watching erin burnett outfront starts right outfront next, the breaking news, trump s business taking a major hit, the former president ordered to pay nearly $355 million and banned from doing business state of new york. just trump have the money to pay this because fani willis is father on the witness stand. and the question got so out of hand today that the judge was forced to refer for man, one of the lawyers, plus what happened to alexei navalny, his close friend, the investigative reporter christo grozev is outfront, been working his sword this is all day and he has new details to share tonight. let s go outfront good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. the breaking news, $355 million for president trump and his business empire taking a massive hit today, the judge in trump s new york fraud trial, just deciding trump must pay 300 good, 54 million to be exact. and then there s interest on top of that that he s also now liable to pay that could add another
evening thanks. for joining us tonight. special coverage bridge of the trump trials, the high drama in deep significance in two of them today. and what are expected to be potentially enormous financial consequences tomorrow. in a third, also late today, the former president is final pitch. the supreme court of why he should be criminally immune for actions he took an office. so there s a lot to get you in this next hour in atlanta today, the drama revolves around fulton county district attorney fani willis, and whether she and her department should be removed from the georgia rico case against the former president and others at issue, her relationship with lead prosecutor nathan wade, the timing of it, and whether that and how they paid for trips they took together, created conflicts of interest he testified today. so did fani willis. she ll be back on the stand tomorrow. today. she repeatedly clashed with ashleigh merchant, who s the attorney for the co-defendant, michael
celebration, turning into a scene of sheer terror in kansas city tonight, dozens wounded and in another mass shooting in america and many of those shots are children, the youngest injured today, just six years old. also tonight, new cnn reporting on that crypto warning or a top intelligence official in congress called it a national security threat. that thread we have learned concerns russian nuclear weapons in space. as some lawmakers on capitol hill say it is so serious, it should be declassified and made public also, it is a critical 48 hours for donald from starting now with hearings and two of the criminal court cases about to collide along with an imminent ruling on business fraud that could cause the former president hundreds of millions since of dollars. i m kaitlan collins and this is the source we start with breaking news tonight after what started off as a jubilant celebration of the kansas city chiefs super bowl win, ending with one person dead and nearly tw
placed my order. bring your own team together with customers here it gets started today at accustoming.com this is cnn. the world s news any minute. now, former president trump will learn the price that he ll pay for fraudulently inflating financial statements for years. and the fate of his family s business empire may hang in the balance. prosecutors asking for a $370 fine and potentially crippling restrictions on how the trumps can do business in new york, plus hootan biggest critic is now reportedly dead and president biden says putin is responsible, we re following the global reaction to alexey navalny s death and more courtroom drama but in atlanta, the da of the center of dramas, election of trump s election case in georgia. there s now fighting to stay on the job. prosecutors think that fani willis is fiery testimony yesterday is enough to beat the push to disqualify her. and today, her dad took the stand defending his daughter i m boris sanchez with brianna ke
about to bear witness to history. yes. once again, but the drama does not end there. it was almost surreal to watch for hours on live tv today. a, another trump criminal case. the top prosecutor in fulton county, georgia, fani willis, took the stand in her own defense as trump and some of his 14 remaining co-defendants are trying to have her thrown off the case. let me get you up to speed. it s a lot to pay attention to here. the lawyers are trying to establish that willis higher the lead prosecutor on this case, nathan wade, when they were already in a romantic relationship and they allege that she benefited financially from that relationship. wade also took the stand today and things got really, really personal questions about the romantic relationship when it began, when it ended, trips that they ve taken together, their money where it went, where it came from after wade got off the stand, it still wasn t clear what willis was going to do. but write as one of her dep