separate the cases of sidney powell and ken i.neth cheseboro. also tonight, breaking news. a new court filing reveals that the special counsel investigating hunter biden intends to indict the president s son on at least one gun charge within a matter of weeks. a pennsylvania prison just released video showing a killer s brazen escape climbing up a wall. we re tracking the week long manhunt for a dangerous murderer. 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 an early and important new ruling by the judge presiding over the georgia election subversion case, playing out on live television, offering clues about critical decisions ahead, including when donald trump might stand trial. we have a team of legal and political experts ready to break it down for us. first, let s go to cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reed. tell our viewers all that we learned from this very imp
trying all of the defendants together. she says, fani willis says, the trial of 19 defendants would be feasible, within the fulton county courthouse, whereas breaking this case up into multiple, lengthy trials, would create an enormous strain on the judicial resources of the fulton county superior court. the state is capable of trying a large and complex case. for example, the atlanta public schools case began with 35 defendants, 13 of which were eventually tried simultaneously. as fani willis goes on to make the point that should this court grant pending severance motions, a potential consequence could be a cascade of additional speedy trial demands, emanating from the severed defendants. each of those demands could spread out over the coming weeks, forcing the fulton county court system to simultaneously accommodates three or more trials on the same facts, before three or more sets of judges and juries. realistically holding three or more simultaneous, high profile trials w
i was sitting there, over there, and i heard you say that and i went, wait a minute, we don t have that. what s that? it s happening right now. all right, i ll tune in. thank you, alex. have a good show. we do have this filing from district attorney fani willis, basically insisting on trying all 19 defendants in the state of georgia, versus donald trump case together. she says the state maintains that all the defendants shall be tried together. she stresses that the law favors trying all of the defendants together. she says, fani willis says, the trial of 19 defendants would be feasible, within the fulton county courthouse, whereas breaking this case up into multiple, lengthy trials, would create an enormous strain on the judicial resources of the fulton county superior court. the state is capable of trying a large and complex case. for example, the atlanta public schools case began with 35 defendants, 13 of which were eventually tried simultaneously. as fani willis
through what a remains of entir towns after last week s earthquake. we have the latest on both of those unfolding disasters. and donald trump trying to win the legal battles before they even get going. the former president filing a notione dismiss one case, and urging a judge to recuse herself in another. does either effort have any chance h of working? we start with the perfect storm of political and ideological battles marking the return of the house to capitol hill. some of those fights intentionally aimed at o disrupting thete work of congre, even as they risk disrupting the u.s. economy and americans lives at the same time. let me explain, right now, congress isla facing an end of e month deadline to fund the governmento or risk it shuttin down. freezing federal programs and putting thousands of p people o of work. now there had been a plan to fund the government short term in order to allow time for negotiations, but some hard rightns house conservatives won back i
which means while they are finding more bodies, they could also find more survivors. that s right. when i was here in turkey back in february, there was a devastating twin earthquake here that killed tens of thousands of people. and we thought, wow, we hope the novels don t go up to that level. there are people being dragged out of wreckage, five, six days afterwards. that s something we re hoping we can see in morocco, outside of marrakech. as you mentioned, this was a 6.8 earthquake on the richter scale. as you said, this is the strongest they fell in 123 years. so what we re seeing now, a coordinated rescue effort between local authorities and the moroccan military, trying to get, out as you mentioned, to some of these more remote areas. this is going to be a struggle. because you know, they haven t actually officially, the government of morocco, asked for any foreign assistance. we ve heard the united states and france have offered assistance, if accepted by the morocca