forces from moscow and kyiv are trading new attacks and threats. and the ukrainian ambassador to the united states will join us live this hour. cnn is learning about the special counsel s plans to call more key witnesses. the january 6th grand jury wrapping up its secret work for the day as a potential indictment of donald trump looms. and house republicans put the spotlight on a controversial democrat who s challenging president biden, robert f. kennedy jr. testified in a heated hearing and trying to rewrite the history of his remarks that have been condemned by his party and his own famous family. 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 the night in the key port city of odesa as residents there prepare for a fourth consecutive night of russian attacks. cnn international correspondent alex marquardt is on the ground there. you ve witnessed these attacks up close since the first
overseas, a u.s. national believed to be an american soldier in north korean custody after breaking away from his tour group and running across the border from south korea into north korea. good day to you. i m peter alexander in for my friend, andrea mitchell. she is on assignment. she will join us later this hour. we do begin with breaking news here in washington, and it comes from the special counsel s office. this morning in a lengthy post on donald trump s truth social page, the former president writes in part, quote, deranged jack smith, the prosecutor with joe biden s doj, sent a letter, again it was sunday night, stating that i m a target of the january 6th grand jury investigation and giving me a very short four days, he says, to report to the grand jury, which almost always means an arrest and indictment. this stunning new development signals that special counsel jack smith s probe into mr. trump s alleged role in the 2020 fake elector came has advanced in its inv
section is, judge cannon got through the entire thing without saying a single crazy thing. not one crazy thing at all, unlike the way she handled this case last year, when this evidence was first brought to her. well, i think a lot of influences are going to be made by that. and i cannot wait to see what you guys get through in the course of the next 5 to 10 minutes, once you scan that meaty transcript, lawrence. i eagerly await your analysis. thanks, alex. bank. you have a great show. thank you. it was another terrible day for defended trump including the revelation today of the specific charges mentioned in the special prosecutor jack smith s met letter to donald trump on sunday telling him that he is a target in jack smith s criminal investigation of events leading up to end on january 6th, attempting to overthrow the presidential election. donald trump had a very bad day in two different courts in new york city today in refusing to ultra quest for a new trial in t
nice to see you. good evening, everyone. the special council grand jury is going to continue their work to investigate donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. legal experts are keeping their eyes peeled for a indictment. donald trump s thunderstormer lawy former lawyer and fixer is here. imagine being stuck on the tarmac in las vegas in triple digit heat with an infant. i ll talk to parents who endured that hell. and the pilot that made a run for it into north korea. tonight, i talk to a woman who watched him doing it. doing it for a tiktok stunt or something stupid like that. i heard one of the american soldiers yell get him. he was going so fast, he was gone by then. we ll hear from her later. the special counsel grand jury is expected to meet a few hours from now. the president trump being indicted for a third time. we have jennifer rogers, former assistant u.s. attorney. and john miller, our chief law enforcement officer and analyst. how likely
all right. the breaking news this morning. former president trump says he has been informed by special counsel jack smith that he, trump, is a target in the criminal investigation into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. all of this is potentially a major signal that the prosecutors could once again file criminal charges against former president donald trump, and if that is true, he is the only former president to be criminally indicted three times. and our guests are standing by with the latest on this. we begin this trial with the crime reporter kcaikatelyn pola who broke this news. what did donald trump say on social media? he is saying quite explicitly that the justice department is saying that charges may be near for him in the january 6th investigation, and this is the investigation being conducted by special counsel jack smith and it has looked at donald trump very much so about what he did in the white house, and what he did after the 2020 election as wel