Deadline in the 2020 election interference case. Hes got until 5 00 p. M. This afternoon to respond to special counsel jack smiths request for a protective order. Smith is trying to block trump from disclosing evidence and making Public Comments that could intimidate witnesses or undermine the case. Smith asked the judge to step in after trump issued a vague threat on social media on friday. He wrote in all caps, quote f you go after me, im coming after you. This morning, were also keeping a close watch on Fulton County, georgia, where trump is facing another potential indictment for trying to overturn the election. The streets around the courthouse are being shut down as the grand jury considers charges. Trumps lawyer went on a media blitz and appeared on all five networks sunday morning. He floated a new defense for trump, alleged will pressuring mike pence and georgia officials to overturn the election results. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking i
Sea, so much closer to home than russia could possibly have wanted. You referred to a russian fighter intercepting what was a russian drone. They submitted that in strict accordance with international law. That comes a matter of hours after Ukrainian Drones have targeted two key vessels. Just this morning, a russian oil cargo ship which was struck by a Ukrainian Drone in the black sea quite some distance off the coast and near a key naval port. There are suggestions that an oil depot was hit on the eastern side of the crimean peninsula. This is a Building Number of incidents occurring in the black sea, an area which russia must have felt was entirely impregnable just two weeks ago. Sochi is a russian holiday resort, and all of those are at risk of war. A dramatic change here where ukraine is projecting its power. It may be a bid to show some element of Military Success given how slow the counteroffensive appears to be at the moment. It certainly must make the kremlin utterly perplexed
good evening everyone. i m john king. welcome to cnn tonight. debt ceiling drama. we are closer to a deal but not there yet. the fact that janet yellen essentially gave them four more days means, well, we have a ways to go. even if they make a deal tomorrow morning can they get it done in time? plus can a trump-like candidate beat donald trump? that is the question as ron desantis gets his campaign in high gear. the florida governor not shy at all about taking on the former president, ripping him on the border of all things, calling him a big spender, and blasting his covid policies. i don t know what happened to donald trump. this is a different guy today than when he was running in 2015 and 2016. i think the direction that he is going with his campaign is the wrong direction. no other republican in the trump era has been able to walk that tight rope. the question is can ron desantis? and here is a sobering thought this memorial day weekend. whenever you go in the wate
what a tragedy this is for everyone. being as deep in this subject matter as you are and knowing the campus as well as you do, having gone there, is there anything that could have stopped what happened last night? i think we don t really have the answer to that yet, right, because the fbi and michigan state police will do the background on this individual who did the shooting to see maybe if there were tells and science, and there were people who saw something and did not say something, which is kind of my biggest fear, of course. but i think overall, i think we have to use when we push together what everybody wants, which is the answer to the motivation for why this guy did this, looking for the motivation is really helping us to find the next shooter, before the strike, and that s why we want to continue to look for the information about why this guy did what he did, not because we can make him not do it but because we can make the next kind not do it. we don t seem to
down. of course, the question tonight is, where is that exactly and when will it come down? by the way, how will it come down? the a spy balloon. the pentagon refusing to say whether they are considering shooting it down what looks like a chinese spy balloon floating high above some sensitive sites in this country. but officials telling cnn they haven t ruled it out either. meanwhile, this balloon, which is the size, by the way, of three school buses, is just meandering along thousands of feet up in the sky. it was spotted twice on wednesday over montana and twice over missouri today, including in colombia, missouri, this very often-afternoon where this exclusive footage was shot. it s flying about 60,000 feet up, 18,000 feet higher than a commercial airplane does. and now the pentagon says there is another chinese spy balloon that is currently somewhere over latin america. we will talk about what the heck is going on in the skies tonight. here to help us figure all this out,