battleground states and former president trump s lawyers are now in discussions with the january 6th select committee and testifying under oath. this as the u.s. supreme court rejects senator lindsey graham s bid to avoid testifying in the investigation of the 2020 election interference what they claim this georgia. 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 the first court appearance by the man charged in the brutal attack on paul pelosi. he entered not guilty pleas just a little while ago. whitney is following the story for us. 42-year-old david depape accused of bludgeoning paul pelosi with a hammer making his first appearance tuesday. he pleaded not guilty to multiple charges. there s also been a lot of speculation regarding mr. depape s vulnerability to misinformation and that s certainly something we re going to look into. he s currently being held without bail. h
senate if some of their candidates had fewer problems. now that doesn t mean that the environment won t you know, overtake that. you know, we ll have to see how this continues through the weekend. we know that polling is basically a lagging indicator and we re not going to find out until voters are voting but if you re in the final stages of a top race, any little bit helps. evan, president biden, and you ve written a biography on president biden, he s in florida. what does it say to you that he won t be showing up in georgia, arizona and nevada? in closely fought races like that, putting the head, the person whose face is most responsible for the democratic party today in the center of that, it s a risky move. instead, what they did is they said let s send him to florida. let s send him to the geographical heart of the trump movement. metaphorically and in other ways