confident as they settle on a playbook for the 2024 race. in new york a grand jury just indicted the former u.s. marine who held a homeless man in a fatal chokehold on the subway. we ll tell you what we re learning about the charges. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight as the federal prosecution of donald trump moves into the next phase the nation s chief law enforcement officer is breaking his silence about the case. we re following all the new developments of trump s indictment. as the former president is predictionably lashing out what is the attorney general of the as you know attorney general garland doesn t like to talk at all about ongoing cases. this is the first time since former president trump was formally charged that we ve heard garland speak. of course he appointed special counsel jack smith back in november. today he talked just a little bit about his historic role i
at this dinner last night trump went back to, this candle lit dinner with donors, it was a thousand dollars at least to get in. these were major donors and campaign bundlers who were there. that is notable because typically trump has relied on the small dollar donors in the past. as of last thursday when news that he had become a target, he was being indicted. when the indictment was released and unsealed on friday is when you started to see them fundraising and the e-mails where they typically get smaller donations. they are definitely using it to their advantage in that perspective. i think the question of whether it would put him in legal peril is a major one. we don t know exactly what that is going to look like. we are getting a clearer picture how they ll use it to benefit part of this is also going to paying his legal fees. that is a good point as well. i know you are doing a lot of reporting. you know, on all of this, all of the stuff going on. let s talk a little bit about
once was a mostly friendly field dominated by attacks on diversity. we re spiraling towards a debate stage that potentially could have six people with no diversity. on electability. and i just thought to myself, donald trump would eat them up. and even on voters. a damn liar, man. reporter: billionaires catching scrutiny for being billionaires isn t exactly new. bloomberg from you. billions of dollars. reporter: but elizabeth warren and pete buttigieg s brawl is putting big business and big money front and center with questions of transparency swirling. i remember when they said the same thing about obama. reporter: warren challenging buttigieg to release his campaign bundlers and open his fundraisers to the press. it s time to disclose who the bundlers are and who s getting special access. reporter: while pushing for more information on the mayor s work with private consulting firm mckinsey. i think voters want to know about possible conflicts of
when he announced his presidential run in 2007. and alice stewart, a cnn political commentator who has worked on several campaigns including ted cruz s in 2016. i m curious about the timing for elizabeth warren. it happens on new year s eve of all days, during the middle of a government shutdown. we should point out that really the point of an exploratory committee is basically giving you the mechanism by which to raise money. what do you think of the timing of all of this based on the fact we re in the holiday and in the middle of a government shutdown? this makes a lot of sense politically for elizabeth warren, even if many of us aren t quite psychologically ready to begin the presidential race. there are oonly a limited number of operatives who know how to win an early state like iowa or new hampshire. only a limited number of campaign bundlers to help you raise the money. being the first out of the box, you can start hiring people, build the organization, raise money. i go back t
multi-week book tour, is pulled into a tie in donald trump with the latest fox poll. the billionaire front-run certificate self-funding his campaign. he spends next to nothing on advertising. both trump and carson threatened to boycott the next debate in two weeks hosted by cnbc if it does not agree to limit the debate to two hours. currently the network plans no time limit. i m jeb. running for president. jeb bush is cutting costs, trying to save money for a long gop primary trench war. he raised 13.4 million over the last three months and tried to make today s disclosure look more muscular by revealing his campaign bundlers. the man on the move is ted cruz, his war chest and poll numbers are growing as he courts conservatives from across the spectrum. third in the fox poll now and on bush s heels in fundraising at $12.2 million. carly fiorina danced with