prosecutors probing witnesses about a heated oval office meeting just weeks after donald trump s loss, during which the former president considered desperate measures to stay in power. tonight, trump on the campaign trail. once geagain trying to spin his legal problems in his favor. he is going after the justice department and his main republican rival, governor ron desantis. president biden is speaking to cnn on his decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. the president voicing his concerns with the controversial weapons but ultimately deciding they are crucial to kyiv s counteroffensive. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. first up tonight, cnn s exclusive new reporting on that chaotic oval office meeting now at the center of special counsel jack smith s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. our political correspondent sara murray is joining us. she
he has had this hold on a certain segment of the republican party for some time. as much as people try to compare this race to the 2016 race, he is starting out higher than he did there. maybe something will change. it s very possible that his voters will leave him. it s possible that they will decide that they are interested in desantis, who is pitching himself as trump without the drama. the drama doesn t seem to be something that bothers the voters. good point. scott jennings is with us. trump is hitting governor desantis for his position on ethanol. ted cruz won despite opposing ethanol. what do you make of the messagmessage i from the former president? he just continues to pound desantis on anything he can think of. i think the campaign still views desantis as the only person who could even legitimately begin to put together enough voters to challenge him. i m not sure that that issue is going to be the definitive
a lot riding on this game, maybe they are taking a percentage off their performance, but pep radio yet not happy, he will be angry at half time, they made seven changes, but still a very strong team. as for liverpool, you are right, the drama doesn t really involve them. they are away playing against milan, rbl glamourfixture. the are away playing against milan, rbl glamour fixture. the other game glamourfixture. the other game in the group is porto against atletico madrid. liverpoolare the group is porto against atletico madrid. liverpool are already through, but milan know that they need to win and hope the other game ends in a draw for them to get through. porto, it s in their hands, when with guaranteed and going through. atletico madrid need a win and from alumni to win against liverpool, so liverpool could do a few favours for other teams tonight, can you imagine, athletic madrid, la liga winners last season, not getting through to the champions league knockout stages. for liverp
american people. you know, federal government, i found in my first year, doesn t have the remote control and you have to get up and change it yourself and you have to stay focused. number two, i don t say this to disparage anybody, but some people like drama, but just because they like drama doesn t mean i have to attend the performance, and i think we need to put this stuff aside and get back to work. i don t know if what is in the book is true. i am not saying it is or isn t, and it could be that the author just pulled it out of his orifices, i don t know. it is what it is and i am trying not to let it distract me and i think most senators feel that way. i get that it s fun to talk about, you know, it s human nature to be interested in this stuff, and i understand that it s news, but i am just saying there are bigger issues. so a few points.
and i ve tried not to comment on the president s tweets. i m not going to say jeff s right or wrong. you know, those are his feelings. and he s entitled to express them. but i don t think there s some crisis in the republican party. there s certainly no crisis in the conference among senators, who happen to be republican. we are focused on tax reform and we re going to get it done, hopefully, by thanksgiving. i know this makes news and there s a lot of drama to it. but, you know, just because some people like drama doesn t mean i have to attend the performance. and i would prefer to focus on the issues. i hear you. but, in attending the performance, this wasn t just drama. this was history. i mean, this was a sitting republican senator taking to the senate floor to renounce the sitting president of his own party. that doesn t happen every day. people sure it does. people go i gave a speech