New Security Concerns and potential threats just ahead of trumps expected Court Appearance here. Cnn is over at the courthouse with preparations by federal and local Law Enforcement officials are now under way. Ill speak with a vocal critic of trump and his actions, republican president ial candidate and former congressman will hurd. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with donald trump on the brink right now of being arrested and arraigned for a third time. The former president is set to respond to that grave new federal indictment accusing him of orchestrating a plot to try to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Lets go right to our Senior Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid who is here with me in the situation room. Is it your understanding that trump will appear actually physically at the courthouse here in washington tomorrow . That is our expectations now, wolf. This is also what he
there s too much political violence. there s too much intimidation. there are more than 300 election deniers on the republican tickets this year for state, federal, and local government. [ boos ] this is really serious stuff. if a republican nominee for governor in the state of wisconsin wins, here s what he said. he said, if i win, my party will never lose another election in wisconsin. he s either a prophet or he plans on doing something about election law. that s president joe biden in california last night. his latest stop in a jam-packed campaign schedule before the final days of the campaign. willie, you ve got these republican candidates that believe in american democracy only if they win. yeah. we ve played the laundry list of them. senator ron johnson was on yesterday talking to our own shaquille brewster inside the state of wisconsin. shaquille asked him simply if you lose will you honor the results? we ll have to see what happens. his words, i don t know what t
president who wrote that defrauding the government the theme line is dishonesty. if you read this indictment, it s about dishonesty, about what being strayed. people who don t like trump or people who do like trump should read it and ask this question. do we want a president who is dishonest? i ve spent some time talking to people, to republicans, and i think a lot of them don t believe that the election was stolen from him, but they like him. there s something about him. you spent a lot of time interviewing trump during his last year as president of the united states. i want you and our viewers to listen to two excerpts of that. listen to that. thank you. there s nobody that s tougher than me. nobody is tougher than me. you ask me about impeachment. i m under impeachment.
15,000 people at the time with small minutia. there s a law in texas and one in georgia, a wet signature law that seems boring but it makes it so you can t register online using your cell phone or mobile phone. that affects young voters. that kind of things shaves off small numbers of people at a time. we make sure the voters have the assistance they need to get through the process. we talked about different states. you said before we came on, there doesn t seem to be any overarching theme line. usually, you have one party or another seeing enthusiasm, but you say the lines are just it s impossible to predict. really difficult to predict. after the saw after the overturning of roe v. wade, we saw a 300% up tick in registrations but in states we saw an up tick in registration, and in kansas we saw 1,000% up tick in
and the silence you see on the hill is because a top secret investigation that s ongoing cannot legally be confirmed or denied by anybody except donald trump decided to take his twitter account and tweet about watergate, which is hilarious because actually nixon went down for obstruction of justice and you may well find that s what will happen to donald trump as well. you re alluding to as the clock ticked here, your story and your reporting, there were questions early on we had the bbc, the guardian, then also reporting on this, then it became, if you will, more energetic around this theme line of these two banks. and the question of a computer server that was at trump tower. why do you think that arc of the way the story grew the way it did? first of all, the story of the existence of the server was broken at slate and mother