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George santos is defiant amid growing calls for him to resign over the many lies he told voters. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy standing by santos even as he acknowledges a lack of trust. Were tracking Severe Weather right now in the southeast including significant damage from a large and extremely dangerous tornado in alabama. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with this Special Counsel investigation thats about to get under way. Amid new revelations about classified documents found at President Bidens home and office. Lets go right to our chief White House Correspondent phil mattingly. The white house is attempting to defend its response as a new timeline is raising a lot of questions. Thats right, wolf. The white House Counsel saying they will fully cooperate with the new Special Counsel investigation and say they believe by the time the investigation is over it will be clear this was an inadver
reporter: all of these options are thorny. if they go to another round of balloting, it s not clear i would be surprised if mccarthy were able to peel off the number of people that he needs from this 20 no vote coalition on his side to actually become speaker on this next ballot. what we are hearing is that the mccarthy team could go for a motion to adjourn until tomorrow. you are right, that would buy them time. it would save them another round of embarrassment if he were to lose on this fourth ballot. as i was walking over here, i tried to find some key members of that 20 no vote coalition to ask if they would support that motion to adjourn. right now, democrats have said they will not represent republicans do that. they are whipping against that motion. republicans would have to go it alone. they would not be able to pass that motion to adjourn unless some of these 20 republicans were also on board and supportive of it. i talked, for example, with congressman andy bigg
george santos is defiant amid growing calls for him to resign over the many lies he told voters. house speaker kevin mccarthy standing by santos even as he acknowledges a lack of trust. we re tracking severe weather right now in the southeast including significant damage from a large and extremely dangerous tornado in alabama. 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 this special counsel investigation that s about to get under way. amid new revelations about classified documents found at president biden s home and office. let s go right to our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly. the white house is attempting to defend its response as a new timeline is raising a lot of questions. that s right, wolf. the white house counsel saying they will fully cooperate with the new special counsel investigation and say they believe by the time the investigation is over it will b
the riot once it got under way. we will see them drive that point home today. thank you very much. this morning new testimony from a veteran member of far right extremist group the oath keepers admitting the group had a stockpile of weapons including an ar-15 stashed outside washington on january 6. afterwards, fbi agents were seen carting several gun cases and other evidence from the courthouse. cnn s whitney wild is live with us at the u.s. district court. she has more on. this whitney? brianna, this is quite a moment in court. what this man kerry krucummings testified to, he had not seen that stockpile of weapons like that since he was in the military. he traveled to washington with one of the defendants and brought his own ar-15 and ammunition. it was when he was here in washington that another defendant told him to return to virginia which is where that weapon stockpile was to prepare for what they called a quick reaction force. that quick reaction force has been o