american history, literally. today was the very first televised hearing in that georgia case against donald trump and 18 of his allies. district attorney fani willis and her team revealed three big things about the election interference charges. first, they want to charge and try all 19 codefendants together. secondly, this trial could last for months. and thirdly, they will call more than 150 different witnesses. that means that the former president of the united states could spend a third of the next year sitting in a courtroom. in just one of his cases, while running for a second term. it is just extraordinary. and we are getting a preview of the tensions to come. two of those codefendants, trump s legal advisor sydney powell, and the so-called architect of the coup plot, kenneth chesebro, they want their trials to be separated, even though, through their lawyers, they, today, started pointing the finger at each other, essentially over who is less crazy. she was fired be
thank you so much for joining us. cnn prime time starts right now. hi, abby! hey, thank you so much. have a good night. good evening, everyone. it is shaping up to be one of the biggest criminal trials in american history. literally. today was the very first televised hearing in that georgia case against donald trump and 18 of his allies. district foreigner fani willis and her team revealed three big things. first, they want to charge and try all 19 co-defendants together. second, this trial could last four months. and third, they ll call more than 150 different witnesses. that means that the former president of the united states could spend a third of the next year sitting in a courtroom. in just one of his cases, while running for a second term. it is just extraordinary. and we are getting a preview of the tensions to come. two of those co-defendants, trump s legal adviser, sidney powell, and the so called architect, they want their cases to be separated. today they sta
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we begin with a troubling outlook for president biden. exactly one year out from the 2024 election, a new set of polls from the new york times and siena college show biden trailing former president donald trump in hypothetical match-ups in four key swing states. tomorrow trump is set to take the stand in a high-stakes civil fraud trial that could help decide the fate of his business empire in new york. this happening at the same time that president biden is trying to strike a balance in the war between israel and hamas, pushing for a humanitarian pause. this just in to cnn. we re learning that cia director bill burns is traveling to the middle east to meet with multiple leaders in that region as negotiations over hostages taken by hamas continue. while the white house continues to focus on the crisis in the middle east, the biden campaign is responding to this latest polling. cnn s priscilla alvarez is in rehoboth beach
Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Something extraneous to the facts of the investigation just to get them to lie. That is clearly not whats going on here. Mueller has 100 valid reasons to want to talk to trump. What we have here is a perjury risk. Its a great risk. Thats because trump isnt capable of telling the truth, and particularly when he knows he is in trouble if he does. So if itts not a perjury trap, which is a technical term. This audio leaked of devin nunes, its not surprising he is carrying water for the president , but it is surprising he would say on the record out loud, out loud to a number of donors, that it ultimately Doesnt Matter What Mueller comes out with, that sessions Wont Unrecrews Ause and its j. Its just up to us to protect the president. Thats saying if Robert Mueller comes back and says we found conspiracy, we found whatever, it doesnt matter for the republicans . Is that a widely held belief or it is an
12:30 when she came in because that s when they took a break? yes, that s right, now i remember. that is how the human memory works. it s obvious to prosecutors who have put on witnesses and gotten them to remember things, okay, was it before or after september 11th, 2001? that s a prosecutor question that they use to try to place acts that people can t remember. people tend to remember in big moments like that. not in minor details until they re reminded of it. i think this is such a good example of that. i think also to go back, again, to what what is going on here now. kavanaugh is going to testify and, i don t know, maybe he ll somehow redeem himself. i can t imagine how he could come across as credible after this. as everyone has said, as dan and joyce have said, think there s great perjury risk for him here. no matter what happens with this nomination, think what all of us are saying is this has become so much bigger.