encounters and much more. cnn this morning continues right now. under no circumstances you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody? except for day one. except for? except for day one. meaning in. i want to close the border and i want to drill that s he says you are not going to be a dictator, are you? no, no, no, other than day one. we are kpoes closing the border and drilling, drilling, drilling. after that i am not a dictator, okay? good morning, everyone. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. that was donald trump last night saying the quiet part outloud when he was put on the spot. for trump rhetoric on the campaign trail sparked a frenzy of headlines this week about what he might do if he becomes president again. he danced around the question about abusing power. his ally ckash patel is talking about punishing enemies if there is a new trump term. this is a man who holds a senior rol
city. on the brink of the one decisive battles of this war. possibly byian we ll get to the next phase, what we re about to see a longer term campaign. we begin this hour with exclusive breaking news. cnn is learning that mike pence the former vice president could be taking the stand when donald trump goes on trial in january. sources say fulton county prosecutors have put the former vice president on their list of witnesses. the most recent versions of the witness list is 150, more than 150 names, but pence could be key, right. absolutely, we know that the pressure campaign targeted vice president mike pence at the time is a key point of this broader conspiracy case. who better to speak to that than is mike pence himself. by putting him on this witness list, you know, they re preserving their right to call mike pence to testify during a pivotal trial in this case. look it remains unclear when that might happen. the judge hasn t set a trial date yet. mike pence, thi
gaza, why said the situation is getting worse each minute. u.s. coast guard rocked by allegations that leaders held back information for years failing to keep people safe pick reporting on reforms they plan to make, we follow these major developing stories coming into cnn news central. a 24 hour dictatorship, that s how donald trump will start a second term in the white house. his comments coming during an iowa town hall after he already signaled he would use presidential powers to carry out personal vendettas, his allies have echoed those plans leading to a host of former government officials, constitutional scholars, and other republicans warning trump would usher an era of authoritarianism. now last night, the former president ally and adviser, and also fox news anchor sean hannity offered him and out. trump did not take it, listen to this. under no circumstances you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except da
but, first, the battles over biden s border crisis and big tech dominance playing out in courtrooms across the country. texas a.g. ken paxton leading the charge demanding answers from twitter, google, and the biden administration. here s paxton with me on the program earlier this week. we have asked twitter for basically answers that if they are going to operate in our state they have to answer. it s state law. and despite that, they have taken this to california to ask a california judge about texas law doesn t make any sense to me but i guess i understand why they want to be in california because they don t want to answer questions in texas which they re ultimately if they are going to operate here have to answer those questions. maria: and the questions do not stop there. 21 a.g.s are banning together to save american jobs. suing the biden administration over its shutdown of the keystone pipeline. several other states are fighting the administration in court over its d
our authorities are totally committed to keeping us safe from this deadly virus. so that s the protocol. if you re coming from el salvador to the united states legally, you take the test. but what if you re coming illegally? what if you rode the top of a freight train from el salvador up through mexico and just jumped the border when you got here? well, as it happens, this morning, we interviewed an active ms-13 member, a convicted murderer, who said he did exactly that. so the question is, do people like him, the ones who break our laws to get here, have to submit to mandatory covert test and they ve been apprehended by american authorities? and the answer is actually no they don t. under this administration, they don t have to, and they don t. illegal aliens are now exempt from the public health measures that have been imposed by force on the rest of us by the u.s. government. illegal aliens come and go as they please, no one seems to care if they spread deadly viruses to t