things of what happen in texas also some of the allegations there, it s going to be interesting in just a few weeks during that trial. indeed. thank you, my friend and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. for the past several months we have watched the far right wing of the republican party hold the u.s. hostage far right republicans in congress demanded major concessions from the biden house or else it would blow up the pretty fragile u.s. economy, they would tank the stock market and push hundreds of thousands of people onto the unemployment so potential catastrophe of their own making. and now there s a deal on the table to stop that catastrophe from actually coming to pass. over the weekend president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy hammered out an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default. and republicans, they got some of what they wanted in this deal. itd claws back unspent covid relief funds. it creates new hurdles for some people
i think it s the thought that counts. thank you very much, abby. great to see you, good evening everyone. i m alison camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. new legal trouble for donald trump, e. jean carroll seeking more damage is in the form of more money, above and beyond the first $5 million. because of what donald trump said in the cnn tell-all. and then there s the case of all the classified documents found at mar-a-lago. apparently donald trump s attorney took highly detailed notes about them. notes that are now in the hands of the special counsel. our panel dives into what those reveal. plus, senator tim scott wants to be president. will he break what donald trump? or will trump tried to make scott s running mate? and this image exploded on twitter this morning. it sent shock waves through the stock market. but it s fake. there was no explosion near the pentagon. the real world danger of artificial intelligence is not just a worry, it s already here. let s begin with new
trump lawyer who s the liaison between trump and the doj. evan corcoran, that lawyer, was in charge of returning the classified documents to the department. now, corcoran reportedly told associates in june of last year he was waved off searching any room at mar-a-lago besides a single storage room. when mr. corcoran was looking for classified documents he say told to check that one room and not to check anywhere else. he was waved off from searching places like trump s office which is where of course months later the fbi would find the most highly classified documents. this reporting suggests again that not everyone is rowing in the same direction here, and it would also seem to buttress a potential obstruction case, a case if you read the reporting already seems pretty strong. so at this point it certainly seems like a lot of trump lawyers are effectively saying not it, and that makes sense. remember that last week the
earlier in the light we can cast. just to note that the trip to africa means nothing. why mention it? i just think, again, one, i understand why the nearly family is frustrated. jordan neely has become political football. that we have members of congress dreaming about lynching before we d even known the name of these silent. so i think, yes, cooler heads need to prevail. he has a right to try to defend himself, to try to say that i am not the hateful person that neely s family didn t say that, but other voices said that. you can t ignore the racial component, the legacy of race is in this. the fact that new york city has this component from the case that we saw with eric garner, from the cases that we ve seen all across this country. so yes, these are all things to consider. but at the end of the day, this is going to come down to the letter of the law. was the whole justified for the length of time, which to your
ended up in the hands of special counsel week. these are interesting because there are notes taken by trump attorney evan corporate, another critical point in donald trump has received this subpoena in may of 2022. the government is saying you have to give us back any documents saka classified markings. sources are telling us that donald trump goes to his attorney general and says, is there any way we can push back on this? essentially, what kind of recourse do we have here. and this is memorialized in his notes that we took at the time. people can look at this and say, look, this is the former president speaking to his attorney. trying to figure out what his options are and moving forward. but obviously, we ve seen donald trump offer a number of shifting explanations for why he kept and retain these documents for so long. he said in that cnn town hall that you have the absolute right to keep them. and prosecutors are looking for potential obstruction case, and because of, this the