cnn members and mitt and msnbc s we spent 95% of their airtime covering donald trump s arraignment. think about the build up over the weekend to. by now, you ve expect the media to have learned how to cover donald trump and his family. but that s the exact opposite of what happened after the president left the courthouse. he stopped by a famous cuban cafe in miami on his way out. cnn, like most networks, took trump s cafe visit live for most networks and certainly producers. his surprise stop is a godsend. after all, how exciting are plane landings, suv caravans, courtroom sketches, but not cnn . this unscripted moment where average voters, as you see right here, show affection and enthusiasm. a human side to president, 45, would not be covered. they would not allow it. watch. donald trump is charged with a series of federal felonies for mishandling the most sensitive government documents that we have. and for obstruction of justice, along with wall nada, who is charged wit
present its case and we don t know also whether the former president might choose to testify in his own defense. i want to start by bringing in cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid who has been all over this story for many, many week, and paula, the indictment is out now. i wonder, what to you as someone following this and every single move and detail, what stands out to you as the most damning information we ve gotten? it s such a strong reminder of how little we know compared to investigators. one of the things that struck me and i think will resonate with the american people are the photographs that the indictment uses to tell the story of how some of the nation s most sensitive secrets were strewn about mar-a-lago. prosecutors in this indictment say that these secrets were in a bathroom, in a ballroom. there you see the photo of them being in a bathroom boxes stacked up there, in the ballroom. these are cardboard, pretty flimsy in a ballroom actively being
bathroom, in a ballroom. there you see the photo of them being in a bathroom, boxes just stacked up there in the ballroom. i mean these are pretty flimsy cardboard boxes in a ballroom that is actively being used for events. there you see sensitive defense information, secrets that are only meant to be shared with a small handful of our closest allies, and they re strewn about the floor of a storage closet. and it s one thing to say that in an indictment, but it s another to support this with photographs. that was one of the things that really struck me in this indictment. but the breadth and the depth of the evidence that they ve gathered in this investigation, it s incredible. i mean, for example, there are two incidents where they say the former president shared classified documents in person. one is a story that we broke last week, a meeting at his bedminster golf club, where he says that he has sensitive information and appears to be urging people in a meeting to look at.
i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former presi
night. i ll be back for my show plus catch additional episodes every thursday exclusively on peacock. the rachel maddow show starts right now. they ve already got you working triple time? this is the down side of being very good at what you re doing. then you have to do more and more. aid good time. an hour went pretty quickly. as a viewer i felt the same. that s a good sign. well done, my friend. have a great show. thank you. and thank you at home for joining me. it is good to be hear. so he spend 21 years spying against the united states. he did it for money and who knows what else. they did pay him. they paid him in cash and they paid him in diamonds which is a nice spy movie touch. he spied against the u.s. for the next 21 years. then the next 21 years after that, he resided in federal prison. 21 years as a spy against america and then 21 years and counting in prison before he died today in prison at the age of 79. it was stop the presses huge national news wh