 5:00 p.m. eastern and you ll have much more on this. also, we re going to take you back live to jerusalem to get more from kevin flower who is pretty near that bus station because as you heard wolf say, that s the central bus station which is not far from the cnn bureau. we ll take a quick break. we ll be right back. cial securi. much less tell you what it means. he doesn t know that his parents are counting on the money they pay in. or that the hard earned benefits his grandparents receive. are secure. right now he s not thinking about his future. but we are. aarp has been working to preserve social security for more than 50 years. join us in a conversation to strengthen it for years to come. [ male announcer ] what are you gonna miss when you have an allergy attack? benadryl® is more effective than claritin®