former president. the pentagon leak suspect is waiting to see whether he ll be released from jail ahead of the trial. the prosecution making the case he s a dangerous flight risk as we re learning more about alarming red flags that were clearly missed. and wnba star brittney griner is moved to tears during her first news conference since her release by russia. stand by for her emotional recount of her imprisonment and how she hung on while she was losing hope. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the breaking news. a first and modern american history. a former u.s. vice president compelled to testify under oath about the president he served beside. our reporter is outside the federal courthouse in washington where mike pence appeared for hours today. what more are you learning? reporter: wolf, we never saw make pence inside this building today but sources have confirme
man: if you were to have a son, would you encourage a political career for him? kennedy: oh, definitely. i would hope he would grow up to be if not a politician in the sense of devoting all of his time, i would hope that whatever he did do, that he would have some sense of responsibility for what went on. couric: when you hear him talk about that, do you ever feel like your choice not to pursue a career in public service might have disappointed him? -no. i can t imagine that he would have said anything different being asked that question under those circumstances. you know, he d always said that he thought everyone should run for office. and, listen, there s a lot of time in life to do all sorts of things. hey, everyone. welcome to how it really happened. i m hill harper. july 17, 1999, we woke up to shocking news. john f. kennedy jr., his wife carolyn, and her sister lauren were missing, last seen aboard a private plane headed for martha s vineyard with john at the con
which presidential candidates kick their campaigns into full year. well, the start of this election year summer it s unlike anything wave seen before. in onewa week president biden a former president trump will face-off in the earliest election debate in modern history. the biden campaign made a deliberate choice to challenge trump to an early debate to force voters to reckon with the reality of the choice they re goingof have to make sooner ratr than later. today we got new details about how that debate is going to play out. independent candidate robert f. kennedy jr. officially failing to qualify. biden will be standing at the podium on the right of the television screen while trump will have the podium on the left, the same configuration as the two debates held four years ago. donald trump got to choose the order of thedo closing statemen. he chose to go last, giving him the final word. we also got new details how the two candidates plan to prepare for the debate. tonight