For the prosecution shows and tells how donald trump operates like a mob boss. Thats tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby phillip in new york and tonight, cnn puts a voice and a face to the key facts that you could read on paper in that case against donald trump. Meet brian butler. Hes also known as employee number five in the criminal indictment from special counsel jack smith. Butler is not a random person who trump can suddenly claim. He doesnt know he knows trump and it has known him for 21 years since he took a job as a seasonal valet at maralago. He has years of pictures and messages with everyone important in the trump orbit. He worked for he worked hundreds of p. Stance feet away from carlos de oliviera, the other maralago employee . He was indicted alongside trump, and they took lightly walks together. They were friends, but their paths now look very different. They oliviera is alleged to have lied to investigators. Meanwhile, butler has cooperated and he is helping pros
His fans. Quote, love is all that matters. Faithful and forever. Harmon was 74 years thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now so who exactly is trump employee number five and y in the world, should you care . Thats how you tonight on Laura Coates Live thats where i you know, reading these indictments sometimes requires a kind of a key code between the redactions and unnamed people. I mean, you really need a glossary. Do you not well, tonight one person has made a little bit easier by stepping into the spotlight he is the mystery man referred to as trump employee number five in jack smiths classified documents give me an indictment. Who worked behind the scenes at maralago for two decades. And now he is speaking out for the first time in a cnn exclusive. Now, let me catch Everybody Up For A Second On who this brian butler is. Hes already given testimony to federal investigators and tonight, he told Kaitlan Collins that back in june of 2022, so he helped trum
Its Defense Spending because its looking at north korea, chinese aggression and also looking ahead possibly to another Trump Administration where its not so sure the us welcome to the rescue. And its making these investments to be able to stand on its own there clearly also emphasizing here, theyre unity, right . But there is something obviously hanging over this. And we understood from mj lese reporting that it might not come off, which is the us still deal. However, it did come up, obviously they were going to be asked about it and that is japans largest steel maker offered to purchase us steel to the tune of 14 in december. The biden is very opposed to this. Hes trying to stand with the union and i wonder what you made the question as it was, was did it come up . Did the topic come up . No. The answer is no one answer directly. And Prime Minister kishida basically said discussions are underway between the parties and then he sort of said japan believes something to the effect of bas
all so much for joining us on this very busy news hour. we are still watching that race in virginia very closely. and de and a news night with abby, phillip starts right now virginia is not for lepers, at least not tonight. that s no, i don t need sign cnn breaking news good evening. i m abby phillip in new york, down to the wire or thousands of republican voters in a district of 800,000 people in virginia are now rendering a verdict. it is technically about two men, bob good and john maguire. but it s about something else. what donald trump prizes most what he s always valued above all else is loyalty. and bob good, the chairman of the freedom caucus and house, a band of congressional hardliners that has fought hard for the mega agenda inside of congress is not good enough for trump. good found himself on the opposite side of the primary race with trump and the reason and it s pretty simple, good. wanted ron desantis to be the republican presidential nominee, not donald trum
and many cbp customs and border protection high-level officials have told members of congress and the public that they re concerned about terrorist and known as what we call k asts, known suspected terrorists, and people in the no fly list sneaking across the southern border because of the the volume of individuals that are coming and the number of countries are coming from. i mean, this is exactly what we ve heard from republican critics of the southern border and how it s being handled at this moment is a concern that this something like this could happen and the system not working yeah, it s always a concern, especially when we would call them up the gottaways. so if you look at if one in every hundred thousand individuals who get away is a known as suspected terrorists. you can have dozens or hundreds of individuals that could potentially threats and so this is a wake-up call to all yeah. it certainly is marvin southern border. your connection broke up a little there