do you approve of the fbi s trump raid, president biden? did you know about it in advance? it would not be appropriate for us to comment on any ongoing investigation? again, we are not just going to comment on any ongoing investigations from here. again, we defer any incoming on this particular incident yesterday to the department of justice. again, i m just not going to comment on, um, any reaction to what happened yesterday, we are going to refer any incoming to the department of justice. i don t have anything more. jesse: joe biden campaigned on uniting the country. and then raided his predecessor s house with guns. and has nothing to say about that? where s the attorney general? where s the fbi director? you can t just break into a president s safe and then go silent. we need answers. biden has now divided the country in a way that can t be repaired. this is unforgivable. here is some answers we need. why did they shop the warrant to a judge involved with jeffrey ep
intimidating you, so that s good. intimidation is the best form of flattery. it is. hi, don lemon. over to you. hold on. well, hello, how are you are? i want to get to the news now. see you tomorrow night. have a good evening. goodbye. this is don lemon tonight. we re getting more and more revelations from the january 6th investigation. new tonight, this is a cnn exclusive, the former president s lawyers now in direct talks with the justice department for the first time, talks about his attempts to use executive privilege to stop members of his inner circle from testifying about their conversations with him while he was president. and we know that pat cipollone and his deputy, patrick fill bin have been subpoenaed this week. this may be about preventing witnesses like them from testifying about everything they know. you got to wonder if the former president is trying to keep under wraps. sources telling cnn trump s own attorneys are warning him that there could be i
this is a cnn exclusive. the former president s lawyer is now in direct talks with the justice department for the first time, talks about his attempts to use executive privilege from testifying about their conversations with him while he was president. and we know that pat cipollone and his deputy, patrick filament has both been subpoenaed this week. this may be all about preventing witnesses like don from testifying about everything that they know and you ve got to wonder why the former president is so determined to keep under wraps, when is it? there is more. sources telling cnn that trump s own attorneys are warning him that there could be indictments on the horizon. he is apparently skeptical, and whether they really believe he ll face criminal charges. a lot more to come about who the former president still talking to, even though some of his own advisers are warning him not to talk to those people. he is doing it anyway. in the face of all of that there is this warnin
committee and other law enforcement agencies want access to the text messages his lawyers accidentally sent to the plaintiffs. plus, changes to airline cancellation rules may be about to take off. why passengers could actually get refunds for all of those canceled and delayed flights. welcome to the lead. we start with the world lead. a russian court found wnba star brittney griner guilty today of drug smuggling, quote, with criminal intent. the judge ordering griner to spend nine years in a russian penal colony that s under the maximum sentence. griner was arrested and charged in february for smuggling less than one gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. her lawyers argued she had been packing quickly to play for the russian premier league and didn t know that the cannabis oil, which had been prescribed by a u.s. doctor, was not allowed in russia. griner delivering this plea as part of her closing statement. i want to say again that i had no intent on breaking any
plus, authoritarian watch, trump and his allies are laying the groundwork for an even more extreme second term. if he wins in 2024. and then, ignoring the will of voters. how republicans are trying to circumvent our democratic institutions to get their results they want. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. donald trump attacks his perceived political enemies almost nonstop. it has become too routine. and breaking just a short time ago he attacked a judge overseeing his civil fraud trial, new york attorney general letitia james. and the law clerk on the case, smearing her by name in a deranged social media post. there was reasonable cause for alarm this week when a new york appeals court pause the gag order that had barred trump and his lawyers from speaking publicly about court staff in that case. just hours after the ruling, trump began attacking george are judge arthur engoron law clerk, calling her a quote, trump hater. said it was a partisan attack dog, and a democ