breaking news, new reporting on the trump attorney who wanted to try to settle with the justice department and keep his client from facing charges. the catch, his client. also tonight, cnn gets frontline access to ukrainian special forces on the hunt for russian commanders to corner and kill. and later, a father is speaking out about nearly losing his children and their remarkable, simply remarkable story of surviving 40 days in the colombian jungle. we begin with the new reporting on what you might call the exit ramp not taken by the former president, one that might have kept him off his current road to trial in the documents case. quote, one of donald trump s new attorneys proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. the former president s team could try to arrange a settlement with the justice department. he joins us on the telephone now. josh, walk us through this reporting. one of the president s attorneys wanted to turn down the temperature, went to the former president
elbows are impossible to lick. i meant your own elbows. you don t settle for bad internet. that s why you have the xfinity 10g network, with ultra-low lag for better streaming. wish you would have been more specific about your elbow. only from xfinity. good afternoon. i m chris jansing reporting live from msnbc headquarters in new york city, and it is suddenly another wild day inside a manhattan courtroom. breaking news as we come on the air, former president trump addressing the court right now, part of the final chapter in the civil fraud trial that could bring down the empire that made donald trump a mogul and then arguably president. today there were dramatic closing arguments as the former president tried to argue his way out of a devastating blow to his business. lawyers putting their final mark on what has been an intense and important 11 weeks. i want to bring in new york times investigative reporter suzanne craig. also with us new york times chief white house c
legal team is gathering the resources to properly define him against a federal indictment. we ll bring you the latest on trump s legal troubles in another hour of velshi begins right now. right now. good morning, it. good morning, i m ali velshi. the minneapolis police department for years engaged in, quote, excessive force, unlawful discrimination and violations of constitutional rights. those are the findings of a two-year federal investigation into the police department. triggered by the murder of george floyd. on may 25th, 2020, george floyd s three final words became a fixture in history as at the weight of the minneapolis police officer derek chauvin was actively cutting off his oxygen flow. those three words were i can t breathe. we now know that george floyd s choking death was not an isolated incident. the attorney general merrick garland announced on friday, quote, we found numerous incidents in which officers responded to a person s statement that they could no
will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid 19 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could well be a deliberately engineered effort by russia to derail ukraine s big counteroffensive. it s another extraordinary twist in this war, which almost every day seems to bring new complexities and new horrors. but how are people in moscow reacting to the way the war is going? the bbc s redoubtable russia editor steve rosenberg has lived and worked in the country for 30 years. things have not been going well for russia. you know, there were those explosions over the kremlin the beginning of may. there have been drone attacks on russian regions bordering
donald trump but, hey, it is about two weeks away. i guess he has some time to find some words. that is our show for tonight. it is time for the last word with lawrence, so donald boarding my friend. good morning, ali. with donald trump going to supreme court, we have colleagues leading us off, which could not be more perfect, and also, colorado s secretary of state, janet griswold, is going to join us now that colorado is headed, apparently, for the supreme court with donald trump. and the only thing all those people have in common is they would like the supreme court to actually weigh in on this thing and get it moving, so i am excited to hear that conversation. it is going to be the year of the supreme court. thanks, ali. well, tonight, 77 year old donald trump is asking a court where he appointed three of the nine judges, to save his presidential campaign. donald trump s lawyers have filed an appeal asking the united states supreme court too overturn the decision