The manhattan criminal courthouse. >> it s a surreal moment to go into that courtroom for the first time and see a former president of the united states who is simultaneously the world s greatest clown. those two things at the same time as a criminal defendant just spins things in your head that nothing else can. and the weirdness of that alone is your first hour in the courtroom. and it s -- in that first hour in the courtroom it s hard to take in anything other than the weirdness of donald trump. >> anticipating going into the courtroom, i was actually excited to do it. first of all, because i feel like as somebody who s written a trump book and has been covering this man, you know, from the beginning of his presidential campaign on, this kind of felt like a crescendo moment for him and for the country. and sit the only trial that he s going to face, so it definitely felt like a big moment and
Using leftover money from your congressional campaign to support candidates running against pro trump republicans. officer harry dunn who is not going quietly into this good night. >> democracy defenders pac.com. yeah, we are continuing to fight, doing what we can do. because everybody has to have a role in this protecting our democracy. >> officer harry dunn who was there. and knows well what happened january 6th. thank you so much for making the time and thanks for your service, sir. i appreciate it. >> thanks alex. still ahead tonight, a supreme court justice finally admitted that he did accept luxury travel from a billionaire conservative patron. just as the court is advancing an aggressively conservative agenda. i will speak about how that that agenda is playing out in the court, our schools, and culture, that s next. ools, and culture, that s next. ♪ i wanna hold you forever ♪ hey little bear bear. ♪ ♪
>> and 1 democrat strategist of the media needs to be tougher on president biden.t tr >> i don t have anything againsv it i don t. i would have something against it under most other times in american history but not right now.y, [ bleep ] your objectivity.is the real objectivity in this country right now as we eitherti have a constitution or we won t. >> the things he s saying aboutp president trumorp utmost importu whether you think about jimmy kimmel and what he is doing for the biden campaign. >> it s strange to see even though his show isn t watched by anybodnyboy he s still a late-no show hosult could you imagine johnny carson david letterman oi jay leno any of those people sending out a fundraising e-mail also used to be hosted the manho
Political cost to seeing all of these right wing conspiracy theorists go up in flames and be outed for what they are. >> you would think there could be. in some ways, this is all kind of happening on one side. these live by an large on the right. it is not like they are out there very separate from the mainstream of the republican party. you have donald trump closely interacting with them. the alex joneses of the world. mark meadow was chief of staff. there s a lot of very close tie in between what he does, what the republicans do. it is a lot of fertile material for democrats to work with. but how do you make it something that is viable for a political campaign environment? and you could say look, this is a very, very corrupt group of
The same about clarence, can t say the same about alito tim for weeks, we were hearing from republicans that judge juan were shawn here in new york, could not possibly be impartial because he made $35 contribution to democrats in 2020 only 15 of that went to biden. >> the biden campaign, i guess specifically how can republicans make that claim while not even batting an eye at what s going on in these disclosure forms. >> that s the problem that i have, is that to be intellectually honest, you have to apply it to both sides. and so if you re going to say that justice merchan, the judge, marsha, and he has to recuse himself. you have to kind of go both ways on it. and that s why i do think that having some type of reasonable regulations in place that would really limit all judges and keep them keep them from any appearance of impropriety and i m not
What is the question being asked is instructive to what the biden campaign should be trying to do, which is framing this beyond even needing to pay attention to the news day at today. it s more a choice between extremism and not. i just wonder why we are not generally describing trump more as an extremist. mp like, forget about -- then again, let s not forget about the people on the ground doing good work. when it comes to what are we expecting out of this, do you want someone who feels like they are attacking every institution? do we need to recite the litany of felons and felonies? let s just talk about not being that. >> here is why i think possibly this is playing out. president biden is focusing voters on democracy and on freedom, and these are fundamentally important things. but somehow, they get viewed as something kind of lofty ideal,
A sharp contrast with donald trump, a top biden ally, congressman james clyburn joins us this hour, discussed the president s speech and has campaign against trump also tonight, court insiders offer a new portrait of the judge overseeing the trump classified documents case describing her as isolated and inexperienced what that could mean for the case against trump and revealing new financial disclosures were just filed by us supreme court justices documenting clarence thomas donor paid trip to bali. several justices lucrative book deals, and high priced caught your tickets. bianna, gave the justice ketanji brown, jackson welcome to our viewers here in the united states at around the world. i m wolf blitzer, a you re in the situation room we re getting global reaction this hour to president biden s newest appeal to preserve
Now grow that hundreds o of thousands of democrat s aren t going to bother even voting for joe in the general election. wh evebother voting y it. those policies are horrible. now far less progressives. they re furious that biden would even pretend to addrespros the border crisis he created with a phony executive order that won t help. they want unfettered illegal immigration and amnesty, no limits at all whatsoever. and then to make these matters worse, biden s own son is nos w on trial for gun crimes.s gun while joe makes gucon control a central of his campaign. perhaps the biggest revelation from hunte r biden s trial is that his infamous laptop from that was actually enterede into evidence by biden s owngove doj, his governmenrnt. r un now, for the first time ever under oath, the federal government has confirmedhe f gos we already knew that hunter s laptop is authentic. its context contents are authentic. it s frec ite of kind of foreigw
>> ariane, thanks. have a great weekend. the news continues right here on cnn how frown next defending democracy. >> president biden making that a cornerstone of his campaign as he takes on trump who is doubling down on his calls for revenge, plus exotic vacations, a private jet supreme court justice clarence thomas finally admitting that the lavish trips they were paid for by a republican megadonor, the reporter who first expose the trips is my guest. and an outfront exclusive for the first time we take you inside the unprecedented security operation now underway to protect one of the biggest political events. >> let s go out front good evening. >> i m briana keeler in for erin burnett outfront tonight. biden takes on trump, the president defending democracy today on the world stage, while the former president was on on social media attacking the american justice system, president biden in france to commemorate the 80th anniversary of d-day. but
Speech enormity warning about what he considers the high stakes for american democracy this november. >> they are asking us to do our job, to protect freedom in our time, to defend democracy, to stand up against a broad and at home, to be part of something bigger than ourselves. >> reporter: the back at home republicans are blasting president biden for shaming them on the world stage, blaming them for holding up aid to ukraine just hours before those remarks in a meeting with ukraine s leader volodymyr zelenskyy. meanwhile former president trump is touting his postconviction fundraising numbers as he kicks off a west coast swing that includes a visit to the deep blue state of california, where you are, were some of the biggest names in a -- helped infused trump s campaign with cash thursday night in the former president is picking up celebrity support as well. take a listen.