continues. cnn primetime special inside the trump investigation starts now. a surreal moment. history made former president trump arrested and arraign cannot and will not normalized serious criminal conduct. 34 felony counts tied to alleged hush money payments felony crimes in new york state no matter who you are tonight, fact checking the former president s grievances. only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it, comparing his charges to another infamous campaign finance case and answer the biggest questions. what s next for the manhattan case? this case is going to fall on its merits. well, before we get to a jury. what role does politics play in this prosecution as a nominee? would be much more difficult for a prosecutor to then go to trial and convict him and which of the other probes could imperil the former president? next this is the least of the legal troubles. we re seeing the special counsel making real strid
Sixweek abortion ban to take effect in the state. But the court also is greenlighting a vote on a proposed state constitutional amendment protecting Abortion Rights for women and a new flashpoint in The Middle East right now is around threatens retaliation for a deadly attack on its Consulate Building In Syria, blaming israel for the airstrike. Were getting new reaction from a key member of congress this hour. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, a urine the Situation Room the skis, cnn, breaking new a very busy night of Breaking News. We begin this hour with the new request to expand Donald Trumps gag order in the hushmoney criminal case. Exactly two weeks before the trial is set to begin. Thats going to see cnns chief Legal Affairs correspondent, paula reid. Paula give us the latest on this request by the Manhattan District Attorney and the trump teams response. So wolfe here, prosecutors are asking the judge to expand the gag order
33 lee filter or visit lee filter. Com today im Arlette Saenz at the white house, and this is cnn closed captioning brought to you by mesobook. Com if you or a loved one have mesothelial not well send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 800 but e21, 4,000 former president donald all trump back on the Campaign Trail taking his message on immigration and Border Security to two key states that he lost in 2020 while the Biden Campaign is zeroing in on the issue of abortion, hoping that it could help them flip states. They havent one in years. And Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there will be an vestal after an airstrike killed seven World Central Kitchen Workers as they were delivering food to starving civilians in gaza, the Nonprofit Sector as they had coordinated their movements, with the israeli army. Plus an important forecast, tens of millions of people in the path of severe storms. Tori nato watch is in effect right now in multiple st
Defense of the trial prioress, but not without a damaging crossexamination of their only witness. Also, new photos. We have never seen before in the classified documents case allegedly showing a trump aide and codefendant moving boxes inside maralago before trump attorneys were to check for classified files . And severe turbulence good evening. The defense of donald trump ended today in a manhattan courtroom. The former president whos made wild accusations outside the court chose to remain silent and not speak to the jury under oath. One witness, the defendant did want the jury to hear an attorney named robert costello. The defense called him yesterday to try and undermine the credibility of the prosecutions key witness, Michael Cohen but today, prosecutors badly undermined his they used emails involving costello, sent within weeks of Michael Cohens arrest by the fbi in 2018 . To show that while castello was offering cohen legal advice, is motives seem to mirror then President Trumps i
Number of inflammatory statements and there is this argument that because hes made so many of these statements in the past, that perhaps the public has become somewhat numb to it. So these recordings might not end up having the same impact it would with any regular person simply because of the person whos saying it, which is pretty amazing. And i remember when who was at comey he said, lord, i hope theyre tapes because trumps always saying theres tapes when there arent tapes, but its gonna take them more than tapes, right . Which will take more than two, which is seconds are so much tape. Yeah. Wow. All right all right. Jason carroll. Thank you very much. And thanks very much to all of you for joining us as always, well see you back here tomorrow night. Same time. Ac30, 60 Anderson Cooper starts right now good evening. We are following two big stories tonight. One, the enormous tension right now over what happens next in gaza after de, this all celebrations over hamas saying they accep