States of scandal with jake good morning. You were alive in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta and washington donald trump is off the Campaign Trail and back in the courtroom just minutes ago he arrived at the federal courthouse in South Florida for a hearing and his classified documents, case trump and his attorneys will ask the judge to dismiss the charges or at least grant them a delay in the trial and delay could also be looming in trumps election subversion okay. Its down in Fulton County, georgia at any time now, the Presiding Judge there could announce if District Attorney fani willis is disqualified from the case and a decision that could derail the trial from starting in august. Lets begin with the classified documents hearing today in florida. Cnns Kaitlan Polantz is outside the courthouse. Kaitlan, how likely is it that a judge Aileen Cannon will dismiss the case . There jim, that is going to be entirely up to her and were watching to see exactly how she reacts to the arguments
It certainly isnt, and as the House Republicans continue to investigate hunter biden, the Justice Departments investigation, including bringing the iris whistleblowers, investigating that, its going to be a continuing thorn in the side of joe biden as he pursues reelection. Tell me more about Special Counsel david weiss and what he might do with these new Special Counwers . He was appointed byr President Donald Trump in 2017 and confirmed unanimously by e senate, so he was something that the Biden Administration decided to keep on because he was already independent, not somebody that biden put into place, now with the Special Counsel powers it means you have additional resources, a budget to bring in additional staff if you want also remove him from the daytod oversight of the justice will be able to continue to u invee this as they have been, and also allowed to look into charging any potential crimes in other jurisdictions, he doesnt have to stick in delaware, where the case has gumm
Time and deliver deliver when we have to this is right now margin of error election. It really suggests. And you said youve got democrats, republicans, independents all amongst your ranks and your members. Given that its going to looking at like a margin of error election. This could be, youre going to have members who were supporting the other guy, no matter who the union sides to endorse, how do you manage that . Well, we manage it through pauling, talking to our members, making sure our leaders are out there talking to the members. We have 360 locals nationwide we got to make sure everybody is playing a role in this and thats how the decision thats how the judgment is going to be made. Sean obrien. Great to have you on. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. A new hour of Cnn News Central starts right now john, it giving a new warning today as lawmakers get ready to vote on possible a possible tiktok ban, critic say this band could be a threat to feast free speech a Government Repo
Okay days. Lets be more than our allergy. The white house. And this is cnn President Biden set to deliver the speech of his career tonight, his third state of the Union Address. Were learning details about how hes expected to make his case for a second term tonight is some of his allies are begging him to fight harder. Plus developing now President Biden will direct the us military to create a Temporary Port In Gaza to deliver aid. How soon that relief could come as the un says, israel blocked nearly half of its aid missions into gaza just last month, and his hope is dwindling that a Ceasefire Deal will be done before ramadan. Plus researchers looking inside the brain of a killer what they say reveals about the maine mass shooter who killed 18 people and then turned the gun on himself. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central tonight. President Biden Will Delivery Pivotal state of the Union Address that will double as a sa
Hi everyone and thanks so much for joining me this afternoon. Im in dc and we are following two Major International stories this afternoon. The first of them out of israel or the us and jordan have conducted more humanitarian aid drops into gaza. And the first equipment to build a Temporary Port In Gaza for aid is now in route to that region. Were going to get to more on that in just a moment. Again, in haiti, where the us military has evacuated Nonessential Personnel from the us embassy in portauprince. The Airlift Operation was ordered as the Gang Violence in that Island Nation worsens. Gang leaders are now threatening civil war if the Prime Minister does not leave office. And now at is under a State Of Emergency until april 3, cnn chief National Security correspondent Alex Marquardt is joining us by phone and cnns Patrick Oppmann is live from cuba with the latest details. Alex, lets start first with you. Tell us more about this evacuation well jessica significant concern growing abo