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Developments in Donald Trumps ongoing legal battles. In a newly unsealed brief in response to the supreme Courts President ial Immunity Ruling, special Counsel Jack Smith gives us the clearest view yet of his 2020 Election Interference Case against the former president. Smith asserts trump acted as a private candidate and not as president , when he tried to overturn the Election Results and resorted to crimes to stay in office. It also provides new evidence about Trumps Phone Usage and the conve...

And what they think is right for the country. >> jim, denver, thank you very much. i appreciate you guys and ill see you soon. i want to bring in cnn law enforcement analyst, mr. andrew mccabe, the former director of the fbi. he is the author of "the threat: how the office protects america in the age of terror and trump." thank you, andy mt. good to see you. we now have this report on the insurrection, but it ignores trumps responsibility. is that a mistake? >> of course it is. we have a detaile...

Book, couldnt talk to the press, couldnt use social media, if that was only a condition in his terms of early release and furlough during covid. that the bureau of prisons had a problem. and that turns out to be what the reporting confirmed. no other releasee was required to execute this policy. in my 25 years as a federal prosecutor i never saw this restraint on the first amendment used. i think youre right, joe, this is a bad problem. the bureau of prisons is part of the justice department, th...

Flexibility being able to use what undoubtedly is valuable information about how the trump organization worked, more details about the hush money payments and in ways that the southern district may have learned, but couldnt use. putting aside the whole issue of whether a president can be indicted or not federally. theres also not that limitation with the d.a.s office. theres a lot more flexibility for them to work with what the information that michael cohen is giving to them. >> the law that st...

Learned, but couldnt use. putting aside the whole issue of whether a president can be indicted or not federally. theres also not that limitation with the d.a.s office. theres a lot more flexibility for them to work with what the information that michael cohen is giving to them. >> the law that strikes me right away, the payoffs to stormy daniels were, in any way deducted anywhere along the way in a tax return for the company or tax return for donald trump, you would have a tax evasion crime ther...

Intelligence cutouts during the campaign, roger stone today was ordered by a federal judge to not just stop talking publicly about this case, the judge already ordered him to do that, now shes gone further and banned him from social media. as of today. she banned him from using twitter or instagram or facebook for any purpose. he has continually pushed the envelope of the gag order that the judge had already instituted in that case. he has been pushing that. she further restricted him today and ...

Him to do that. now shes gone further and banned him from social media. as of today. she banned him from using twitter or instagram or facebook for any purpose. he has continually pushed the envelope of the gag order that the judge had already instituted in that case. he has been pushing that. he/s she further restricted him and said he couldnt use social media at all if he wasnt going to use it properly. perhaps amazingly, within two hours of the judges order saying he could no longer use twitt...

Deal is made and then bashar al assad does not comply and continues, by the way, the slaughter of over 100,000, the problem by the way in syria is not chemical weapons although as horrible as they are, the 100,000 that verizon been killed but suppose that he doesnt comply. they go to the u.p.s. let me give you the quote from mr. lavrov. he said, "nothing is said about the use of force or sanctions." so they go to the united nations. its clear they would veto again. it is now in the hands of russ...

Which they havent had since 1970. we are now depending on the good will of the russian people if bashar al assad violates this agreement and i am of the firm belief given his record that is a very, very big gamble. >> senator mccain, thank you very much. as always i appreciate your time. i want to bring in the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee democrat from new jersey, robert menendez and roy blunt will join us in a moment. chairman menendez, you heard senator mccain and you sai...

Middle of next year. why shouldnt that be universally cheered? >> it is a very big deal, sweeping deal but there are a lot of ifs. is it going to work? the russians say theyre speaking for assad. assad has not personally committed to this. he spoke to disclose in a week. what if he doesnt meet that deadline? the only enforcement is up to the u.n. and thats still to be negotiated and russia ruled out the use of force as a threat. that doesnt mean the president couldnt use force but with congress ...