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"cnn tonight" we laura coates starts right now. and every friend that i know in new jersey who saw him over the weekend, they got super lucky. >> i mean, are you kidding me? the only dream i have is that when day i will be at his front row and -- courtney cox, all those years ago -- remember that, that one video? i am a video, girl the mtv generation. i admit that. so, i mean, i have other dreams, abby phillip, besides -- >> for you -- >> -- thank you. >> laura -- >> -- >> yeah, we hope that he gets well soon. >> abby -- you too. good evening, everyone, i am laura coates. and welcome to "cnn tonight". we have tomorrow's news tonight. we are here with the incredible video -- i can't believe this. it was the moment that a convicted murderer escape from prison, it's kind of parkour you saw today. plus, with the judge showed us today in a fulton county courtroom when it was televised and where all this is really going. but, first up, a great big nope for kenneth chesebro and sidney how. the judge shut down their time today to be trials everly from one another. it will, now, of course, the tried together, possibly beginning on october 23rd, for their request. so, what does that mean now for the d.a.'s to try all this yearbook photo of 19 defendants together? well, the judge, in a word -- his word -- skeptical. >> it sounds like the state is still sticking to the position that all these defendants should remain. and they want to address some of these removal issues, and i am willing to hear that and i remain very skeptical. when >> the word is skeptical. nonetheless, not just the beginning of what was a very bad day for the former president. a mar-a-lago i.t. worker has now flipped on trump in the classified documents case, and he's clearly telling a story that people want to hear. otherwise, he would not have gotten a deal. there is also a federal judge ruling today that trump is going to have to pay e. jean carroll in a second defamation case against him. it's just now a matter of how much money we are talking about. plus, there are new clues, as that man had his heating up on day seven in pennsylvania. investigators have now found footprints of the escaped murderer, danelo cavalcante. and they are warning that he would be as violent as he needs to be to avoid capture, if he really has nothing to lose. we have exclusive video coming up of the man hunt from a couple who live in the search zone. so, stay tuned for that conversation. and everybody is asking -- i have been asking, you have been asking, of course -- how in the world did he escape? now, we can see it for ourselves. take a look at this video. he is the person in the background there at the chester county prison. and it is showing cavalcante beginning a kind of crab walk out, a parkour move, really, before he then escaped. they are saying he then pushed his way through razor wire, he ran across the roof, he scaled another fence, and he pushed his way through, get this, more razor wire before than escaping. we've got all the latest details on the men at night. let's begin first with the hearing on the georgia trump 2020 election subversion case, the whole thing playing out live on camera. joining me now in studio is marcus childress, former january 6th investigative counsel and jean gene rossi -- i'm not going to do it. my mind is blown by that moment. but there was another moment today. and many people thought, today, there is no way the judge is going to look at the decision today about the actual -- he did. and he said, kenneth cheeseborough, sidney powell, you have to be tried together. not the other 17. but, tried together. i want to talk about the winners and losers of that decision, though. because that is really part of what is coming up on the horizon. when you heard about that, who do you think was the winner there? >> are you ready? >> i am ready. i >> think the big winner is jack smith. >> oh! >> because he is brilliant in charging donald trump by himself. -- you have a kerfuffle. you have a perfect storm of motions, scheduling, and constitutional issues, and removal. the big loser, i think, was the scheduling of the case in fulton county court. because, how the heck are they going to have 19 defendants in one room, in one courtroom, and not take six months or eight months? that is excluding jury selection. so, i think the big loser, was the people of fulton county. what i think the prosecutors did -- and it's great that they charge this big rico -- but i think what they are doing is get ahead of their steeds. they charged too many people in my book. so, i predict what the judge is going to do -- he is going to slice of those defendants who are not subject to removal. and he is going to put in abeyance the ones who may get removed. because, he brought up a good point. if you try a case with somebody who is subject to a possible removal decision, and the judge grants it, what do you do? you declare a mistrial? and then it goes to federal court? that is why i brought up the double jeopardy. so, the big winner is jack smith for brilliance, one defendant. the big loser, i think, is this scheduling process and the whole thing system in fulton county. >> marcus childress, you are nodding your head. you see it the same way? i >> actually see it a little differently. so, i'm glad to start with the losers and -- >> you pointed at me when you said that. >> no, you are not a lawyer -- winner too -- >> -- make sure that point is very, very clear. mr. cheeseborough and -- i think they lost today. -- their arguments in court today, and they don't want to be associated with the conspiracy, the big lie, and now the core said the jurors can hear the case fairly -- in the winners? i'm actually going to go with the american public. transparency, i think, winds here today. if you go back to our january 6th hearings one of the big, i think, victories, for us, was that the fact that you could watch officer caroline edwards, you could watch nick quested, see their demeanor -- look at the surveillance evidence and make your own determination. and so, the fact that we could watch this hearing today, and we are having this discussion, talking about how the attorneys were arguing and how the judge actually responded back to those arguments -- that was a win for the justice system. and i think we have need to have more -- trust in this trial as it plays out. >> that's a great point. and you think also about honing in on the y. why would these two people not want to be tried together? if you are kenneth chesebro -- chesebro i think it's now pronounced -- electoral count act. he was just offering legal opinions. he counters that to say, sidney powell, she was more of that coffee county issues, much more hands on, much more thought of as a -- of course, she denies all of those things. they don't want each other each other's stink on them -- but if you are sidney powell, people know her from the -- case, the dominion case. maybe, if you are kenneth chesebro, you want a big ten foot pole away from her. that's not happening here. but, what about the other 17, including donald trump, who has no intention of being tried this very year, on this case? how does he fare in this? >> i think donald trump is probably looking at his calendar right now. because they are not going to set the trial for him in fulton county, probably, until march, april, or may. so, that is a big negative for him. because, at the time when he is going to win the nomination, he is going to face a trial of his peers. and there could be a verdict of guilty in september or october. so, he is the big loser in this case. >> i think all 19 defendants are losers. because now you are starting to see people minimize their own involvement, point a finger at others. and i would be worried if i was one of the -- representing, that someone is going to cooperate and flip earlier than my client. so, i would be a little nervous about someone cooperating in this trial, after watching how it played out today. >> the early bird gets the worm. in this case, you think about that. thank you both for all your insight tonight. i want to bring in former trump white house associate counselor may mailmen mailman -- may, we are thinking about all the -- facing. but there are a number of codefendants here. there are, of course, codefendants in the mar-a-lago classified documents case as well. when you are looking at all of this and taking a step back, what is your take in terms of what this is going to mean, knowing there is, obviously, an election about 400 or so days away? >> yeah, so, trump has said that the march 4th date -- that is the date settled for the d.c. jack smith's case -- so, gene's winner here. so, he has called that election interference. and i think he is right in the sense that it is election if hearings in his favor and in the primaries. so, we have seen trump more than double in his support during this primary season because of these indictments. i think, at the very beginning, it was maybe understandable, because you had alvin bragg's case first. i think even people on the other side of the aisle were a little bit skeptical of that. but all of this playing out during a primary process does seem to be helping president trump. does it move an independent voter toward trump? probably not. but trump is, i think, the near term winner, actually, with, when you know, all of these cases piling on top of him. >> that's interesting, to think about the thumb on the scale and enduring to, the benefit of trump, because we certainly see the money that is being raised, the idea of the weaponization of the government, a consistent talking point, i think, as we often discuss is, look, we are really after you, i'm in the way, we are -- for you here. but then we talk, about it's fulton county, and let's go down to mar-a-lago for a second. because jack smith now has a cooperating witness against the former president in that classified documents case. it's an i.t. worker, uso tavera -- yuesvil taveris walt nauta, and mr. carlos de oliveira as well -- attempts to delete security footage and handed over to a grand jury -- that could be particularly damning for trump. we heard a little bit about that in the indictment against donald trump, of course, and -- added a second codefendant, mr. carlos de oliveira. but are you surprised now that there is that cooperating witness? and, if you were advising trump -- obviously, you are not his counsel. but if you were advising him with 18, what would be your suggestion here? >> so, i guess i'm not surprised. there was a lot of pressure on this person, because he had a potential perjury charge and he said one thing to the grand jury at first and -- i think that there is pressure being put on him, i think, if you want to avoid charges, you really should cooperate with us. and you know, i guess i'm not -- if i am advising trump, i would want to know what was said to this person. but at least what is in the superseding indictment does not make me all that concerned. because it seems like he did not have a direct link to trump as far as a destruction obstruction of justice. so, i think as clear as can see it, even though you have to read between the lines a little bit, trump's attorney told trump that there is a subpoena. trump then talked to walt nauta. we walt nauta then talk to another person, the third named defendant, and then, that person -- walt talk to, now, this cooperating witness. so, there's a lot of telephone. you don't know if he's going to know what is in trump's mind, if he was even aware of the subpoena, he knew trump was aware of the subpoena. so, we will see what comes out of it. but this person is low level enough that it does not -- it would not give me immense heartburn, i guess. >> they certainly have to follow the leader and follow that game, but then again, there are three codefendants, and perhaps testifying against one might actually induce pressure in other ways. but that's up to jack smith to prove his burden in this case. also, there's this point where donald trump was telling hugh hewitt today that he was willing to go on the stand to defend himself at trial, and we have heard trump say, oftentimes, that he would testify, and then he would oftentimes say, i would do it. but my lawyer say i can't. so, in this instance, the idea of him testifying -- would you suggest he do so in any of these cases? >> so, lawyers are risk averse. and so, i would always say no, especially with trump, where, you know, you never know what he is going to say. and so, that amount of risk is just not something that you need, especially in something like the mar-a-lago case. i think you want to focus less on the facts, because the facts are pretty bad. and you want to focus more on the law. what is the interaction between the presidential records act and the espionage act. what is the required state of mind under the espionage act. these sort of questions, where you really don't want to be pushing the facts. and, of course, trump is going to be out there with a whole bunch of facts. so, do i think trump is ultimately going to testify? no, i think these are just words. i guess my one caveat to that is that usually defendants don't want to testify because they are presumed innocent until proven guilty. with trump, you are a little bit -- everyone has their opinion of him. and so, maybe there is something to be gained by proving your innocence, in trump's case. that wouldn't >> he has conceded possession of the document. the rest he is contesting. how will that play in the end of all this? 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