i m erin burnett out front this evening. the fbi director takes down trump. today christopher wray testifying before congress driving a stake through the heart of the conspiracy theories that trump and his allies continued to push about the deadly insurrection. conspiracy theory number one, you know, which trump even said that day, it wasn t actually trump supporters who were behind the attack. based on your investigation so far do you have any evidence the capitol attack was organized by, quote, fake trump protesters? we have not seen evidence of that. we have not seen evidence of that. no evidence that there were fake protesters, meaning that what you are about to hear from a sitting u.s. senator from the michigan senate majority leader and from right wing media is all a known lie. a very few didn t share the jovial friendly ernest demeanor of the great majority. some obviously didn t fit in. he describes four different types of people. plain clothes militants, agen
declaring the state to open in his words 100%. we re also following the fbi director s first testimony about the capitol insurrection back on january 6th. christopher wray saying it was an act of dpomestic terrorism. wray knocked down the conspiracy theory that fake trump supporters or antifa were behind the attack and they were motivated by the racial hatred. let s get right to the senior white house correspondent phil mattingly. the president spoke about the vaccine rollout and he made some news. reporter: look, the white house, the president himself cautious with predictions but there s no question about one thing, with a new vaccine now online the supply is ramping up and the administration is in position to hit all sorts of new projections over the course of the next several months. i ve always said this is a wartime effort. reporter: tonight a white house brokered historic partnership to ramp up vaccine production. two of the largest pharmaceutical companies in
failed mutiny against russia is apparently seen in public for the first time since the rebellion. we ll have a live report on yevgeny prigozhin s fate and the deal we are told he cut with vladimir putin. britain s top spy describing what putin did to save his own skin. we ll have details on that, and new details on how a u.s. soldier dashed through the highly guarded dmz into north korea. where he s now in custody, a witness describing the chaos that she initially thought was some kind of stunt. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with donald trump bracing right now for a potential third criminal indictment in the days or perhaps even hours ahead, the former president, by his own admission, is expecting new charges after learning he s a target of the special counsel s criminal investigation of january 6th and 2020 election interference. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan p
unleashing new criticism of putin s war. and a woman coming forward and revealing her frightening encounter with the suspected gilgo beach serial killer. what he told her about the murders he s now charged with committing. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, trump s legal team is scrambling. new information suggesting the special council s 2020 election case against the president is far bigger than they anticipated. trump is now staring down his third potential indictment, which could come as early as tomorrow. his legal team says the doj has given him until midnight tomorrow to say whether he ll report to that federal grand jury that. grand jury is expected to meet tomorrow morning. meanwhile, trump s been hit with two other major losses in other legal battles he s fighting. in one case, a judge ruling against trump in the stormy daniels hush money case. that s in new york. and the judge denying trump s efforts to move the case to feder
happening now, a health emergency as the skies over new york and other new york cities are shrouded with heavy and toxic smoke. right now. millions of americans are at risk as wildfires in canada create the air-quality crisis here in the united states. also this hour, a former spokesman speaks a in a grand jury. we are tracking new information in the investigation in trump s backyard. mike pence is taking on trump as he launches the 2024 launch for the weight. now ready to answer questions from iowa voters in a live cnn town hall event later tonight. welcome to the viewers here in the united states and around the world. you are in the situation room. let s get to the top story tonight. tens of millions of americans suffering through some of the most dangerous air quality in decades. the team of journalists covering the crisis from hard- hit cities all across the east coast. let s go to our chief climate correspondent joining us from brooklyn, new york. give us the latest.