Donald trump, helping him post the 91. 6 million bond for e. Jean carroll. Now that he has shown he can get the money, what can it mean for the 460 million and counting he owes the state of new york. Joining us now msnbc legal continue, lisa rubin. He was due to post this bond on monday. Yesterday you and i were talking about the delay he was asking for. That was denied. That was. So posting it, what does it mean to have this on the books. It means that e. Jean carroll is protected through the Second Circuits disposition. One of the things i noticed when i was going through the bond today is that it actually only covers the appeal to the Second Circuit. It doesnt cover any appeal that he would take from the Second Circuit if it affirms the jurys verdict of 83. 3 million. Youre going to have to explain that. If he appeals further to the supreme court, hes going to need Somebody Else to come in and provide that security if he takes that appeal further. Otherwise, he will owe her that mon
Investigation. Also tonight, dramatic video captures a Brazen Ukraine drone attack on a major Russian Naval base leaving a kremlin warship badly damaged as it was towed from the black sea. And olympic gold medallist simone biles returns to the spotlight. The gymnastics star attempting to make a comeback this weekend, two years after taking a Mental Health break. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. We begin with donald trump entering two not guilty pleas within 24 hours. The former president of the United States just filed his response to additional charges in the classified Documents Case aday after historic spectacle of his january 6 arraignment here in washington. Cnns senior crime and justice reporter Katelyn Polantz is following this for us. Remind us what the additional maralago charges are all about. Well, those are charges we do know about because donald trump was hit with them about a week ago.
fox news alert. president biden just reacting to a damning special counsel report, a report that called him an elderly man with a poor memory. the special counsel released their findings today about their look into my handling of classified documents. i was pleased to see they reached the conclusion i believe they knew all along they would come of there are no charges should be brought in this case. [applause] as many of you know, this was an exhaustive investigation. going back literally more than 40 years. 40 years, when i became a united states senator, i was a kid. [laughter] i was a kid. 29 years old. bottom line is the special counsel, in my case, decided against moving forward with any charges. this matter is now closed. dana: the special counsel releasing his long-awaited classified documents report. robert hur is his name and he is not recommending criminal charges, but he laid out how the president willfully retained and disclosed highly-classified materials whe
we ll explain his public comments following his arrest and arraignment that might be used by federal prosecutors to convince a jury of his guilt. we re joined now live from miami. evan, trump is back in his bedminster, new jersey golf club. where does the case go from here? reporter: jake, we have a lot of developments that are going to be happening very, very quickly. first of all, his co-defendant, walt nauta, we ll see him back in court before a magistrate in a couple of weeks. he, as you remember yesterday, he didn t have a lawyer who could practice here in the southern direct of florida. so he will have to hire a new lawyer and get arraigned for the pirs time again in a couple of weeks. the former president, his case can move forward. we no e that the judge who is overseeing this is going to have a lot of issues to face head on. one is the whole process of reviewing these national security documents at the center of this case. we know that the defense is going to want
john king here in for anderson tonight. thanks for your time. the deal that might have been. some breaking news, new reporting of a trump attorney who wanted to try to settle with the justice department, and keep his client from facing charges. the catch, his client. also tonight, cnn gets frontline access to ukrainian special forces. on the hunt for russian commanders, to corner and kill. and later, a father a speaking out about nearly using his children and their remarkable story of surviving 40 days in the colombian jungle. but we begin with the new reporting on what you might call the exit ramp not taken by the former president. one that might have kept him off his current road to trial in the documents case. it just hits the washington post, quoting one of donald trump s new attorney s proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. the former presidents team could try to arrange a settlement with the justice department. just aussie of the post shares the byline on that story. h