he understands the role of attorney general is to serve and protect the people of the united states, and that is exactly what he will do and do better than anybody else can. jeff sessions was a disaster as attorney general. he s not qualified. he is not mentally qualified to be attorney general. we hope bill barr going to be as good as we think because he is a great gentleman, a great man. by the way, when bill barr, who is a coward. you know, bill barr was a coward. he didn t do what he was supposed to do. i fired him, and he has great chairman. for the joint chiefs of staff, general milley will serve as my top military adviser. i have absolute confidence he will fulfill his duty with the same brilliance and fortitude he has shown throughout his long and very distinguished career. he was, frankly, incompetent. the last one i d want to attack with as my leader would be milley. general kelly has been a star. he s done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a g
tonight, america is seeing the ultimate in election interference as four unelected state judges all appointed by democrat governors have ruled that donald trump must be kept off next year s presidential ballot. the colorado supreme court in a 4-3 decision wrote that we conclude that because president trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under section 3 of the 1st amendment, it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the secretary to list trump as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot therefore the secretary may not list president trump s name on the 2024 presidential primary ballot nor may she count any write-in votes cast for him. enough to the suit focused on that section 3 of the 1st amendment that s aimed was aimed at barring confederates from federal office who engaged in insurrectionist behavior or rebellion. now, remember the case was spearheaded by a left wing group called citizens for responsibility and ethics in washingto
version of the bush administration. we re going to get into that with mollie hemingway and charlie hurt. but for decades we ve seen members of both parties attack at the core of the america-first agenda. i inherited a nation that had a serious loss of credibility around the world as america first. we ve seen nationalism distorted into nativeism. unrestrained nationalism is the last refuge of those who cannot or will not deliver real progress and opportunity for their own people at home. laura: well, that old regime is gone, and i don t think it s ever coming back, certainly not in the republican party. and now we have some new opportunities and candidates with actual back bones. we know donald trump has one. his anti war record is well-documented. and ron desantis, well, we re going to see more about what he believes on all the issues that we care about as his campaign goes forward. but both have pretty much shown us that their desire is to put america first, american
at all. what i am doing is very serious. it s very important work. nope, not a game. that was fulton county d.a. fani willis last summer talking about her probe of trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and there are new indications tonight of precisely when any indictments will be coming this summer. also tonight, ron desantis gets set to formally launch his presidential campaign with the baggage of a four-plus year record of attacking the personal freedoms of the people and businesses in his own state. including his economically destructive fight with disney. plus, my conversation with chasten buttigieg who has a message for young people amid the growing threats to lgbtq youth. but we begin tonight with seven battle ground states that president biden won in 20202020. arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. not only will these all be states to watch in next year s presidential election, but all part of the failed plot by donald trump and his
e. jean carroll. we re getting new reaction to the jury s verdict and the order for trump to pay $5 million in damages. cnn has learned that federal criminal charges have been filed against republican congressman george santos amid investigations into his astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications. stand by for details on our exclusive reporting. and president biden and congressional leaders just wrapped up critical talks at the white house, and there is no sign of any breakthrough on raising the nation s debt limit as the clock ticks forward a potentially very very dangerous default. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in new york with the bomb shell verdict in e. jean carroll s civil case against donald trump. the former president found liable for sexually abusing carroll and defaming her. cnn s jean ka satellite and radar genjean casaras is joig us. gi