people, till midterm elections, really two weeks from today we ll know a lot more. anyway i ll move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days and you ve got mayors and law enforcement officials who are getting a new warning sadly about election intimidation. you ve got extremists looking to disrupt midterms at the local level targeting voters, candidates, election workers according to axios. let s bring in our panel. cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller, new york democratic congressman jones and senior political analyst ron brownstein. when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th , the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally there are all sorts of examples of people being intimidated and just awful things happening. here are a few examples coming from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment and intimidation. in idaho protesters hung an effigy at a republ
Calling on a judge to stop donald trump from continuing to claim fbi agents were involved in a plot to assassinate him during his search of his maralago home during the classified documents investigation. Trump made a suggestion in a Campaign Fundraising email and has been repeated by conservative media outlets. Late friday, smith filed a notion in judge Eileen Tenants court saying, those statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal Law Enforcement agents falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him smith added that the false statements expose sba agents, some of whom will be witnesses at the trial, to threats of harassment. We have reporters covering all of the developments for you. We will begin with julie sirkin on capitol hill. Julie, welcome. The prosecutors request is different from a gag order, but what exactly are they asking of the judge . Reporter this is a first, let me just say, alex, in this case
Thank you so much for letting us into your homes on this monday. We are grateful. The beat with katy faang in far ari melber. Always good to see you and thanks. Welcome to the beat. Im katie faang in for ari melber. Former President Donald Trump back in court facing a judge as his Civil Fraud Trial begins. This New York State Supreme Court trial is the first of many cases looming over trumps election bid, and the judge last week already found him liable for massive fraud. New York Attorney general Letitia James accusing trump of years of overinflating his net worth and misrepresenting his companys assets. Donald trump and the other defendants have committed persistent and repeated fraud. Last week we proved that in our motion for Summary Judgment. Today we will prove our other claims. My message is simple. No matter how powerful you are, no how much money you think you may have, no one is above the law. Trump satin side the courtroom for hours, flanked by his lawyers as prosecutors exp
house vote which formalizes the biden impeachment probe. it s not the top story in the country because we begin with breaking news. a major development today. a federal judge has formally ordered a pause in the donald trump criminal coup case led by jack smith. this is a big deal. we ll walk through what s happening. the judge has effectively and legally paused the proceedings in her own courtroom until a key claim that trump s lawyers want adjudicated, their argument that he s immune to this whole case, this is paused until the supreme court answers requests to deal with it. it s a procedural rule. i can tell you this is a big deal, probably the largest procedural win for trump s lawyers in this case and by the same token it s a rare setback for special counsel jack smith who has been on a winning streak on many issues. i remind you of some of them. they won on the gag order and the evidence. they have previous criminal questions that went to the supreme court decided fo
tonight on the reidout he was actually willing to do whatever it took to stay in power. and i think although i certainly regret my support for him, there s no question now that anyone could say we don t know what he ll do. you know, maybe we can trust he ll uphold the constitution. every day, he tells us what he ll do. liz cheney speaks of her regret for supporting trump for years. and warned about the consequences if trump returns to the white house. and there is a very interesting new filing from special counsel jack smith regarding trump s long history of lying about election fraud going all the way back to 2012. also tonight, one of trump s georgia codefendants, remember, the one who used to work for kanye, may have jeopardized her bond by appearing to threaten witness ruby freeman on instagram. but we begin tonight with making the case against donald trump. as more and more warnings about the dangers of a second trump presidency pile up, a new legal filing