Right now Donald Trump will not be sentenced until after the election. Lead starts right now a major win in court for the former president who is sentencing Day Delay and New York Hush Money Cover Up case the stunner from Judge Juan Marchan is trump continues to fight back his conviction on those 34 felony counts, plus todays striking scene in georgia, the 14yearold Suspect in court after this weeks High School killings, followed by his father also now charged in this case, why prosecutors say even more charges . Bridges are coming plus a 26yearold american woman shot and killed in the West Bank by the israeli defense forces, according the witnesses. This after she was protesting against israeli settlement expansion, Cnn Team is on the Ground Welcome to. The lead im Jake Tapper or the 2024 lead and the Law And Justice lead theyre intersecting in a huge way today, Donald Trump, but 34 times convicted felon well now, not to be sentenced for those crimes in his New York Hush Money Cover U
Two developments in the last hour should be processed with that fact in mind. First, his sudden decision to cancel a Press Conference. Trump had promised a, quote, conclusive report and he would once and for all be proven right New York Times says its a document of more than 100 pages compiled, at least in part by liz harrington, a Trump Communications aide often described as among the True Believers in his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him through widespread fraud. At least on this one issue, trump appears to have listened to the advice of his lawyers. Abc news reported yesterday, trumps Legal Advisers have told him holding such a Press Conference with dubious claims would only complicate his legal problems. Which wrings us to the second development. An audacious request filed in Court Last Night to push back trumps trial in the federal case regarding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election to april of the year 2026. Yeah. Thats more than five years after the d
79594061 call now vegas story of sensitive. Sunday at ten on cnn its thursday, february 29, right now on cnn this morning, happy leave here the Supreme Court announcing it will hear Donald Trumps Immunity Claim further delaying the former president s federal election subversion trial. And more trouble for trump in illinois, judge, removing his name from the state ballot citing the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban and the races on top, republicans already angling to replace their departing senate leader, Mitch Mcconnell all right, its 06 00 a. M. Here in washington. A live look at the Supreme Court, not usually the Critical Center of deciding our elections. Its looking like it might be this year. Good morning, everyone. Its wonderful to have you here. Im kasie hunt, donald trump strategy to delay those trials until after the november election, just got a big assist from the Supreme Court, the justices announcing they will here are the former president s claims of absolute immunity. T
trump attempted to stay in power after losing reelection, that has never happened before in our history. if he is allowed to escape accountability for that, other presidents will attempt to do the same. voters need to know that their vote matters and elected officials need to know that they are not above the law. we cannot allow a president to seek to subvert an election and if they succeed they are president for life. and if they fail, there s no consequence. that is one sure way to lose our democracy. which brings us back to a word we speak of on this program every single day, accountability. how without accountability our democracy will not survive. trump is trying to avoid accountability. still spreading his lies, still denying his loss, just last night his lawyers asked the judge overseeing the federal election case to push trump s trial back to april of 2026. when the judge ultimately decides to schedule the trial we will see whether what happens and we will see whether or not a
lie, the other searches for a message that would stick. as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening, i m christiane stepping in for stephanie ruhle. on tonight, and your bunch of text messages between mark meadows and sean hannity revealing just how closely they work together to push trump s big lie. cnn reports they exchanged more than 80 messages between election day in 2020, and joe biden s inauguration. they suggest hannity was at times louis a fox news host, and more a white house advisor. even a researcher. on november 20, ninth 2020, he wrote, i ve had my team digging into the numbers. there s no way biden got those numbers. just mathematically impossible. it s so sad for this country that they can pull this off in 2020. we need a major breakthrough. meadows replied, you re exactly right.