The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Today's abbreviated show begins following an intense Senate grilling of Dr. Anthony Fauci during which he repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights.
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As today's show begins, two days of funeral services for the late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina are just set to get underway, beginning with a ceremony up on Capitol Hill featuring remarks from VP Vance and Senate Majority Leader John Thune. And later this afternoon, President Trump, other government officials and world leaders - including Benjamin Netanyahu and Vlodomyr Zelensky - will gather at the National Cathedral for a tribute to Graham's life.


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Three people are dead after a shootout at a Seattle food festival ... Opening statements are underway for the trial of a mother accused of killing her three children in 2023 ... 100 days from the midterms we take a look at the issues voters care about most.
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President Trump tells Axios he's "considering a massive attack, bigger than ever before" on Iran. This, after the US has carried out 13 straight nights of attacks. The New York Times reports that Iran rejected a ceasefire deal from the US, but both Washington and Tehran are denying that report. All this comes as the Pentagon website that tracks casualties of war removed four soldiers recently killed in the Iran war from the site. And that has raised new questions and some suspicions about the administration's accounting.
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Iranian-backed Houthi rebels are claiming responsibility for attacks on Saudi ships in the Red Sea, marking a major escalation in the war ... The GOP chair of the House Judiciary Committee is now asking the DOJ to consider prosecuting Jack Smith, one of the key targets of President Trump's retribution campaign ... Protests erupt in Wisconsin after a police officer fatally shoots a man officials say was armed with a knife.


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