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today on "inside politics," exclusive new cnn reporting about an immunity deal for a fake bear of electors. new details that make clear the trump special counsels january 6th investigation is picking up speed. plus, joe biden hardly ever says it, donald trump wants to steer clear of it. mike pence wants to put every single republican on record about it. one year after dobbs erased roe, abortion is front and center in the 2024 campaign. and damning if true, accusations against the j...

of the first federal arraignment of a former u.s. president in the history of this nation. security is tight as donald trump is about to respond to the most serious criminal charges, twice impeached and twice indicted former commander in chief has faced. trump is at his golf club outside miami, expected to heed to the courthouse soon. this is cnns special coverage of the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. im anderson cooper. >> im jake tapper. the former president will be placed u...

Thats all the time we have. I hand it over to don lemon. 360 will be back tomorrow. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. The magnitude of this day is unbelievable. It is historic. It is a moment when our country is on the brink. On the brink of what could turn into a constitutional crisis and potentially on the brink of military acts in syria. A furious President Trump surrounded by grimfaced military leaders in what was planned to be a meeting of syria, his arms folded, blasted the fbi raid today...

A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Collusion, wikileaks collaboration, or any other impropriety related to the 2016 election, which i thought was the subject of this probe. I understand she appeared voluntarily. I am highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do so. Davis once ran a highend Prostitution Ring and went to jail in the scandal surrounding then democratic governor eliot spitzer. The remorse i feel will always be with me. Reporter ...

Months he closed several prominent investigations into members of congress without charges. so those included john enson of nestled da, a republican, tom dell lay of texas, another republican, jerry lewis of california another republican, allen mull a han a democrat and don young of alaska. yes, hes had prominent run-ins with republican politicians but has also been very firmly on the other side of those scales of justice, closing investigations against prominent republicans as well when he thou...

Deal or worth prosecuting where we know the majority of americans, 70% of americans say this is wrong, we need to bring this to justice and need a commission. that has not moved. the republican leadership has seen not only has that number not dwindled, but they are getting bolder and more firm in their convention because its coming from the top. former president trump said the folks at the january 6 threat posed zero threat. that is what the far right continue to say. rather than lead independen...

Investigation of russian med skp -- m meddling and hillary clintons e-mail server. our panel is back with us. mika kicking it off with you. we finished with curt in the last segment here. you heard the exasperation underlined and if you followed his twitter account, james comey going why are we doing this, and what are we getting out of this that we couldnt do in an open, public testimony? >> yeah, i think that the republicans wanted closed testimony here because they know how powerful a witness...

They want information from. >> and i assume theyre really anxious to try to figure out precise will what stones connection to wikileaks was, to guccifer 2.0, which the u.s. government now says was simply a front for the russian intelligence service. >> thats right. and roger stone has admitted he traded messages back and forth with gauccifer 2.0. he at times bragged about talking with julian assange during the campaign and then walked that back and said he wasnt in contact with julian assange. s...

Daniels aspect of this is one aspect. there may be other women similarly situated or other people similarly situated that the investigation was ongoing, just like we had in flynn, where it was ongoing when mueller stepped into it. he found something additional. it was related. he passed it on. the rule of law was upheld and the process was adhered to. and so thats what prosecutors do. they look at crime and make prosecutorial decisions about whether its worth prosecuting. >> and mueller cant -- ...

The first one is why would the southern district of new york be investigating or looking into possible election crimes? >> because its a crime to willfully violate the federal election laws. and they were given a referral, it appears, from mueller to say that this may be ongoing and worth your inquiry. we dont know also, though, whether or not this pre exists muellers investigation. it could well be that the stormy daniels aspect of this is one aspect. there may be other women similarly situated...