Staff member. Speaker kevin mccarthy. And the time to george santos. And pleaded not guilty, and the indictment says he asked for more than a dozen contributors to fund santoss campaign. He also got a 15 commission from it. Prosecutors allege hero a letter to santos back in 2022 saying quote, thinking my identity to big donor. You also wrote, highrisk reward. In everything i do. Something he said that in turn out to be true. Thank you so much for joining us tonight, cnn prime time with wolf blitzer starts right now. Excellent show, caitlin, thank you very much. To our viewers, good evening. Im wolf blitzer here in washington. We want to welcome you to cnn prime time. Theres Breaking News were following right now. A texas woman has been charged with threatening in a voice mail to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former president donald trump. Over his attempts to try to overturn the 2020 president ial election. The suspect, allegedly called the chambers a fede
fire. 100 meters. we re trying to make our way out of here. plus, see the intense fight in the forest, showing what ukraine is up against. leading this hour, the latest dysfunction on capitol hill, this time over immigration beginning with a look at how we got here. you ll recall when president biden was sworn in on january 20, 2021, the new administration started ending trump administration immigrations policy arguing they were harsh and inhumane, for instance a policy that forced would be asylum seekers to stay south of the border. last may along party lines house republicans passed hr -2, a bil that would bring back trump policies. president biden vetoed the bill. last october republicans demanded any additional aid for ukraine and israel would need to include legislation to deal with the border crisis. james langford of oklahoma along with kyrsten sinema and chris murphy decided to negotiation for a compromise. in mid december hoping to win passage for the aid for u
Between the secret service and the sheriff. what the sheriff said, show up at the jail, not at the courthouse, none of the sheriff s office, show up at the jail, were open 24/7. we ll leave the light on for, you it s basically what he s saying. we ll get you booked, we ll get you released. that it. that s the same message to all the defendants. he doesn t single out president trump as being special. the difference, which president trump, is he s always in anomaly as interest by law enforcement. because he s escorted, protected, and surrounded by other law enforcement, to with the secret service. it makes it a tad awkward. very awkward, indeed. very quickly, john. if he were to eventually wind up in jail, and that s a huge if, let s say he were. would secret service agents be it we with him in that cell? that is a questions we have kicked around here for literally months, since the first indictment. i think, you know, there s a couple of bad assignment in the secret service. that mi