Will be putting out yet another fake indictment of your a favorite president , me, at 5 00 p. M. Provided and they do this 2. 5 years ago . Why did they wait so long . They wanted to put it right in the middle of my campaign. Prosecutorial misconduct. A grand jury who will decide whether or not to indict trump over election interference, they met earlier today. Hes outside the d. C. Court house where they ran meeting. Can you give us your report . What did you see . Good afternoon. Obviously, that truth social post was made by the former president at 4 41. Being that there was going to be this 5 00 news. We have not yet yet. All day long about whether or not we could see indictments come. Security around this courthouse did pick up your noticeably the first thing we notice is when we came here, dana, it was no federal protective service but some patrol cars out in front of the courthouse still here behind me. The grand jury as you mentioned gay men met today. Slowly they trickled all a
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
This is cnn news its monday, february 20, right now on cnn this morning, donald trump with all the Momentum Heading into michigan, while nikki haley gets dropped by one of her top donors Fertility Clinics halting Ivf Treatments after alabamas Supreme Court declared frozen embryos are people republicans now dealing with the fallout . Why dont, you tell people the truth for a change cnn this morning comes to washington, senator joe manchin joins us live in studio for our inaugural voyage all right, a live look at our Nations Capital at 06 00 a. M. Here on the east coast. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its great to be with you this morning over the weekend, former President Donald Trump won more than 60 of the vote in south carolina, beating nikki haley in her home state still, that means nearly 40 of republicans in that conservative Southern State did not vote for trump. Haley made clear this weekend that she wont drop out of the race when so many voters on lets be honest there o
and that s in large part because ron desantis, who was initially hyped up as the candidate has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis should come with its own slide whistle. he s almost 30 points behind trump and the average of the national poll. even a top official at a pro-desantis superpact recently conceded his campaign has been a bust so far. right now in national polling we are way behind. to be blunt and honest, it s an uphill battle. i don t think it s a winnable battle but clearly donald trump is the runaway front-runner in the first four states which matter tremendously. polls are tighter. we re clearly still down. we have work to do and wood to chop. it does seem like a bad sign when one of your top surrogates has to admit that but it s true at least and a lot of reasons the desantis campaign is doing so poorly. one reason is what some are calling a lack of charisma which seems to be alienat
pole position. two days from new hampshire s primary and new cnn poll finds trump leading the pack. we need big margins because we have to send real unity as a message. as his rivals pile on. we can t have someone else that we question whether their mentally fit to do this. could anyone knock trump off his path to the nomination? plus reluctant rematch. democratic leaders worry if 2024 is a rerun, voters will tune out. as republicans face a familiar dilemma on trump. i would support him. even if he s convicted? new reporting on the fears in both parties. and house of cards. the november is house speaker squeezed by his own party. i think it is a nonstarter. i don t see what the problem is. let s fix it. has mike johnson backed himself into a corner. inside politics starts now. good morning, and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. right now a brand-new snapshot of the republican presidential contest less than 48 hours away from whe