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
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
Up next. Tonight on the reidout and like any mom, im going to do a pivot Out Of Nowhere into a shockingly violent story about sex trafficking. And rest assured, every detail about it is real, except the year, where it took place, and who was president when it happened. Snl turns to Scarlett Johansson to mock alabama senator katie britts wildly misleading screed on immigration. But the truth is, Immigration Reform has failed again and again because of the Rightwing Echo Chamber from Rush Limbaugh to donald trump. Meanwhile, donald trump is again lavishing praise on his autocratic role models because he really, really, really wants that kind of power for himself. But we begin tonight with a big lie. No, not the big lie. Another lie. Something that we heard in senator katie britts response to president bidens state of the Union Address last week. Now, you remember during the alabama senators rather odd remarks, there was this moment when things got really, really dark. I traveled to the d
Documents indictment, things have 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 its from miami. So why is he speaking out now . Kaitlyn well, anderson, in part because hes worried that americans and voters will never get to hear this story before the election in november. Obviously, trumps legal team has sought this strategy of delay, delay, delay, especially when it comes to the classified documents case. And so this witness, someone and who was a longtime employee at maralago for 20 years is now speaking out publicly because of a concern that that it may not come to light. I mean, donald trump has repeatedly called this investigation a witch hunt. Brian butler, who until now was known only as trump employee number five, is now saying that he disagrees with that. He doesnt believe its a witchhunt and he was able to provide key testimony to the special counsel, jack smit
Joins us from miami. So why is he speaking out now kaitlan . Well, anderson, in part because hes worried that americans and voters will never get to hear this story before the election in november. Obviously, trumps legal team has sought this strategy of delay, delay, delay, especially when it comes to the classified documents case. And so this witness, someone who was a longtime employee at maralago for 20 years, is now speaking out publicly because of a concern that that it may not come to light. I mean, donald trump has repeatedly called this investigation a witch hunt. Brian butler, who until now was known only as Trump Employee number five, is now saying that he disagrees with that. He doesnt believe its a witchhunt and he was able to provide key testimony to the special counsel, jack smith here, including about key moments, including one where walt nauta, who is trumps body man, turned codefendant, asked him to help load boxes onto a plane that was bound for trumps club in new je