All right t. Okay. Yes. Yes s. Happy. Happy monday. L of y good to see all of you. Ou good to see all of you. Except foro seof. So at a Campaign Stop in pittsburgh, joe biden toldo d supporters to send me to congress. I know. Aides clarified that he actually meant to say block shadow. Also in pittsburgh, the police is reducingty the number of cops on duty from three m to 7 a. M. And calls it not considered progress. Emergencies will nowes w be assigned to a telephoneil unit. Pr police stations will also be placing this sign on Theirec Precinct Doors as spring break begins in florida. Theyre alreadyasin up for wt the wet tshirt contest. Herest a photo of one of thett top contestants. Wel l, just gratuitous. Res no reason for that, really. At the oscars last nighton. , i people won in most major categories, including best actories incr, best actress, beo and best director. Well, at Leasrst The Host was black. I thank. Ill take it. Oh, i feel so good. G tha and asnk usual. The In Memoriam
Charging him in connecith his efforts to overturn the 2020 electi. Include the conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. Moments ago the special counsel, jack smith, spoke more about the indictment and the charges trump now faces. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Its described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the u. S. Government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. The indictment went on to say that trump had six coconspirators, wolf, but of course it did not name them. This is truly, truly a remarkable moment in american history. The former president of the United States, who is now the current frontrunner for the republi
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
president biden didn t seemabou to have an answer when asked about the incident today. but white house press secretaryr karine jean-pierrey did at least try to come up with an explanation. take a look come up wit. > the president and the firsn lady and their family were not here this weekend. as you all reported on this. u o and as you also know that they left on friday and returned jusknow tt where we this was discovered is a heavily traveled area where many white house west wing, i should be even more specific. i sha west wing visitors come through this particular areavi. i just don t have anything more to share. it is under investigation by the m. secret service. this is in their purview. and so we re going to allos inw certainly the investigation to continue. and we have confiden t that the secret service will get to the bottom of thio ths. fr for their part, t the mainstream media found the whole situatioamn a little ridiculous. check this out. chi can t even fa
ruhle with starts now. ow tonight, our government shutdown avoided, for now. congress kicking the can down the road on long term funding until march. donald trump takes his immunity claims to social media. then, the scathing report from the doj on the response for the school shooting in uvalde, texas. and president biden on the road, celebrating his economic winds, plus a remarkable story of perseverance, and the most special way to end our thursday night. you do not want to miss this. the 11th hour just getting underway, right now. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we a lot of big news tonight, including the scathing federal report about the massacre in uvalde, texas. we will have more on that in a few minutes. but first, this evening, let us head to capitol hill, where congress passed another short term funding bill to prevent a partial government shutdown. this is a third stopgap bill to kick the can down the road since we have had in meanwhile, presi