Hello, everyone, im kate boldu bolduan. Thank you so much for joining me. Shock and surprise. You would think at this point it would be nearly impossible for a comment from the about the to shock or surprise anyone. But he did in a jarring oval office interview. President trump said hed welcome foreign interference in the upcoming election. Here he is with abc. Listen. Your campaign this time around, if foreigners, if russia, if china, if someone else offers you information on opponents, should they accept it or call the fbi . I think maybe you do board of health. I think you might want to listen. Theres nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent. Oh, i think id want to hear it. You want that kind of Interfeesinte Interference on our elections . Its information. I think id take it. If i thought there was something wrong, id go maybe to the fbi if i thought there was something wrong. But when somebody comes up with resea
immediately because they are destroying the country. our reporters all over this. kristen holmes reports from that fundraiser, but first evan perez in miami with what happened inside the court. reporter: historic day here at the federal courthouse in miami where donald trump became the first former president of the united states to face arraignment and face these federal charges that he is now charged with. he spent just under two hours at the federal courthouse behind me. he was finger printed, he was processed by the u.s. marshals, and a ththen sat looking a litt dejected. he had his arms folded, dwindling his thumbs. mostly facing forward as the judge spoke to him about the case. his attorney todd blanche entered the not guilty plea on his behalf which is unusual in
in the coming weeks as this case gets under way here in southern florida. evan perez, cnn, miami. here at bedminster, the supporters were cheering for him and he gave a speech that we were expecting, he called this election interference, he said it was all because joe biden didn t want to run against the former president in 2024. as we know, he is not even the republican nominee. but i do want to play a sound bite from his speech because i think that it is very important, it gives you an idea of what he is focused on. take a listen. charging a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917, wasn t meant for this. an act for a crime so heinous that only the death penalty would do and threatening me with 400 years in prison for possessing my own presidential papers, which just about every other president has done, one of
game time. thank you. good luck. thank you. okay. and with that we have house speaker nancy pelosi. the important line just to remind you is when house speaker nancy pelosi said of the president s comments to abc, this is evidence he does not know right from wrong, and that s probably the nicest thing i could say about him. we have a lot to discuss here. i do want to bring in first evan perez, senior justice correspondent. we need to pick up on where the conversation was left with manu. nancy pelosi calls it sad, she does not suggest that she s going to be moving this moves her any closer to impeachment. what she heard from the president in the interview with abc. what we re hearing from republicans, quite a few of them, evan, is that trying to say that what donald trump is inviting or welcoming is the same as what the steele dossier was in 2016. you have done a lot of reporting on this. please lay it out for us. reporter: well, that s right. and look, even lindsey graham,
yoe and david zyron, thank you. let s turn to the russian investigation we have new developments there tonight. the attorney for jared kushner spoke today with our evan perez this afternoon and this comes amid new revelations on the june 2016 trump tower meeting where they met with a russian lawyer who promised dirt on hillary clinton. the man who set up the meeting with that lure in an e-mail is now breaking his silence. he says he is ready to talk to investigators. publicist rob goldstone tells the times of london that he puffed up his e-mail about what sort of dirt he had on clinton and i quote, i could have said that the russian attorney believes she found a black hole or believed santa is real. it really didn t matter. so when trump jr. replied if it s what you say it is, i love it. i just thought my teaser had worked. more on that coming up. first evan perez interview with