For the prosecution shows and tells how donald trump operates like a mob boss. Thats tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby phillip in new york and tonight, cnn puts a voice and a face to the key facts that you could read on paper in that case against donald trump. Meet brian butler. Hes also known as employee number five in the criminal indictment from special counsel jack smith. Butler is not a random person who trump can suddenly claim. He doesnt know he knows trump and it has known him for 21 years since he took a job as a seasonal valet at maralago. He has years of pictures and messages with everyone important in the trump orbit. He worked for he worked hundreds of p. Stance feet away from carlos de oliviera, the other maralago employee . He was indicted alongside trump, and they took lightly walks together. They were friends, but their paths now look very different. They oliviera is alleged to have lied to investigators. Meanwhile, butler has cooperated and he is helping pros
To be the day before the first 2024 Super Tuesday primaries for the republican president ial contest. This is also before the proposed trial dates for two other of his criminal trials. Lets get straight to paula reed for us. Walk us through the Scheduling Proposal here. Reporter the key word is proposal. This is her request. She said in her Press Conference that she wants to try all 19 defendants together, and she wanted to do that in six months. But jake, its a pretty aggressive timeline. Six months to put on a rico case . These are notoriously complicated, tend to be drawn out. And then you have 19 defendants. At least three of whom are expected to challenge this, try to get it moved to federal court. So its unlikely this is going to be granted. Shes also competing for real estate on a very crowded calendar. Lets start with january of next year. There is a request by the Special Counsel to do the January 6th Trial the first week of january. Then you have the e. Jean carol Defamation
Tonight on 360, just hours after being indicted for trying to overturn Election Results in georgia, the former president promises that this time, years later, he really got evidence of Election Fraud. No, really, he is claiming that. Also tonight, Breaking News on his former Chief Of Staff, and Court Current codefendant mark meadows, who now wants the trial moved to Federal Court court. Plus, the latest from hour, President Biden pledging every federal asset needed, and then it is enormous. Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin quickly with the Breaking News in the wake of last nights indictment in george of the former president , and 18 others. One of the, former president former trump Chief Of Staff mark meadows, filed papers late today, asking to move the case to Federal Courts. Rudy giuliani, facing 13 counts, said this afternoon he will seek to do the same. Well talk more in a moment about this, and the case to be made for it, with our legal experts, and whether the former
Surrender negotiation. Sources tell cnn that trumps lawyers are in talks now about all the details as we wait for the former president and his codefendants to turn themselves in in georgia. We are following all those details. And new images of the devastation in hawaii coming in. This is the death toll still rising. People await word of those still missing. The head of fema will join us to explain what is being done now to help survivors. And selling the economy. But are americans buying . President biden set to speak moments from now to tout his economic wins. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. 19 defendants, nine days left. Former President Trump and his indicted coconspirators in the Georgia Election subversion case have until next friday to turn themselves in on charges that include racketeering and conspiracy. And we have just learned that trumps lawyers are now negotiating with the Fulton County d. A. On detai
Classified documents case going public for the first time, talking exclusively with Cnns Kaitlan Collins about what he says was his role in moving documents, the federal government was trying to find. Also tonight, meet that who uncovered how senator katie britt and misleadingly turned one womans 20 one yearold Sex Trafficking Horror Story into the centerpiece of her indictment of President Bidens Border Policies today. And later, what is wrong with this picture, princess kate and her for kids. She now says she edited herself. But that story is only raising more questions. The royal palace had hoped to quell that evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight. Breaking news that is a cnn exclusive. What the man known as Trump Employee five in the federal classified documents indictment, thinks of the case against his former boss. His name is brian butler, and hes been talking to investigators and now hes talking to the sources Kaitlan Collins, who joins us from miami. So why is he sp