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Bret have great weekend. Bye. Good evening. Im bret baier, breaking tonight, another judge has agreed to postpone another key Legal Battle For Former president Donald Trump until after the november election. Manhattan Judge Juan Merchant delayed sentencing in criminal case citing the unique facts and circumstances. It comes after a different judge officially delayed the president s Election Interference Case in washington earlier this week. But, first, breaking just moments ago, a pakistani citi...

hi, everyone. its 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added...

manhattan, prosecutors have spoken to stormy daniels in the hush money investigation her lawyer says shes willing to be a witness if needed it also appears michael cohen is finished with his time in front of the grand jury. he told reporters yesterday that he has not been subpoenaed for additional testimony or documents. and that it appears to him that a charging decision could come soon so how is donald trump and his team reacting? we have details on that as well. joining me from atla...

pacific. i am jose diaz-balart and president biden commemorates the historic gun safety law , the first of its kind in years. members of congress who voted for the bill and people who have been impacted by gun violence will be attending the ceremony. there are bipartisan measures for states to implement their own red flag laws and enhance background checks and mental health and cracking down on purchases. joining us with the latest, what is the message from the white house this morning...

worker too scared to even say her own name out loud in public, a steep price for those who defended democracy and did their job. >> the committee unveiled new information about previously unknown activity involving wisconsins republican senator ron johnson. his aide offered to hand deliver fake electors to vice president mike pence on january 6th, now, johnson claims this is a nonstory. cnns manu raju pressed him on this. >> reporter: why was he even asking for that? >> because somebod...

rioters. as trump pressured him to stop the vote certification of the 2020 election. it was a move trump knew was illegal as several witnesses revealed just yesterday. lets get to cnns senior justice correspondent evan perez. what more are you learning about next weeks hearing? >> well, the committee, the january 6th committee is trying to nail down the list of witnesses that they have from the former justice department, former justice department officials under former president trump....

talk to us about this new development as it relates to the january 6th committee and this intent to respond to this doj request for transcripts. it was something the department of justice had to ask for twice to this point. >> yeah, had to ask for twice. and you saw in the letter that came yesterday, as hearings were ongoing, that the justice department said that by not having this, it could also be hampering some of the investigations that they are already ongoing with. thats somethin...

chairman benny thompson says no. >> but you dont, just to be clear, you dont anticipate that the committee, itself, will offer up a formal referral? >> no, thats not our job. our job is to look at the facts and circumstances around journal 6. what caused it and make recommendations after that. >> but is ranking member liz cheney saying maybe. she tweeted the january 6th select committee has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals. we will announce a decision on t...

violence associated with the supreme courts eventual decision on abortion rights. this warning comes as the senate is holding a hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism, and lawmakers are still talking, trying to find common ground on something to combat the gun violence epidemic in the country. this morning, a teacher who survived the elementary school massacre in uvalde is speaking publicly for the first time. every single one of his students in his class were killed. >> i lost 11...

with primary races under way in seven states. california, iowa, mississippi, montana, new jersey, new mexico and south dakota. polls are just opening now in california. one of the races closely watched is the los angeles mayoral race in which democratic congresswoman karen bass is facing off developer rick caruso. in montana, ryan zing ki who left congress to become the terror secretary is trying to return to the house representing the states congressional district there. a top gop tar...