says the d.a. must indict. he is here to explain exactly why to you. plus, ron desantis in a new interview calls trump attacks background noise, predicts he can beat biden. this of course from a man who has not declared that he s even running. and a judge tearing into fox news accusing the network of knowingly providing false information as tucker carlson s private texts were shown in a court. we re going to show you what tucker carlson said. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, blow up our country, those are the words of a gop senator who warns an indictment against the former president trump, which could come as early as tomorrow, would be disastrous for america. it s going to blow up our country, and this is a bunch of b.s. now, in just a few hours, the grand jury in new york investigating the $130,000 payment that trump s fixer michael cohen made to stormy daniels, the adult film star, will meet. the grand jury s going to
he wrote while in the united states about the saudi government. one tweet went so far as to suggest that a street be named after the journalist gentleman ma am cha showing by whose murder was approved by the saudi crown prince according to u.s. intelligence and that ended up with a 16-year prison sentence. i spoke to his son when he was in prison and told him about the conditions there. they wake them up in the middle of the night and prevent him from sleeping. they torture him until he convicted himself by saying he sent tweets to destabilize the kingdom. saad remains in saudi arabia. he s now under a 16-year travel ban and his son tells us he is not free until he is in the united states. thanks so much for joining us. ac360 begins now.