Developments in Donald Trumps ongoing legal battles. In a newly unsealed brief in response to the supreme Courts President ial Immunity Ruling, special Counsel Jack Smith gives us the clearest view yet of his 2020 Election Interference Case against the former president. Smith asserts trump acted as a private candidate and not as president , when he tried to overturn the Election Results and resorted to crimes to stay in office. It also provides new evidence about Trumps Phone Usage and the conversations he had on the 6th Of January, as the riots were unfolding at the capitol. Quote, beginning at about 150. 30 p. M. , the defendant settled in the Dining Room off of the oval office. He spent the afternoon there reviewing twitter on his phone, while the Dining Room television played Fox News contemporaneous coverage of events at the capitol. Citing testimony, the filing says that when trump was informed his Vice President had to be rushed to a secure location after trump attacked pence in
The trump campaign. And this is cnn im Jake Tapper and we are following this Breaking News with the 2024 election just one month away. We now have the clearest picture yet of how federal prosecutors specifically special Counsel Jack Smith say that former President Trump tried to vertical law and undermine the 2020 election, its a 165 Page Court Filing that was just unsealed by a federal judge minutes ago. The office of special Counsel Smith lays out this case for a Trial Judge in a way that they think would overcome President Trumps president ial Immunity Protections as outlined by the Supreme Court earlier this year. Prosecutors say that trump was directly involved in the plot to nominate fake electors. They also tried to show that trump was aware that he lost flaccid, but told the staffer, quote, the details, dont matter unquote lets bring in our team of intrepid reporters who have been combing through this filing. Let me start with you, Paula Walk walk us through the major headlines
Look at Jd Vance which is like less than two years as a senator, never held public office before that other than his time in public service, all he has done his work for the sky, peter teal. And then, you also just dive in and look at the stuff he said on tape and who he says he gets his political ideas from and what his political ideas are and you realize he brings nothing to the table really i mean, aside from sheer political skill, he brings nothing to the table other than his commitment to some deeply weird stuff that is completeness to the american people, and totally off the charts bizarre in terms of modern politics and radicalism and i just have not known what to do with that for a very long time. I still dont know what to do with it, but its there. And, i appreciate, by the way, you stated when you were talking about it, reluctance to even bring it up because do we want to give this Stuff Air . Do we want to make that Guy Famous was actually guiding Jd Vances thinking, which i
And destruction, as far as the eye can see after Western North Carolina with hammered by helene will talk to the Fema Administrator on the ground asheville, amid apocalyptic conditions as the Storm Death Toll across the southeast is rising also tonight, israel warns its heading into what its calling the next stage of its war against hezbollah as a limited Ground Invasion of Lebanon May repeat, may be imminent cnn is near israels northern border were closed Military Zone as declared by israel has been declared plus Breaking News, a Georgia Judge just struck down a State Law banning abortions beyond six weeks into a Pregnancy Standby for details on this major ruling and what happens next welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im Wolf Blitzer and youre in the Situation Room we begin with the devastation from one of the deadliest storms to hit the us in decades. At least 128 people have been killed from Helenes Onslaught in the southeast. That till almost ce
A. M. Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera reporting from new york. We begin with Breaking News. The president set to speak from the White House this hour, about the devastation in the aftermath of helene. The destruction is really unbelievable, stretching all across the southeast. The Death Toll currently standing at 99. The number is set to climb, still, with Search And Rescue efforts continuing this morning. A third of the deaths in north carolina, where the historic city of asheville saw the worst of it. At this hour, authorities are still searching for the missing. And the community is just struggling to cope without water. Without food, power, Gasoline Or Cell service in so many of those areas. Joining us now, nbcs George Solis is in asheville and Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is standing by. George, the aerial images from that shot is really breathtaking. What is the situation this morning . Rare, good morning, ana, the situation is really heartbreaking. Some areas have become passable after the water