Smith. And maryland, the president trying to handle growing threats in the pacific. A new Military Exercise Program to Counter China and north koreas ambitions. John and during the announcement, one reporter squeezed in a question about National Security concerns over the president s son. Listen here. Administration view this investigation as legitimate and the administration concerns that Hunter Bidens ties to china pose a National Security issue . I dont have any comment on that. John the white house shutting down that line of inquiry, trying to focus on the task at hand. Jacqui heinrich is live at camp david, with the podium behind her, the leaders will soon appear. Its significant to note just how interesting it is you are going to have these three leaders appearing on the same stage together. Two years ago the deputy secretary of state, Wendy Sherman had to appear solo on a Stage Following a trilateral event with the two countries and u. S. , the Japanese Foreign minister objected
New Security Concerns and potential threats just ahead of trumps expected Court Appearance here. Cnn is over at the courthouse with preparations by federal and local Law Enforcement officials are now under way. Ill speak with a vocal critic of trump and his actions, republican president ial candidate and former congressman will hurd. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with donald trump on the brink right now of being arrested and arraigned for a third time. The former president is set to respond to that grave new federal indictment accusing him of orchestrating a plot to try to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Lets go right to our Senior Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid who is here with me in the situation room. Is it your understanding that trump will appear actually physically at the courthouse here in washington tomorrow . That is our expectations now, wolf. This is also what he
false claims about what is going on, have been in abundance. journalists have been attacked and injured, so lots to discuss around the media s role. katya adler, the bbc s europe editor is with us. we have also gotjournalists who have been out reporting for french outlets. and we have got one of the bosses of agents france press, the big news agency. but before we get into that, i want to cross to new york and start with emma tucker, the editor in chief of the wall streetjournal. one of emma s reporters, evan gershkovich, has now been imprisoned in russia for more than 100 days. the authorities accuse evan of being a spy. charges that he, the us and the wall streetjournal all deny. he is the first western journalist to be detained in russia since the cold war. emma, welcome to the show. i will ask you for the latest on the situation any moment but can you just take us back and remind people the circumstances of his arrest back in march? evan is an accredited journalist in rus
trump, if and when he defames heard client again. we re gonna spend a lot of time talking about that case tonight. conservative attorney george conway is standing by here in washington. he s the person who introduced carroll and caplan, and he s got the emails to prove it. plus, legendary democratic strategist james carville is coming up in just a minute to talk about how the looming general election is anything but normal. and the dangers associated with talking about it in normal terms. i do want to start tonight with something that e. jean carroll said, just this morning, that really stuck with me all day. what was it like being in the courtroom with donald trump? well, terrifying, until i got there. the weeks leading up to it, no sleep, couldn t eat, couldn t do and then, i sat down, robbie said, good morning miss carroll, can you please spell your name for the court. i spelled my name. i looked out, and it was like, he was, like, nothing, like an emperor without cl
with something that e. jean carroll said, just this morning, that really stuck with me all day. what was it like being in the courtroom with donald trump? well, terrifying, until i got there. the weeks leading up to it, no sleep, couldn t eat, couldn t do and then, i sat down, robbie said, good morning ms. carroll, can you please spell your name for the court. i spelled my name. i looked out, and it was like, he was, like, nothing, like an emperor without clothes. all my terror leading up to it, and then he s just something in a suit. he was like nothing, as she just said, like an emperor with no clothes. she was scared. she admitted that. but when she saw him in that courtroom, she realized he was nothing. e. jean carroll is not a political strategist. don t go down that road, she never has been. she s not giving advice to the biden campaign. but what s she said there may actually offer some wisdom about donald trump. she revealed something here that is important to