er good evening chris, book bans, just saying the phrase book bans. very understandable, doesn t seem to pull well, like so many things, desantis is overseeing the state of florida. it is a mystery to me how he does not think this is an absolute kryptonite in terms of a net national bay. more kryptonite, further goes on, i found the washington post finding that there are 11 people who are filing. okay, that s cancellation, 30 million. i think the rest of folks are like, i don t need to go through every book in the kids libra. please make me less involved. that s what i say. enough emails. anyway, that s one of another show. thank you, chris, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this evening. today, for only the second time in american history, a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time, last month. when donald trump is arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case again
so it s really the second time in american, history the former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time as last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. now, today, mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again, virtually. by video conference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary. because donald trump has a real tendency to post about his various legal entanglements. this weekend, for example, the former president went on a truth social tirade, the radical left democrats will step up their fake investigations on me because they they now see they can t win at the ballot box. trump hating special prosecutor jack smith, whose family and friend
filing with 11 people and i was like that scans in a nation with 30 million people. i think the rest of the folks are like i don t need to go through every book in my kid s library. please make me less involved. enough e-mails. that s for another show. thank you, chris, as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. today for only the second time in american history a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. now, the first time was last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. and now today mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again virtually by videoconference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary because donald trump
did someone tamper with the tapes? plus, senator manchin on the debt ceiling, biden s re-election. that interview is coming up. who was behind the drones the kremlin say were sent to kill putin? let s go outfront. good evening. i m pamela brown in for erin burnett. breaking news, tapes at mar-a-lago. special counsel jack smith is now asking questions about the handling of surveillance tapes from trump s home in florida. whether the tapes could have been tampered with. smith of course is leading the criminal investigation into trump s handling of classified documents. they want to hear from one or two executives. they re said to know a lot about mar-a-lago s inner workings. trump went on fox news to boasts about the tapes he handed over to prosecutors. they raided mar-a-lago. vicious ly raided mar-a-lago. i have tape, i gave them tapes. i gave it to them. i could have held that back. i gave them tape. but you know the tape they don t want me to reveal, if possible,
from an absolutely huge earthquake and almost equally large aftershock that hit today. the initial quake was centered in south central turkey. that initial jolt hit between 4:00 and 4:30 in the morning so people were home in their beds that initial quake was 7.8 and it was followed hours later by an aftershock that was 7.5 now, having such a huge quake like that followed in such quick succession but almost equally large quake, anything significantly damaged but still standing after the first shock, it came down in the aftershock in turkey alone they re saying ther more than 5,000 buildings that collapsed across across the southern border into northern rdsyria, there are aga thousands of, buildings collapd there as well between turkey and syria, we are talking about a death toll alreadyou approachin 4,000 people killed with many, many, many more thousands of peoplend injured. tonight, of course, is the twin horror of trying to rescue people trapped in the rubble and under coll