How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
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All over place today. The news has been fun. Thanks for joining us, thanks to all of you for being with us. Im kasie hunt, Cnn News Central starts right now how many very soon former President Trump back in court . The big question will trump be able to run out the clock in his classified documents trial and any moment a judge could rule on whether Fulton County Da Fani Willis is kicked off the Georgia Election subversion case for the first time in history, a sitting Vice President is visiting an Abortion Clinic. What this tells us about the huge political shifts on this issue and its a go as of now, the countdown to a major test for the worlds most powerful rocket, and also known as nasa is best bet to sending people back to the moon. Im kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner. This is seen Cnn News Central we begin with legal battles galore in georgia with the da in his georgia case. Will she get the boot in trumps georgia case . We could get that answer any moment. But an enti
Trenton, new jersey. Police have now apprehended the shooting suspect, 26yearold andre gordon, after hours of intense standoff he reportedly shot three of his family members, he then carjacked a driver at gunpoint and fled to new jersey where he was tracked to a home in but he somehow managed to slip out ofeh the home but was eventually apprehended nearby. Joining me now, george solis, whos on the scene in trenton, new jersey. George, what can you tell us now that the suspect has been apprehended . Reporter yeah, jonathan, we learned about this within the last 20 minutes. He somehow managed to slip by s. W. A. T. Mpresence, not to mention the fbi who had a presence here and was apprehended. Surrendered without incident, basically gave up,su and is nown police custody. One thing that was not made clear, whether he was apprehended with any weapons he may have had on him at the time of his h surrendering. So now what were seeing is the dismantling of the scene. Keep in mind, there is stil