breaking news, new reporting on the trump attorney who wanted to try to settle with the justice department and keep his client from facing charges. the catch, his client. also tonight, cnn gets frontline access to ukrainian special forces on the hunt for russian commanders to corner and kill. and later, a father is speaking out about nearly losing his children and their remarkable, simply remarkable story of surviving 40 days in the colombian jungle. we begin with the new reporting on what you might call the exit ramp not taken by the former president, one that might have kept him off his current road to trial in the documents case. quote, one of donald trump s new attorneys proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. the former president s team could try to arrange a settlement with the justice department. he joins us on the telephone now. josh, walk us through this reporting. one of the president s attorneys wanted to turn down the temperature, went to the former president
his commitment to integrity and the rule of law. backdrop there to our conversation tonight with the republican and former maryland governor larry hogan. governor, nice to see you tonight. you just heard what josh deossie said tonight. let s get to the justice department. let s turn down the temperature. let s try to negotiate a settlement, and the trump legal team talked the former president out of it. surprise you at all? it doesn t surprise me. it s the first time i heard it, but, no, it s not a surprise. it seems to be par for the course. but i think we heard from the former attorney general, bill barr. we heard from really two of my former colleagues that governors both chris christie and asa hutchinson, federal prosecutors, u.s. attorneys, who are taking this case seriously, some of the few people speaking out at this point. legally quite seriously. but on the politic side, the trump campaign raked in
signalled her willingness to basically issue a temporary halt if the two other halts are overturned. the courts understand what is at stake. ben, how do you think it will go? i think reality is the ninth circuit is a liberal circuit. the three judges on the panel that look at it were appointed by bill clinton. i don t think there is a really good chance that they somehow see the president s side of things based on the politic side. you look at the rewrite of the bill. the reality is more than 1 billion muslims around the world still have the ability and access to come to the united states of america. to imply this is somehow a ban based on religion is not reality. if it was, you would not have over 1 billion people able to come to the country. the second thing, the countries this affects are countries right now are very clearly countries where there is a hotbed of extremism and terrorism. that is the reason why this