sat down with my friend rashid johnson, we went through his process. we re talking about how he is helping artists who are underrepresented in the fine arts world, people who are overlooked, how we help them gain a voice. but he s also one of the most successful artists of our time. and he s living in his success, unlike people, artists who have to wait until they die. you know what i m saying, to be appreciated. i can t wait to see it. sarah, i ll see you. have a good evening. this is don lemon tonight. there is lots happening. all the investigations swirling around the former president. a special master basically telling team trump, put up or shut up. he is not buying, maybe he did, it maybe he didn t over de classification. the judge, his name is raymond dearie, calling trump s bluff. saying that his lawyers have not given any proof that the documents were declassified. and seeing if they do not make that case, he s going to determine that they are classified. this may
so i asked nick akerman in the last hour have trump boxed himself in by making that claim, or least his representatives speaking on television. look you can t have your cake and eat it. that s how the special master responded to teen trump harry. his excuse for not handing over that evidence. this is candidate trump s lawyers, that s what they put forward, so how do you think that is sitting with the former president? you know, the former president has wanted to say this in the public sphere. he hasn t wanted to say it in court where you make a false statement, that s a separate crime. i think he is as always completely brazen and indifferent about saying any old thing when he s talking on the hustings, but not in court. look, the courts overall have done a pretty good job all the way through. it takes a while to get to them, they re not perfect but most of the time you really gotta come with the goods or lose. and that s what happened today. a conservative reagan appoint
this. president biden is set to speak in a few hours and all of this is occupied and announced a referendum this week. . and it s important to put some degree of qualification as to what russia says it s going to do. 300,000 is a lot. it is as people with military experience and those and the manpower has been pretty bad and it s likely the groups russia has called on have already been tapped to join the war. with it right equipment to actually be impactful because they ve really been struggling to keep their armed forces together over the past six months. this is an enormous task for russia while it s already on its back foot. but it will lead to some dramatic days ahead. these have these four referendum happening in freshly occupied areas. no doubt about it, these are just a number that we re going to hear on monday and tuesday that they allegedly claim that people in those areas want to be part of russia. russia will say, okay, we consider you part of our territory. what
the escalation by the rush slan l russian leader today. what does the french president think? he will be here live with his response. your money and the cost to borrow. historic move by the federal reserve, raising interest rates yet again in an effort to get inflation under control. welcome to the lead. we start on the extraordinary legal trouble for donald trump. there s a sweeping lawsuit against trump, three of his adult children and the trump organization, alleging they were involved in a decade-long financial scheme that allowed trump to fraudulently inflate his net worth by billions of dollars, allowing him to leverage the system for his own personal gain at the expense of others. white collar financial crime is not victimless. when the well connected break the law, to take in more money than they are entitled to, it reduces resources to working people, to regular people, to small businesses and all taxpayers. attorney general james campaigned on a promise of
let anyone know that if they have a boat, get people. our coverage of hurricane ian continues now with anderson cooper 360. the sheriff here in lee county told reporters about the afternoon destruction that is everywhere tonight. no words to describe what we saw and are seeing in the present tense, which is important to note, because this is an ongoing disaster in florida and potentially in coastal carolina. hurricane in yes, it is a hurricane again taste is taking ada. this is what it did to fort myers beach. is the most impressive storm ever to hit this part of florida. here is our first look at the area from above. it is far from the only look at the destruction that can be revealed from the air. in struct the barrier islands hard severing the bridge to pine island, as you can see here, along with the santa bell causeway which is impassable tonight. it also did considerable damage to marinas up and down the coast, pushing even larger boat around like toys. florida