john bolton is here, and john was very instrumental in some of the things we did yesterday. some of the meetings we had all right. well, thank you for watching newsnight. laura coates live starts. now tonight president biden turns up the volume on his critics will be drown them out plus a cnn exclusive, the radio host who agreed to cut portions of his interview with the president speaks out and a real life perry mason moment and forth. leads to alec baldwin walking out a free man. why the case was suddenly thrown out good evening. i m jim acosta in for laura coates on this friday night. remember that republican congressman a few weeks ago? who said president biden may be jacked up on mountain dew heading into that debate with donald trump. tonight, it appears the president was jacked up on something, something called defiance. now defines do, doesn t exactly roll off the tongue but they were drinking it up at the president s rally in michigan earlier this evening, we re g
let s get right to the just released report by the special counsel john durham in its conclusions about the trump/russia investigation. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez has been going over the roughly 300-page report. evan, give us the top lines. reporter: well, wolf, this report contains a lot of harsh criticism for the fbi, especially former fbi leadership that oversaw the trump/russia investigation. in the end john durham spent four years in this investigation. this is a 300-page report. he concludes that while the fbi had reason to launch, perhaps, an assessment or a preliminary investigation, much lower-level investigations, he believes that there was a lot of exculpatory evidence that the fbi was ignoring and that they should not have launched, essentially, a full-blown investigation. i ll read you just a part of what he concludes as part of this report. he says that the fbi discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the nar
another trump investigation heating up the special counsel in the mar-a-lago classified documents case right now, coming through notes, texts, emails and even photographs. it s new evidence. so how significant is it? and who is the judge? trump claims hates him. we have a special report. let s go, outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. trump s back in new york, and this is video just in to cnn of trump arriving at trump tower right here in new york, his former home. it is there where the former president is said to be huddling with advisors ahead of tomorrow s arraignment, where he will spend the night and, of course, then he will get up and go downtown in new york city. this is the building where he is expected to surrender in the manhattan criminal courthouse. unclear exactly what time tomorrow how early it will be. right now we are standing by for what could be two major developments at any moment. the judge in the case is expected to side whether to al
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They brought the charges they did and what the underlying significance is bringing this case now, some. six or seven years after these hush money payments were initially made, erin all right, kara, thank you very much, and i want to go now to trump tower. jeff zeleny is outside there. and what are you learning, jeff? erin. we re learning tonight that the former president after he arrived here , he met with his political advisors as well as his legal advisers. and for all these circus like atmosphere, and for all the spectacle that indeed has been surrounding this, the former president his team are taking this very seriously. that was underscored today by the hiring of a new criminal defense attorney also underscored by the fact that tomorrow i m told his lawyers are going to do via talking. the former president of at least is not scheduled or expected to speak here about the charges. he s going to save that, of course, until he returns to mar-a-lago in florida tomorrow evening, but for