critical oversight powers. cnn is in jerusalem where the backlash against prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his plan are clearly incensetensifyntens the u.s. justice department filed a lawsuit against texas governor greg abbott after the republican refused to remove floating barriers designed to keep migrants out. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitt ser. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the breaking news on a newly revealed focus of special counsel jack smith and his investigation of 2020 election interference. cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is here with me in the situation room along with cnn national security and justice reporter zachary cohen. zach, tell us about this trump oval office meeting in february of 2020 and why it s now becoming a focus of this criminal investigation. reporter: this is right at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. trump is in the oval office w
pressing, one of the most pressing issues in not just the american court system but american society given the role of the courts. i m going to get into something later in the hour and i m very specifically avoiding and that is commenting on robert kennedy junior. i have reasons for my reluctance, including my experience with him in my college class, which i m gonna talk about a little bit. but today was the day with his testimony that i can no longer avoid it, and i m going to have to, it ll be more than a few years words, and it will be later in the hour. there is much to say about him. i have a bit to say about him, and this is the night for that. i am eager for a deep cut on you and robert f. kennedy junior in college. so i will be tuning in for that. for many reasons. have a good show. the attorney for the dammed, that s how the newest member of donald trump s criminal defense team was described in a new york times profile written about him over 15 years ago. john
deputy assistant attorney general john ewe on how this could be john yu and how this shakes out at the ballot box. his numbers are picking up. all of that and new revelations in the gilgo beach probe that could lead investigators to more killing in more states. what suffolk county, new york, sheriff is doing now to make sure his suspect stays, as he says, intact and is brought to justice. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto. the candidates on all this legal pressure back ask and forth, we go to lucas tomlinson who has more in washington. reporter: good morning, neil. many are wondering how the former president can get to all his rallies and court dates. some say it was president biden on trial this week, neil, when two irs whistleblowers testified that both joe biden and his son hunter each received $5 million in order to get ukraine s top prosecutor fired when biden was vice president. of course, the president s son was on the board of that energy company that the prosec
open to a run on the no labels ticket. here is manchin in the critical early voting state of new hampshire. i i m in races to win. the democrat and republican party that has a better model, their business model is better, you are divided. harris: recent polling my gave manchin optimism. 1/4 of voters surveyed said they would support a third party candidate if the election were held today. compare that with just 9% ahead of the 2020 election. fox news correspondent molly line kicking off our coverage now. molly. senator joe manchin rather artfully dodged the question whether or not he would head up the third party ticket saying they put the cart before the horse. manchin head lined in the first in the nation primary state of new hampshire alongside former governor of utah. it was hosted by no labels, a political group laying the ground work to support a potential third party unity ticket securing ballot access in five states. both manchin and huntsman spokes with bret ba
indicating that it is days away, it is all on the schedule that andrew weissmann predicted it would be on. and so, he is going to get a little triumphant turn here tonight. you know his predictions have been so on point, it is almost like he worked from the doj at one point, or new people on the inside. almost. he has experience and can look at the situation the way a meteorologist can look at clouds forming somewhere out there in the atlantic ocean and tell you where the hurricane is going to hit at one point in florida. i would go so far to say that he can look at a butterfly flapping its wings and know that that is going to bring a storm front in 5 to 7 days time, that s how good he is. i ll be watching. thank you alex. the breaking news, donald trump just spent an hour on fox with sean hannity and did not say anything about the multiple criminal prosecutions closing in on him. nothing. donald trump did not offer any kind of defense against the boss-able charges th