Likely. Were following the legal and political implications. Plus a warning to Donald Trumps legal team from the judge overseeing the election interference case, saying more inflammatory statements will require a quicker start to the trial. We are live outside the court. And the death toll as they have yet to even start searching the hundred of burned out buildings. Well take you live to maui. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Another controversial investigation that could have some pretty big repercussions for 2024 is escalating. Today a Special Counsel was designated in the federal probe of hunter biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland named david weiss to the role. Weiss has been leading this investigation. Yes, he has. Hes been leading the investigation into hunter biden for the past five years, in fact. This week he asked himself to be elevated to that role of Special Counsel. Were following that in realtime.
onboard. 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 a new evidence that then-president trump was repeatedly told by some top officials and closest advisers that the 2020 presidential election was not stolen. the january 6th investigators say he didn t care. our ryan nobles has all the top lines from today s hearing. it was a lie that began on election night. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. donald trump s false claim that he won the 2020 election before all the votes were counted. a lie he continues to peddle. one that some of his closest advisers told the january 6th committee they didn t believe. like his attorney general. he s become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff. his campaign manager. i didn t think what was happening was necessarily honest or professional at that point in time. so yeah,
Whats happening between gaza and israel and what could happen here. So there is a lot of fear about that right now. Brings it home for so many. Wolf blitzer, thank you so much for being with us for this perspective for your reporting. We will see you tonight on the situation room. Thanks for joining us. We will see you back here tomorrow morning. Cnn news central continues our coverage. We begin with Breaking News for you this hour. The u. S. Is now in talks with israel and egypt to help Get Americans and other civilians out of gaza, but as thats happening there is fighting right now on two fronts. Israel is responding to air and ground attacks from its north and its south. Right now the idf says 300,000 israeli reservists have been called up to fight and are, quote, ready to execute the mission. This is as new rounds of israeli air strikes have been hitting critical hamas targets in gaza, but to the north israel is intensifying shelling inside lebanon, while at the same time preparing
Cnn news central starts right now. Breaking news on the economy, a genuine wow. A huge number of jobs added last month, almost double economists expectations. Donald trump a throwing his support behind a candidate for House Speaker and it is not himself. What trumps complete and total support means for the future of republicans in the house. National secrets exposed. The new reporting that trump allegedly disclosed details about nuclear subs to a Maralago Club member. Sara is off, im john berman with kate bolduan. This is cnn news central. And the Breaking News this morning, big numbers are coming out, a soaring jobs report. Now 33 consecutive months of job growth, the United States added 336,000 jobs last month. Unemployment rate holding at 3. 8 . The report is far better than what economists were expecting, almost double what the expectation was out there. The new data also comes as Tens Of Thousands of Auto Union Workers continue their massive and growing strike against the big thre
leader jeffries as he left that meeting with his caucus. he said that no decisions were made that they are still having a conversation. he is still listening. so obviously wolf, we are waiting to see what demo crowds will do lauren fox up on capitol hill. thank you very much. let s discuss what s going on with congressman mike lawler. he s a republican from new york congressman. thanks so much for joining us. first of all, will you vote for speaker johnson s foreign aid bills as he announced the details today. and did speaker johnson do the right thing here yes, i will be supporting the speakers legislation inclusive of the bill are two bills that i am long advocated for. an introduced and pass through the house. the ship act and the iran, china energy sanctions act so i m happy to see that included, so that we can go after the source of iran s funding of terrorism, the illicit oil trade the speaker did the right thing. we