he is the reason that the oath keepers were in washington, d.c. on january 6th. that was what the judge found today. and he also believes that stewart rhodes poses an ongoing threat to democracy. rhodes made no attempt to try and dissuade the judge of believing that. and the judge certainly did say that explicitly after stewart rhodes expressed no remorse in court today and continued to be very far right in what he said to the judge and not saying that he believed that he had done anything wrong at all. now, the other thing, with kelly meggs, that was the second defendant sentenced today, kelly meggs was much more remorseful. and judge mehta looked at him and reminded him how serious of an offense this is, seditious conspiracy. and then spoke about how he found it so astonishing that american citizens who had been upstanding average americans before january 6th then became criminals. and i want to read for you one of the last things that judge mehta said after this marathon d
blitzer in the situation room. happening now, a judge in manhattan just scheduled donald trump s criminal trial for next year right in the middle of the republican primary season. we ll share all the latest details from the former president s court appearance earlier this afternoon. also tonight, governor ron desantis is about to official. the florida republican is poised to launch his white house campaign tomorrow during a conversation with elon musk on twitter. we have new details on the announcement and how his gop rivals plan to respond. plus, we re learning new information right now about the driver who slammed a u haul truck into a white house barricade, what a court filing is revealing about the threats he allegedly made about president biden and his praise for adolph hitler. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. . let s get straight to the news on former president trump s criminal trial
exclusively to cnn as blow back in the country over russia s invasion seems to be growing. cnn learning about the counter offensive. plus, nearly every single teen in america is glued to social media. it goes way younger than teens. the surgeon general has a serious warning tonight. the research shows this. it s not safe. what s he going to do to keep his own kids away? and it s a story you will see first out front, can a.i. read your brain? you ll see it all for yourself. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front russians versus russians. a new and violent challenge to putin s russia tonight. a group of russians fighting on behalf of ukraine are claiming they have liberated several russian villages along the russian border. they re posting videos. there are no russian guards that appear in any of these videos. they re guardless checkpoints. some of the vehicles these men are using are american made tactical vehicles and we re trying to understand mo
Parties. The main topic today, isis and as secretary clinton is focusing on taking down the defeating, destroying the terror group, her rival donald trump is getting a lot of flak for elevating a controversial world leader. Im talking about the president of russia. Vladimir putin. Trump has praised putin before, but this time the republican nominee seemed to align, at least on certain issues, with putin in an interview that aired on russian television. Campaign representatives say that if they had known the trump appearance would be seen on the kremlinbacked network, that he would not have done the interview. This is what trump has said about whether he believes russia launched a covert operation to disrupt the 2016 u. S. Election. I think its probably unlikely. I think maybe maybe the democrats are putting that out. Who knows. But i think that its pretty unlikely. But, who knows . I hope that if they are doing something, i hope that somebodys going to be able to find out so that they
Generation. reporter: and maybe, maybe the camaraderie will thaw the partisanship. the long gray line is more blue than red it s more red, white and blue. we need to continue to sacrifice to make this nation prosperous and free. reporter: and this memorial day sunday on state of the union we ll hear from those members and the heroes, the fallen whom they will be thinking about this memorial day. you can see that sunday morning at 9 and noon. next here on the lead, cnn s wolf blitzer is here with a look at what s coming up in the situation room. the white house national security official john kirby will join me live here in the situation room. i ll ask him about the latest developments in ukraine, including the cross border attacks on russian soil. there are new indications tonight that antiputin fighters might be using american military