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
Conducting his revenge tour. he would also cause us to lose up and down the ticket in the 2024 election. it s interesting, governor desantis still hasn t pounced on trump s legal troubles, he called the latest indictment, and i m quoting him now, a criminalization of politics. is this a winning strategy, do you believe, for desantis? well, what they re trying to do it both ways, go after trump at the same time attacking the system. the system needs to be reformed, but here, you ve got a state prosecutor, with a grand jury making decisions. for a grand jury s meeting and finding probable cause. if that s not a concern to the voters, if it s not a concern to the candidates, we re really in trouble. what s concerns me is, we have our institutions being