reports about that day, it is donald trump s dereliction of duty as thompson puts it in this new interview with the post that is a key focus of the as it reaches deputy deeper and deeper into trump world with dozens of subpoenas and depositions. and that has led to a serious push on the other side to stonewall the committee with lawsuits not just from donald trump himself, who sued to block the committee from getting their hands on his records. that suit is now going to be before the supreme court. also from those loyal to trump, folks like alex stone and michael flynn. trump s current spokesman, a guy named taylor bud witch is the latest ally to sue the committee. his lawsuit reveals just how much he has already shared shared with the january 6th select committee. politico reports, quote, he indicated in the suit that he had already provided, quote, more than 1,700 pages of documents, and roughly four hours of sworn testimony to the panel. it s cooperation that he said shoul
. happening now. there s majora breaking news out there for the republican presidential nomination. a source now tells cnn that chris christie is dropping out of the race. we are standing by to hear directly from him live this hour in new hampshire. we will bring that to you as soon as it begins and all this comes as the final republican debate before the iowa caucuses are now just a few hours away right here on cnn. nikki haley and ron desantis preparing to face off tonight as both candidates make their closing pitch to try to naur row t narrow the gap with donald trump. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get straight to the breaking news and the race of the republican nomination. he s got details on the major developments that are unfolding. exactly, omar, what are we expected to hear directly from chris christie in the coming minutes? yeah, wol
then we were divided in 2020. so, the way i would go about it is very direct and very simple. that there is no bad opinion. you want to express your opinion in this country, express it i want to hear. and then everybody gets a round table and resolve our issues. one of the time. the same way we used to do at dinner parties for the last eight or ten years. it wasn t like there weren t political differences to discuss. it s just that people did not start throwing their cutlery and it was a little more civilized. and it was not as if our democracy was at stake. see, in the end if you make everything a crisis, and it will be. and i heard the president today, joe biden earlier today talking about how he was concerned about democracy of donald trump getting elected again. and then i heard donald trump yelling and screaming about how badly he s been treated, these two guys need to stop worrying so much about themselves and start worrying about you. my approach to being president wou
welcome to a special edition of cnn tonight. we begin with the arch of the deal that never was. tonight, the washington post reports that donald trump projected efforts by his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to avoid his second arrest in just ten weeks. the post reports that one of his attorneys, chris skies, floated the idea of quietly approaching the feds last fall to take the temperature down on the classified documents case. to try to find a way to avoid charging the former president. but that another materialized because trump listen to other advisers and pundits pushing him to take a much more aggressive approach. cnn reported last fall that trump had conservative activists tom in his ear telling him that returning records to the archives was a mistake, and so now as a result of all of that, trump faces 37 criminal counts for allegedly keeping and hiding those documents and of course obstructing the investigation. behind the scenes, cnn is also learnin
desperate search for four americans kidnapped after gunmen opened fire on their vehicle just south of the u.s. southern border. the fbi is offering a $50,000 reward tonight for their return. the city of month morose is home to warring factions of the gulf drug cartel. that s the where we start william la jeunesse has the latest from los angeles. a warning some of the images in this report may be disturbing. good evening, william. good morning bret evening, rather. this story is not over and could get a lot worse. this attack happened on friday, just after the americans crossed at the border port of entry between brownsville and mat morose in th with north carolina plates. here you will see the gunman drag one victim into the bed of a white pickup. followed by three additional victims who appear injured or unconscious who are literally tossed into the bed of the truck like a sack of flour while the photographic maneuvers around them. van may have inadvertently blown throug