sunday night in america. omor the race for the white house is kicking off in earnest tomorrow with the iowa caucus. iowa is the beginning, but the caucus does not always accurately predict how the story nd will end. a political graveyard is full of those who want iowa but did not go on to win the nomination but nevertheless winning is almost always better than not appear it polling indicates former president trump is the overwhelming favorite.ll are the poles right? and he emerge as the top challenger with poor showing persuade any candidate to exitig leftht or right? i joining us now is the host of good story and that debates c and town halls on election coverage, martha maccallum, who may have to pay taxes in t iowa because she s been there like weeks and weeks. jessica tarlov who is a cohost the five and wakes up every morning knowing she will be outnumbered even though that is not the name of the show but shs will be outnumbered 5:00 easter0 time when she more than h
declassified when i take them. qaa. where does that leave us? well, that is going to be a problem for the former president, and as reporters, it is going to completely change our time, place and manner of the investigation. thinking of the time line, these documents were subpoenaed back in 2022, and they were when a search and this is that we have been focused on florida, but at least one document was in his golf resort in bedford, new jersey. so also, they have a former president undercutting every public defense has he fut now, we will take a listen to what he has to say. the president under the president s act has unfettered authority to do with documents that he takes from the white house. i will not dignify documents that are taken and leaked explanations of that, because it is unfair. so far, the president s team is calling it media harassment, and a witch hunt, but they are not able to explain why the president is talking about the documents, and his limit to
let s get started with five things to know for this tuesday, may 16th. new overnight, cnn obtained new video of a man chasing a screaming woman with a bat minutes before he allegedly attacked staffers at a congressman s field office. you hear the screams there. the suspect this morning is under arrest. virginia congressman says his staffers have nonlife threatening injuries. also in washington, president biden is going to meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy again today as both try to find a way forward when it comes to the debt ceiling. mccarthy said they re not closer than they were as a treasury secretary is doubling down that america is headed for a default as early as june 1st. durham is report is now out after three years in the making. the special counsel from the trump era the fbi should have never launched a full investigation into connections between the former president s 2016 campaign and russia. but he did not recommend any new criminal charges or, quote, w
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cnn newsroom. we re grateful to you have this afternoon. i m boris sanchez. hi, everyone. it i m jessica dean. political lines deepening, law enforcement preparing for what would be a first in american history. the criminal indictment of a former president. the key witness in a case against donald trump is expected to be challenged today before a grand jury in new york. a former legal advisor to michael cohen telling cnn testifying at the request of donald trump s attorneys. look at video of costello arriving at the courthouse moments ago. robert costello saying he ll offer evidence that contradicts cohen. cohen, who once labeled himself trump s fixer said he paid adult film actress stormy daniels $130,000 in the weeks before the 2016 election for her silence on an alleged affair with donald trump. now, that was a campaign finance violation, as cohen lied on forms to cover up that payment. in 2018. you may recall. cohen cut a deal with federal prosecutors and adds mitte