backlash, as the 11th hour gets underway on a friday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle and we have breaking news and a legal showdown over those classified documents seized from donald trump s florida club. the fight over those highly sensitive records now held to a federal appeals court. just hours, ago the justice department hired filed its appeal for part of aileen ruling. the doj is asking the appeals court to block cannons order preventing the justice department from using on thursday, cannon named another judge, judge raymond dearie i special master in the case. she wants him to the finish going through all 11,000 documents and he is already getting started. today he told both the doj we know the washington post reports that donald trump s team misrepresented the documents. writing this. 100 classified documents, in 15 boxes for the former president s mar-a-lago club, they were told that none of the material was sensitive or classified, and tru
the streets, abortion rights advocates holding protests across the nation but for antiabortion activists, jubilation. the supreme court ruling there is no constitutional right for a woman to have an abortion. at least 26 states are either poised to or have already banned abortion. cnn has reporters covering this massive shift in laws across the country. alexandra field is in missouri. nadia romero is in mississippi, the state which brought the case which ultimately ended federal abortion protections. nadia, what s the reaction there and where are you exactly? reporter: fred, we are in jackson, mississippi, outside of the last abortion clinic in the state. for some people this is a place of refuge. for others, this is a site of pure evil where evil things take place. that s what we re hearing. and you hear those two sides of the roe v. wade thing being played out here on the street corner, you see these two gentlemen having a heated conversation. this is mild compared to wha
closed captioning, brought to you by mesobook.com. this is just in to cnn. the source come from the federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed the former white house counsel, pallone. abc news was first to report that. cnn has now confirmed that, as well. abby phillip, david axelrod, all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. what say you, david? i think we have seen, over the last couple of weeks, this escalation in this grand jury process. that is separate and apart from all of the doj investigations and prosecutions into those that actually stormed the capitol and broke into the capitol. this is now has been and we have seen as aids were called in, what have you, the inter-sanctum. we don t get more inner sanctum than the white house counsel. right. we know, through testimony given to the january 6th committee, running down the hall to the oval office to try and stop meetings from progressing, who was trying to get the
continue this travesty and darkness and i want sunlight. that s a nice way of saying it. isn t that pretty. i want sunlight. i want everything exposed to the public. and let s let the public decide because i want cameras at every inch of that courthouse. careful what you wish for? no, he doesn t. we got a lot to cover from that speech on saturday, including some frightening comments from the front-runner in the republican primary. meanwhile, donald trump s defense team will present its case in the civil fraud trial. we ll tell you who is taking the stand later today in new york. also ahead, it appears the new house speaker is not ready to move forward with the impeachment inquiry into president biden. we ll go through that new reporting. plus, we ll play for you the surprise announcement from republican senator tim scott, one of the five candidates who was just on the debate stage last week. we ll also bring to you the very latest out of israel and gaza. good mond
but when they do the vote, they are going to see those swing voters. and say hey, democrats are actually getting things done in office. i think that is really important. lindsey graham who served with you, he proposed a nationwide 15-week abortion ban. but by a 2 to 1 margin, americans, not just democrats, americans disapprove on the overturning of roe. what do you think is going on here? well, i think that lindsey graham is throwing spaghetti at the while trying to be relevant in a post trump world. to be honest. politically. but his suggestion is that republicans are flailing in a post dobbs world. so he is trying to set a marker out there to get a messaging point. the problem is it s a bad