undisclosed hospitalization now revealed to be the result of complications from prostate cancer surgery. and there s more breaking news we re following. boeing s ceo acknowledges the company s, quote, mistake during a safety meeting on the alaska airlines mid-flight fuselage blowout. we have new details on the investigation. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. first up this hour, donald trump s deeply skeptical reception in federal court today as a panel of judges heard his arguments for presidential immunity. our chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid is on the story. reporter: former president trump traveled to washington tuesday to watch arguments in a federal appeals court hearing over whether he should be shielded from criminal prosecution. i feel that as a president you have to have immunity, very simple. reporter: trump was not requ
well, the new house judiciary chairman, jim jordan, announcing he s launching an investigation into the doj s actions related to president biden s handling of classified documents. he s demanding the department turn over a variety of information including all communications related to yesterday s appointment of special counsel. it s hard to believe this is what s happening one week ago, but at just about exactly this time there was a complete chaos on the house floor. a lawmaker lunging at another lawmaker, and we still didn t know way back then because last year was a whole year last week a whole year didn t know if kevin mccarthy would actually become speaker. what a difference a week makes, and of course when you think about in washington, d.c. every minute seems to be a new, well, crisis to avert or try to maintain. i want to bring in michael shnell, congressional reporter for the hill. and lia donovan. let me bring you into this conversation because, look, we re talkin
to get them all a sap. meantime the new york times reporting a right-wing lawyer suggested trump declare marshal law to overturn the 2020 election. president biden returning from his controversial trip to the middle east where energy and security alliances may have been overshadowed by the murder of the washington post journalist jamal khashoggi. with respect to the murder of khashoggi i raised it at the top of the meeting making it clear what i thought of it at the time and think of now. the u.s. has made its own mistakes. with covid cases and hospitalizations on the rise, los angeles likely reinstating indoor masking. with these very high rates unless we start seeing a slow down in spread, a slow down in what s happening in our hospitals in two weeks we will do a universal indoor masking here. londoners being urged not to travel as a heat wave engulfs europe. other cities now seeing all-time records as blistering temperatures bake the continent. i m laur
and the trump versus pence feud over the 2020 election is escalating tonight on this the eve of the georgia primary. trump is lashing out at his former vice president calling him, quote, desperate as they stump for rival candidates in a georgia showdown. pence speaks out on the campaign trail this hour. we want to welcome 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 fallout after president biden s surprising stance on a potential chinese invasion of taiwan. this talk of the u.s. military response is sowing new uncertainty about his policy and raising serious tensions with china. kaitlan collins is in tokyo for us. she s covering the president s trip to asia. kaitlan, the administration is trying to clay fire what president biden said but there is still some confusion out there tonight. what is the latest? reporter: yeah, and wolf, this is a comment that we should know caught some of the pre
had come true. let s go out front. good evening, i am erin burnett. out front tonight a new lie. it is a lie being pushed on republicans by republicans that jeopardizing the whole nation. the lie is that the vaccine is not working. the lie is working right now. according to a new poll, 49% of republican men say they won t get the vaccines. the number of trump supporters overall who say the same, 47%. who can turn this around? the people who are committed to president trump and his leadership still matters a great deal. it is important for former president trump and as well as the vice president to encourage all followers to get the vaccine. trump is not doing this and not doing this any way shape or form despite the fact he went and get vaccinated himself in secret. he s happy to have the protection for himself but he s not carrying enough about his supporters or the american population at large to tell others to follow suit. his supporters are following what he says