it s 4:00 in the east. a stunning comprehensive brand new piece of reporting that really amounts to a first drafrt of history for merrick garland s justice department a piece of reporting that answers questions we ve been asking for years now questions that have dogged doj for many many months why did it take so long for d.o.j. to investigate? the first formal step into probing the campaign to overturn the 2020 election. the criminal inquiry now into the fate of electors did not take place until april 2022 more than a area after the insurrection and well after the january 6th select committee had begun to uncover a complex multipronged plot and democracy with donald trump in the driver s seat. the washington post is reporting in the immediate aftermath of the january 6th insurrection, acting u.s. attorney michael sherwin, senior justice department officials and paul abbate quashed a plan in the u.s. attorney s office to directly investigate trump associates for any links to
after a strange of deadly storms barreled through the region, leaving at least six people dead and dozens of others injured we re in a texas community still picking up the pieces. later highway collapse pennsylvania s governor vowing to reopen that busy stretch of interstate 95 through philly within weeks let s begin with the breaking news out of china this morning. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken just departing beijing after that high-stakes meeting with china s president xi jinping. that included the secretary s crucial two-day visit aimed at stabilizing the spiraling relationship between the two countries, upended recently by the downing of a spy balloon and this tense encounter by a chinese fighter plane and a u.s. jet. plus the encounter with military ships. let s discuss with janis mackey frayer in beijing as well as nbc senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell standing by in washington we know the meeting between blinken and xi lasted about 35 minutes,
hello everyone i m jimmy failla along with alicia and welcome to the big weekend show okay the big story tonight. the count down is on to the iowa caucus we re nine days away from the official start of the 2024 election season. and all of the republican hopefuls are putting on their boxing gloves fox news correspondent bill is in des moines tonight. gop candidates make their final push in the state of iowa with days left to go. today also happens to be the three year anniversary of the january 6th capitol riot that s something president biden highlighted in a campaign speech he made yesterday. he went after former president trump called him a threat to democracy and today president trump shot back at biden a the a campaign speech right here in iowa. take a listen. this beautiful child this young man how old is he, three? i would vote for him of because he s more intelligent. look, kid is three years old. [applause] he s got better judgment. in the meenl time ron des
a deadline for new lawyers on both sides. also tonight breaking news, the pentagon leak suspect was just indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly disclosing classified information, intelligence information. standby for new details. and jurors have just wrapped up their first day of deliberations in the federal trial of the gunman in the deadly 2018 attack on a pittsburgh synagogue. how soon might they deliver verdicts on dozens of charges including capital offenses that could lead to the death penalty? 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 a new order from judge aileen cannon, her every move in the classified documents case under if tense scrutiny right now as the federal prosecution of donald trump moves forward following his arrest and arraignment. cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is working the story for us. so paula, what is judge cannon saying.
hello everyone i m jimmy failla along with alicia and welcome to the big weekend show okay the big story tonight. the count down is on to the iowa caucus we re nine days away from the official start of the 2024 election season. and all of the republican hopefuls are putting on their boxing gloves fox news correspondent bill is in des moines tonight. gop candidates make their final push in the state of iowa with days left to go. today also happens to be the three year anniversary of the january 6th capitol riot that s something president biden highlighted in a campaign speech he made yesterday. he went after former president trump called him a threat to democracy and today president trump shot back at biden a the a campaign speech right here in iowa. take a listen. this beautiful child this young man how old is he, three? i would vote for him of because he s more intelligent. look, kid is three years old. [applause] he s got better judgment. in the meenl time ron des