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
Over his attempts to try to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the suspect, allegedly called the chambers a federal judge tanya chutkan on august 5th, and left a voice mail message, threatening to, quote, kill anyone who went after former president trump. we ll have more on the story, it s breaking, news that coming up in just a few moments. it comes as we are on the verge right now of a truly unprecedented calendar collision, leading to a presidential campaign like nothing we ve ever seen before. the 45th president of the united states, facing courtroom dates in the coming weeks and months here in washington d. c.. in south florida. in new york. and in georgia. all while he s running for a second term. fulton county d. a., fani willis, says she wants to rein donald trump in his 18 codefendants, the week of september 5th. she wants to start his trial on march 4th, 2024. the day before super tuesday, when more than a dozen states hold the presidential primary elections. that, as l
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 santos s 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, high-risk 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. i m wolf blitzer here in washington. we want to welcome you to cnn prime time. there s breaking news we re 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.
Told me this earlier tonight. 38% of the territory has been covered by the rescue teams. they re really accelerating now, as you mentioned earlier, we re adding 225 additional people to go into search and rescue, another 20 dogs taking up to 40 dogs. much more territory will be covered quickly. tonight, alaska hawaii senator, mazie hirono, what it will take to heal maui and its people. right now, joining, us senior justice correspondent, evan perez, and chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, john miller. also with us, former federal prosecutor, jean rossi. and national security attorney, bradley moss. i want to get right to evan and john on the breaking news we re following, a texas woman charged with threatening to kill the judge overseeing donald trump s election interference case. evan, this woman is in texas, what are you learning? wolf, she made a threat. this was a voice mail she left in the chambers of judge tanya chutkan, overseeing the election subversion case of
Law, and the fact the app to follow the law. if that makes people not want to vote for you, so be it. wolf? tom, stay with us, don t go too far away, i want to bring back evan perez, john miller, jeanne rossi, and bradley moss. brad, let me share with you. this news about the threat to judge chutkan, how has this changed the threat level around this case? it s chilling to hear what was said on that phone call. it s absolutely disturbing, all i can say is, it s gonna get worse. before it ever gets better. part of the problem, everyone is treating donald trump with kid gloves right now. no one wants to be the judge, the prosecutor, anything who tries to silence him, because of the political backlash. you haven t seen the dea, even seen jack smith ask for it yet, it was the judge is contemplating it yet. as this gets worse, as the thats continue to expand, will there be a real action? we ve seen donald trump attack witnesses. he went after mike pence twice. he s gone after the judge b