Watching. I will be back tomorrow in the Situation Room six pm eastern. Cnn tonight with Victor Blackwell starts right now. Hey, wolf. Good evening. I am Victor Blackwell blackwell. Trumps former impeachment attorney, a lawyer for one of the mafia bosses that Rudy Giuliani prosecuted eric tegans champion, daniel dale, and linette lopez. But first, if democrats are not worried about next years election new numbers suggest they should be. Listen to this. Into new polls, General Election is a dead heat if the matchup is President Biden versus a dead heat, despite trump facing his fourth indictment, 91 charges in all, and several trials next year while people will be voting. Something else noteworthy, as we talk about the health of americas democracy nearly 60 of republicans today think that biden was not legeyt it elected legitimately. Also today, Fulton County da fani willis that she wants trump travel start the day before super tuesday. And of course, trump is intensifying his rhetoric
Staff member. Speaker kevin mccarthy. And the time to george santos. And pleaded not guilty, and the indictment says he asked for more than a dozen contributors to fund santoss campaign. He also got a 15 commission from it. Prosecutors allege hero a letter to santos back in 2022 saying quote, thinking my identity to big donor. You also wrote, highrisk reward. In everything i do. Something he said that in turn out to be true. Thank you so much for joining us tonight, cnn prime time with wolf blitzer starts right now. Excellent show, caitlin, thank you very much. To our viewers, good evening. Im wolf blitzer here in washington. We want to welcome you to cnn prime time. Theres Breaking News were following right now. A texas woman has been charged with threatening in a voice mail to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former president donald trump. Over his attempts to try to overturn the 2020 president ial election. The suspect, allegedly called the chambers a fede
grappling with tying abortion rights to defense what does this say about u.s. military readiness? would you be willing to talk with tuberville to work out some solution? president biden: i d be willing to talk to him if i thought there was a chance he would change his thought. i expect the republican party to stand up and do something about it. it is in their power to do that. the idea we don t have a chairman of the joint chief of staff. the idea we have all these promotions in advance right now, don t know what is going to happen, the idea we are injecting into fundamental foreign policy position is biare za. i don t recall that happening, ever. it is totally irresponsible, in my view. i just think that i mean, i m confident that the main-stream republican party no longer does not support what he s doing. they got to stand up and be counted. that is how it ends. for the president, you have been working to fortify fence between the border of finland and russia. is there
so many start the process of building homes and businesses. a.i. fancy thing two letters, it means artificial intelligence. vice president harris raising eyebrows after attempting to explain a.i. it s about machine learning. the machine is taught what information is going into the machine. please welcome the training staff by the buffalo bills. the response to damar hamlin s injury was able to bring our nation together for a moment and show the world the power of prayer and use it to make sure we can save the next life, too. steve: good morning, everybody. it s 6:01 in new york city on this thursday, july 13th, 2023. we start with this. you probably saw a little of it here on the channel. fbi director christopher wray refuting republican accusations that the bureau is protecting the biden family. ainsley: in a heated house hearing, he also faced questions about investigations into parents as well as the handling of classified documents among other things as well
but one thing we ll try to him about is something i haven t discussed in a full segment on this program but i have suggested from time to time, that i do not see, given that presidents of the united states get lifetime secret service protection, i have not been able to see how a president, former president, can be sentenced to prison. that means a dozen secret service agents. you ve seen how many secret service agents go to court with him. how many have to go to prison with him? how do you do that? in what prison? how is that supposed to work? i have just as i think about it i have thought i thought it to be impossible. eric holder thinks it s possible. as attorney general used to be in charge of the bureau of prisons so finally we have someone who knows more about this than i do, which is pretty easy to find. those are some logistics i would like to hear about, lawrence, so i will be tuning in. finally we re gonna have that discussion. i m eager to do. it at long last.