okay. here s a question that you don t normally hear a candidate it asked at one of his final campaign stops before a presidential debate. that s a fair question. after all, the debate is on thursday, and trump s sentencing for 34 felony convictions is exactly 2 weeks after that. it doesn t bother me. we have a corrupt group of people. and you know what? it s really working out the other way. we just got the highest poll numbers we ve ever had. they cheat so much, it helps us in the end. because if we don t win, our country is finished. allow me to finish. if we don t win, that i m worried about going to prison. and he kind of should be worried. because as serious as the new york convictions are, the much more serious charges are still hanging out there. and for all of his talk about a corrupt system, he is sure getting a lot of help on that front right now. just take a look at exhibit a in the new york times this week. after trump appointed judge eileen cannon was assign
new opinions coming down in about an hour. we could get major rulings on free speech or the second amendment abortion and we re awaiting a big one, whether or not former president donald trump is immune from criminal prosecution. court starts at 10:00 a.m. eastern. we ll get rulings today. we don t know which ones will come our way. bring it to you live as it getsing here. first brazen and brutal. an illegal immigrant was arrested on rape charges of a 13-year-old girl. we ll talk to a hero who took him down and held him for police. a big return to our friend and colleague hall mate, sandra k. smith. sandra: i m sandra smith and this is america s newsroom. prosecutors revealing that suspect confirmed to filming his assault with the 13-year-old girl in a park in queens. the new york post this morning with this headline labeling him a monster. bill: this is just the latest in a string of crimes linked to illegals. republicans calling it a direct result of the crisis on o
mexico sunday at age on cnn welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper this hour. it s hard to forget the images of a cargo ship crashing into the baltimore bridge in march causing a devastating and deadly collapse. but while the cleanup and investigation have moved forward, those 21 crew members have been stuck on the ship for almost three months. today, there was a hearing about letting them return to their families, mostly in india and sri lanka. and we ll bring you those updates plus is the united states at risk of being pulled into yet another global conflict. the white house is issuing a stern warning after video emerges of a major clash in the south china sea and leading this our supreme suspense as the country he waits for blockbuster decisions from the highest court in the land. the justices issuing four rulings today. but we re still waiting on the three janiot highly consequential ones that we have talking about for weeks now, former president trump s claim that he has
time, very publicly he s also laying the groundwork in case he doesn t do so well in the debate stage by making completely wild claims that a good biden performance will be drug enhanced he s going to be so pumped up. he s going to be pumped up you know, all that stuff that was missing about a month ago from the white house what happened? who who left is somebody? but he left it. they i wonder let s see, somebody left the laptop in an office of a gentleman was supposed to fix the laptop from hell. he never picked it up and somebody didn t pick up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cocaine. i wonder who that could have been so just as a point of fact, the bag found in the white house viscera stores can be last summer contain less than a gram of cocaine according to a staunchly conservative republican congressmen who was briefed by the secret service on it, a hundreds of thousands of dollars for cocaine would weigh dozens of panel also, taking up the idea that prison b
tonight on 316 new reporting on how the former president has been preparing for next week cnn debate. now just eight days away. and word of a new name, it could be considering as a running mate also tight, let vladimir putin and kim jong un have agreed to a new military partnership. how concerned should the west b and ukraine plus louisiana becomes the only state in america? mandate displaying the ten commandments and every public classroom what happens now? good evening. thanks for joining us with just eight days to go until the former president faces off against the current one in cnn s first the campaign presidential debate. there are new details about how donald trump is preparing. they suggest is new york times maggie haberman will explain in a moment the hi and closed doors. the former president is taking it seriously at the same time, very publicly. he s also laying the groundwork in case he doesn t do so well in the debate stage by making completely wild claims that a