see first here on out front. massive reeducation effort. it s a damning report, saying some of them are up for adoption, others being trained now to join the military. let s go out front. good evening, welcome to a special edition of out front. i m erin burnett. we begin with breaking news, tonight for trump s former chief of staff mark meadows subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating the former presidents attempt to cling to power. of course, remember, meadows helped lay the groundwork for trump s election lies, which ultimately feel the outrage and violence that we all saw on january 6th. he was literally by trump side during the insurrection itself. much more on that in just a moment because there is so much breaking developments here tonight. we also have other breaking news this hour from the justice department. we are learning that the special counsel investigating trump s locked now in at least eight secret court battles. the special counsel jack smith tryin
so maybe 14. anyway, all move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days, we ve got mayors and lot enforcement officials who are getting a new warning, sadly, about election intimidation. we have extremists who are looking to disrupt the midterms, at the local level, targeting voters, targeting candidates, targeting election workers, all according to axios. let s bring in our panel, we have cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller. new york democratic senator mondale jones, and political analyst ron brownstein. so this is so disturbing, guys, obviously when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th, the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally, there are all sorts of examples of people be unintimidated, and just awful things happening. here are a few examples, this comes from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties, election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment, and intimidation. in idaho, protesters and hung i
of a once in a generation chrysler. santa or the white house with a clear authorization for the president to push ahead with unambitious legislative agenda but a major obstacle stands on his way, a right-wing reactionary supreme court with very little public legitimacy. some familiar? this week discipline court wrapped up an immense most controversial terms in american history. scaling back decades of progress in the matter of mere weeks. we ve actually been here before. following a landslide victory in 1936, president franklin d. roosevelt was elected to a second term in office. securing what was, at the time, the largest popular vote tally in american history. fdr s victory sold out of not only a personal win, but a decisive victory for his signature legislative agenda, the new deal. despite the program s popularity amongst the american people, it faced some serious opposition at the nation s highest court, over the years, fdr watched as the supreme court, led by a group
Welcome to inside politics. Im phil mattingly. John king is off today. As the nation celebrated the fourth of july, Public Health officials pleaded with americans, to stay safe. In washington, d. C. , a spectacular display last night, 10,000 fireworks launched over 35 minutes, and a much smaller crowd than usual turned out to watch them in person. Before the festivity, donald trump doubled down from the divisive message the night before. American heroes defeated the nazis, dethroned the fascists, toppled the communists, saved american values. We are now in the process of defeating the radical left, the marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters, and people who in many instances have absolutely no clue what they are doing. At an event that showed little signs of following his own administrations social distancing guidelines, trump took the opportunity to boast about his response to a pandemic that is now hitting record numbers in the u. S. We have made a lot of progress. Our s
Sight, in the street, in our statehouses. And if complicit is violence, well, then whats most worrisome is the reaction of President Trump to the moment because imagine for a second that a group of islamic terrorists tried to kill a governor. He would have expanded his muslim ban to include americans traveling between states. Imagine that a group of mexican immigrants tried to kill a governor. Trumps border wall might actually be reality instead of a scuttled campaign promise. Imagine if it was a group of black lives matter protesters that tried to kill a governor. Oh, cousin, trump might actually try to ban the color black or replace in god we trust with law and order. But because it was, in fact, a group of white supremists who tried to kill and kidnap a governor, one who defied him, trump decided to attack that governor, one, because anything else would send the wrong signal to his base and, two, because he sees no dichotomy in invoking marshall law for leftleaning protesters and tu