By nearly 6 million. He lost the electoral vote by 74. His legal battles are losing steam. So much so that he and his allies are 2 for 31 in the courts. It is over. And yet here he is, hosting republican lawmakers from michigan today, a state that he lost by more than 150,000 votes in a desperate bid to overturn those results. And while the president is all in on holding up the democratic process, he is ignoring the actual crisis that is worsening by the hour across this country, the pandemic. Cases are surging, hospitals are now overflowing. More than 2,000 americans died yesterday alone. And Health Experts are warning the death toll could eclipse 400,000 this month. And while the president continues to put his ego ahead of you and your loved ones, the Incoming Administration is pressing ahead, meeting with Top Democrats in congress, House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer, and by the way, a source tells cnn that Speaker Pelosi has repeatedly referred to Pr
Yes, to this cheating scam. She essentially said in that fourpage letter or so she did it because of anxiety about being the perfect mother. Wanted to make sure her two girls really were on path to what they wanted to be when they grew up, and it really wasnt about just getting the best test score. To that, u. S. Attorney told the judge an interesting remark. He said, with all due respect to the defendant, welcome to parenthood. So that was a snarky remark coming from the u. S. Attorneys office. And its probably one that a lot of people are feeling when they hear these stories of Felicity Huffman. You mentioned a family inside the courtroom, well, 27 people including family, her husband, william h. Macy, and eva longoria all wrote to the judge ahead of the sentencing today supporting Felicity Huffman. We will definitely hear more about the actress. Not clear if shell say anything herself though she did give a tearful apology in may when she bled guilty to this one federal charge but we
conversation and bring in now michael d antonio, elli honig ad gloria borger. i ll start with you and big picture, donald trump has been promising to release his tax returns for a decade now. first he linked them to former president obama s birth certificate, and he said if he releases that i ll release my tax returns and he s a candidate again. significance now of seeing these returns potentially. well, it s usually significantly for donald trump. he has been saying that he has been under what he calls a routine audit by the irs now for years and years. then he said, well, these are very complex. it would take a long time to compile them. i m sure they are complex. we ve also seen his longtime accountant just testify in the case against the trump organization and say that, look,
what he is hoping and he said this comes from his heart, he says, look, it can t be a slap on the wrist. he said, that would not be justice. he said if the sentencing guidelines say between 12 and 15 years, then let it be so, but he said if it s anything less than that, there will be upset in the family. that is remarkable that he says, i love you, but i don t like you. to be able to show that even in this moment. sara sidner for us there outside of cup foods. omar jimenez outside the courtroom. thank you both. stand by. let s go to cnn s senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elli honig. here s what we re going to see in the courtroom today. first of all, we will hear legal arguments by the lawyers for both parties. both sides have already put in their briefs, so these arguments should be concise, right to the point. then, we will hear, and this will be the dramatic high point, we will hear testimony from the
0 want to i ve spoken to debbie w wasserman schultz, and i promise you the administration, the congress are doing everything to be of assistance now and after this occurs. after they decide exactly what the state of play is. but i m glad to welcome everyone here to the adjunct to the white house here, in-person and virtually. survivors and family members, victims and the path breaking leaders like senator baldwin, just over five years ago, the pulse nightclub, a place of acceptance and joy, became a place of unspeakable pain and loss. and we ll never fully recover, but we ll remember, and we have to what we re going to do is with the members of congress here did, enshrine in law, as a consequence of that law, enshrine in perpetuity a literal monument to the loss that occurred there and an absolute determination that we re going to deal with this every single solitary day, and make sure that we re not in a position to see this happen again. behind me, you see on either board there t