heard the name george santos. oh, we do know him now, though. a wild scene today as the republican congressman caught in lie after lie is arrested and charged on 13 criminal counts. will george santos, aka anthony devulder stay in congress, go on his own or will he be pushed out? plus, taking the stage, donald trump now hours away from facing questions at a cnn town hall one day after a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. and following the money. republicans flagging what they call shady deals as they lay out their case against president biden s family, including son hunter. is there evidence behind these allegations? welcome to the lead. we start with our politics lead, and a defiant congressman george santos saying he has no plans to resign despite facie ing 13 criminal charges. santos pleaded not guilty in a new york courtroom this afternoon before facing the news media where he insisted he is innocent. this is the beginning of the ability for
central. as thousands of migrants are heading to the united states, the biden administration faces a major legal setback in the border strategy just hours after the end of title 42. remember, that policy was used nearly 3 million times to immediately expel people in the covid pandemic, and now a new court ruling has blocked the border authorities from releasing the migrants without a scheduled court date, and the white house is accusing the republicans to sabotage efforts to manage the border. alejandro mayorkas said that the policy was key to ease the overcrowding at the detention facilities. listen to this. the department of justice is considering options and the practice that the court has prevented us from using is a practice that prior administrations have used to relieve overcrowding. in the meantime, we are learning from the border city of el paso that fewer migrants are coming in compared to last week. we will get the update with rosa flores. rosa, set the scen
even terrorists among them. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. those are the stakes. in 12 hours and 58 minutes from now, it will be the end of the trump-era measure that allowed the immediate expulsion of border crossers and it was working. some 3 million have been sent back under title 42. on biden s watch, we are watching it expire and people are desperate to cross over the border and they are now waiting en masse for midnight to come. the situation is this. the lifting of the title 42 public health order does not mean our border is open. it is going ton an invasion like we ve never seen in the history of this country. i won t turn myself in. every town in america is now a border town because president biden has brought this crisis to them. a lot more money for the border patrol. they didn t do it when i asked congress. the president said he wanted a humane policy. what is humane about migrants dying and uncode children. that s insaid. t
training and signs he might have been motivated by right wing extremism. we re also tracking the situation on both sides of the southern border as officials race for the expiration of title 42. what the end of the trump era policy means for the expected surge of migration. also tonight, e. jean carroll s civil rape trial is nearing an end. the jury expected to begin deliberations tomorrow after attorneys from both sides just wrapped up their closing arguments. welcome to our viewers here in united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with allen, texas, where we re learning new information about the gun man who shot and killed eight people. heartbreaking details are coming in about the victims. ed lavandera is joining us from the scene of the massacre. give us the latest. cnn has been able to review posts made by the gunman on a russian social media website that shows some rather disturbing information which includes th
video of donald trump answering questions under oath about carol s rape accusation. we ll show you the footage that could make or break the trial against the former president. we re also in ukraine now where the chief of the wagner group says he s pulling his forces from bakmuud. and later this hour, we re showing protests about the individual held in a choke hold by a passenger. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to our top story this hour. the never before seen video of donald trump testifying under oath about carol s claim he raped her in the mid 1990s. kara is joining us now. she has detailed. what stands out to you from this indi vi video taped deposition. reporter: this is a tape he sat for in october of last year. she alleges he raped her in a new york department store in the 1990s and he defamed her when he denied the rape, said he didn t know her and she wasn t his type. she s not my type? yeah. because it s not politically cor