wolf blitzer s on assignment. i m alex marquart, and you re in the situation room. and first up tonight, our exclusive report on a federal criminal investigation into former president donald trump. attorneys for the former president unable now to locate a classified document that he referenced on an audiotape now in possession of prosecutors. kaitlan collins is on the team that broke the story and has the latest. take us through what we know. reporter: what happened is mario martin, this press aide to former president trump who was in the white house and now has followed him to mar-a-lago, went and testified as many people who were in that orbit these days have gone before jack smith s investigators. she was in there in mid-march, we re told it was shortly after she left that grand jury that prosecutors sent a subpoena to the former president saying that they wanted any and all documents related to iran and general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs that trum
a constitutional crossroads unlike anything in this nation s history. donald trump is barred from the republican primary ballet. he is not eligible to run for president they are due to the 14th amendment s insurrections band. it is not the final word. i could come from the u.s. supreme court. now trump is fundraising from this ruling. the matter of trump being disqualified is up to the courts. backing the insurrection, that is already settled. take a listen. i think some things are self- evident. we saw it all. he supported insurrection. no question about it. none. zero. he aligned with a key part of this fourth opinion in colorado. the majority writing that trump did not only insight the insurrection, even when the seas was underway, he repeatedly demanded that pence refused to perform his constitutional duty and calling senators to stop the counting of electoral votes. this was a voluntary participation in the insurrection. john, great to see you, what happens next
Quiet throughout the course of the negotiation process in part to the frustration of democrats on capitol hill, this will be a very clear moment to kind of get the last word and to make clear what he views as a very high-stakes moment that came to a resolution. the gravity of what failure in that moment would have actually meant. but also to look forward. i think bout over the course of the last six months the type of cloud this has had not just over the presidency, obviously the u.s. economy, really the entire country, you have this and an opportunity not just because it was bipartisan, not just because of the development of a relationship between president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy, but also because there are not major legislative wars that are expected in the months ahead. that s important not just from a legislative perspective or from a white house perspective, but also from a candidate perspective. obviously the president is already in an announced re-election candidate in
president obama in the polls as he warms to a jobs fight with republicans, the new numbers show big support nationwide when the president says this if you want construction workers back on the work site, pass this bill. if you want teachers back in the classroom, pass this jobs bill. but there s bad news for the president, too, and lots of it. for starters, democrats lose a new york congressional seat the party has held it for 90 years. and the republican winner predicts it s just a down payment. i am telling you, i am the messenger. heed us. this message will resound for a full year. it will resound into 2012. that s hardly the only headache for the obama re-election team. also of note, your collective answer to the question that doomed the last one-term democratic incumbent. are you better off than you were four years ago? we begin, though, on capitol hill with the congressional investigation in to a big government loan award to a clean energy company that is
america, john king, usa starts right now. good evening, everyone, tonight rare good news for president obama in the polls as he warms to a jobs fight with republicans, the new numbers show big support nationwide when the president says this if you want construction workers back on the work site, pass this bill. if you want teachers back in the classroom, pass this jobs bill. but there s bad news for the president, too, and lots of it. for starters, democrats lose a new york congressional seat, the party has held it for 90 years. and the republican winner predicts it s just a down payment. i am telling you, i am the messenger, heed us, this message will resound for a full year. it will resound into 2012. that s hardly the only headache for the obama re-election team. also of note your collective answer to the question that doomed the last one-term democratic incumbent. are you better off than you were four years ago? we begin, though, on capitol hill with the