that does it for a special coverage primetime special coverage this evening but we have much more ahead and now it s time for the last word with a great lawrence o donnell. we have breaking e. jean carroll knows which away began on your show with your interview with e. jean carroll and her lawyer, and that is in the lawsuit, she has another lawsuit against donald trump for all the comments he made about her, and today a federal judge, luis kaplan, granted e. jean carroll s request to revise the defamation lawsuit that she filed against donald trump to include the similar comments that he made recently on cnn, that he made last month on cnn. you had a chance to ask them if that is what their plan was. and it certainly sounded like it was. i said, i mean, you just got this huge judgments against him for saying these terrible things about you that were untrue, and then as soon as the judge came back he said again, what can you do about? that and e. jean carroll s lawyer said
welcome to our viewer in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. and we begin with donald trump s arrest and arraignment in the classified documents case. the washington post reports that trump rejected efforts by one of his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to return the documents and avoid indictment. post says chris kise wanted to negotiate with the doj back in the fall after the fbi found more than 100 class filed documents at mar-a-lago. but cnn spoke to sources close to trump s legal team and they cast doubt on whether that was a real opportunity to settle. and merrick garland is depending the special counsel behind the trump indictment, jack smith. paula reid has more. reporter: speaking for the first time since former president trump was indicted mr. smith is a veteran career prosecutor. reporter: attorney general merrick garland standing by special counsel jack smith who was prosecuting former president trump and ad
more time than he was ever elected. 37 counts related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents. he has pled not guilty it was a weak team udon that courtroom. you could feel that this was a historic day, just walking in. mr. trump sat stonefaced, arms tightly folded across his chest. everything that we witnessed today was self inflicted by donald trump. he literally is obsessed with the boxes. why was he so obsessed with the boxes that he wanted to take them on vacation? i m not going to start commenting on the various candidates we have running for president. it s a delicate situation for the former president. we are only at the beginning here. nothing i ve heard tells me that he has a viable defense. i did everything right and they indicted me. why doesn t trump realize that he has the right to remain silent? good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. this was a day unlike any other in american history. donald trump, a former commander
today the justice department arrested and or rain donald trump. don trump is now been criminally indicted more times than he was ever elected. related to the alleged miss handling of classified documents. he has a pled not guilty. there was a weighty mood in that courtroom, you could feel that this was a historic day walking. in mr. trump sat stone faced. arms tightly folded across his chest. everything we witnessed today was self inflicted by donald trump. he literally is obsessed with the boxes. why was he so obsessed with the boxes that you want to take them on vacation? i m not gonna start commenting on the various candidates that we have running for president. it is a daunting situation for the former president, were only at the beginning. it tells me that he has a viable defense. i did everything right and they indicted me. why does not trump realize that he has the right to remain silent? good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle.
crimes he was arrested for? the lead starts right now. a mere few hours after he was arrested and arraigned, donald trump told donors this i hadn t had a chance to go through all the boxes. it is a long tedious job. takes a long time. which i was prepared to do, but i have a very busy life. can prosecutors use this admission against him? plus, an up close look at front lines of ukraine s counteroffensive. we had to evacuate to the shelter now because apparently the guys fear there could be aviation bombs coming in fairly soon. you can see the situation here is still very kinetic, a lot of shelling is still going on. the items ukrainian troops say are key to defeating the russians. and if inflation is supposedly easing, why does it seem every trip to the grocery store is getting more expensive? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. despite donald trump launching a growing number of baseless attacks on special counsel jack s