presidential election results in georgia. and cnn is on the ground right now in afghanistan exactly one year after the taliban takeover of the country now plunged into poverty, how women and girls are once again subjugated to unforgiving rule. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. new charges tonight against the pennsylvania man who said he wanted to kill to kill law enforcement personnel. the latest in a very disturbing wave of threats following the fbi search of former president trump s mar-a-lago estate. cnn national correspondent kristin holmes is working the story. reporter: days after the fbi search of former president trump s mar-a-lago home, new graphic threats to the fbi revealed. courts showing social media posts against federal law enforcement by a pennsylvania man. quote, my only goal is to kill more of them before i drop. one quote read, if you work for the fbi, then you
and shared this quote, this is what i get for telling my son guide to smile at the camera. for his little brother, i have to say that s the most storable thing i ve seen in awhile. we could all use it in terms of how we think about our politics. thanks to the panel, thanks to you for joining us some kasie hunt, cnn news central starts president biden now calling donald trump, a convicted felon, the first time he called them out that way. and what that now signals for this new phase of the presidential election in breaking overnight, i will not be intimidated. attorney general merrick garland near outrage after attacks by republicans were learning new details about what he plans to save before them. this morning. and it is light he virtual strip club tiktok facing you accusations that it enables the sexual exploitation of children zaraa is out today i m john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn new sim and on. him, president biden laying out a new line of attack again
engaged in a back-and-forth here, but he wants to come out forcefully defended these institutions, and make it clear they are not subject to the whims of congress to the winds of politics. these are bedrock institutions that are essential for the safe and efficient running of our country. if i can shift gears here in a major way and focus on the federal criminal trial against hunter biden, the son of the president again, and it is notable for those who saying the department of justice is being weaponized. if so, being weaponized against the president s son as a quirky way of doing that. but what are you listening for this morning in these opening statements? i really curious about what the defense is here. i mean, we had a hunter biden s are poised to take this plea deal that fell apart because certain aspects of the deal really hadn t been hammered out by both sides before they got to the judge and the judge asks him i m a hard questions and the plea deal fell apart. i am very
it s usually a polite appeals court. these three judges came out swinging against the florida judge who ordered that special master. that s correct, andrea. if you think about this as, for example, a review that someone might receive at the end of the year by your boss or by your supervisor, if your boss or supervisor were to tell you the answer is no or that you are unimpeded in your decision making process by the facts or you have no concern for the very fundamental bedrock institutions of our country, for example, in the law that all people are equal before the law, if you would receive such a review as that, you might be worried about your job in the coming year. here, as you know, judge cannon is a judge who has lifetime tenure. she is secure. it is an indelible mark on her and on her reputation, the way in which the 11th circuit
we ve seen. we have a president of the united states, donald trump, who we know demonstrably is a seditionist president. we know of his criminality beyond doubt. we know of his instability and all of those things are known particularly by members of the republican party on capitol hill who have been so craven that they haven t spoken out about what they know. and i think that that is something that we really need to look at and could talk about perhaps a little bit now. that is a good point. in the wake of the fbi search of mar-a-lago, carl, trump and his allies have fueled anger and distrust toward some of our nation s bedrock institutions including the fbi and the justice department, forward courts for that matter as well. did you ever think you would see a former president of the united states show such littregard for these key american institutions. no.