Life and a cowardly bum as ukraine braces for a fifth night of missile strikes, pounding the same city over and over again. 2024 republican presidential candidate chris christie is outfront, not holding back about trump s legal problems, tim scott being liked by more republicans than he is and are rfk jr. s conspiracy theories. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, trump s many days in court. the judge overseeing the former president s classified documents case now setting a date finally a date for that highly anticipated trial, and that date is may 20, 2024. that of course is not what trump had wanted. his lawyers wanted to postpone that criminal trial. it is possible the trial does get pushed back further. but, for now, here we are with a may 20th date. now add that into the packed court schedule that the former president faces.
To try to get through ukrainian air defenses. ukraine has gotten very good at shooting down certain types of missiles. and now russia is using a variety of different types of cruise missiles to get through those air defenses. that is why ukraine has repeatedly been asking western allies for more and more sophisticated air defenses to try to swat these drones and these missiles out of the sky. erin? all right, alex, thank you very much live from kyiv tonight. and alex s reporting comes as we re getting new video into outfront of a prominent russian military hardliner, also actually a former fsb officer. his name is igor girkin. he s making his first appearance in court. prominent pro-military guy. well, he was arrested and charged with inciting extremist activity just three days after he took on putin directly in a telegram post, in which after all the support he d given he d called putin a low life and a
Terms of the gop nomination. trump could have it all wrapped up by the time the trial were to start if it even did start in may. and that s the main point. if this gets pushed from may to june to july, however far it pushes, we could be in the throes of a nomination, the nominating convention for the party while the canndidate is i court, and potentially even, also, the presidential election, actually, the september and october time frame, given what happens in the next indictment. so, in some ways, this may prevent the republican party from making another choice. there are two chances for the electorate to defeat donald trump. it s first for republicans to defeat him in the primary. second for the general electorate to choose another candidate. and that really bears out in stark contrast if you have a candidate up for the race that is on trial at the time. that is just a very graphic visual for all of us to think
Her ruling today saying that there is going to be a lot of issues that the court is going to have to confront dealing with a 38-count indictment. and that is partly why it s very likely that that may date may end up sliding a lot, which is exactly what the former president wants. some of his allies today were saying that they believe they can make that may date go beyond the november election, which is exactly what their strategy has been. absolutely. and, of course, just to emphasize right, there s that and the january 6th case also coming in possibly, possibly in georgia, both of which could move more quickly. evan, thank you very much. and let s go now to the former assistant attorney general for the justice department s criminal division. she was jack smith s boss at the doj. she s with me along with the former special counsel at the defense department. and margaret hoover, the host of firing line.
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