including some of his advisers, like rudy giuliani who was speaking at that rally before the invasion of the capitol. those are the types of documents that we know they were looking for. and we know those are the types of things that the former president believes are falling under what he says was is his executive privilege. now, of course, as you guys just discussed, this is the privilege that belongs to the current president. and former president trying to assert that he can go into this, he is going to have to probably file a lawsuit to try to sustain that idea, erin. and keep in mind, like, look, we don t know whether this is something he is actually going to do. he often threatens lawsuits, and never actually and doesn t follow through. but this could be a strategy here because he s used this before. the mueller investigation, he made sure that certain litigation happened and and they never got to certain documents and certain people. so, that could be the long-term play her
receive that? do they want a candidate who might be indicted as the standard bearer for the party s going into 2024? you bring up a great point, jim. i have two sources close to the president who think that donald trump is at least expressing to allies that he plans to run again in 2024. and that s before this news came down about the grand jury. when i was talking to these sources they said, look. donald trump will say things and then doesn t follow through. this may not be the first time he s making the 2024 potential candidate field dance. he s making sure that people keep on kissing the ring so he can stay relevant. but certainly this would be a motivating factor if he thinks he would be protected from legal jeopardy if becoming a 2024 republican candidate helped him shield him from this case. but talking to republicans on the hill, i ve been asking them this question. you get a mix of answers and a lot of them prefer to be private
making it again the g-8 i don t think they really trust that. if you look at the statement by the spokesperson for the foreign ministry, she said if this is serious, let s have a formal, you know, legal proposal and take it off, as she put it, the social media sphere. so they re not really, you know, buying this because i do believe that president putin thinks that he could be hurt if he jumps on board and then it doesn t happen or president trump doesn t follow through. you know, pam, this is really a very prickly g-7 because when you look at the list of, you know, all of these industrialized nations, i mean, this president has insulted all of them except for maybe italy as of recent. so you know, earlier today there was a luncheon involving president trump and the french president macron. they talked a lot about, you know, maybe this is one accord
companies before. he said, you better do a, b and c. and he ordered people to come to a rally, essentially, at a plant. they all showed up. like, he has been able to bully people. why shouldn t he be able to threaten, i m going to put sanctions on you, amazon.com. i m going to put sanctions on american companies if they godot get out of china. this is what he does. he claims to do something, he says, this is a national emergency, and he does it, and we don t hear anything about it. or he says he s going to do it and nothing happens. his own administration doesn t follow through. donald trump is unhinged, we all know that, he s been unhinged for a long time. i do believe he knows exactly what he s doing because i think in his mind he thinks his base wants to see a fighter. that s how he got into this trade war, right? i think if you look at his campaign, his campaign were thinking they were going to win because of the economy and now look what s happening with the
wreaking havoc on communities already here. the washington post reported yesterday that actually 20% of legal immigrants living in new york city have already withdrawn from a lot of benefits they re recipients of because they re living in fear. changing asylum laws, deporting, mass deportations there are tons of americans living in fear at the moment. if i could just add, on a positive note, there are so many charitable organizations in this country that i would expect would stand up. we are the most charitable country in the world. not taking away from the obligation the government should hold but notwithstanding, a lot of private charities, religious, what have you, are going to step up and help refugees and immigrants come to this country if the government doesn t follow through. everybody stand by. there s a lot more news we need to cover. just ahead, cnn gets exclusive access to take you inside the boot camp of a secret army that s doing vladimir putin s bidding, and expandi