And Briefing Materials on topics including ukraine, iran and the u. K. All of this at the center of a Special Counsel investigation. Lets get right to cnn senior justice correspondent, evan perez, who is following all of this. Evan, what more can you tell us about these classified documents that were found . Not always a good thing whenela saturday. Not always when you fix a statement that was provided a day earlier. What the white house is now confronting, they have had to explain multiple times in the past week about the finding of these classified documents. And a lot of it, frankly, theyve known about the documents since at least december, that there were additional documents they chose not to disclose it. What we know is there was an additional five pages of classified documents, that they were found in the president s home in williamington. Thats in addition to one document they had disclosed just yesterday. And the issue for the white house is that now were talking about around
Favorite kevin behind kevin spacey. As you know it so is preferable to be behind kevin spacey. Of course, it took 15 ballots to confirm mccarthy which pointed only this is to monitor joe biden to become president. Yes sumi. But while we were voting and rebuilding he was proving that revenge much like the fruity pebbles bill feeds me in the morning. As a dish best served cold. Was different this time as republicans learn something from donald trump. They are keeping their promises and fighting like fiends. On tuesday, they took steps to boost oversight of both the Chinese Government and the joe biden administration. Granted its hard to tell the two apart. First they approve subcommittee to probe the i hate that word. Weaponization its overused just say exactly what youre investigating. Abuses against the american people. Does the government collect info on or otherwise investigate in the citizens of the u. S. . And how deep was that collusion between the fbi and private sectors to ban s
hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicolle wallace. the potential indictment of donald trump which would be unprecedented for this country is a story that is playing out in both new york where a grand jury could issue an indictment any day now and in washington where republicans are quickly mounting a political defense of the former president, let s begin with the developments in the case itself at this hour. on monday team trump dispatched a last-minute witness to testify before the grand jury investigating hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels back in 2016. attorney and former confidant to michael cohen robert costello, now after his testimony he previewed a likely defense for donald trump. that this then attorney michael cohen paid the hush money payments on his own terms, take a listen to what he told reporters. michael cohen told us that he was approached by stormy daniels lawyer and stormy daniels had negative information that she wa
Circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. And to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. Lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger and kim strassel do you think Merrick Garland had a choice here or was he boxed in and really had to appoint a special council or is he just trying to build in some political insulation here for the hard choices that may come . Well i would say all of the above, paul. [laughter] for sure. I mean, really consider that one week ago today, we were all sitting here discussing that fiasco of Kevin Mccarthy House Speakership Roll Forward nearly one week we have a spectacle of a special council appointed to investigate the sitting president of the United States after one has already been appointed a special council to investigate the form
this as new york police are now increasing courthouse security just ahead of a potential trump indictment. also tonight, trump s top gop allies are rushing to his defense and trying to discredit the new york d.a. who s investigating him. trump s legal peril and the political fallout looming over a major gathering of house republicans. and a high stakes handshake, china s president xi jinping ven v strengthens his alliance with vladimir putin, praising him as a dear friend as the russian leader stands charged with war crimes in ukraine. we ll have the latest on their talks in moscow, hours after putin s defiant visit to the war zone. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we begin with the latest testimony in the new york grand jury investigation of donald trump amid questions about whether the former president is on the brink of being indicted. let s go right to our senior legal affairs corres