3:00 p.m. eastern and we expect the former president to plead not guilty either today or in a separate formal arraignment. we ll find out. much of the republican party has been rallying behind trump. they are trying to utilize the d.o.j. as an influence operation within the campaigns within elections. america is seeing a double standard. perhaps president trump should have gone after hillary clinton. he didn t. should joe biden be allowed to aggressively go after the former president? i think president trump has not been treated equally like everybody else in this process. harris: 2024 challenger nikki haley has reversed course. two things can be true at the same time. one, the d.o.j. and f.b.i. have lost all credibility with the american people. the second thing can also be true. if this indictment is true, if what it says is actually the case, president trump was incredibly reckless with our national security. harris: so why trump, though? and not biden? plenty
fires, drought , and deaths. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with missing evidence in the january 6th investigation. the u.s. secret service failing to find text messages sought by the select committee. and that s fuelling more questions about whether the texts were inappropriately deleted. here s jessica schneider. tonight, key secret service text messages from the day before and the day of the capitol attack are still missing. the secret service, under subpoena from the january 6th committee, acknowledging they re still unable to uncover the texts after admitting last weekda wee ww wweek. sending this letter laying out concerns about the potential unauthorized deletion of text messages and telling secret service to investigation and report back to the archives within 30 days to detail how the messages got athdeleted. secret service is pledging to cooperate. we want to see w
following the headlines. natasha, first to you. this is a change from the white house. the white house is pushing back very hard on what it says is inf en inflammatory behavior by china. they said please don t up the ante here. now they re making public the fact that they have in fact summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to the white house to essentially give him a dressing down about china s provocations against taiwan in recent days. they had said numerous times that they expected that china would have some kind of reaction to this visit by pelosi, which was extremely offensive to the chinese. but the white house has been, you know, kind of willing to respond in a meaningful way now to the chinese activities that we have seen around taiwan, which are really escalatory and are the most that we have seen in decades. so what the white house is saying now is that they re reiterating to the chinese that this is unacceptable, that the u.s. position on taiwan has not chan
growing cancer on our nation. right wing extremists now targeting the lbgtq community, and not just in idaho where 31 of them were unpacked from a u-haul and arrested, and the first polls are close right now in a south carolina primary as trump seeks revenge against two incumbent republicans. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. and first one of the big misconceptions from the trump presidency, that there were no adults in the room. that s not true. there were plenty of adults and couldn t contain him and didn t want to. the so-called adults are sharing what they really feel about trump s pursuit for power. we re talking about trump s closest allies, his own people narrating the case against him, star witnesses that included none other than attorney general william barr, a man who spent years defending and serving trump, not the american people, but who via video testimony had this to say about the president slize. bogus stuff and based on misinformation, idiot
jail. that is, unless this man can save them that s attorney david shown who will speak to live in just a moment. look, it s been what, two years now since bannon was convicted of contempt of congress for defining a subpoena from the january 6 committee. remember that his excuse back then, his lawyer at the time, robert costello, remember him from the hush money trial. one witness is calling the defense. while the time he said i didn t have to comply because he thought trump would assert executive privilege he didn t and bad, it was apparently on notice of that fact as well we have been appealing his conviction ever since that time and up until now, the judge in this case had been kind of holding off on the sentence. but today the judge said enough, there was no legal reason left to delay that sentence. we told bannon he has to report to prison then on july 1st, to serve a four month sentence outside the courthouse, steve bannon was see bannon but i want to say something spec