Former president can share publicly, going over the new documents in the january 6 case, standby for that. Also on this hour, ukraine says it as a russian informant in custody in connection with a foiled plot to assassinate prison zelenskyy. This as moscows forces have unleashed a deadly new Missile Strike in eastern ukraine. Tracking the urgent threat of powerful storms and tornadoes , putting millions of americans at risk in the eastern United States including right here in washington dc. Welcome to her viewers here in the United States and around the world, i am wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. This is cnn Breaking News. Lets get right to the and Breaking News on the filing by the Trump Legal Team in connection with the january 6 prosecution of the former president , crime and justice reporter, kalin joining us right now, what is in the new response just filed by the trump team . Wolf, political bluster in here as well as a legal proposal, they actually are not that far aw
If donald trump is found guilty after closing arguments, he will not only be the first criminally indicted former president. Hell be the first Felony Convict to have held the presidency and who is trying to hold it again. If so, what will it change about the race. We have polls that suggest it will matter, and polls that suggest it will not. We just wont know until we know. Which is why the Biden Campaign is trying to put the onus of beating donald trump firmly on the voters. For one person familiar with bidens plans for a more aggressive posture, Donald Trumps legal troubles are not going to keep him out of the white house. Only one thing will do that. Voting this november for joe biden. President biden and his team have barely mentioned the indictments and the trials, instead, trying to focus voters on trump as a threat to democracy, and a threat to women. But is that enough . In a survey after survey, most voters say their Biggest Issue above democracy, above abortion is the economy
Its wholly inadequate, but i know everyone is thinking about your community right now and the horror and terror they experienced and still must be experiencing as we discussed. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. Joining our conversation gun safety advocate, our dear friend Fred Guttenbering who has helped us talk through so many news cycle like this one, so many tragic moments when an entire community made up of familyings like his is changed in an instant. His daughter jamie was murdered in the Mass Shooting in parkland, florida. Also joining our conversation former fbi Counter Intelligence agent pete struck. Fred, the details are being logged in every parent and tragally a lot of kids brains today, right . This happened at a Bowling Alley. This happened on youth night. So add to school, add to the baseball field, add to the walmart, the Bowling Alley on youth night as a place that is no longer safe in the United States of america in 2023. Nicolle, i thought the evolution
moderate republicans voted in voted in a far right speaker of the house. with the intraparty war over house leadership resolved the idea was that those emergencies would finally be dealt with, at least that was the idea. today it became painfully obvious that the republicans new speaker, congressman mike johnson, is not really going to deal with any of it. this evening speaker johnson put every republican on the record voting for a bill that did not include any aid to ukraine, and which would provide aid to israel only on the condition congress defunded the irs to allow billionaires to cheat on their taxes. we have obligations, and we have commitments, and we want to protect and help our friend israel, but we have to keep our own house in order as well. you re saying you will not pass an israel aid bill unless it s offset? is that the correct interpretation? that s what we re going to do. i did not attach that for political purposes, okaych i attached it because, agai
word with lawrence o donnell, good evening. good evening, i just realized we have three senate candidates joining us tonight, sheldon whitehouse, sharad brown and from delaware lisa blunt rochester. all running for the united states senate. they re all going to have their chance to talk to voters here tonight. that is a good booking list, someone did you very well there. thanks, alicia. thank you. at the end of this hour we re going to have to say our final farewell to willie mays, who sadly died tonight at the age of 93. the stock market hit record highs again today. something that that religion called trumpism insists is impossible because in the last presidential campaign donald trump promised this. if he s elected, the stock market will crash. trump is him depends on stability. it has to. because donald trump is so profoundly stupid himself, it is impossible to get stupidity out of trumpism. there was a time when i could tell you that every publican in the uni