Night. Good evening once again. Im stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening with the scope of the Special Counsel jack smiths investigation into donald trump and new signs that it is still growing. The latest revelation that investigators executed a Search Warrant of Donald Trumps twitter account and the company had to be held in contempt by a federal judge before handing over the material. Here is one former prosecutor on the kind of evidence that they must have been looking for. The twitter files that the Justice Department wants to retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. All those materials could be relevant. Its fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. I think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the Appeals Court to get timely compliance. But clearly the evidence here that is important to jack smith in the invest
Trump renting a New Hampshire is a familiar warning of what he will do in 2024. The future of abortion on the ballot in ohio tonight, results expected anytime that Special Election, it could also signal between the swing state, might go next year for the president. Also the brutal fight for ukraine, and attempted Reality Check on the losses ukraine has suffered a counter offensive, and later tonight and the west coast guard hit a damning investigation on Sexual Assault from public view, the newest developments in a story that cnn was first to bring you. Good evening, thank you for joining us. Leaked today, judge Tanya Chutkan rejected the former president s attorneys attempts to delay a hearing about how evidence should be handled in the january 6th case. She said 10 00, friday morning, for both sides to make their arguments. A short time earlier, the former president was in New Hampshire, cursing in front of a crowd, continuing to lie about the 2020 election, and suggesting he will li
Short time ago. Every one of these many fake charges filed against me, by the Corrupt Biden Doj could have been filed two and half years ago they didnt want to do a two and half years ago. They wanted to wait, and they did wait, they waited until the middle of an election, and they waited until i became the dominant force in the pole. They wanted to interfere in my campaign. They wanted to interfere in the elections, a commonly used tactic in third world countries. This all comes as his lawyers and his allies continue to float with some possible defenses in the Election Interference case. He is now asking the Supreme Court to intervene. I want to get right to the news tonight with cnn and crunchy domestic correspondent, jim acosta, who by the way will be here at 11 00. Excited to see this evening as well. Jim, we look to you. You have so much experience, having followed this banana trail. I dont know if you like being anonymous too much. But not for the same reasons. He is floating thi
Good evening. Im mehdi hasan. The insanity defense. That is what the Trump Legal Team seems to be offering this week in the wake of Special Counsel jack smiths stunning and damning 45page indictment, excuse, me of the former president , charging him with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy to violate rights. All charges fueled by his lies per the indictment. The trump team saying, though, he wasnt lying, he truly believed he won the election. Which, if he truly believed that, would of course be insane. But its not true, as smiths and item notes, trump was informed by members of his own campaign and legal teams that he had indeed, lost there was no massive fraud involved. Trump himself is quoted in the indictment telling mike pence after his own Vice President told him that he, mike, pence had no Constitutional Authority to reject the vote on January The 6th, quote, youre too honest. Best of all, one of t
Next. Harris georgia District Attorney fani willis is back under the microscope. Look at this. This is live right now. The Georgia State Senate Special committee is investigating fani willis and is holding a hearing right now. This is what we are watching. Their star witness, you recognize. That is the attorney who exposed the Extramarital Affair that fani willis was having with her favorite prosecutor, nathan wade. They were working together on the Election Interference Case against former President Trump. Ashleigh merchant represents one of former President Trumps codefendants. And she again got this story. She accused willis and wade of Conflict Of Interest and ra trove Ofquestionable Cast Pas between the two. That to Senate Committee is digging deep. Fani claimed she hired wade before their relationship began. Witnesses have gone before a judge and contradicted what the two lovers have testified under oath about when they met, what they were doing, all of the money. We have watched