Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. A fresh start to your weekend. We thank you for starting with us. Im victor blackwell. Im amara walker. Thank you for sharing a part of your morning with us. The fight between Special Counsel and donald trump is heating up. Why theyre calling on the judge to take action after a social media post by the former president. This was crazy in new york city. Look at these pictures. There was some violence but a lot of chaos after a social Media Influencer posted about a give away and now that influencer is facing charges. And simone biles gets ready for a comeback after taking a break from the sport. We will have the latest on tonights competition. We begin with this latenight court filing from Special Counsel jack smith. He is now asking a federal judge to quickly set Disclosure Rules in the January 6th Case against former president donald trump. In the filing smith cited this social media post from trump earlier in the day that reads, if you go af
Between former President Trump and special counsel jack smith. A short time ago, the federal judge overseeing trumps election case responded to a court filing from smith theres night. Smith is seek a protective order after trump posted this yesterday evening, saying, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith is pointing to that message and asking the judge in the case to set limits on trump and his legal team when it comes to publicly discussing sensitive evidence and the judge has given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. This sunday to respond. Just this afternoon, lawyers asked a judge for more time to weigh in on what restrictions should be imposed. Joining us now to discuss, democratic congresswoman Veronica Escobar of texas. Thanks for joining. When you saw these words that trump wrote in that threatening post, what did you think of that . What was your concern there . Well, good afternoon, jim. It was as predicted. I mean, i knew he would not be able to help himself. He
Criminal charges involving classified documents found at his home. But it is his latest indictment on the Capitol Attack that may lead to new Court Restrictions on the former president. In a court filing last night, Special Counsel jack smith seeks to stop Defense Lawyers from Sharing Copies of evidence with trump that is deemed sensitive. Smith said he feared what the er psident would make public. Writing, if trump, quoting now, were to begin suing public posting details or for example grand jury transcripts ined in discovery here, it could have a harmful, Chilling Effect on witnesses, or adversely affect the Fair Administration of justice in this case. End quote. And smith flagged trumps online post from yesterday, as an example, it says, if you go after me, im coming after you. A trump spokesperson said the comment was the definition of political speech. And it had nothing to do with the case. Trump in alabama yesterday, kept up his condemnation of the prosecutions against him and m
Heres The Big Question of the evening, everyone. Did donald trump just perhaps violate the conditions of his release . The former president threatening retaliation just 24 hours after, yes, his third indictment. What a judge warned him against, intimidating or tampering with witnesses. Take a look. On social media, he was writing, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Kind of a way of saying, dont come for me till i send for you, apparently. Well talk about that with our law expert who testified at one of his impeachment hearings. Trump also railed against the charges against him at an event in alabama just a short time ago. Every one of these many fake charges filed against me by the Corrupt Biden Doj could have been filed 2 1 2 years ago. They didnt want to do it 2 1 2 years ago. They wanted to wait, and they did wait. They waited right until the middle of an election. They waited until i became the dominant force in the polls. They want to interfere in my campaign. They wa
Since the Tokyo Olympics. Were following these major olympic stories and many more, all coming in here to cnn news central. New evidence ukraine is growing its capability to strike russian targets them video obtained by cnn appears to show a Ukrainian Unmanned sea drone, camera right on top there, approaching a russian landing ship at a Russian Naval base. You see the drone creep closer and closer. The screen goes black. Thats likely the moment it hit the ship and exploded. You can see here later video of that russian ship being towed near that naval base. And it is listing notably to the lefthand side. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is live in zaporizhzhia, ukraine. Tell us what are ukrainian Officials Saying about this . And is russia acknowledging a ukrainian strike on one of its ships here . Reporter yeah, russia is suggesting the attack was repelled, but russian bloggers are talk about how one compartment of the Amphibious Assault ship was indeed flooded by this blast. Another analyst call