Date for trump, Fulton Countys d. A. Request that trump go on trial. And the wagner group claiming its an Educational Organization, formally calling itself. Its an exclusive story that you will see first outfront tonight. And the Suspected Gilgo Beach visitor. Who was it . The sheriff in the case is my guest. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Outfront tonight turning himself in, according to sources, trump is planning to find his way to the Fulton County jail next week. Think of it, a former president showing up to face charged. He would be treated like every other defendant. That would mean a mug shot and fingerprints. And fani willis wants trump arraigned in three weeks. If she gets her way, trump will stand trial starting march 4th. As you can see that is just one day before the crucial super tuesday. And as the clock ticks early next week as were hearing possibly, it is worth pointing out that whole situation at the Fulton County jail could be a circus. There are 18 other defendants.
Codefendants. Also tonight, cnn has learned that Secretary Of State Antony Blinken just spoke by phone with paul wheeler, an american wrongfully imprisoned in russia. And as the death toll of the Maui Wildfire climbs above 100, there are now growing questions about the cause of the disaster and the governors response. Josh green will join us live this hour. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. Tonight the wheels are in motion for Donald Trumps arrest, arraignment and trial in the Georgia Election subversion case, the Fulton County District Attorney proposing some key dates amid negotiations with trumps lawyers about details of his surrender. Lets go to cnns sarah murray who is just back from atlanta where shes covered the indictment and done an excellent job. Tell us about the d. A. s proposed trial date and how it fits into this already very busy legal and political calendar for the form are prer president. As
is still ongoing. in fact, as we speak, there s a remote operating vehicle that is 400 miles out at sea searching the bottom of the ocean floor. now, it has gone to the bottom. ocean a total of four times. and there s several pieces that have been recovered since it began its mission, including the nose of the vessel, the front and the back of the pressurized hull and two other debris fields. we also learned today, fred, that the company that s been operating the adissius was using its heavy lifting capabilities. that gives us a clue about what they might have possibly found during these search operations, that they might have been lifting debris from out of the bottom of the ocean floor. and that is what we are hoping that the u.s. coast guard can provide more details on today. why is that so important? well, authorities have said that they need to gather as much evidence, as much materials as possible in order to understand what happened here and to make sure that nothing l
Not giving him enough support or weapons, screaming at the defense minister and the head of the russian military. so that appears now to have reached a crescendo. i m told that intelligence officials saw the planning for what turned out to be this march towards moscow carried out by prigozhin, which ended very suddenly yesterday. they saw the wagner forces who had retreated from bakhmut start to gather and move and gather equipment and weapons and make this move towards rostov in southern russia, which they ventlv eventually took over to the point where intelligence officials briefed top members of congress, the leaders both republicans and democrats in the house and senate, as well as the top leaders of both parties in the intelligence committees to let them know that something like this would be coming. the surprise, wolf, i m told was when it actually was carried out
Back as the wagner group was prepared, in their words, at any rate to turn their convoy around some 125 miles, 200 kilometers short of the russian capital moscow. what we don t know now is what the longer term implications for the putin regime are or indeed for the ongoing conflict in ukraine because this clearly utilities the ukrainians very nicely, wolf. certainly does. sam kiley with an update for us. we re also learning much more about how president biden is trying to manage this moment and what u.s. intelligence officials knew leading up to this weekend s crisis. i want to bring in arlette saenz and alex marquradt.