Good evening, im jim acosta. Joining me in moments, president potential candidate vivek ramaswamy, whose name showed up in a ron desantis debate memo as the rival to attack on the stage. Hillary spawn that and more. But first, in just a few moments, in the date on the calendar will be april 2026. Thats two years, seven months from now. Thats nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election. And just a year and a half before the 2028 election. And yet, donald trump and his lawyers are suggesting that date for his trial in the federal case on his efforts to overturn the election. Its their counter to jack smiths proposal to start this january. Meantime, the former president , in his first on camera reaction to the george indictment, has a warning to his party. Disgraceful thing. And republicans cant let him get away with it. Republicans have to be tough. The republicans are great in many ways, but they dont fight as hard for this. They have to get a lot tougher. If they, dont theyre not
tonight kendall is talking. actor jeremy strong joins me with behind the scenes look at that shows riveting finale. we begin tonight with some light signs of progress, but also the criticism house speaker kevin mccarthy is facing from some members of his own party as he and president biden race to turn the debt ceiling agreement they reached friday night into law. failing could hurt the economy for all of us. but given how toxic the delays, with some of the more extreme embers, every step that speaker mccarthy takes to pass it could put his speakership in jeopardy. cnn s melanie zanona joins us now with the very latest. what is the latest you are hearing from house republicans about where this is headed? the house is on the verge of clearing at least one procedural hurdle. because the house rules committee is expected to advance a rule, which would allow the bill to come to the floor tomorrow. despite opposition from to two conservatives on the panel. that is a big sigh of
the table. i believe that this is a delay tactic, because they have always been on the side of the case it seems. the police chief, assistant police chief, was in charge at the time that the murder, attempted murder. and the montero, you are just 24 years old when the incident happened. what has happened to her life? has how has it been impacted since? honestly, if i can be completely honest, i feel like it took a turn for the worse, because right now beforehand. i was reluctant about speaking up i. even though it is, will definitely keep up the fight, i deal with anxiety, depression, insomnia, just thinking about the incident more than i should, effects me negatively mentally more than anything. carlos, are you confident that you get a new trial? what about filing a lawsuit?
rio gibson, did you ever at the center at the case, and his lawyer, carlos more. gentlemen, thank you for being with us. what a day. i can t imagine what you re going to right now, the montero. that was your mother out there reacting to the judge granting the defense s request for a miss trial. can you put it into words, how disappointed you are right now? i cannot exactly put it into words, but it is definitely disappointing and frustrating. i feel like if a lot of people understood what we had to endure, having gone through, the process of trying to get them put in jail, it feels like a lifetime, not like a year and a half. the montero, cnn has reached out to the brookhaven police department about comments are not turning over the video. what do you want to say to the police? it sounds like a screw up.
it s definitely a screw up, not the first one that they had in my case or other cases. it s negligence on their part. i feel like, i am not going to say everything was purposely done, but there is a lot of incompetence and that police department. that s all i have to say. carlos, as his attorney, are you able to tell us what the tape statement actually was? do you know why it was not handed over? could this have been something done intentionally? jim, i do believe it was intentional and deliberate on part of the detective fernando. this was an interrogation tape that the police department of the man terrified, give a witness statement. everyone always knows those statements are always recorded. and they were, it was recorded and should have been given on