the same kind of major support from gop lawmakers as we saw on january 6. in fact, new cnn reporting reveals republicans are trying to distance themselves from the event. no sitting member of congress is scheduled to appear. a former trump campaign staffer organized the event and despite concerns that attendees could be armed he said that will not be the case. we ve got a largely peaceful crowd. we ve had two events in washington, d.c. so far at the department of justice and the prison and there have been to incidents so far. no one is going to be bringing a weapon that is part of our crowd. coy assure the police that. witty wild joining us live from washington. so we do know security has been increased ahead in advance of this weekend. they re not giving saul of the details for obvious reasons. but we can see some of it out there. reporter: well that is right, erica. so we re here at constitution and delaware northeast, right outside of the capitol. here is this fencin
some protesters to be armed. new security fencing is set to go back up. this is a dangerous and pivotal point in american history. trump not only insisted he won in 2020, his lies made millions of americans doubt the u.s. election system. he relentlessly pressured local election officials and the department of justice to help reverse the results of the election, and when that did not work, his supporters turned to changing voting laws across the country. to talk about how dangerous this is, again, for the foundation of the democracy, you have to look at the entire scope of actions here by the former president, his inner circle and also republican politicians who are believers in these lies. here s cnn senior investigative correspondent, drew griffin. cnn spoke to a dozen state and county officials involved in elections for this special report. many of them republicans themselves. they all expressed concerns about the future of the united states, that donald trump s big
from the ex-president s play book. and a cnn investigation of trump s pressure campaign to overturn the 2020 election. the calls, the texts, the voice mails and more. plus, how his lies are still threatening the nation. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news we re following. truly stunning new revelations of very deep concern at the highest levels inside the pentagon over former president trump and his erratic behavior during his final weeks in office. they come in a new book by journalist bob woodward and rob costa who say the general took unprecedented action to limit trump s ability to order a military strike. cnn special correspondent is joining us now. she has details of what was going on. jaime, the joint chiefs chairman, general millie, he was very concerned. he wanted to safe guard the nation s nuclear arsen
and look at where we are. is this magical or what? welcome to the field of dreams. hey, is this heaven? no. it s iowa. how exciting. it is amazing. the new york yankees, the chicago white sox. they surrounded by hollywood movie stars. just a move set, field of dreams, they got to do that yesterday. and, of course, my boston red sox were playing out the end of the season yesterday. there were three grounds crew keepers there. the street preacher. an old hound dog. and that was it as we lost another game in miserable fashion. this game last night, this was special. i still remember back in 76 watching mark fuddridge pitch on monday night baseball. it was one of those moments in the middle of a long baseball season where everybody stopped and watched what was going on. it was a magical night. last night, even though it didn t end up exactly how yankees fans would like it to end up, another magical night for major league baseball. it was. i was thinking the sam
have feared the most s total failure, total failure of the hospital system. if we track back a week or so and we look at the case positivity rate, the number of new positives that we re seeing, the rate of the testing positive and the rate of hospitalizations based on what we are seeing, if we continue that trajectory within the next five, to 7 to 10 days, we re gonna see failure of the hospital system in mississippi. hospitals are full from memphis to meridian, everything is full. if there were schools opening back, a bus of kids, we would not be able to take care of all those kids at this hospital. we re in a pretty serious situation. we see federal teams come in, it needs to open peoples eyes to the fact that this is a serious situation. so we re hopeful that we can get people to wear masks and get vaccinated, and stay way from each other. and that this rapid rate of rise that we are seeing will peak or plateau pretty quickly here, so that we don t get into a situation whe