Did hehe say what is this s pla to watch your is now streaming exclusively on max hello thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, new details coming into cnn seven, u. S. Troops it s our recovering after they were hurt in a raid that killed at least 14 members of the radical group, i. S. I. S. That raid happening thursday in iraq. And according to u. S. Central command it targeted i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan future attacks. And you re looking at brand new images of the cache of weapons and other items that were seized in that raid in the anbar desert in western iraq, iraqi militia sorry, just releasing these pictures cnn s chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh, is following these developments and has the latest from london will be hearing more details from the iraqi military as to exactly what s happened in frankly, the middle of the anbar desert in western iraq in the early hours of
Whats night, Jack Smith looks to Pierce Donald trumps immunity shield. Ill take you the president should be agnostic to who is going to occupy the office next. Right. So it arguably, and i think a very strong argument shouldnt matter, that the president or that the candidate is out advocating for a certain position. Right thats not an official role. The president i think thats what Jack Smith is really trying to get to here, is that this is Candidate Trump. These are candidate actions. Its the president of the senate. Its not the Vice President pence. And thats important because the president of the senate is actually an article one title. So thats thats congress. Its not the Executive Branch. In article two. So you see these differentiations in there. Another key differentiator that i think gets around on those supreme Court Court cases, the Fisher Case. And if you see in this indictment in the Fisher Case was about an obstruction of official proceeding, you see mention of, you know,
Is making another move to try to get the judge on the case thrown off. Lets get straight to cnns paula. Paula with the breaking news. What exactly are trumps lawyers attempting . Here . Which i were less than two weeks out from the beginning of this trial and hear trumps lawyers are asking the judge to allow them to file a motion for the judge, juan to recuse himself. They are arguing that he is conflicted by his daughters work as a Democratic Political consultant. Now, last year they made a similar similar request which was rejected by the judge. Im saying that it would not be in the pu inrest for him to recu hielf. Ut nowrumps lawyers are arguing sce this should be reconsidere because the judges dahter they argue is in a position to potentially financially benetf unclear if this will succeed, jake, but again, this is just another effort by the trump team. It appears to if nothing else delay this trial further. All right. Paula reid, thanks so much from trump, the defendant to trump,
Like magic and bird shades of that. The lead with jake tapper starts right now its not just donald trump upset with the judge these days, the Special Counsel now has a bone to pick with a different judge the lead starts right now andy, strongest rebuke, yet Special Counsel jack smith goes in blasting how judge Aileen Cannon is conducting that classified documents case against now prompt down in florida, he says her latest action has quote, no basis in law or fact were going to lay out what she did that has prosecutors so upset plus celebrity Chef Jose Andres speak picking out, accusing the Israeli Government of systematically targeting his aid workers killing them in gaza. Here his comments ahead. And cnn investigates whether another major us bridge is just as vulnerable as the one that collapsed near baltimore. This one is longer and busier than the one that i just went down welcome to the lead on jake tapper, we start today with our Law Injustice lead aid and Special Counsel jack smi
Tonight are three, 60 just moments ago, the judge in the former president s new york Hush Money Trial expands the gag order on him in the wake of repeated online attacks by trump on his daughter. Also tonight all were learning about the attempt to breach the fbi office in atlanta, who Authorities Say was behind it and whether this may have been someones attempt to political violence. And later my conversation with Dianne Foaling along with author Column Mckinnon and staying about diane son, jim foley a journalist, kidnapped and murdered by isis. His remarkable legacy, what it was like to speak facetoface with one of the men who murdered her son. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin with breaking news. The judge has expanded the gag order that he imposed on the former president last week. The move follows repeated online attacks against the judge and his daughter, including by name, like this one. We blacked it out here because she has no role in the case and its not a public f