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piece of stripe gum. the situation room with wolf blitzer starts right now. see you tomorrow. happening now, breaking news. closing arguments just wrapped up in donald trumps new york civil fraud trial. the former president taking his campaign to the courtroom, launching into a rambling speech before being cut off by the judge who urged trumps attorneys to control their client. plus, were now in the final stretch before iowa decides with the first in the nation caucuses just four day...

right now. out front next, the breaking news u.s. air strikes in the middle east tonight. u.s. fighter jets right now striking parts of yemen with tomahawk missiles. we are waiting to hear directly from president biden as the entire middle east and the world right now are on edge. and more breaking news tonight. trumps tirade, a judge shutting the former president down after an outburst at his fraud trial in new york. could this be the beginning of the end for trumps business empir...

Opportunity to prove it. now, we dont know yet his extent of involvement? is he able to monitor this in realtime? what are the communications like between him and the president at this time? was this strike preauthorized? in other words, did he have to give a final sign off while in the hospital? these are all, frankly, questions that we have right now. the bottom line is this entire process and the national security perspective was able to move forward. >> alex, what should we be looking for ne...