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legal analyst. of course, the one and only, rick wilson, cofounder of the lincoln project, republican media strategist. welcome to all of you. he is also the author of run against the devil, a plot to save america from trump and democrats from themselves. i love that one. so, barbara, lets start with you. will the supreme court be forced to weigh in on trumps ballot eligibility? i think thats the driving question right now. >> i think so. i dont know how they dodged this. in light of t...

as we begin a new hour, a breaking news on this holiday weekend. special counsel jack smith delivers a newfound, an urgent urging an appeals court to dismiss former president trumps immunity claims. ahead, what that means for the case and when we could get a ruling. plus, nikki haleys campaign playing cleanup after she botched a simple question about the civil war. what her answer says about the state of the gop and its base. also ahead, but look at how the polls have shifted over ...

one-year mark. cnn is on the ground in kyiv and moscow. the bodies said to be piling up. also tonight, five former memphis police officers plead not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges in the fatal beating of tieyre nichols. his mother at the hearing and said they could not look her in the eye. ill speak to ben crump this hour. rick scott backing down from a controversial plan dropping social security and medicare provisions after bipartisan backlash including presiden...

classified material in the first 15 boxes that were returned to the national archives. and a member of the january 6th committee has revealed a new thread of the panels investigation, the money behind the january 6th riot. all this while the former legal team struggles to define a defense argument. >> if theres a prosecution of donald trump for mishandling classified afternoon after the clinton debacle, there will be riots in the streets. >> lets dig into this with ryan riley and ali v...

saying he spoke with the suspect. the alleged gunman asking, "are you going to be here tomorrow?" stephanie ramos here at the scene tonight. we are also learning more about the victims here. and we will honor them. the youngest, 32, the oldest, 86. tonight here, their stories. and the hero security guard killed while confronting the shooter. our interview tonight with a mother and daughter working inside the store. what they saw that guard do. tonight, how they describe his heroism, ...

Protesting after the Supreme Court threw out a petition to delay tamars vote with the country deeply divided there are fears of violence here in kenya with the latest also coming up a surprising twist in the case of a german human rights organizer on trial in turkey prosecutors are reportedly demanding he be released. And a german president can call their steinmeier says he wants better ties between berlin and moscow steinmeyer meets with president Vladimir Putin as part of his visit to russia w...

Infected when he called the wuhan flu. at the same time congressman rice is one of the only republicans still standing up to trumps growing insurrection. if thats the defining issue in american politics right now, youre saving american democracy, that needs recognizing that hes doing that especially since four of the ten republicans who voted to impeach trump second time around our retiring from congress instead of facing reelection. nearly half of them. a few republicans, conservatives were eve...

Rights. >> how does the white house handle this? these are people they need to have in their corner, but, you know, sort of the elite in washington, if you will, have an eye towards the midterms and getting everyone sort of on the same page for november. what do you think? >> look, i think theyre handling this the best way they can and that is just trying to show theyre doing everything they can possible. and that includes the speech today. it includes what chuck schumer is going to be doing in ...

And what james madison once said when he was speaking out at the constitutional convention, and by the way, i think hes a pretty good size for a president, he was 54". and what he said, he said the reason we have these impeachment articles in the constitution, that the provisions are in there, is because he feared that a president would betray the trust of the american people for a foreign power. that is what happened here. watergate -- this is a global watergate. in the case of watergate, a par...

Does have some relationships there, even though that started to fray a little bit with the loyalties of trump we see from lindsey graham. but the president is not going to have as much support when it comes to pushing the senate to become this sort of reality tv style body where he can sort of do his 2020 campaigning. there is going dobto be a lot o pushback from the senators facing reelection, but also the institutionalists who want to see this process take place in a stayed and highlighted for...