wow, thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. tonight on 3 of 0 sparks fly in the courtroom between the judge and the president on the day that e. jean kale took the stand. trump ally robert stone on tape talking about assassinating two democratic congressmen. we ll speak to one of them and my conversation with a former hostage who reveals much of her captivity was spent with her husband and children and others in an exam room in a major hospital in gaza. we begin with these words. i would love that. that s what the former president told judge lewis kaplan after the judge threatened to remove him from the courtroom to which the judge replied i know you would. at issue his comments during playoff e. jean kuraly s testimony telling jurors what it was like to endure the most powerful men in the free world calling her a liar or he was found guilty of sexually abusing her in a department store in the 1990s, a denial he repeated in court today. this is a person i have no
speeches in each precinct before the caucus goers vote for their candidate of choice. in a secret ballot. no early voting. no absentee voting. no veil in voting in this instance. the process can take a little while, but this, year could be the coldest iowa caucus ever. current forecast for monday night include record sub-zero temperatures, which, of course, could affect turnout. at this point, a force of nature might be the only thing that could prevent donald trump from winning the state. the latest poll of iowa conducted by suffolk university earlier this month shows the former president leading the pack with 54% of likely republican caucus goers saying they plan to support him. his closest rival, nikki haley, is 34 points behind. a 20%. if these numbers hold, trump has the opportunity to smash the record for the largest margin of victory in iowa gop history for a non incumbents. that s a record currently held by bob dole, who won the 1988 caucuses by 13 points. over pat ro
present its case and we don t know also whether the former president might choose to testify in his own defense. i want to start by bringing in cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid who has been all over this story for many, many week, and paula, the indictment is out now. i wonder, what to you as someone following this and every single move and detail, what stands out to you as the most damning information we ve gotten? it s such a strong reminder of how little we know compared to investigators. one of the things that struck me and i think will resonate with the american people are the photographs that the indictment uses to tell the story of how some of the nation s most sensitive secrets were strewn about mar-a-lago. prosecutors in this indictment say that these secrets were in a bathroom, in a ballroom. there you see the photo of them being in a bathroom boxes stacked up there, in the ballroom. these are cardboard, pretty flimsy in a ballroom actively being
bathroom, in a ballroom. there you see the photo of them being in a bathroom, boxes just stacked up there in the ballroom. i mean these are pretty flimsy cardboard boxes in a ballroom that is actively being used for events. there you see sensitive defense information, secrets that are only meant to be shared with a small handful of our closest allies, and they re strewn about the floor of a storage closet. and it s one thing to say that in an indictment, but it s another to support this with photographs. that was one of the things that really struck me in this indictment. but the breadth and the depth of the evidence that they ve gathered in this investigation, it s incredible. i mean, for example, there are two incidents where they say the former president shared classified documents in person. one is a story that we broke last week, a meeting at his bedminster golf club, where he says that he has sensitive information and appears to be urging people in a meeting to look at.
information, corruptly concealing documents nationa, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and alsoracy to 18 u.s.c. 1001e statements. now, let s not pretend here because over the next year, mayb. e more than that, maybeonger, longer, we re going to be seeing a very complicated legal process that will unfold regarding this indictment. ste we re going to cover it every step of the way as it does es unfold. e at dif and i m sure at different points, you re going to see merrick garland, the attorney on the hill, insisting that this prosecutionthe hill all bee by the books without political fear or favor. are going to be filed.motion cross motions are goings to be filed. leaks will happen, but maybe in an unconventional wa hapy. but i want to be veryy clea clear upfront herer . tens of millions of americans believe that donald trump isican being indicted by d fbi because he s a political opponent of the d.c. establishment and joe biden and, of course est he s the most popular rep