primetime address on threats to american democracy, and what the white house is calling a battle for the soul of the nation. this hour, house minority leader kevin mccarthy is already in california and set to make his own remarks, slamming joe biden for calling some americans semi fascist. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i m pamela brown, and you are in the situation room. our top story tonight, a hearing on former president trump s request for a special master has just concluded without a ruling. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is tracking the mar-a-lago investigation. so both sides were battling it out in court, but as of tonight, no decision from the judge. give us the latest. reporter: that s right. judge eileen cannon says she s not ruling today, not immediately at least, but she seems inclined to grant former president trump s request for a special master, a third party, to review some of the docum
The house of representatives the honorable Hakeem Jeffries of new york. Mr. Speaker, you may agree with this. But we are back here 22 days into this republican manufactured chaos and House Republicans have brought us to the exact same position that we were back then. All of the infighting, all the disarray, just to end up where we were three weeks ago. These past few weeks we have been left wondering if republicans were truly intent on solving our issues, reopening the house of representatives and rallying around someone to lead this chamber. Or has this been about Something Else . Has this been a focus of House Republicans to find the person who can pass their extreme litmus test to oppose marriage equality, enact a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions, gut Social Security and medicare, and support overturning a free and fair election. A fair question. A fair question. Nowhere in that Candidate Questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keeping
good evening once again. i am stephanie. we are 146 days away from the election, get your calendar out, mark it with a sharpie, one more day down. after a brief stop in wilmington following his son, hunter office criminal conviction, president biden landed in italy for the g-7 summit where the ukraine war will be a main focus. though biden is off the campaign trail the 2024 election is front and center with allies worried about what a second trump term could mean for that war effort. gabe gutierrez has more. reporter: president biden landed in italy for high stakes summit, a critical focus, the war in ukraine. a russian missile strike in president zelenskyy s hometown killed nine, injuring 21, including two children. the white house announced president biden will sign a bilateral security agreement with long-term defense cooperation as russian warships arrived off the coast of cuba 90 miles from the u.s. the pentagon has since sent ships and aircraft but say they are no cur
One Democratic strategist is sounding the alarm over what he expects President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party to use as their main line of attack against former President Donald Trump in a likely 2024 matchup.