share information about ongoing investigations. including donald trump s mishandling of classified documents. what that means for the gop s efforts to probe the agency. plus, donald trump dropped the lawsuit against new york tierney general letitia james a day after he and his lawyers or saw plus 1 million dollar fine for another, quote, frivolous case brought against hillary clinton. could we see trump upending even more lawsuits? and, congressman george santos long list of lies and controversies just keep piling up. a small newspaper exposed much of his inconsistencies weeks before the election. but, no one paid attention, why? i ll put that question to the papers publisher straight ahead. we have a team of reporters from capitol hill to the white house and ukraine following the latest for you this morning. and a good morning to you, thank you for waking up with us. thanks for starting your saturday here on msnbc. house republicans have made it clear that they plan to use t
developments we re following this hour, but i want to get to the breaking news right now out of texas. that s coming up. a very dangerous tornado outbreak unfolding right now. cnn s rosa flores is in deer park, texas for us. she just filed this report. reporter: wolf, the pictures out of deer park, texas, are very dramatic. take a look behind me. there is an overturned car. the glass is broken. the car is mangled. you can see the trees here are also mangled. but these are not the most dramatic pictures. i want to show you, because there is a car that is yards from where we are. i talked to the sister of the owner of that car. she tells me that that car was parked right over where i am actually standing, just near here. and you can see that some of the cleanup has already started. but that car was, according to that woman, parked in this parking lot that you see over here behind me. this woman said that she actually works for the district, and that they were inside when the
the top american spy, covertly travels to ukraine to share what the united states knows about russia s spring battle plan. the cia briefing comes as allies meet today to discuss new military aid and ukraine pleads for tanks. plus, the new special counsel is just getting started. but president biden lays down a marker. i think you re going to find there s nothing there. i have no regret, i m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. it s exactly what we re doing. there s no there there. today is the halfway mark of the biden term and the classified documents probe a cloud over his re-election ramp-up and nikki haley says why not me. she comes oh so close to announcing her 2024 presidential run and takes aim at a potential rival, swatting away the notion she plotted to boot mike pence from the 2020 ballot. were you trying to get mike pence off that ticket? no, and, you know, pompeo even says he s not sure if it s true. it s really sad when you re havin
culprit. yet another dose of gun violence adding to a string of shootings already staining the headlines. right now, police in washington state rushing to find this man, officials say he walked into a yakima gas station last night opening fire and killing three. he then possibly carjacked a fourth person. let s get straight to cnn s lucy kafanov. lucy, what do we know? reporter: john, the details are still coming in. three people, at least three people are dead following that overnight shooting at a circle k store in yakima, washington, that the man responsible for firing those shots is still at large. matt murray, the yakima police chief calling this individual dangerous telling reporters, quote, it s random so there is a danger to the community. we don t have motive and we don t know why. when officers arrived to the scene they initially found three deceased individuals at the circle k store. they quickly realized there was a second incident, a shooting mow tensionally
that cia director william burns made a secret trip to ukraine to brief president volodymyr zelenskyy and share u.s. intelligence on russia s next moves in the war. actor and producer alec baldwin now faces criminal charges in the fatal shooting of a crew member on the set of the film rust. our legal experts are weighing the evidence and whether the involuntary manslaughter charges will stick. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with the partisan showdown over raising the debt ceiling and fears of an unprecedented default by the united states. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju explains where this critical fight stands tonight. reporter: tonight congress and the white house engaged in a risky standoff as the u.s. reaches its $31.4 trillion borrowing limit. the white house and congressional democrats say no negotiations to raise the debt ceiling and no conditions