political ones development as well on the federal side. lawyers for the former vice president were in court today behind closed doors, trying to block a grand jury subpoena for his testimony in the january 6th case, and in the classified documents case. tomorrow is the day the former prisons attorney , evan corcoran, is expected to give additional testimony and turned over documents after the d. c district appeals court. upheld. the judge is incredibly rare decision to set aside attorney client privilege under the crime fraud exception. now we have reporting tonight on all of the above cnn s kara scannell on them and hadn t case and kaylen poland s on the federal action caress canal starts us off. so any idea why things have slowed down with the grand jury in new york. this grand jury has been hearing evidence in this case since january. we ve seen a number of the witnesses close to this david pecker at the national enquirer. um michael cohen, who is trump s fixed or the man
republican party is once again siding with lawless insurrectionists mob. crimes. today, bragg s office responded calling that republican letter unprecedented and writing, quote, the letter only came after donaldok trump created a hmvuit(sáqxd expectation that hd be arrested the next day, and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene. neither fact is illegitimate basis for congressional inquiry. ñrcongresswoman zoe lofgren,ñi e served on the january six committee and she joins me now. odzcongresswoman, it s great to see you. what is your reaction at this9■ point to all of this coming from kevin and!u■ marjorie taylr greeneq involving ashley?;■ babbitt s mother and those insurrectionists who are now ini jail? á well, i don t know. i mean, i wasn t in on the meetingçó between babbitt si] mother and the speaker. ñiobviously, this woman was killedq. itn( sad and she lostc her life because she wasxdu researched. so, we laid everything out. the videos, the doc
lot of mothers of young black men killed by police out there who would love to sit down with the speaker of the house and talk about police reform. so, why don t y all just call the speaker up and ask for a meeting? or is mccarthy only interested in throwing red meat to the part of his base that s sympathetic to the mob? or trying to make amends with them, after he said babbitt s shooting was justified just a few weeks ago? one of the first things marjorie taylor greene said that ashley babbitt was murdered. do you think ashley babbitt was murdered or you do you think the police officer who shot her was doing his job? i think the police officer did his job. for her part, ashley babbitt s mother said she spoke to mccarthy about those comments, specifically. i called thought speaker mccarthy was delightful and i know i would imagine you were upset when he said that the cops who shot your daughter was doing his job. did you discuss that specifically? we did. and wh
that has just wrapped up with russian president vladimir putin calling his meeting with chinese president xi jingping successful. today, the two leaders signing a joint declaration deepening their partnership. and the summit obviously comes at a critical time for the war in ukraine. there are strong indications now that russia and china are moving closer both economically and militarily. xi is framing himself as a possible peace broker and they say it could be the basis for ending the war. but the u.s. and western allies remain deeply sceptical. there are signs that russia has requested lethal aid from china but added they don t see evidence that weapons are being delivered. we have team coverage on this. ivan watson is in ukraine. but let s begin with will ripley in taiwan. what more do we know about the talks in moscow today? well, you know, there was a line from vladimir putin as they were signing these documents deepening their partnership that really summed up the re
why are you up here? when i was your age, we couldn t stream a movie when the power went out. you re only a year older than me. you have no idea how good you ve got it. huh? what a time to be alive. introducing the next generation 10g network. only from xfinity. the future starts now. it is the top of the hour. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we re grateful you re sharing an afternoon with us. i m boris sanchez. it s great to be with you. hi, everyone, i m jessica dean. let s get to new york where barricades are up, some protesters are out and it s all in response to a former president s prediction. donald trump saying he ll be arrested today and directing his supporters to, quote, protest and take back our nation. officials say since his online post, the fbi and other federal authorities have seen an uptick in violent rhetoric, calling for civil war but nothing near the levels, they say, before the january 6th capitol riot. the manhattan da is not commenting about an