Breaking strike against major u. S. Automakers is now under way. For the first time in history all three companies are facing a union walkout. The strike is targeted for now but could expand dramatically in the coming days if workers demands arent met. And cnn is now on the ground in libya where thousands are dead and thousands more are mission after a catastrophic flood. This hour well bring you a live update from the disaster zone. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the the situation room. Lets get to the Breaking News and new development in the Special Counsel case against donald trump, a new court filing revealing witness harassment directly resulting from the president s public statements. Jessica schneider is digging into this new document. Prosecutors are saying they need to put a limit on what trump can say about this case. Whats the latest . The Special Counsels team in this long motion, they are laying out all of t
nature of the testimony. we saw kim potter take the stand which is not usual in criminal defense cases, always risk for the defendant to do so. she did take the stand and gave this very emotional testimony that the defense team, you know, referenced in its closing argument, you know, hoping i think the strategy there was to try to appeal to the emotional side of these jurors and to cause them to sympathize with her and to perhaps find her not guilty because she did express some remorse. we saw the family though push back. yeah, yeah. stand bit. i want to go back to adrianne broaddus. we ve established a connection with her just outside the courthouse. what are you hearing? well, silence here outside of the courthouse. we did hear from some activists shortly before we received this message from the court. they plan to gather here and wait and listen and see what this trial outcome is.
where he s refused to cooperate with the committee. he s defied that congressional subpoena. it s still being worked out what s happening with mark meadows and kash patel and scan scavino, the other top officials that were inside the white house on that day and this is happening on a voluntary basis. i think when you talk to people there s a range of reasons for why they would like to go and sit down. of course, this has been a big concern from some of the former staffers about what they can be legally compelled to do. would there also be a subpoena for them and some of them clearly just want to share information about what they know that day so it is significant that five of the former trump administration staffers have gone in to speak to the january 6th committee. kaitlan, stand bit. let me bring in to share their own reporting and insight, cnn s dana park and the wall street journal s party and it s significant for a number of reasons. it s harder for someone else to say no. if
one notable, both ambassadors back home in their countries as tensions increased over the course of the last several months are expected to head back to their countries in the course of the next several weeks, but it s worth knowing the, wolf, president biden making very clear he believes he s done what he came to do, but there are so many outstanding questions and in so many areas where the countries with this very, very low level of relationship are still in wildly different places. wolf? phil, stand bit. i want to get back to you in a few moments, right now i want to bring in our moscow correspondent matthew chance. he s here with us in geneva right now. you had a chance to question putin at that news conference today, matthew. he has his own spin of the summit. we heard phil saying that boyden got what he wanted to do done at this summit and putin did as well. he came here, you know, looking for a symbolic victory and he managed to do that, you know, he stood on the same stage,
county and one or two smaller counties, right? that s right, and so we re going to wait on palm beach county to see what happens here and as i mentioned to you before, hillsboro county was the other county that said we need to revert back to the original unofficial results that we turned in on saturday because they had some power outages there. they simply didn t trust those numbers. there was a difference of .16% i believe between the original number of votes they had and what they ended up with after the recount with the power outages, and they said we just simply don t feel confident enough to be able to use those numbers so it s hillsboro county and palm beach county that both went back and said we ll give you our original unofficial results. i know you re working your sources. stand bit. i want to show you the viewers where the senate stands, where the numbers stand right now. you can see rick scott, the republican, the governor, slightly ahead of bills nelson. ahead by 12,603