Indictment. Special counsel jack smith requested a protective order after trump posted on social media, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team in terms of what they can publicly discuss about that sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Former Vice President mike pence, who is now challenging his former boss for the republican president ial nomination, testified in the special counsel investigation of the case, and he may again get called as a witness if trump goes to trial. I have no plans to testify, but, look, well always well always comply with the law. But, look, i want to tell you i i dont know what the path of this indictment will be. The president s entitled to a presumption of innocence. Hes entitled to make his defense in court. There actually are profound issues around this pertaining to the first amendment, Freedom Of Speech, and the rest. Im confident he and his lawyers will litigate all of thos
governors flying asylum seekers to the northeast. a migrants advocacy group just filed a federal lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. and in ukraine right now cnn is on the ground with rare access to the front lines of a heated battle between ukrainian defenders and russian mercenaries. stay tuned for our report from the war zone. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, the trump legal team already at odds with the special master it requested, refusing to provide evidence the former president declassified documents seized from his florida home. cnn s justice correspondent jessica schneider has the latest on the mar-a-lago investigation. reporter: tonight the special master bringing together trump s lawyers and attorneys for the juls s department to hammer out how to proceed with the review of the 1 # 1,000 documents taken from mar-a-lago including 100 docum
despite china s threats. and a pivotal week for president biden s agenda as democrats aim for senate passage of climate and health care legislation, mindful that the midterms are now just 99 days away. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. let s get straight to the flood disasters in eastern kentucky right now. the death toll as of now, 35. with hundreds, hundreds of people still missing. evan santoro is on the scene for us. the governor who will join us live in just a few moments, said this is the deadliest and most devastating flood disaster he s seen in his life. reporter: i ll tell you, wolf, we took a tour of some of these damaged areas with the governor over the weekend. and the emotion was so obvious on his face. it is clear when anyone sees the devastation, it is just it is it overcomes you. people in this area of kentucky, there is a mountainous region and people are used to
sadly caved to the radical leftc of this party. and now, sadly, the people of west virginia, they will pay o the price for him caving literally through higher taxesr and higher inflation and a much longer recession that needed a lower quality of life, all in the name of green renewable . ergy we re going to expose h the shameful hard left turn from the west virginiaa senator . by the way, tonight we have an interesting question. why is mayor muriel bowser, washington, d.c. finally now asking for the national guardrdn and their assistance? we ll give you that answer coming up. all right. but first tonight, our topgh ,story of the day. i wish it was not true, butst after two straight quarters ofh, negative growth, we w are officially in a recession in 2020. this is the very definition of recession. lookdeniti, that according to cc and cnbc and the l.a. times and the new york times and nancy pelosime and prettyst much every notable economist and pretty much everyone else on ea
whelan and brittney griner. president biden preparing to speak to chinese leader xi jinping today amid rising tension was taiwan. how will the surprising deal involving moderate democrat joe manchin impact the economy and the biden presidency? and live during this show, what will the gdp report tell us about a potential recession? former white house aide cassidy hutchinson now cooperating with the justice department s january 6 investigation. who else is talking? and is mike pompeo the next to sit before the january 6th committee? we have new reporting this morning. let s go first, though, to the state department for new developments on the proposed prisoner swap of a convicted russian arms dealer for brittney griner and paul whelan. cnn s kylie atwood broke this story and is at the state department this morning. what movement have you seen? reporter: the biden administration has put this offer on the table for viktor bout, a convicted arms trafficker as part of a