Senate hold the line . Big questions this week for Hakeem Jeffries, one of the president s top jordan, plus i analysis from our powerhouse round table. Well break down the politics, break down the spin. The facts that matter. Announcer from abc news its this week. Here now george stephanopoulos. Good morning. Welcome to this week, a week of headsnapping developments. The first key witness testimony to congress. The First Release of Text Messages from Administration Officials confirming the pressuon ukraine outlinedre in thn e origaminigaa whistleblower complaint. That public request from President Trump calling on china to investigate joe biden. Late friday the first subpoenas to the white house, plus a new request for documents from Vice President pence. This morning more breaking news. Abc news has learned that the legal team representing the first whistleblower is now whistleblower. Attorney mark zade said he is a member of the Intelligence Community with firsthand information on so
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We are inching closer to i deadline in the governments case against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trumps lars now have about 22 hours to respond to a legal filing from special counsel jack smith. He requested a protective order after trump posted this on social media on friday. If you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Today on cnn we heard from one trump lawyer who says he will fight that protective order. The Defense Attorney also says trump did not tell Vice President mike pence at the time to throw out key electoral votes. He says the key distinction is that trump merely asked. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking is not action. Its core free speech. What President Trump did not do is direct Vi
come on and run. i mean, you know, real talk about like the sociologist teaching intro to sociology of race at 40 universities. stand back new college. all right, thank you as always, my friend. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. remember back in august of last year when the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president had knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and very publicly about that, right? he also fund raised off of it, and really he took every opportunity to point out what a victim he was of the deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, his first real justification for why he kept all those documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement released exclusively to fox news. quote, president trump had a standing order that documents removed from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified t
Happening now, a federal judge is imposing the Prison Sentence for the former proud Boys Chairman who was convicted of Seditious Conspiracy due to his role in the january 6th violent attack on the u. S. Capitol. He faces a steep sentence. Prosecutors are asking for 33 years behind bars. Cnns evan perez joins me now from outside the Federal Courthouse. So prosecutors asking for 33 years. Of course, it is up to the judge within guidelines. But what do we expect here . Well, jim, the judge, timmy kelly, has given far under what prosecutors have been asking for. This is the fifth member of the proud boys. Hes one of four of them who have been convicted of Seditious Conspiracy. He wasnt actually at the capitol on that date. He had been arrested just before january 6th, before the crowd gathered that day. In part because he had weapons on him and he was involved in a previous altercation, stealing a sign at a church right here in the district of columbia. So for that reason, he wasnt here. B
A horrifying scene on Spirit Airlines today. You know about speed cameras and red light cameras, but wait till you here about the new violations you could be caught on camera for in the district. 800,000 reasons why you want to know what happened at this High School Football game tonight. Plus a bethesda lawyer raising questions. Did you shoot the president . I didnt shoot anybody, no, sir. And even suing the government for answers about the assassination of jfk. Oswald was the shooter. As a lawyer i have to look at some of the issues that just havent been explained. Good evening. Im jan jeffcoat. Im derek mcginty, those stories coming your way in a moment. But first tonight special moments around the nation and world as people pause to remember the day jfk died. Heres your world in 90 seconds. Flags are at half staff over the capitol and white house just it was 50 years ago today. In dallas at dealey plaza thousands came out to hear the words president kennedy never got to speak. We i