Opposition leader. Hello, im wolf blitzer in washington and youre in the cnn newsroom right now, donald trump is inside a florida courtroom for a crucial hearing. It could decide when the criminal case over his handling of classified documents goes to trial. The judge is set to determine whether it will move forward as planned. In may or be delayed. Trumps lawyers now say they would accept the trial in august. Thats three months before election day here in the united states. Cnns chief Legal Affairs correspondent, paula reid is outside the courthouse in fort pierce, florida for us. Paula, have you heard anything yet from inside the court . Yes. Well, if we just got our first update, a handwritten note from inside the courthouse, were learning from our colleagues who are inside watching these proceedings. Its so far the Special Counsel and trumps lawyers, they have been discussing this larger question of timing such a consequential issue in this case, because we know the Special Counsel
White house was willing and able to censor the truth on social media. Republican president ial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will join us in moments but first to Ashley Strohmier live in the New York City news room with the very latest on this. Ashley, good evening. Reporter hi, trace. Yeah, the Biden White House has routinely denied involvement in suppressing Negative Information about covid19 vaccines on social media. You might recall this exchange with our own peter doocy and then White House Press secretary jen psaki during the summer of 2021. Take a listen. Is there any concern the things youre trying to block or taken down might some day turn out to be we dont take anything down. We dont block anything. Facebook and any private Sector Company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. Reporter but internal communication between Top White House officials and facebook employees obtained by fox business appears to paint a vastly different picture, even when face
congress. to pass new gun control legislation as the nation grapples with yet another mass shooting, but gop lawmakers contacted by cnn are resisting this latest call for reform, and there s more uncertainty surrounding the potential indictment of former president trump in new york sources now say in manhattan grand jury won t revisit the trump case during the rest of this week. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the city. aeration room. we begin this hour with all the new video and new information about the nashville school shooting and the attacker who was killed by police. cnn s aymara walker has our report and we want to warn our viewers. some of the video is disturbing. no body cameras revealed police running toward the sound of gunfire without hesitation. about 3.5 minutes elapsed between the time they go in. bbo . and when they confront the shooter. metro nashville police said these two officers op
we will bring you that speech live. and in florida, grim new details about how many people were killed by a different hurricane, ian of course. and the new number just coming in. some officials now responding to criticism about their initial response to ian. we ve got our team standing by live on the ground. also this hour, we re live in district court in dc with opening statements happening now, in the conspiracy trial of leaders for the oath keepers. why the defense is hanging its case on something former president trump didn t do, and what prosecutors are saying today about what the defendants said were not enough weapons. we will talk about it coming up. and october, not spooked yet. rare good news lately from the market. the dow up 800 points. we will talk about what is behind the rally on wall street later in the show. i m hallie jackson on assignment for a story you will see later on in the month. joining me is gabe guiterrez in san germane puerto rico and shaq bre
Standing trial in a criminal case. This was donald trump setting off from Central Manhattan a couple of hours ago. Hes charged with 3a counts of fraud, relating to hush money allegedly paid to the Former Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 president ial election. Hes now in the courthouse itself for the start ofjury selection. Prosecutors accuse him, of arranging payments to Stormy Daniels in an effort to buy her silence. Donald trump has pleaded not guilty, describing the case as a witchhunt. He spoke to the media just before heading in to the courtroom, lets have a listen. Something like this has never happened before. Theres never been anything like it. Never happened before. Every legal scholar said this case is nonsense. It should never have been brought. It doesnt deserve anything like this. There is no case and theyve said it. People that dont necessarily follow or like donald trump said this is an outrage that this case was brought. This is political persecution. Thi