Good evening everyone, and welcome back to our special breaking news coverage, im laura coates on this a stunning night in american history. As the 45th u. S. President s criminally indicted now for the fourth time. Donald trump now accused of leading a criminal enterprise to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. Im kaitlan collins, its not just trump. 18 others have been charged alongside him in this 41 count indictment tonight, including his former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows. His former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and the onetime mayor of new york. All 19 defendants are facing racketeering charges. I mean, the indictment states all, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and they knowingly, and willfully, joined the conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Joining me now here in d. C. Is cnns evan perez, also the washington correspondent of the atlanta journalconstitution, tea mitchell and is back as well. Tour former house judiciary special co
The jail is open 24 7. An open invitation from the Fulton County sheriff to donald trump and his codefendants as we learn the former president is in talks right now over when he will turn himself in. Details on when we could see him surrender. A Climbing Death Toll and a growing recognition of just how much maui has lost. Authorities in hawaii trying now to identify some of the wildfire victims. And the white house announces that President Biden will travel there next week to tour the aftermath for himself. Plus biden selling bidenomics. Polls still show, though, the voters arent buying it. What is the disconnect even in a Strong Economy . We are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. The countdown has begun, and the jailers are waiting. Donald trump and his 18 codefendants have nine days left to turn themselves in at the Fulton County jail near downtown atlanta. Were keeping a close eye on that live feed right there. That
Cupp. Thank you. Thank you. All of that thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now more than meet the eye and Donald Trumps Classified Documents Trial will tell you whats really going on tonight on Laura Coates Live all right. Wake up. Dont sleep on the maralago trial. Sure. The Supreme Courts been getting all the attention. What with arguments on trumps claims of president ial immunity said to come before them. The week of april 22. But there is some big news tonight out of florida. Looks like jack smith wants to get the Classified Documents k is moving as soon as possible, and hes asking for a new trial date. This time the month of july. So while youre on summer vacation, dont trump could actually be in court. So saying in Court Filings tonight that he believes trump and his two codefendants body man, walt nauta and maralago property manager, carlos de olivera, should go to trial on july 8, if not coincidentally, or maybe not coincidentally, one week before
president that refuses to concede that he lost the election. and he did lose that election. before today, trump s lawyers were absolutely what s the word -e eadamant. that the president had immunity for his conduct while in office. they wouldn t budge on this point. at first they wouldn t budge. right out of the gate, from questioning of one of the judges, they were forced to make a powerful confession, that of course, there is not absolute immunity, meaning you can never charge a former president for action taken while in office, if it was criminal or otherwise. they could you can. you can prosecute under certain circumstances. and they only admitted that, after the judge gave him a whole string of hypotheticals that can really only have one legitimate, truthful answer. could a president who ordered s.e.a.l. team 6, be subject to prosecution? if he were impeached and convicted first. the answer is no? my answer is qualified yes. a qualified what? a qualified y
that incredible reporting. thanks so much to all of you for being with us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. anderson is off tonight. and we begin with breaking news. a new window into just how far the former president went to overturn the election that he lost. we ve already heard the phone call of him pressuring georgia officials to find him votes that he was not entitled to, not to mention his phone call to arizona governor doug ducey to overturn the election results in arizona. and now the detroit news is reporting on recordings they ve reviewed in which he is pressuring detroit area election officials to do the same. cnn s marsha cohen joins us now with more. marshal, there s cleary a pattern emerging here. one state after another. trump trying to dip into the local state of affairs and influence the results, interfere with the results. i want to be clear, we have not heard this tape for ourselves, but the details were reported by the detroit news. this is november