Alleged coconspirators be in the works . Also tonight, were learning that western hopes for ukraines counteroffensive are fading right now as officials receive very sobering updates on the fight to retake territory from russia. Ill get reaction from key white house official john kirby. And in the president ial race, Florida Governor ron desantis boots his Campaign Manager in an ongoing shakeup, replacing her with a trusted adviser as his bid for the gop nomination keeps on struggling. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. This is cnn Breaking News. Lets get right to the Breaking News on a key hearing in the January 6th Criminal Prosecution of donald trump. Were joined by our Senior Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid. So what are we hearing tonight from the judge whos overseeing this critically important case . Wolf, the Rocket Docket continues here in d. C. The judge who will oversee the January
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howie: just as an aside, television is losing interest in the campaign. you re seeing the cable networks giving air time to local murder trials involving people you never heard of. and joe biden will just token oppositions of absolutely no one by winning 96% of the vote in yesterday east south carolina democratic primary. the media had been insisting that president biden take swift action after iranian drone killed three american soldiers and for five days the criticism from commentators only grew louder. and it turns out that looking stern and furring your brow and saying don t into the camera isn t enough to stop iran. if iran wants to continue killing americans or trying to kill americans, should we not at least sync one of their ships? howie: this is a classic dilemma. on friday afternoon, the air strikes began hitting targets in iraq and syria and killing more than 40 people. this administration s idea of deterrence is trying really hard not to kill too many people
neil: democratic congressman henry cuellar in the last hour talking about revelations that were shocking and released late on a friday night. that s what happens with a lot of information that could be very embarrassing to authorities, but in this particular case extremely embarrassing anybody for everyone in this country. 251,000 plus migrant encounters at the border last month. we have never seen that, forget about in any december, in any month in our history like ever, ever, ever. griff jenkins in eagle pass, texas with the ramifications of that. my friend, to you. griff: neil, that s unbelievable. that s the population of scottsdale and the border agents are exhausted. and let me take you to our drone in the sky and lift you up. in this is where they have more than 160,000 crossings here in this fiscal year so far and that s just one sector alone. as you take a look at this crossing here, title 42, people just going across moments ago. and the video that we shot before th