The last few weeks have been historic, unprecedented, and yes, at times, pretty alarming. Former president , donald, trump is under an avalanche of legal trouble. Remember, those cases are not just about the criminal conduct of one man. There are about the future of our democracy, and our very way of life. The stakes for this country could not be higher in this moment. The question of who is leading the country impacts every single issue you care about. Well continue to talk about these cases, through every twist and turn. Believe me, i understand that a former president under multiple indictments is enough to shape the confidence of anyone in our system. Today were going to change things up a little bit. In part because i was pretty along when i saw a recent poll that 37 of voters think were in danger of failing as a nation. Failing. I wanted to spend the show talking about some of the people about the efforts to make progress, even under the threat of trump hanging over everything. N
You are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, im jessica dean in washington. Jim acosta has the night off, and we begin with major developments in the Fulton County investigation into former President Donald Trump. The District Attorney there just notified two witnesses to testify before the grand jury next week as she prepares to seek a potential fourth indictment against trump and some of his allies. She will attempt to show that they conspired to overturn his 2020 election loss and today we got the strongest indication of eutenant governor and cnn contributor geoff duncan. Take a listen. I did just receive notification to appear on Tuesday Morning at the Fulton County grand jury and certainly will be there to do my part in recounting the facts. I have no expectations as to the questions and will certainly answer whatever question is in front of me and dont want to go any deeper to jeopardize the investigation but, look, for me this is a story that is important for republicans to hear, americans
Kind of a preview of how shell run her court and this case. And in deciding whether to grant Special Counsel jack smiths request for protective order limiting what the disgraced expresident can and cannot say publicly about the case, judge chutkan cuts through Talking Points like a hot knife through butter. On the First Amendment protections, they are so fond of citing, mr. Trump, like every american, has a First Amendment right to free speech. But that right is not absolute. Adding that without a protective order, the disclosure of discovery materials could lead to witnesses being harassed or otherwise interfering with a fair trial. What about the fact that trump is running for president. And chutkan did not mince words on that eithe saying, this is a criminal trial and i will not take into consideration the impact will have for have for a political came on either side. He will have all of the rights hesen tieptled to. The existence is not going to have any bearing on my decision. I i
Performance dividend. Live now to our middle east Business Correspondent sameer hashmi. Samir, Rhe Saudi State remains overwhelmingly aramco s biggest shareholder, so they remain the big winner in the aramco story. Well, thats right. They own around 90 of the company and the payout, the bulk of it, will go to the saudi government. If you look at aramco, every quarter they have been paying about 19. 8 billion of dividend. This time they have added another amount to that amount, because they said the cash flows are healthy and thatis said the cash flows are healthy and that is why they have decided to increase that overall dividend, which will be beneficial for the saudi government because it relies heavily on the Aramco Generating revenues for it, and that will help them in their Oil Diversification programme. They are these mega infrastructure projects, new tourist destinations. All this is being done keeping in that oil demand will decrease in years to come and they will have to come
Kangaroos. Must be Kangaroo Time taking us off the air tonight. On that Pretty Amazing note, i wish you a very good night, but do not go anywhere, at least not tomorrow, tomorrow we are going to a very, very special coverage of the State Of The Union address, starting right here at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, followed by commentary from our allstar cast, and of course friday night do not miss our night cast with maia wiley, christine romans, and one and only savannah guthrie. Not only on friday, but saturday, too, 11 00 p. M. Eastern. On that note i wish you a very good night, we had kangaroos tonight, great women for the next two nights. Across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. Ill see you at the end of tomorrow. Donald trump is now the Presumptive Republican nominee for president. Is only opponent in this race, former governor nikki haley, had vowed to stay in the race through to Super Tuesday and this morning, after only winning the state of vermont and the city of washi