How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
documents case. what special counsel jack smith did about it today. also tonight, record rain and floods in the northeast, we ll tell you who s about to get hit next. good evening, vladimir putin may be one of the most secretive russian leaders since joseph stalin. tonight, we re taking you inside his secret armored train. this on a day that russia and the war in ukraine is very much in the news. president biden has arrived in lithuania for the nato summit when the u.s. and allies will discuss efforts to obtain vladimir putin s aggression. as for biden, we ll be meeting with ukraine s president zelenskyy whose attendance had been in question until late today. both expected to be on the agenda and top the agenda. also today. turkey dropped objections to sweden becoming a member, and stockholm in turn appears to be supporting turkish membership in the european union. according to turkey s state run news agency. complete the succession to nato is a historic step that benefit
official here says russian spies are plotting to assassinate yevgeny prigozhin. this as a top russia investigative reporter uncovers new information about what led up to the coup attempt. plus, a life-or-death mission. i ll speak with ukrainian troops who trained in oklahoma. they are trained to take down putin s prized hypersonic missiles on the patriot system. and they ll tell you what happened when one of those missiles was aiming directly at their unit. and another major story we are following tonight. the supreme court ruling in favor of a web designer who says she didn t want to make wedding websites for same-sex couples. but there s a late-breaking twist tonight to that story. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, putin s alleged assassination plot. ukraine s military intelligence chief tonight saying russia s security service, the fsb, has been given the mission to assassinate yevgeny prigozhin. the wagner group leader, who
meeting where former president trump discusses holding secret documents he does not declassify. listen. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of papers. look. this was him. they presented me this. this is it ooff the record. but they presented me with this. this is the defense department and him. this was him. that wasn t done by me, it was him. all sorts of stuff. pages long. let s see here. isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know, except it is like highly confidential, secret. as a president i could declassify, but now i can t. yeah, now we have a problem. isn t that interesting? so cool. we hear you probably almost didn t believe me, but now you believe me. no, i believed you. incredible, right? this conversation is a critical piece of evidence in the case of trump s alleged mishandling of classified information. and paula reid explains. reporter: this recording is from the summer 2021 at bedminster, speaking to two people working on an auto