donald trump, the seriousness, he said it first time in american history a former president gets a target, in the first time in american history. he s gonna get charged. that s what the target means. allegations, substantial evidence, probable cause before grandeur. standby, we have more to talk about on this very important issue. i want to head down to florida though, get the reaction from the trump world tonight. that s where paula reid is. paula, what are you hearing? laura, i was in court for about two hours during this first hearing before judge aileen cannon, it s pretty clear from what i saw today, this case is unlikely to go to trial in december. which is when prosecutor said, they would be ready to take this case before a jury. the judge seemed sympathetic to arguments from defense attorneys, that was just too soon. she called that timeline, quote, compressed. as the cases like this just take more time, especially because this involves classified information. she did not s
the grand jury. that s correct. the grandeur is gonna ask you questions, you can go a step outside the grand jury room and confer. why is that significant? well, i think it s the reason why most individuals who receive a target letter do not in fact testifying for the grand jury. more than saps a corny blanket might have implications. standby please, branded, there s also another huge development today. 16 people across michigan have now been charged, and now face multiple felony counts in a 2020 fake electors scheme. we ve got cnn s jessica schneider in the city of lansing, with much more on this. jessica, what can you tell us? laura, these are 16 republicans who allegedly tried to storm in the state capital behind me on december 14th, 2020. armed with fake certificates, falsely claiming that donald trump was the winner here in michigan, despite joe biden actually winning by 154,000 votes. at the time, those 16 were rebuffed by police. now they re facing eight counts, multip
already won over, or lost since the 2020 election. i think that independents are going to be outraged by this. it s radioactive for them. we saw the 2022 midterms, candidates who were talking about stolen election lies and pushing all of those fraud claims lost. so, if donald trump is still out there talking about this, and this is gonna dominate the news cycle because of the looming indictment and then when it does potentially drop, that s all that him and the other candidates are going to be talking about. i think that americans want to be talking about the other issues that actually matter to them. everyone, thank. you standby, i m glad you re here. up next, jake tapper. he ll join dana s exclusive interview with one such candidate hoping to get that rnc nomination. florida governor ron desantis. plus, a surprising development in one of america s most notorious cold cases. a search warrant involving the murder of tupac shakur.
made whether any progress on this will be made out whether any progress on this will be made out all before he leaves later in the made out all before he leaves later in the year. made out all before he leaves later in the year, so it will be interesting, though, to see how nruch, as interesting, though, to see how much, as you say, these types of issues much, as you say, these types of issues play much, as you say, these types of issues play in the leadership contest~ issues play in the leadership contest. will rishi sunak and other candidates contest. will rishi sunak and other candidates be asked, will you stand by the candidates be asked, will you stand by the rwanda policy, ou standby this policy and that policy? it will be interesting to see? because i think be interesting to see? because i think although it is a controversial policy, think although it is a controversial policy, it think although it is a controversial policy, it probably plays very well with
community to go. joining us is alfonso davis. thank you so much for joining us. give us your action so far. first, i think it was a historic evening. this is the first time that we had a major television network, a cable news network hosts a town hall of all democratic candidates on lbgtq issues. that s a story. alfonso, can you standby. we are hearing from steve mnuchin, talking about sanctions on turkey. the president is concerned about the ongoing military offensive and potential targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure and ethn ethnic, religious minorities and the president wants to make clear it is imperative that turkey not allowed a single isis fighter to escape.