right now. republicans working feverishly to bring articles of impeachment against homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas, even though those same republicans say an immigration bill is dead on arrival. nikki haley meeting with some of the richest people in america tonight. will they give her the cash to take on trump? a gop donor is up next. any takers to have a computer chip implanted in your brain? good evening. house republicans taking a major step towards impeaching a sitting cabinet official, something not done in 148 years in the united states. the target is the homeland security alejandro mayorkas. they are working right now and frankly expected to keep working well past midnight. they re making the claim that he s committed high crimes and misde misdemeanors. what they re not working on is stopping people from coming over the u.s. southern border. they could be meeting to discuss the bipartisan bill negotiating by gop senators, a bill that republicans
governor intensifying and apparently costing the state thousands of jobs just days af before the republican is ex expecting to announce his campaign. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a new u.s. message about the war in ukraine. a significant development as president biden is out there on the world stage right now and in a potentially very pivotal moment in the conflict. phil mattingly is with the president at the summit in japan. kn nic robertson is in eastern ukraine. phil, as the president prepares for this summit, the biden administration is signaling a major shift on ukraine. what can you tell us? yeah, wolf, it would be a significant development. the president is just a few hours away from starting the first day at the g-7 summit here meeting with leaders. leaders that have been integral to the steadfast support of ukraine since russia s invasion oaf the course f the year
good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. here is the story. former president trump back on the stand right now behind those doors in new york city. he and the judge went at it this morning with trump telling him this is a very, very, very unfair trial. and then the judge asking trump s attorney to get control of his client at one point. before we take you to the courtroom with the very latest and the reporting inside, look at these new polls that came out over the weekend from the new york times sienna polling group shows trump beating the current president pretty handily in the battleground states right now. take a look at the margins. this is nevada, georgia, arizona, michigan, pennsylvania. if you can see those numbers. maybe we can take them tighter. most of these are really the battleground, the deciding states for 2020. when you look back at 2020, the same period of time, biden was ahead in these states. he went on to win all of these states. now you have big-name demo
consumers tend to pick the original. so until he is able to really you know, see donald trump sink of his own weight, in terms of legal issues and maybe other issues we haven t seen yet, i think that s what he s relying on. i don t think he knows how hard to hit because when he tried hitting a little bit when trump was indicted, it didn t work well. according to maggie s reporting, desantis didn t mention today s major disney news on the call with donors. what does that say to you? well, he wanted to focus on trump, obviously, and making the case he s more electable than trump. he probably doesn t want to get bogged down talking about it, but on the other hand, this fight with disney is part of his vibe. it s like i m going to follow these fights all the way to the end. he did sort of mention over the i think i read over the last couple of days, i m not going to give in to a corporation just because it wants me to.
for free speech in this countryo because elon musk saw it mad and was so mad that he boughttwe twitter.r. t work well, that didn t work well.r and made a documentary about the state of comedy. it s called the death of comedy questionmark. and we talked to the ceo of the babylon bee about that moment. here s part ostatf when the babylon bee became one of o the most popular satire sitesont in the world, big tech hated it. so in concert with the mainstream, the tech monopoliess moved to crush the babylon bee.e the raided this joke about. how cnn purchased industrial washing machine to spin faceb the news and before publishing h it. and facebook s fact checked ouet rated it false. and so we got threatened with demonetization and platforming. illy we continue to publish false news, which is just absurd. you know, it s a silly washingn. machine. it s not even that funny. what s funny is that they fact checked it. and the fact tha t he s flagged this for being insensitivelete shows their