York city. Where we are just hours away from former president donald j trumps third criminal arraignment in just four months. Tomorrow afternoon, at four pm eastern he is expected to appear in person at a federal court in washington d. C. , where he will enter a plea to charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Tonight dawn forsman is preparing, setting up barricades outside the courthouse. Of course, on tuesday a grand jury indicted trump on four separate felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States of america. Today trumps lawyer gave another preview of what could be a possible defense that the Indictment Strikes at the former president right for free speech. This is the first time that the First Amendment has been criminalized. This indictment is criminalizing conduct not speech . Its criminalizing speech for this reason, what the president saw in the 2020 election was all these irregularities going on, he had the right to comment on
politicsnation tonight s lead, a study in contrast the new week begins wit even a clear contrast betwee the current democratic president joe biden, who returned to the u.s. yesterday after an emotional state visit to arland. and the current, presumed fron runners for the republican nomination next year former president donald trum and florida governor ron desantis, both of whom mad their appearances at the national rifle s annua convention this weekend. and in - biden showed poise and earne swagger, playing out in hi remarks and appreciation for the nation s embrace o progress and mulch louis cultural-ism, while here in ne york, his vice president and several cabinet members turned out at my national actio network convention to show unity and the commitment t racial equity he has staked hi administration on. but in indianapolis, both trum and desantis and their message play to a program on crouch, grievance and hostilit doubling down on the secon amendment rhetoric, even as
bermuda before moving out to sea. let s get right to puerto rico. you just got back from touring some of the serious damage with the national guard. what all did you see? reporter: we actually got our first chance to get into the interior part of the island. we went where we could see mud slides were blocking the road and keeping some communities out there isolated so we went in with the national guard as they tried to clean that up. where i am right now, ana, we are in the southern part of the island and the cleanup here continues. take a look at the mud on the van as the cars go by what folks in an area that was completely inundated just a few days ago are dealing with now and that is because of the water. let s talk about the power because that s something that the governor just addressed minutes ago in a press conference. he says that he feels pretty confident that a good chunk of the island will have power by the end of tomorrow. one exception the south where we are ri
suffering, and our desperation for his political gain. president biden s first-ever face-to-face meetings with the families of brittney griner and paul whelan since they were detained in russia. i would have done it sooner. still need to deal with the families and explain there are limited things that you can do when you have this kind of a situation going on. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom. a kingdom celebrates the life of its queen. a family mourns the loss of its matriarch. the queen s eight grandchildren came together to hold vigil as she lies in state. outside westminster hall, tens of thousands of mourners gather to pay their respects. the line stretching for miles, and the wait at times surpassing an astonishing 24 hours. president biden and the first lady arrived in london not long ago. they will be among heads of state from around the world to attend the queen s funeral on monday. and a short time ago, we learned that the queen
picked special master. this is really a put up or shut up moment for team trump. judge raymond dearie ordering the trump team to back up his out of court claims that the fbi somehow planted evidence during their search of mar-a-lago. back it up or put up or shut up as they say. the search that turned up more than 100 classified documents. the judge wants it to give him a sworn declaration with a list of specific items they claim were planted. that s the thing. this is about facts. it s about evidence. you can t just make wild accusations in court without a shred of evidence even if that is your main m.o. out in the court of maga opinion. the judge also considering testimony from, quote, witnesses with knowledge of the relevant facts and let s not forget the former president would have you believe he could declassify documents just by thinking about it, which is not a thing. senate republicans not buying that either. up here we take it very seriously. people can get hurt. pe