defendant trump addition of the last word, with lawrence o donnell. that starts right now. o donnell. that starts right now. donald trump s principal occupation is defendant. he spent his first couple of years after leaving the presidency as a civil defendant, and then last year became a criminal defendant for the first time in his life on april 4th and just four months later. he became a criminal defendant for the fourth time in his life. it mantra jen, he can make two of the four criminal prosecutions he is facing disappear, but the rest of defendant trump s criminal and civil cases would simply be put on pause for four years. in june of this year donald trump will turn 78 years old. he could be convicted of crimes by then or shortly after, he is june 14th birthday. 78-year-old donald trump will appeal every criminal and civil verdict against him. the state and federal appeals court process could easily use up the rest of a 78 year old life. and so the title defendant
president. we re getting new information right now on the multiple fronts in this trump investigation. tonight, the u.s. justice department details systemic violations by the minneapolis police department, saying the problems of excessive force and racial discrimination led to the murder of george floyd. dozens of guilty verdicts against the gunman behind the 2018 massacre at a pittsburgh synagogue. now that a federal jury had its say, will the killer be sentenced to death? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with a new request by the special counsel in the classified documents probe. the filing reflects prosecutpro fears donald trump might go public with information about the investigation. paula reed is joining us now. walk us through this protective order as it is called, this request. reporter: wolf, this is a request from prosecutors that we would expect in a ca
tonight on 360, the former president makes a late move in his battle with states to stay on the 2024 ballot. details on that and what his next big court filing could come. also russia s worst air strikes of the war on ukraine, the civilians targeted, and what america s top european commander makes of this latest brutal stage of the war. plus we ll take you to the west coast where surf s up is now an urgent warning, and another round of waves, some more than two stories high, is now expected to hit. good morning everyone good evening, i should say. john berman in for anderson. first up tonight, the flurry and soon to be blizzard of new legal developments in what is shaping up to be a history-making fight over kicking the former president off state ballots under the 14th amendment. already divided states, legal scholars, and will almost certainly do the same with the supreme court justices. the newest headline came late today in a trump court filing in oregon, and it
we ll see. neil: it s pretty clear not everyone is on the same page. you re looking live on the house floor where they re voting on a rule to essentially bring this debt ceiling bill to the floor there. as chad pergram likes to remind us, you don t have a rule, you don t have a debate on the bill and you don t have a chance to raise the debt ceiling and cut the spending that has been the source of this nerve building that we ve been seeing. that is expected to pass and lead the way to likely a vote on the entire matter later tonight. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much at stake as we get things kicking off on your world. we ll have all the key players discussing this as well as what is happening in the house and the senate can john thune trying to step an effort on the part of some republicans to turn their backs on this as well. it s not really a brush fire, but he s keeping an eye on it. we ll talk to him about that as well as key caucus members who have key
all in starts right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. today, donald trump appeared in manhattan in court virtually for the first time since his arraignment on 34 criminal courts of falsifying business records. and judge judge juan merchan announces related to the hush money payments to stormy daniels will go to trial in march of next year. that means that if all of this holds, donald trump will be on trial smackdown of in the middle of the presidential primary. this afternoon, he presented himself as if he were still in the white house, sitting with his attorney in front of a customary wall of american flags. the ex presidents life yet from florida was projected on several screens throughout the courtroom, packed with reporters, and a team of no less than nine prosecutors industry attorney alvin bragg s office. the main purpose of that hearing today was for the judge to officially advise trump about the protective order in the case. the order, typically a r