Lays out trumps defense, claiming trump was just following orders from a trusted attorney, john eastman. Eastmans attorney is outfront, along with famed constitutional scholar lawrence tribe. Plus, um in flames. Putins military Recruitment Centers are being attacked against russia. Who is behind it, and we have new details tonight on why russian priests are telling fighters that their mission is to die. Just into cnn tonight, we have new reporting on what finally convinced President Biden to publicly acknowledge his Seventh Grandchild, Hunter Bidens 4yearold daughter navy. Lets go outfront. And good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, trump headed to court. In less than 24 hours, former President Donald Trump will make his Court Appearance in washington. Now, his appearance right now is scheduled for 4 00 eastern. Trump will have his fingerprints taken digitally. A mugshot lwill not be taken. But at this hour, security at the d. C. Courthouse is extremely tight. Police are moni
palestinian refugee camp. matt bradley caught in the firefight last night. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we begin our second hour of andrea mitchell reports with the gun violence epidemic in our country. according to the gun violence archive, there were 17 mass shootings in 15 states over the long july 4th weekend. leaving 18 people dead and more than 100 others injured. it brings the annual tally to 351 this year on track to surpass previous records. right now in el paso, texas, sentencing is underway in one of the deadliest mass shootings in u.s. history, the 2019 walmart shooting, where the shooter pleaded guilty to federal murder and hate crime charges for targeting hispanic migrants. family members of his 23 victims are making impact statements in court later today. the gunman is likely to be sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences. in philadelphia, a 40-year-old man has been charged with five counts of murder after allegedly opening fire
ago and that of cast an election is frankly very rail. let s discuss all of this with our political panel. karen finney great. great to have all be with us tonight. and there s so much to talk about in terms of the chaos that could happen with the midterms. let s start with election deniers. so, as you know, the place allows you with them right now. particularly places like arizona. then, today, ted cruz went on the view and could not answer the question as to whether or not he basically joe biden was legitimately elected. he pivoted, carrying the city, because it s the new talking point that i hear all the time now from republicans. when they get uncomfortable about the election denying. they pivot, immediately, to the past. so let s listen to this. what is biden legitimate elected because half the party thinks that he wasn t and will be very painful for you to tell the truth? biden is the president today. there is a lot of folks in the media that, i m exactly as a
nonsense ideas. and now they re basically saying to the american people, even if this trial is over with, even if there is a conviction, put us back in power, we ll pardon ourselves and we ll go on, but there will never be another free and fair election. point number three was saying, in a sense, jack smith was saying you have a right to say that an election is stolen. that s a right. to try to put it out there that this isn t a first amendment issue. and, yet, that is what we are hearing from trump s team. trump s attorney saying this is an attack on free speech. so, how do you, as someone who spent 50 years in this space talking about political speech, if the indictment says you can go ahead and falsely claim this, that is free speech, but that s not what this is about. did the indictment make the case?
let s not dispute that great i not taking the fbi s word for check squats, and jack left town . i m taking the oath of the guy who swore under oath that the fbi, before the election warned him off about government involvement by night you re going to tell me the fbi, the dhs and that dni may not have been involved in these decision as well to shanda band he and others? the verdict is out on that. i want proof that they weren t involved. until me this isn t a first amendment issue. if you, that i m going to write you off as unserious. one more thing, the press completely lied about this. now they ve got visible all of this is big nothing burger, twitter can do what they want, that s not what they said. i will show the receipts on my podcast on who insisted absolutely insisted that there was no shadow banning going on at twitter. you had tom nichols, the lefty heck that wrote the book the