One day after cruised a portion of the wreckage as they work to read to refloat the vessel thanks very much for watching eri Burnett Outfront starts right now outfront next sparks fly. I was in the courtroom as trumps attorney went to battle with Michael Cohen, a brutal start for trumps attorney, but wasnt enough to sink cohen. Plus it out front exclusive Stormy Daniels husband speaking out for the first time what he said, he had stormy will do if trump is found not guilty. And breaking news, President Biden now reportedly sending his National Security advisor to israel. Will this trip the enough to pull netanyahu back . Fullscale invasion of rafah. Lets go out front and good evening. Im erin Burnett Outfront tonight, a crying Little Expletive. It got ugly in the Hush Money Case Today For Trump and right away, i mean, right off the bat, that was just one of the first leinz trumps defense attorney, Todd Blanche Confronted Star Witness Michael Cohen, width as the crossexamination began t
election. with us now is quinton folks the biden/harris deputy campaign manager. thank you for being with us. why valley forge for saturday in are you expecting a cold winter? we are expecting a very good win ter come next november, but, look, we chose valley forge, george washington as you just said unionized the colonies there and brought them all together and then he became president and set the precedent for, you know, peaceful transition of power, something that donald trump and republicans refused to do, just as late as yesterday. you know, we believe that they pose an existential threat to democracy and over the last four years that threat to democracy has only grown and our campaign wants to communicate that message to voters that, you know, donald trump is telling us every day who he s going to be if he s reelected president, a dictator on day one, ripping health caraway from millions of people. these are threats to democracy and we feel that the american people deserve to h
american people. so in your release in the announcement of this campaign, which is valley forge and also ultimately south carolina as well, you said every single day donald trump tells us point-blank if he wins a second term he will do everything he can to dismantle american democracy, strip americans of their hard fought and fundamental freedoms. we should take him at his word. we should take him at his word. the reason i was highlighting those words, because it sounded like something we heard way back in 2016 from hillary clinton. listen. mexican immigrants, rapists and criminals, saying john mccain was not a war hero. being reluctant to denounce the ku klux klan and david duke and the list goes on. so for me i think you have to take him at his word at how he s behaved and what he has said. so if taking him at his word didn t work for hillary clinton in 2016, why will it work for the biden reelection campaign this year? well, first of all, secretary
the ballot and who can be removed from the ballot but it does show how donald trump of trump s politics are part of his legal strategy when it comes to maine and arguing this at the state level. he also argues that he can t be removed under the 14th amendment because the insurrection ban of the 14th amendment because he did not engage in an insurrection. this is something that might have relevance beyond just maine, it s also at the core of the questions raised by colorado s decision to remove trump from the ballot. as you mentioned, that s a decision that we expect to be appealed as soon as today and we re waiting to see how that might impact the broader landscape of these states deciding whether or not trump can be on their primary ballot and potentially on their general election ballot as we go into the 2024 presidential race. a lot of lawyers very busy this morning. zach cohen, keep us posted, thank you very much. with us now is federal and white collar criminal defense attorne
in maine overnight and did not stop there. overnight his lawyers asked a federal appeals court to rehear his immunity argument in the e. jean carroll defamation lawsuit. and a brand-new leelg filing outlines how trump plans to fight special counsel jack smith to get immunity in the federal election subversion case. oral arguments on that scheduled for next week and of course all of this is happening with just days before the iowa caucuses. cnn s zachary cohen here with the flurry of legal developments. zach? reporter: john, let s start in may obviously with this appeal by donald trump, he s just trying to stay on the ballot in these battleground states. look, his appeal last night to stay on the ballot in maine really spent a lot of time attacking maine s secretary of state. a democrat who he called biased, his lawyers said she should have recused herself from this decision and she had no authority to make it in the first place. now, the secretary of state in maine the situation is a