( ) astepro allergy, steroid free allergy relief that starts working in 30 minutes, while other allergy sprays take hours. with astepro s unbeatably fast allergy relief you can astepro and go! tonight the white house confirms of five americans he step closer to freedom for arrived at a finney rainy and piston today, joining the fifth authority under house arrest. three have been held for years. the white house calls the ongoing investigations for the release delicate, and say they never should have been detained in the first place. just the first have been what includes the u.s. unfreezing six billion dollars in iranian funds for food and medicine. the source says a prisoner swap is also expected. the news continues with a source from kaitlan collins, starting now. tonight, straightening the stores. maui, still burning, the death toll is climbing. the second deadliest u.s. wildfire in a century, incinerating paradise. this hour, the governor will deliver a new update. w
it s monday. big week ahead. good morning, everyone. we re so glad you re here. welcome back. thanks for having me. how was your week? it was good. it was good. what did i miss? lots of news. nothing. yeah. there ll be lots of news this well. let s start with five things to know. this morning, twice-indicted former president trump is bracing for potentially more charges, but it s not hurting his polling. look at this. a new york times siena poll shows him with a dominating lead. 54% of likely republican voters picking trump. and a mar-a-lago maintenance work set to appear in court. carlos de la vera is reported to tell another maintenance work that trump wanted the security footage deleted. we re learning that trump s leadership pac spent $40 million on legal fees since start of the year. an american nurse and her child kidnapped in haiti. they were abducted from the campus of a christian humanitarian organization. now the state department says they re in to
tuesday night is $1.05 billion, the fourth largest prize in mega millions history. good luck. hello again, everyone. i m fredericka witfield. we begin this hour with the growing legal problems for former president trump. the special counsel is charging trump with three new counts in the classified documents investigation. those charges include one additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional counts of obstruction. trump now faces 40 felony charges in the case after originally being indicted on 37 counts last month. cnn s paula reed has more. reporter: former president trump facing new legal peril. a florida grand jury returned a superseding indictment thursday, adding two charges against trump for an effort to alter, destroy, mutilate or conceal surveillance footage at the heart of the prosecution s case. trump reacting in a new interview right after the charges dropped. it shouldn t even be a case. reporter: prosecutors a
reporter: yeah, we do. this is from a spokesperson, he says this is nothing more than a continued desperate and flailing attempt from the biden crime family and their department of justice to harass president trump and those around him. he goes on to say deranged jack smith knows they have no case and is casting about for any way to salvage their illegal witch hunt and get someone other than donald trump to run against crooked joe biden. i want to give a little bit of context here. obviously they are saying that this is an attempt to get donald trump. we have heard all of these words time and time again. they are calling jack smith deranged even though lawyers have asked donald trump not to do that, not to speak out about the special counsel. however, there was a lot of conversation going on for months about whether or not carlos was going to be charged inside of trump s circle. they were under the impression that they believe that he could be a defendant months ago when th
heightened anticipation about the special counsel s next moves after jack smith met with donald trump s legal team while a federal grand jury was at work right here in washington. the former president s lawyers apparently remain in the dark about the timing of a potential trump indictment. also tonight, tough questions for the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. is he willing to accept the fallout from his controversial judicial overhaul that has unleashed widespread protests, military opposition and tensions with the united states? stand by for my one-on-one interview with netanyahu. that s coming up this hour. 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 federal grand jury investigation of donald trump and 2020 election interference. a d.c. district court official says indictments are not, repeat not expected today. but there s been a flurry of activity over at the courtho