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 uptotheminute 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. Lets get right to it. Coming out of the first hearing before the judge in the trump election interference case. Cnn justice correspondent is on t
welcome to insided in. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing another very busy news day with us. an invitation. prosecutors ask donald trump to testify before a grand jury. it is a big indication they could be close to charging the former president for his role in buy ing asilence of a porn star mistress. do not expect his one-time boss to show. knowing donald as well as i do, understand he doesn t tell the truth. it s one thing to turn around and to lie on social. it s another thing to lie before a grand jury. i don t suspect he s going to be coming. plus iowa today, superpac at the ready. ron desantis sends signals he s running for president. a new report for the biden economy. more people looking for work, bigger paychecks. numbers show more resilience, yet so much good news feeds worry about inflation and rate hikes. up first for us, prosecutors on the doorstep of what would be a history-shattering possibility. a criminal indictment against the former p
sunday. i m fredicka whitfield. an updated classified intel report saying the u.s. department of energy has assess thad the source of the covid-19 pandemic likely came from a china lab leak, but there is one major caveat. sources at the department of energy tell cnn that the report has, quote, low confidence. cnn s natasha bertrand has been reporting on all of this and joins us on the phone. various intel agencies have been split on this issue for years now. this is from the department of energy, low confidence. what does all this mean? reporter: this is essentially another data point. the intel community has been examining this really closely for the last two years, ever since president biden tasked them with investigating the origins of the covid-19 pandemic shortly after he first got into of office. back in 2021 the intel agencies, roughly 58 of them, couldn t come to a decision about where it came from. what we re seeing is the department of energy has collected some ne
truly chilling firsthand look at the destruction caused by russia s increasing use of kamikaze drones against civilian targets in ukraine. cnn s chief international correspondent, clarissa ward, is joining us from kyiv. tell us about what you ve actually seen on the streets of the capital city there. reporter: well, scenes of absolute destruction, devastation, people fearful. people dying and tonight, another impassioned plea from the president here, volodymyr zelenskyy saying in a 12-hour span, wolf, more than 30 of these iranian made 136 so-called kamikaze drones were intercepted as well as several cruise missiles. essentially, zelenskyy begging the international community to give ukraine more sophisticated and more substantial anti aircraft weaponry to protect itself. take a look. a policeman takes aim at the kamikaze drone as it bears down on kyiv. nick nicknamed mopeds in ukraine because of their whine, 28 were launched toward the city on monday. the majority are succe
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