knights on the border good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news request late today. today from the former president s legal team to lift the gag order. now that a jury has found him guilty in all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to keep word of his hush money payment to stormy daniels from reaching voters in the 2016 election. as you know, gag order or not, he s already said plenty about the judge. the judge s daughter, and witnesses in the case he s now his lawyers are seeking free rein, seen as keras canal is here with the tails also joining us bestselling author and former federal prosecutors, jeffrey thuban, and retired new york judge joel kahn visor, longtime friend of the trial judge in the case. so what does the trump team want so trump s team is saying now that the trial is over and the gag order that was put in place to protect the witnesses jury from trump s comments now that it s over there saying that the judge should lift t
like herself erin. all right. jeff zeleny. thank you very much from milwaukee tonight and thanks so much to all of you for being with us is always anderson starts now tonight on 360 breaking news, the former president wants his new york gag order lifted the latest on why and what impact greater freedom to speak out could have on a sentence he receives also tie attorney general garland under oath, facing republican allegations of weaponizing the justice system of those inflammatory claims stand up against the the full facts. and as the president takes executive action on gun on undocumented migrants, a store you ll only see here how one man has taken the issue into his own hands. what he encounters in his knights on the border good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news request late today from the former president s legal team to lift the gag order. now that a jury has found him guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to keep wo
grilled, director raised boss, attorney general merrick garland in their battle against what they say is a weaponized justice system targeting the former president mr. trini. general, there s no blinking. the fact that for the first time in american history, we do have a presidential administration is working to put its opponent in jail well, as many others have reported, there s no evidence the justice department fbi investigators, several federal grand juries and judges are doing anything but their jobs and no evidence that any federal officials influenced new york authorities. the judge or the 12 jurors who convicted the former president but that is not stopping the allegations is seen as manu raju fanned out today. you swear or affirm under penalty of per attorney general merrick garland facing off with his loudest critics on capitol hill. i will not be intimidated. and the justice department will not be intimidated and calling out gop attacks that his department is behind th
my career in law enforcement, i would be hard-pressed to think of a time when so many different threats to our public safety and national security were so elevated all at the same time. but that is the case. as i sit here today those threats he told a senate panel include the potential for coordinated attack like the march ices k masker at a russian concert hall last march. computer ransomware attacks and the fentanyl epidemic that was one hearing and scary though the specifics where everything else about it was fairly typical by contrast, over on the house, sayyed it was anything. but as republican members of the house judiciary committee grilled director raise boss, attorney general merrick garland in their battle against what they say is a weaponized justice system targeting the former president mr. attorney general. there s no blinking. the fact that for the first time in american history we do have a presidential administration is working to put its opponent in jail well, as
masker at a russian concert hall last march computer ransomware attacks and the fentanyl epidemic that was one hearing and scary though the specifics where everything else about it was fairly typical by fast over on the house, sayyed, it was anything but as republican members of the house judiciary committee, grilled director raise boss, attorney general merrick garland in their battle against what they say is a weaponized justice system targeting the former president mr attorney general. there s no blinking. the fact that for the first time in american history, we do have a presidential administration is working to put its opponent in jail well, as many others have reported, there s no evidence the justice department fbi investigator are several federal grand juries and judges are doing anything but their jobs and no evidence that any federal officials influenced new york authorities. the judge or the 12 jurors who convicted the former president but that is not stopping the allega