detail. the committee is essentially broken up their investigative teams into different groups with specific areas of focus. one of those groups which they ve labelled the green team, is specifically looking into the money trail. they want to know who funded some of these rallies that took place on january 6th and in the days leading up to january 6th to see if there s any coordination between the former president, the trump campaign and others to see if that played some role in contributing to the violence and chaos here on capitol hill on january 6th. the committee members telling us specifically that they want to know who paid to bring the travel for people to get here to washington for hotel rooms, bus trips, et cetera. they believe that there is something that they can learn about this money trail and how it contributed to what happened here on january 6th. also yesterday we saw a conspiracy theorist and republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, republican of ge
it certainly isn t, and as the house republicans continue to investigate hunter biden, the justice department s investigation, including bringing the iris whistleblowers, investigating that, it s going to be a continuing thorn in the side of joe biden as he pursues reelection. tell me more about special counsel david weiss and what he might do with these new special counwers? he was appointed byr president donald trump in 2017 and confirmed unanimously by e senate, so he was something that the biden administration decided to keep on because he was already independent, not somebody that biden put into place, now with the special counsel powers it means you have additional resources, a budget to bring in additional staff if you want also remove him from the day-to-d oversight of the justice will be able to continue to u invee this as they have been, and also allowed to look into charging any potential crimes in other jurisdictions, he doesn t have to stick in delaware, wher
happening now, breaking news. a new protective order just issued 8020 20 election interference case against donald trump. the judge, barring the former president and his lawyers from publicly disclosing sensitive information. also tonight, as the flames ease and the death toll is expected to keep rising, we are getting up-to-the-minute accounts of the damage from the wildfire disaster in hawaii. cnn is of course on the scene. and the hawaii governor will join us live with all the latest developments. and the top prosecutor in the hunter biden probe is elevated to special counsel as the president son now appears headed to trial. we are breaking down the legal implications and the political fallout. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer and you are in the situation room . this is cnn breaking news . let s get right to it. coming out of the first hearing before the judge in the trump election interference case. cnn jus
interference in georgia as potential indictments loom. this as cnn has exclusive new reporting on the special counsel probe of trump. actors hit the picket lines, striking against the film and tv industry. some of the biggest stars in the business are part of the walkout that s effectively shutting down hollywood. after alluding police for over a decade, a suspect is charged with murder in the serial killings of women on long island. officials revealing dramatic details a short while ago about how he was caught, including burner phones and called to taunt relatives. i m jim acosta and you are in the situation room. this hour, we are following new developments in two investigations of donald trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2024 presidential election, that includes exclusive new cnn reporting of the probe by special counsel jack smith. let s begin with cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reed. break down this and what it says about the investig
elections official in philadelphia and who was certainly the focus of some of the efforts by people associated with the former president trying to focus on this idea that there was fraud in center city philadelphia. commissioner schmidt, we had him on the show a lot. exactly. now he has been appointed. he s the secretary of the commonwealth now. in the case of maggie oliver, she was questioned in right weeks. th they re getting asked about the effects of the fraud claims and the threats they received, election officials all over the seven states that were the focus of some of the efforts by the former president and his allies, not only to claim fraud, but also to set aside the valid election results and try to replace them with donald trump essentially even though he had lost them. interestingly, even though this did seem to happen in all of these different battleground states, it s only georgia that there s a local investigation, in fulton county which contains part of