Extremely serious as new details emerge about the alleged crime. And the state of the former President S security also this hour, how this new threat to trump may impact the president ial race as he tries to blame it on the rhetoric of president Joe Biden and Vice President kamala harris. Its a new level of uncertainty tonight. In the already volatile 2024 Election Welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. Im Wolf Blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room the skis, cnn Breaking News we just learned that president Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump had what is being described by the White House as a cordial conversation on the phone. That conversation just a short while ago were told the president conveyed his relief that trump is safe after so the apparent attempt to assassinate him. And this comes as we are breaking down all the new information from a briefing by federal and local authorities, just a little while ago cnns Randi Kaye is on the scene for us
selection loss, was a letter. mr. donahue, on december 28th, mr. clark emailed you and mr. rosen a draft letter that he wanted you to sign and send to georgia state officials. you testified that this could have grave constitutional consequences. can you tell us what you meant by that? i had to read both emails in the attached letter twice to make sure i really understood what he was proposing. it was so extreme to me, i had a hard time getting my head around it. i read it and i did understand it for what he intended. and i had to sit down and serve , compose what that was an appropriate response. i went next door to the acting ig s office. he was not there. we both had an email. he was not in his offers. i returned my office. . this is not the departments role. to suggest or dictate to state legislatures how they should select their electors. but, more importantly, this was not based on fact. this is actually contrary to the facts, as developed by the department investigati
Declared a State Of War Alert and is mobilizing its forces in response to an unprecedented attack today against israel. It began unfolding about 6 30 this morning with wave after wave of rockets from gaza. Hamas claims it fired 5,000 rockets as israeli Officials Say there were multiple injuries, some of them serious, and at least one fatality. Some airports have temporarily closed although the International Airport remains open for now. The Israeli Military also says a number of militants have infiltrated israel from gaza. The hamas Military Commander calling in a recorded message for a general uprising against israel and saying, quote, if you have a gun, get it out. Israelis living near gaza are being warned to stay close to their shelters. Cnns hadas gold joins us now from jerusalem. I see you are back in the staircase, so im gathering the alarms have gone off again. Reporter yeah. Im not sure if you can hear them in the background. We can hear them now. The sirens have been going of
A precursor to Fox Newss morning show, featuring the news and first looks at the other stories of the day. We get blamed, there is a way to deal with the population. I prefer a deal that would be a winwin. Across the aisle senators like Patrick Leahy said the president is to blame. They could pass the money for a wall if they wanted and democrats are willing to work on this but it is hard to get the president to keep the same position for more than a day. No word on whether gop leaders would come to the white house for another private meeting. Where things stand and how the president has changed the Wall Street Journal indicating today they believe the president may be open to an agreement that we will end this day in a rally in florida and i suppose we may hear more about that wall. Probably going to take many absent flows between now and september 30th. Donald trump firm on his threat to shut down the
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agents and officers from fbi, atf, and the u.s. marshals to assist with restoring order at the capitol. so, had a number of calls. as i says, it was more or less nonstop all afternoon. did you speak to the vice president that day? yes, twice. please go ahead. i was going to say, the first call was a one-on-one discussion, somewhat akin to the congressional leadership calls, updating him on what we were doing to assist. and the second call was a conference call around 7:00 with the vice president, congressional leaders, senior white house staff, some other cabinet officials to address that order appeared to be close to being restored or restored but security still being determined and the question being what time could the congress reassemble? and the answer was, 8:00. and thankfully, congress did reassemble and complete its constitutional duty.