Case. Hes facing in the peach state he and more than a dozen. 41 counts have been thrown out the judge saying that prosecutors committed a quote, fatal mistake in filing the charges he ordered be dropped. And one of the dismiss charges involves defendants interactions with georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who you remember received this infamous phone call from trump in 2021 well, i want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 loads, which is one more that we have because we won the state todays decision is a small victory as the former president still faces at plus criminal charges amid four separate indictments at the state and federal level. Lets discuss with cnn chief Legal Correspondent paula reid paula explain why some of these charges were dismissed and what this means for the broader case. Well, here the judge is saying, look, its not that you didnt make sufficient allegations in terms of the conduct. He said, look, theres an abundance of alleged criminal conduc
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Happening now, Breaking News, cnn. Well, you find a central witness in the classified docs Documents Case. Now, speaking publicly for the first time, standby for details on what he knows as he urges voters out there to learn the truth about his former boss also tonight, a dire warning from the fbi director that the Terrorism Threat against the United States is that a whole new level . After the october 7 attack on israel and the war in gaza standby for more on alarming new testimony by the nations top intelligence officials. And the princess of wales now says shes responsible for editing a family photo that was supposed to ease speculation about her health after up nominal surgery instead, the image and the controversy are now raising even more questions about whats going on with the british royal. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room the skis. Cnn Breaking News because thats good right to the Breaking News,
Skis, cnn Breaking News, because thats good right to the Breaking News, cnn has exclusive new interview with a key witness in the Trump Classified documents case, known only as trump employee five, at least until now . Cnns kaitlan, polands as a west palm beach, florida near maralago, kaitlan. Who is this witness . And why is he speaking out now well, if this is brian butler, brian butler worked for donald trump for 20 years at the Maralago Club at one point, running the car service for all of the gases thats coming in and out of the club. He eventually left that job in fall of 2022, but that was not before he had been privy to some major conversations and moments in this classified documents investigation. And now he is someone who has spoken to prosecutors multiple times and clearly is a key witness. For the indictment. One of those moments he recalls, wolf is June 3 Of 2022 when he was working at the club and the bodyman of donald trump, walt nauta, asked him oddly in his estimation
Documents indictment, things have the case against his former boss, his name is brian butler, and hes been talking to investigators and now hes talking to the sources Kaitlan Collins, who joins us its from miami. So why is he speaking out now . Kaitlyn well, anderson, in part because hes worried that americans and voters will never get to hear this story before the election in november. Obviously, trumps legal team has sought this strategy of delay, delay, delay, especially when it comes to the classified documents case. And so this witness, someone and who was a longtime employee at maralago for 20 years is now speaking out publicly because of a concern that that it may not come to light. I mean, donald trump has repeatedly called this investigation a witch hunt. Brian butler, who until now was known only as trump employee number five, is now saying that he disagrees with that. He doesnt believe its a witchhunt and he was able to provide key testimony to the special counsel, jack smit