Need. The American People want to know the truth. Whats what our committee has been doing. This is a diversionary tactic. Bring it on. Ukraines Intelligence Services foiled a russian plot to assassinate zelenskyy. Ukraine russia fired nearly 500,000 shots at ukraines forces in the past seven days. Western officials are telling cnn they are getting increasingly sober updates on ukraines counteroffensive. Arrest warrants issued in this massive brawl in montgomery on a boat dock. Many questions remain about the melee that appeared to be very much split across racial lines. Doing his job, and for some reason they didnt like it. Its an unfortunate incident. Shouldnt have happened. Something we are investigating right now. Good morning. Top of the hour. So glad you are with us. Victor blackwell with us all week. Good morning. Good morning. A lot to get to, especially that Video Everyone is talking about. Unbelievable. Its creating memes across the internet. We will get into that. Starting wi
Lying about election results, mailing personal insults at its critics. Making famously veil threats towards those who seek to hold him accountable. But none of trumps can change the cold, hard fact that the former president now faces serious criminal charges in three separate cases. In the coming days and weeks, it could even be one more. We start tonight with congressman benny thompson, democrat of mississippi. The former chairman of the january six commission. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Its always good to talk to you. Lets talk about trumps lawyer, john moreau. He did it washington and said recall the full ginsburg today. Almost a little bit about what he had to say becho and get your response on the other side. Take a listen. The defense is quite simple, donald trump, President Trump believed in his heart of hearts that he had won that election. As an american citizen, he had the right to speak out under the First Amendment. He had the right to petition governments aroun
Justice department is taking this language from defended trump very seriously. The Special Counsel team cited trumps truth social post in an immediate and pressing requests for the judge to impose a protective order to prevent the former president from making public any Sensitive Information turned over by the prosecutors. From that request quote, such a restriction is particularly important in this case, because the defendant has previously issued public statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys, and others associated with legal matters pending against him. End quote. In response, trumps Spokesperson Put out a statement, claiming the post is quote, the definition of political speech. End quote. The implication that it is protected by the First Amendment. The protective order that the quote is seeking, is in reference to trumps scheme to interfere with the 2020 election and that desperate temps to cling to power during the final weeks of his presidency. Its a ca
Former president can share publicly, going over the new documents in the january 6 case, standby for that. Also on this hour, ukraine says it as a russian informant in custody in connection with a foiled plot to assassinate prison zelenskyy. This as moscows forces have unleashed a deadly new Missile Strike in eastern ukraine. Tracking the urgent threat of powerful storms and tornadoes , putting millions of americans at risk in the eastern United States including right here in washington dc. Welcome to her viewers here in the United States and around the world, i am wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. This is cnn Breaking News. Lets get right to the and Breaking News on the filing by the Trump Legal Team in connection with the january 6 prosecution of the former president , crime and justice reporter, kalin joining us right now, what is in the new response just filed by the trump team . Wolf, political bluster in here as well as a legal proposal, they actually are not that far aw
Bret, good evening to you. Donald trumps closest advisers are spinning this indictment to advantage. Meanwhile his former number two, former Vice President mike pence who refused to overturn the results of the election is in attack mode. Former Vice President mike pence running against his old boss is coming out swinging. It wasnt just they asked for a pause. The president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes and literally coas would have ensued. Indictment pence allegedly told trump he had no authority to do so, according to the indictment, in response, the defendant told the Vice President youre too honest. Trump is staying positive at least publicly. Posting on social media hours ago thank you to everyone. I have never had so much support on anything before. The 45page indictment lays out an overarching theme. The defendant lost the 2020 president ial election despite having lost the defendant was determined to remain in power.