Good morning you were alive in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington today, democrats are Breathing A Sigh of relief after President Bidens fiery state of the Union Address and his impassioned speech that lasted border an hour the president s son ought to diffuse concerns about his age and draw a stark contrast with the maga movement. He lambasted his republican rival more than a dozen times without ever saying his name referring to former president donald trump, simply as my predecessor, republicans in the meantime, sat on their hands. Most of the night, not even president s call to defend democracy he could elicit a unified response and he had no qualms. The president had no qualms about pointing that out history is watching just like history watch three years ago on january 6 when i surrection storm this very capitol in place, a dagger to the throat of american democracy. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6, i will not do that. This is
Rodeo drive and coupled coupled book to farm, say to ride this horse glenn close with millions of possibilities you can book whoever you want to be thats my line. Booking. Com booking dot yeah. This is cnn Breaking News good morning. Welcome back to the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta alongside wolf blitzer. Wolf a lot of Breaking News. Were following a lot of Breaking News today. Nikki haley, as all of our viewers down, dot has suspended her president ial campaign after Donald Trumps near sweep on Super Tuesday, haley did not endorse her now, former 2024 rival last hour or address to the nation and how a fiveminute address to the nation. Instead, she urged trump to earn the support of her vote voters the former president did pick up a major endorsement, just a few minutes ago from the former assumed to be former Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell, despite the fact that the two men have not necessarily spoken in more than three years. Thats right. Woven today. There is no longer any do
Hes been fingerprinted and processed more recently in the case of florida. All of this should happen very quickly. And then we expect that the judge will start setting up a timeline, which the Justice Department wants to happen, obviously, before the 2024 election. Something that i think is very, very possible. What we know about the judge assigned to hear this case . Because i believe shes had some pretty strong dealings with january 6th defendants. Reporter she has. And look, the judge is a jamaican born obama appointee. Shes been on the bench since 2014. Like a lot of the judges there, they dealt with this violence at the capital, right across the way from the federal courthouse. They have been processing a lot of the january 6th defendants in that courthouse. One of the things that she and others have said is, you know, essentially that people who carried out this assault on American Democracy needed to have their day in court and needed to make sure that they paid the consequences
New Security Concerns and potential threats just ahead of trumps expected Court Appearance here. Cnn is over at the courthouse with preparations by federal and local Law Enforcement officials are now under way. Ill speak with a vocal critic of trump and his actions, republican president ial candidate and former congressman will hurd. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with donald trump on the brink right now of being arrested and arraigned for a third time. The former president is set to respond to that grave new federal indictment accusing him of orchestrating a plot to try to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Lets go right to our Senior Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid who is here with me in the situation room. Is it your understanding that trump will appear actually physically at the courthouse here in washington tomorrow . That is our expectations now, wolf. This is also what he
Much in to our viewers. Thanks very much for watching. The news continues next on cnn outront next, breaking news, were learning new details about the conditions Alexey Navalnys team says must be agreed upon in order for the opposite Mission Leaders body to be released. Details that include a secret funeral, plus breaking news. We are on the surface, a us spacecraft touching down on the moon for the first time im in 50 years. But the condition of that spacecraft is still unknown as were standing by for the first images and pay up federal judges ruling the my pillow ceo must pay a Software Expert who debunked his election lies 5 million. The man was supposed to be getting that money is my i guest. Lets go out for good evening. Im jim sciutto in tonight for erin burnett and Outfront Tonight, breaking news. Alexey navalnys body now being held hostage tonight. Were learning the conditions that russia has set in order for authorities to release the Opposition Leaders body to his mother. Acc