trump s case probably doing battle with multiple federal judges and multiple counts. this week alone was the d.c. circuit cut put his screams of presidential immunity temporarily on ice reminding him for the purposes of this criminal case, former president donald trump has become citizen trump, with all the defenses of any other criminal defendant. there were the nine supreme court justices who regardless of how they ultimately rule on the 14th amendment case sure sounded like they were not enjoying getting drawn into the nonstop cyclone of chaos that is donald j. trump. those keeping score at home, it is t-minus 72 hours till trump s legal team must file their appeal to the supreme court in the presidential immunity case, an appeal that must somehow convince those nine supreme court justices to agree to hear yet another trump case. that s just the cases we spent all week talking about. we also saw the judge, trump s civil fraud trial, judge engoran days away from ruling on t
aides in the trump administration including former chief of staff mark meadows. a spokesman for trump did not immediately respond to request for comment. attorney general garland sat down for a rare and exclusive interview with nbc s lester holt and defended the justice department against criticism it is working slower than the house select committee s investigation into january 6th. look, the justice department has been doing the most wide-ranging investigation in its history, and the committee is doing an enormously wide-ranging investigation as well. it is inevitable that there will be things that they found before we have found them, and it s inevitable that there will be things we find that they haven t found. the justice department has from the beginning been moving urgently to learn everything we can about this period and to bring to justice everybody who is criminally responsible for interfering with the peaceful transfer of power. you said in no uncertain terms t
we ve been telling you, has been and remains predetermined. it s been that way since day one. instead of honest hearings on how to protect our institutions, our elected officials, to protect the people s house, the capital. instead of ever allowing riots that those that occurred in the summer of 2020 from ever, ever happening again, we see nothing but blind, never ending rage, what is seemingly an obsessive-compulsive cult like rage against donald trump. it never ends. clearly trump haters, for them, january 6 this just another excuse to smear donald trump, anyone who supports him. this is not about safety and security and securing the capital or get into the truth. this is never been about having a fair and serious hearing and proceeding so we can come up with solutions. today we heard more rumors, a ton of hearsay, and, wow, a lot of impeached testimony that we will get to in a second and this why hearsay is never admissible in a court of law, including this wild claim numb
Im Zachary Cohen in washington and this is cnn hello and welcome to her viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer in washington. And we start with Breaking News once again, any moment now, the United Nations Security Council is leaning in new york for an Emergency Meeting discussing the very volatile situation right now in the middle east, there is growing worry Around The World after iran launched. And the precedented attack on israel arrives firstever direct assault on israeli territory from directly inside iran Israel Defense versus say, they shut down almost all of the 350 rockets and missiles so fired of the country overnight. Many of those rockets and missiles were shot down by the us and the uk. Were getting a first look at the destruction, though. Take a look at this this is some israels never team airbase. A senior us military official says there was no significant damage throughout the country as a result of the air Defense System israel Presiden
His rhetorical warfare and advance of his trial next week on charges brought by the new York District attorney. It should be noted, theres Policy Proposal for that, too. I will direct a completely overhaul doj to investigate every radical da and agn america for their illegal rate this in reverse enforcement of the law i think the point here is this, theres no question next week donald trump faces the highest stakes legal challenge of his career. But if he survives that first criminal trial and any other that occurs over the course of the coming eight months and wins reelection. He will enter the oval office, embolden personally and with for power than weve seen probably in decades from a president and a team. Were not hiding this, theyre making very clear what they wanna do, how they wanted to do it, and that their supporters want them to deliver eric okay i was i listened to what someone tells you. Thanks for joining us. The news continues right here on cnn happening now Breaking News