gathering where his base has seemingly seized control. and the man who tried but failed to overturn the 2020 election results appears to be his party s front-runner at least for now according to recent polls. late this afternoon, cpac released its very own nonscientific straw poll. trump crushed the politician seen as the biggest rival for the nomination, at least at this point, florida governor ron desantis, 62% to 20%. cnn s kristen holmes joins us from the cpac gathering. how s it been going so far? what s the former president saying? reporter: so former president trump still speaking. we re at the 90-minute mark. we expect him to go for a little bit longer now. he is really appealing to this crowd. a mix of old and new. he talked about how he wants to take on the establishment, particularly the republican establishment. he talked about how he got rid of political dynasties, he said the party would never go back to being the party of karl rove, paul ryan, and jeb bush. h
a familiar face at the political act conference in maryland, former president trump makes his pitch to be the republican nominee for the white house again. bakhmut could be on the verge of falling to russian troops but ukrainian forces say they re holding on in the fight to keep the city. over a month since the toxic train derailment in east palestine ohio, another norfolk southern freight train derails in the state live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with laila during crowd greeted former u.s. president donald trump saturday at the conserve in maryland, trump spoke nearly two hours promising retribution against democrats and republicans an scientific strap hold of cpack attendees found 62% want him to be the next republican presidential nominee compared to 20% who want florida governor ron desantis, cnn national correspondent christian holmes is there to at the conference and has this report. former president trump talking to a therapeutic crowd here at cpack
pence and others around trump in the january 6th investigation. the new filing is still under seal. we don t yet have specifics on the arguments that trump s team is making. sources tell cnn that trump is asking a federal court to block pence from speaking to the special counsel about certain matters related to january 6th on the grounds of executive privilege. pence himself is also fighting smith s subpoena. he said that he plans to try to block the subpoena by arguing he s shielded by the constitution s speech and debate clause which protects the legislative branch from certain law enforcement actions. pence argues that he is covered because he was acting as president of the senate when he presided over the january 6th certification of the 2020 election. pence, of course, was at the center of trump s efforts to overturn the election as the former president and his allies pressured the vice president to block joe biden s win when congress certified the location january 6th. the subpoe
joining us. thanks, laila. now, to the criminal investigation into donald trump s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, sources tell cnn the former president is seeking to block testimony from mike pence on matters covered by executive privilege. cnn politics reporter jeremy has the story. reporter: the new court filing from trump s legal team is the latest road block for special council jack smith as he tries to compel testimony from pence and others around trump in the january 6 investigation, new filing is under seal so we don t have specifics. sources tell cnn trump is asking a federal court to block pence from speaking at the special council about certain matters relating to january 6 on grounds of executive privilege. pence himself is also fighting smith s subpoena, he plans to try to block the subpoena by
nbc news that jack smith, special council overseeing both investigations into former president trump regarding january 6th, also those classified documents found at mar-a-lago, that jack smith has asked the judge in d.c. overseeing the grand jury to compel testimony from mike pence. we know he s using this rather aggressive option because pence is at the center of what would have happened in president trump s role in the insurrection on january 6th. was there a coordination between them, did trump try to pressure his vice president not to certify the results of the election? was pence privy to any information while he sat inside waiting to be escorted out of the capital by the secret service? there s a lot that smith wants from pence. we know he s been fighting smith s subpoena since that was issued in september. pence has argued it s unconstitutional, and saying that he would use something called the speech and debate clause that would make what he did that day privileged because he w