he has said he will enter a not guilty plea. these are new images of police in riot gear outside the courthouse. trump called on supporters to show up and protest peacefully. the former president is facing 37 felony counts including obstruction, conspirac conspiracy. containing some of the nation s most sensitive secrets, including details from america s nuclear program and allegedly kept them in places like a bathroom and a shower. behind the scenes his legal team has been scrambling to find lawyers in florida to represent him. special counsel jack smith also beefing up his team. he added at least two prosecutors from the u.s. attorney s office in miami. we have all this covered with our team coverage throughout the our. scott jennings, van jones, laura coats and john miller, kaitlan collins in miami and kaitlan, it s a couple of hours into the
i know trump s team is making the argument some of these documents are covered by that. the justice department says no, he s no longer president. what did the judge seem to say about that today? reporter: that was a key point in this hearing, with trump s lawyers, again, pressing this point saying that this was an issue that they wanted to get resolved. they said executive privilege is still in play. prosecutors were saying the special master, there s no role for her. the judge weighing in on this saying it is not entirely settled law that a former law does not have a claim on executive privilege when he leaves office, and she kept posing to the government, what s the harm in putting in place a special master to deal with this issue? kaitlan? certainly not what they wanted to hear on that front. thank you. i want to turn now on these developments to alexis hope, an assistant professor of law at
that s what we are hearing from white house officials, talking about the threat of democracy. we ve heard joe biden say this before, but not quite in this way. he s talked about president trump sort of sporadically in his time throughout the white house, not wanting to dwell on that. but in recent days and weeks, as the former president has come into the news more often through the legal cases a and the search of mar-a-lago, the white house believes this is an opening for them politically speaking. they believe that they can focus voters attention and mind on making this, again, a referendum, a choice between republicans and democrats, not a referendum on joe biden. so that s what we will hear tonight. of course, coming back to philadelphia where he began his campaign more than three years ago, talking about that fight for the soul of the nation. kaitlan? yeah. and jessica, with this backdrop, the white house is say thing speech is not about all republicans but the republicans who a
democracy and the forces that are threatening it. before biden begins, kevin mccarthy is going to deliver a prebuttal, attacking democrats on crime and inflation. cnn is covering both of tonight s speeches on the ground in pennsylvania. we re joined live from philadelphia by jeff zeleny. joe biden has been wanting to give this speech a while, but why now, why today? reporter: kaitlan, the short answer is, 68 days. that s how much time is remaining between now and the midterm elections. during that period of time, democrats and joe biden first and foremost, is trying to change the subject. he s trying to turn this away from any criticism of democrats, inflation, the economy, trying to make this election a referendum on donald trump, as he calls it, the maga republican party. that s what this speech is going to be here tonight. it s going to be grave and somber.
but kaitlan, in the short term, at those schools that can t find enough teachers right now, students who need more attention than ever are likely getting less. yeah, not something that teachers or parents of those students want to hear. gabe cohen, thank you. meanwhile, serena williams is having fun proving that she s the greatest of all time, and she s back on the court tonight.