office just ahead of trump s surrender at the fulton county jail on thursday. are law enforcement officials there prepared? trump s republican rivals are little over 24 hours away from their first debate on the eve of the former president s arrest. gop candidate asa hutchinson joins us live this hour to discuss his debate strategy and trump s decision to snub the event. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re keeping a close eye on fulton county jail and the courthouse where multiple trump codefendants were arrested or involved in new legal maneuvers today. we re also following breaking news on two of the famous trump allies indicted with the former president in georgia. cnn s paula reid is outside the courthouse in atlanta. she s got details. paula, you have new reporting on mark meadows bid to get the georgia election subversion case tossed, what are you learning? reporter: that s right
headquarters in new york city. the grand shake-up. a stunning move in the georgia elections case against donald trump. but it s not about whether d.a. fani willis stays or goes. the judge dismissing six counts in the sweeping racketeering indictment including three against the former president. what led to the decision? and what it means for trump and his co-defendants. plus the last time america pitted the same pair of presidential nominees against each other two elections in a row, gas was a quarter, a burger was less, and donald trump and joe biden were just kids. now americans have the rematch most say they never wanted but voted for anyway. and it ramps up the veepstakes for trump. what the price of admission could be. and one storm washes away more than half a million dollars worth of investment. what an oceanfront community is now asking for after watching its brand new protective sand dune disintegrate. a lot to get to, but we start with that breaking news out
the reidout tonight on the reidout it is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support it. and i hope he does that. at its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. and our conservative cause badly needs more people. nikki haley declines to endorse trump, for now. although mitch mcconnell and many others are genuflecting to trump, despite the ritual humiliation from the would be autocrat. also tonight, north carolina republicans nominate for governor a holocaust denying, massacre victim mocking lunatic who once described the lgbtq community as filth and denounced the civil rights movement of the 1960s without which he likely wouldn t even be able to vote in the south. a man that donald trump has despite all of that described as, dr. king on steroids. mark robinson s democratic opponent josh stine joins me tonight. plus, facing likely defeat in arizona, kyrsten sinema says
other. with the basic principles of the republic on the line. a name more famous for decades and decades than nikki haley, in republican circles, came out swinging directly at the presumptive republican nominee, donald trump, early this morning. in a post liz cheney saying this, quote, the gop has chosen. they will nominate a man who attempted to overturn an election and seize power. we we have eight months to save our republic, and ensure that donald trump is never anywhere near the oval office again. then liz cheney sent people to this video originally released in may. watch. donald trump is the only president in american history who has refused to guarantee the peaceful transfer of power. joe biden he lost the election and knew it. he betrayed millions of americans by telling them the election was stolen. we will stop the steal he ignored the rulings of dozens of courts. rather than accept his defeat, he mobilized a mob to come to washington and march on th
cnn this morning starts right now good morning, everyone. i m john berman with audie cornish in new york. it s good to be here. it s been a minute for me poppy and phil or off this morning, a key ukrainian town falling to the russians, ukraine s army desperately low on supplies with congress fighting over for that new aid bill, the kremlin claims he went for a walk, fell ill and collapse, but this morning, the family of alexei navalny say they can t even get access to his body for live in moscow from the fallout from navalny s death and donald trump outraged after being ordered to pay $355 million in his civil fraud trial, the former president s next move, $400 hightops. cnn this morning starts right now all right, ukraine has suffered a major setback. for the house is on vacation with no path forward on passing desperately needed aid. video shows russian forces raising a flag in the city of abdivka after ukrainian troops withdrew. president biden is blaming congressional