welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is friday, october 21st. i m christine romans. a big question right now after the sudden resignation of british prime minister liz truss. the biggest of all, who will replace her. the ruling conservative party wants a new leader in place in days. truss s campaign took eight weeks which turned out to be longer than she spent in office. cnn s scott mcclain is live. where do things stand right now? reporter: christine, there are no candidates who have officially declared themselves in the race, but the leadership race is well underway happening though largely behind closed doors. that is because candidates will be horse trading, negotiating, trying to persuade their parliamentary colleagues to support them. it will take the support of at least 100 to get into the race. this does not favor more minor candidates with a certain wing, this favors the known quantities already, people who already have a well-establ
youngstown, jd vance got back on stage and started shaking his hands, taking pictures saying aren t we having a great time here tonight? all the former president s men. jd vance, herschel walker, adam laxal, it s an odd ball field of maga candidates running this year with our democracy on the line. congressman tim ryan, who walloped the hillbilly elegy hedge fund guy on the debate stage last night, joins me live. also tonight, our reedout democracy defending has a warning about the infiltration of election deniers as poll watchers and judges and what needs to be done to fight back. plus, new developments in the trump documents case. the doj filed its response to trump s request for the supreme court to intervene. we begin tonight with what mitch mcconnell euphemized as candidate quality. just a few months ago, the republican party was crowing about a red wave. today, with a month left, the election really is a jump ball. honestly, though, if you look at the field of r
culpability for the first time. in this new legally binding document cites evidence to show why trump must, they say, legally cooperate. setting deadlines for evidence, november 4th. deadlines for testifying, november 14th. and this new material puts trump at the center of the coup plot to overturn the election. the committee writing that he maliciously disseminated false allegations of voter fraud, corrupted the justice department, ran the effort to transmit false electoral certificates, that may yet yield more indictments. it s basically saying he committed crimes, and pressured pence to help the coup even though according to the committee, trump knew at the time in advance that the pence plot was illegal. and then of course summoning supporters who trump knew were armed, according to the committee s investigation to that d.c. rally, and the storming of the capitol. now, what happens if you defy a subpoena like this. trump aide steve bannon found out today. it s a coinciden
air raid sirens and fresh destruction. president vladimir zelenskyy pleading with g 7 nations for more weapons during emergency talks on the deadly russian bombardment. also tonight, the u.s. justice department is urging the u.s. supreme court to stay out of the dispute over classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. we ll break down the new federal response to the trump team that was filed just a short while ago. and a baltimore man walks free after 23 years in prison. prosecutors dropping murder and all other charges against him after he was featured on a popular crime podcast and cleared by dna testing. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight in ukraine where valid p vladimir putin s assault on the city is taking a deadly toll. fred pleitgen is on the scene for us in kyiv. reporter: as the russian military continues to fire barrages of missiles at ukraine eng
polansk. tell us about this, this was about attorney/client privilege but if there s criminality, the pr privilege doesn t exist. reporter: right. john eastman was trying to keep these emails away from the committee and anyone else who wanted them. this is the second time the judge found these emails should be released, they can t be protected because of a furtherance of a fraud, it s called a crime fraud exception. this is a monumental finding from a federal judge. it does two things, potentially very quickly. right now eastman is in a position these emails could be released to the house select committee. previously they got emails right around january 6th. this is a wider portfolio, the entire month of december 2020 leading up. so a lot of additional context the house may not have had before. and the second thing it does, it has a federal judge on paper looking at documents that could potential evidence and saying what they actually mean. and his finding is that these ema