Request to limit what the former president can say about the case against him. Now accusing federal prosecutors of trying to restrict trumps First Amendment rights. Do they have a case on this at all . Trumps former white house lawyer ty cobb will be with me. Plus, a deadly strike. Russia ramping up attacks on civilian targets. We are learning tonight of a russian plot to assassinate the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. And an alarming scene as a massive brawl breaks out between a black man and a group of white voters in montgomery, alabama. And tonight police are vowing to make arrests. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, team trumps response. The former president s legal team just now responding to a request from the Special Counsel that came after trump posted if you go after me, im coming after you. All caps. Trumps team arguing that his ability to share information in the January 6th Case is covered by the First Amendment. They say in a trial
from washington. tonight, the flimflam gang. the that s the focus of tonight s angle. all right. the talking point this year for globalists is that conservatives skeptical about the mcconnell schumer border servativ deal don t really wanta to solve the crisis. they re just bowing down to donalhuck schd, who opposes it s not surprising, i guess, but it s it s i mean, it s deeply. people are dying and people s lot you know, there are a lot of people s lives are in the balance here. i think that s a fundamental problem with trumpism. right. if i think is about nihilism, ie burn it down caucus. r they right. d they don t want to legislate n is solvingproblems problems. right? they don t want the government to wort thk similar flimsy thing coming from conservative stalwart mitt romney, another of trumpthin loathing pro-amnesy republicans like thom tillis. it is immoral for me to say you look the other way because . you think this is the linchpin for president trump to
biden isn t a king. but don t take that from me. people think that the president of the united states has the power for debt forgiveness. he does not. he can postpone, he can delay. but he does not have that power. that has to be an act of congress. so catch this. the court citeded that exact line from pelosi when they slapped down biden s bailout. one of the very few times nancy and i agree on anything. but that hasn t stopped the media from losing it. if you think about all the grievances that are brought about the trump election, what you re seeing is severe backlash in the sense that people do not want to see black and brown people excel in this country. do you think it s a setback for gender equality? well, it s definitely a setback for social mobility through education. these decisions over the last 24 hours are essentially making it harder for a range of communities to go to college and seek a higher education. this represents an extremist minority who s
hello, i m ben thompson, welcome to the programme. we start with news that the israeli defence minister has said that israel will retain security control of gaza after the fighting has ended and all hostages have been reef free. this comes as america and europe s most senior diplomat ticks head to the middle east to press israel and its strategy. they do appear to reject positions put forward last year by washington. under you have gland s so called fork proposals, hamas would no longer control gaza and israel would retain overall security control. a multinational force would take charge of rebuilding the territory. neighbouring egypt would take on an as yet unspecified role. but gaza would be run by unspecified government of palestinians as long as they are not hostile towards israel. and there would be no resettlement of israelis in the territory. well, the deputy secretary general of the fatah central committee, the hasty decision making body of the fatah party which contr
about this breaking news of donald trump removed from the ballot by the secretary of state in maine. our coverage continues with erin burnett outfront right now. outfront next, breaking news. donald trump removed from maine s ballot. we are reading through this decision right now. plus newly revealed e-mails and audio recordings showing how team trump made a chaotic and frenzied push to overturn the election. and five years in russian captivity. cnn has new exclusive audio of paul whelan making a desperate plea from behind bars directly to president biden. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erica hill in for erin burnett. breaking news tonight. donald trump kicked off another state s 2024 ballot. maine s democratic secretary of state just moments ago issuing a decision which bars trump from that state s ballot. she cites the insurrection ban. the decision can be appealed in state court. an appeal that is almost guaranteed given trump s legal team had already demande