Former georgia Lieutenant Governor and cnn contributor jeff duncan revealing to cnn today he will testify before a grand jury in just a few days. I did just receive notification to appear on Tuesday Morning at the Fulton County grand jury, and i certainly will be there to do my part in recounting the facts. I have no expectations as to the questions, and ill certainly answer whatever questions put in front of me and dont want to go any deeper than that to jeopardize or compromise the investigation. This is a story that is important for republicans to hear and americans to hear. Lets hear the whole truth and nothing but the truth in Donald Trumps actions and the surrounding cast of characters around him. Fulton County District attorney fani willis is expected to seek multiple charges against trump and his allays in the years long investigation into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. We have Defense Attorney and former federal prosecutor shan wu for some legal analysis
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We are inching closer to i deadline in the governments case against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trumps lars now have about 22 hours to respond to a legal filing from special counsel jack smith. He requested a protective order after trump posted this on social media on friday. If you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Today on cnn we heard from one trump lawyer who says he will fight that protective order. The Defense Attorney also says trump did not tell Vice President mike pence at the time to throw out key electoral votes. He says the key distinction is that trump merely asked. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking is not action. Its core free speech. What President Trump did not do is direct Vi
run. why? he says although he saw a path for victory which usually people that see a path for victory do it, but he thought his role could be better played in expressing support for someone else and excerpting pressure as the new hampshire governor throughout this process taking on donald trump who he clearly doesn t want to be the nominee. he sat down with dana bash and explained more of his thinking. the math has shown donald trump has no chance of winning in november of 2024. he won t even win georgia. if you re a republican who can t win georgia, you have no shot. he s proven that. if republicans nominate him, we re saying a vote for him is a vote for joe biden. that s how the math will play out. that s his assessment of the math. one other thing to think about is the new hampshire primary itself now with the governor out will become a more important contest because you don t have a hometown player. interesting. david, stick around. let s talk about the democratic
one hour from now, president biden is again going to host the top four members of congress and for potential june default date, and no closer to the deal to have catastrophic outcome, and speaker mccarthy is going to tie the debt ceiling to spending cuts and work requirements and biden is going to call for the debt creeling to be dealing with the condition, and if you are going with what the two sides are saying for the two hours, the forecast gloomy, and arlette seanez is at the white house. at some point, someone has to give up something, and can we find out what the potential concessions are today? well, brianna, in about an hour, we should get a glimpse of where the concessions are headed as the white house is going to be hosting kevin mccarthy and other congressional leader here at the white house. heading into the meeting, the expectations are low that they will come out with a concrete agreement with a default. and you heard house speaker kevin mccarthy who said toda
portions of the state. just minutes ago we were seeing this video of a levy that failed overnight in monterey county. that has forced evacuations, washed out roads and bridges. this week s atmospheric river, the tenth to hit the state dropped more than a foot of rain in some areas. at least two people have died in the most recent storm and more rain is on the way for some hard-hit areas. several feet of snow is blanketing the sierra, nevada mountains. they worry melting snow could cause more flooding. california national guard in high water vehicles are staged throughout the state. mike lareo is in vallaero. reporter: we re in the heart of the flood zone and we have all of this flooding in the downtown area because from that video you just saw, the levy is about 3 miles behind us and as soon as that levy had a breach around midnight local time, jim, all of that water had nowhere to go but here except for low lying areas. you can see there s a little bit of a dry spot in our