Donald trumps legal team responds, accusing the Special Counsel of going after trumps First Amendment rights. And now both sides are facing a new deadline. Brand new exclusive reporting. U. S. Officials just briefed on the ukrainian counteroffensive are now calling the progress being made against russia, sobering. Not in a good way. The challenges that ukraine is facing. And a violent brawl in alabama goes viral. A group of white boaters accused of jumping a black Security Guard and then a fullblown fight escalated on the river front. Warrants are now filed as demands for justice grow. Im omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. Cnn news central starts right now. Special counsel jack smith and Donald Trumps legal team now face a 3 00 p. M. Deadline today to respond to the judge over seeing the 2020 election case. At issue now is how much and under what conditions evidence can be publicly disclosed ahead of this historic trial. Trumps legal team not surprisingly is fighting for l
Hill and this is cnn Closed Captioning brought to you by mesobook. Com our firm has offered a free book about mesothelioma for over ten years. Mesothelioma is really all we do. 80087 to 4901 today on inside Politics Court is now in session. Donald trump is at one of his regular Campaign Stops a courtroom. This time in florida. But there are actually two critical hearings that could determine if the former president will be on trial smack in the middle of the Republican Convention and were going to check again on both plus 15 states, 865 gop delegates. One night Super Tuesday is just four days away. Ill talk to nikki haley about how shell move forward. If donald trump runs a table next week. And the age old question, its dominating the president ial race. This our seniors and a pivotal Swing State Weigh in On Whether Biden and trump are both too old for the presidency. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and Inside Politics politics first up the clock is ticking just the way dona
Removing people from the chain of command. The gentleladys time has expired. Director, we are going to take a 30minute break for votes. We will be back. I will try to start right at 2 15. Unanimous the gentlelady from missouri is recognized. Thank you, mister chairman. Thank you for being here, director wray. Before i get into the primary topic of my remarks, i want to separate issue. On june 16th, my esteemed colleague, Ranking Member raskin of the oversight committee, sent you a letter asking the fbi to publicly reiterate certain nonclassified information that it provided in the briefing about four fd 10 23 subpoenaed by oversight chairman comer. It has now been almost a month since mr. Raskin sent his letter. When can he expect a response . I will have to check with my staff because weve gotten so many letters from so many members and each one of them is important to me, but we will get back to you on that. More importantly, we will get back. Thank you and we will follow up. Especia
. today on inside politics, a courtroom stunt. donald trump is stepping away from the trail and choosing to sit inside a new york city court right now. the reason is pretty simple. he thinks it s the best place to boost his campaign. plus, four days left. nikki haley and ron desantis are crisscrossing iowa after facing off in our heated cnn debate. they were quick to fire off attacks on each other, but did they spend enough time taking on the far and away front-runner? and hunter biden is heading to a los angeles courtroom today to be arraigned on federal tax charges, as the white house worries his legal troubles could lead to more political troubles for his father. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we begin in new york where closing arguments are under way in donald trump s civil fraud trial, with hundreds of millions of dollars and the future of the trump organization on the line. the former president is inside the courtroom right now
records? or as peter baker put it in the new york times, republican voters may be care if their leader slips money to a porn star to keep quiet, but will they be indifferent about impeding authorities seeking to recover clandestine materials? that s today s poll question which i ll share in a moment. it may depend upon responses by trump s gop opponents. most were quick to weigh in before the indictment was unsealed. ron desantis said the weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society. mike pence used the same word while calling for the unsealing of the indictment. the american people should be able to judge for themselves whether this is just the latest incident of weaponization and politicization at the justice department or if it s something different, he said. ditto for south carolina senator tim scott on the weaponization charge. another went further comparing pardoning trump immediately upon his own swearing-in. chris christie ke