At bassett. Com. This is cnn news President Biden is preparing to deliver his state of the Union Address tonight. A high stake speech that comes at a key moment in his presidency. And the 2024 race so what does he need to say and du to convince voters that he deserves another four years. Plus the National Guard now being called into americas largest Subway System. Why new york has taken highprofile measures lets to deal with a surging crime and stop me. If youve heard this before, last month was officially the hottest record. The hottest february on record, what Scientists Say is the global hot streak continues. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News Central in just a few hours, President Biden will deliver what may be the most consequential speech of his political career. The State Of The Union. A Growing Number of the president s top allies want him to ratchet up the intensity and ramp up his attacks on the trumpled Republican
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We are inching closer to i deadline in the governments case against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trumps lars now have about 22 hours to respond to a legal filing from special counsel jack smith. He requested a protective order after trump posted this on social media on friday. If you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Today on cnn we heard from one trump lawyer who says he will fight that protective order. The Defense Attorney also says trump did not tell Vice President mike pence at the time to throw out key electoral votes. He says the key distinction is that trump merely asked. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking is not action. Its core free speech. What President Trump did not do is direct Vi
Oh mess every day in every state across the country our political system is bankrolled by an army of fundraisers pulling in millions of dollars a race sometimes it looks like you might imagine knocking on doors, calling every name in the phonebook, and emails, so many emails. But for all those little fish drawing 100 to their local race, its the whales, those Campaign Fundraisers really need powerful and rich individuals and companies. And when they donate 20 5,000, 1 million, they want a favor or ten it should be obvious that thats corrupt, but with a wink and nod, political deals to the bribery line every single day. And we may never have noticed that certain illinois the governor hadnt flung back the curtain within unrepentant ego, a political corruption, crime spree in a set of unprecedented Audio Recordings that shined a bright light on the inner workings of american political power. Ladies and gentlemen meet Rod Blagojevichs it was Early Morning because i used to get up every mor
with something that e. jean carroll said, just this morning, that really stuck with me all day. what was it like being in the courtroom with donald trump? well, terrifying, until i got there. the weeks leading up to it, no sleep, couldn t eat, couldn t do and then, i sat down, robbie said, good morning ms. carroll, can you please spell your name for the court. i spelled my name. i looked out, and it was like, he was, like, nothing, like an emperor without clothes. all my terror leading up to it, and then he s just something in a suit. he was like nothing, as she just said, like an emperor with no clothes. she was scared. she admitted that. but when she saw him in that courtroom, she realized he was nothing. e. jean carroll is not a political strategist. don t go down that road, she never has been. she s not giving advice to the biden campaign. but what s she said there may actually offer some wisdom about donald trump. she revealed something here that is important to
today on inside politics waiting and watching. we are about to find out how much donald trump will have to pay after being found liable for defamation and sexual abuse. it is now all up to the jury. we will have live updates from inside the courtroom. plus, pushing for a pause. president biden dispatched his cia director to help negotiate a deal to release israeli hostages kidnapped during the brutal october 7th attack. this as we are learning about a very tense call between the u.s. president and the israeli prime minister. and ignoring the supreme court. that s what the state of texas is doing when it comes to the southern border, and almost every republican governor is supporting the decision. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. as we speak donald trump s attorney is giving her closing argument in the e. jean carroll defamation trial. the jury will start deliberating this afternoon on how much trump must pay in damages. this morn