president biden is expected to slam election deniers into a surprise speech tonight. the lead starts right now, six days from the midterms president biden has something to say, adding a prime time speech to his calendar taking on the heightened political climate. as the election rolls in candidates are rolling out their closing message. plus, the plan to rope supreme court clarence thomas into the 2020 election. why a trump lawyer called thomas the only chance to delay the process. and north korea is firing off its longest short-range missiles in one day as cnn also learned the rogue nation is secretly supplying russia with weapons. hello and welcome to the lead. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. the countdown is on in our politics lead. just six days left until the votes are counted in the congressional balance of power decided. a brand-new cnn poll suggests republican candidates have the momentum. 51% of likely voters say they ll vote for the republican can
news that our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of julyy, zero percent. okay, we ll have more on that a little bit later in the show, i promise. but first, there never been a more important day for the permanent washington time than inauguration day for joe biden. january 20th last year it was moment democrats and their voters in the federal bureaucracy have been waiting for for four years. none of it had to do with joe biden or possibilities his presidency could bring to them.t the best part about joe biden taking office was donald trump was leaving office, although it was made possible because somehow voters during a pandemicus had accomplished what, four years off witch hunts, pausing to investigate the full force of surveillance state could not removing donald trump from the white house despite getting seventy four million votes. but it quickly becameus clear removing donald trump was not the end goal. believe it or not, almost immediately joe biden and his
backfire on the democratic because they are attacking a former president of the united states who is poised to announce that he is running again against the man who is having him investigated. todd: get out the problem of the democrat s? there are mistakes or to threaten abiding themselves because this will it back to the biden administration. the pathway is much wider now than it was yesterday. 31 sean duffy is standing by with analysis, but we began with brooke singman who is standing by. good money, i spoke of former president grub is made up his mind to 2024 white house run following the fbi raid on his mar-a-lago. that according to congressman jim banks who spoke to focus exclusively fresh out of a meeting with at his new jersey golf club. i ve never seen president trump as fire up as the way was tonight is not deterred, is not fazed at all by what the doj has done to hip. everyone in the room and kurt president trump to run for president again in the sooner he g
only 1% of those facing trials in russia are acquitted. 99% are found guilty. reaction from a few moments from the executive director of the women s national basketball player s association, who has been fighting for her return. plus, any moment, we re expecting a civil rights announcement from attorney general merrick garland at the department of justice. but we begin this hour, of course, with the brittney griner drug trial in in russia. the russian court finding her guilty. they have asked to sentence her to nine and a half years in prison and fine her $1 million ruble, which is more than $16,000. a conviction now has certainly been announced in that court in russian. today, greiner addressing thecl appealing for leniency. i made an honest mistake, and i hope that in your ruling, that it doesn t end my life here. i know that everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. i want to say again that i had no intent
Separate the cases of Sidney Powell and ken i. Neth cheseboro. Also tonight, Breaking News. A new court filing reveals that the Special Counsel investigating hunter biden intends to indict the president s son on at least one gun charge within a matter of weeks. A Pennsylvania Prison just released video showing a killers brazen escape climbing up a wall. Were tracking the week long manhunt for a dangerous murderer. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with an early and important new ruling by the judge presiding over the Georgia Election subversion case, playing out on live television, offering clues about critical decisions ahead, including when donald trump might stand trial. We have a team of legal and political experts ready to break it down for us. First, lets go to cnns Senior Legal Affairs correspondent paula reed. Tell our viewers all that we learned from this very important and historic hea