long. you can feel it. the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smith s evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today, the new york times is naming names. the new york times reveals the workers who moved the boxes containing white house documents ahead of a meeting between donald trump s legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. the new york times reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trump s valet, and that they moved the boxes into the room before search of the storage room that sam day by evan corcoran, a lawyer for trump. for trump. this brand new reporting, which we should mention, has not been independently verified by nbc news, raises a whole host of questions when viewed in terms of whether it helps to answer essential questions in the case. did donald trump clearly and flagrantly commit obstruction of justice? as jack smith barrels to an indictment of the president, we h
absent from the campaign trailer from the courtroom that her husband has been in. thank you very much for joiningous this very busy news week. cnn news night starts right now. a jury gives rudy giuliani 148 million reasons to regret his lies, that is tonight on news line. good evening. i m in washington where today, cameras caught what might be a final chapter in a truly american story. a jury sentenced a man once known as america s mayor as a financial death penalty. he is on the hook for $148 million for the harm he caused to two women. moss and freeman. they are the georgia election workers whose lives were forever altered after giuliani made them the crux of a fraud conspiracy. the sheer size of this penalty is really stunning. $16 million for defaming freeman. $16 million for defaming moss, $40 million for distress to both and $75 million in punitive damages. the two woman thanked the jury but today s result does not a tone for two years of turmoil. the flame tha
his property. the lead starts right now. i have no classified documents. by the way, they become automatically declassified when i took them. it does not quite work that way, though. sources say trump was aware of the declassification process before he left office. the new evidence that could soon be in the hands of the special counsel. paparazzi following prince harry and meghan markle in new york in a scene described as near catastrophic. plus, tonight a vote on taking action against republican congressman george santos after his many lies and a federal indictment and he pled guilty to a crime in another country. is there enough bipartisan animous to kick santos out of congress. we begin with a cnn exclusive. major developments today in the special counsel s investigation into donald trump s handling of classified materials taken from the white house to mar-a-lago and then taken from mar-a-lago by the fbi last year. multiple sources tell cnn that the national ar
Kevin mccarthy says Congress Must also investigate. We have Fox Team Coverage tonight. David spunt at the Justice Department with the timeline of Attorney General garlands involvement. We begin with White House Correspondent peter doocy and what he asked the president this morning. Good evening, peter. Peter good evening, bret. White house officials arent saying tonight whether President Biden would sit for an interview with the Special Counsel who revealed today a third discovery of classified documents this time at President Bidens house. Thats what we talked to him about today. Classified material, next to your corvette . What were you thinking . Let me by the way my corvette is in a locked garage, okay . Its not like they are sitting out in the street. Peter so the material was in a locked garage. Yes, as well as my corvette. Pete the Attorney General isnt convinced appointing Special Counsel robert herr to investigate. On december 20th, President Bidens personal counsel informed m
Circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. And to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. Lets bring in Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger and kim strassel do you think Merrick Garland had a choice here or was he boxed in and really had to appoint a special council or is he just trying to build in some political insulation here for the hard choices that may come . Well i would say all of the above, paul. [laughter] for sure. I mean, really consider that one week ago today, we were all sitting here discussing that fiasco of Kevin Mccarthy House Speakership Roll Forward nearly one week we have a spectacle of a special council appointed to investigate the sitting president of the United States after one has already been appointed a special council to investigate the form