Twice in the last 24 hours. And an almost uncontrollable crowd in new york city. What police say led to the surge that resulted in dozens of arrests. And Tens Of Millions of people in the u. S. Once again starting the day under heat alerts. One city is even putting sunscreen on the roads. Announcer live from cnn center this is cnn newsroom with lynda kinkade. The republican front runner donald trump takes his Election Campaign to South Carolina tonight, a state considered a bellwether of future electoral outcomes, and trumps appearance at a republican event in Alabama Friday came hours after he pleaded not guilty for the second time in two days. That was for additional federal charges related to the classified documents case in florida. Special counsel jack smith has asked a federal judge to set strict rules for trumps legal team when they receive evidence in the 2020 election case. Smith wants to keep trump from having copies of key evidence, particularly grand jury testimony, for fea
but i want to start by looking at the bigger picture and ask why we absolutely need to hold everyone involved in this gargantuan anti-democratic efforts to account. it s bad enough that it happened. and but for a few good people doing the right thing at the right time, it could have succeeded. but this is not a past tense discussion. this crime against democracy remains in progress. donald trump is still lying about the election results. he is now attacking, on a daily and sometimes hourly basis, jack smith, prosecutors across the country, the men and women of the fbi, and the justice department. federal judges, the whole united states government, and the rule of law and the republicans in congress who could have washed their hands of trump, after he lost, we ll, take kevin mccarthy, who, in the immediate aftermath of january 6th, laid the blame squarely and accurately with donald trump. that same guy, in order to win over trump s insurrectionist supporters in congress, agr
elections official in philadelphia and who was certainly the focus of some of the efforts by people associated with the former president trying to focus on this idea that there was fraud in center city philadelphia. commissioner schmidt, we had him on the show a lot. exactly. now he has been appointed. he s the secretary of the commonwealth now. in the case of maggie oliver, she was questioned in right weeks. th they re getting asked about the effects of the fraud claims and the threats they received, election officials all over the seven states that were the focus of some of the efforts by the former president and his allies, not only to claim fraud, but also to set aside the valid election results and try to replace them with donald trump essentially even though he had lost them. interestingly, even though this did seem to happen in all of these different battleground states, it s only georgia that there s a local investigation, in fulton county which contains part of
donald trump. that same guy, in order to win over trump s insurrectionist supporters in congress, agreed to a series of concessions, including the so-called weaponization of government subcommittee, which is, itself, the weaponization of government. donald trump held a fund-raiser for january 6th felons at his golf club three weeks ago. the michigan secretary of state, jocelyn benson, said on this program last night, that the threats posed by election denier still persists, and noted the election denier that she beat out the ballot box was rewarded with a job as the head of michigan s republican party. so, yeah, the repercussions of donald trump s lie about the 2020 election have a long tale, all the way to the present day. it s not about making trump and his allies pay for the past. it is about making sure this does not happen again in the future. and to make that case, the only person i wanted to talk to was congressman jamie raskin. he s the ranking member of the house ove
officials have been interviewed in the special counsel s investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. this is the former president s lawyers move to stop prosecutors this their tracks. plus, putin s spin. russian state tv in overdrive after a top general slams the country s military leaders and is fired for it. this as we learn more about putin s alleged meeting with the man who tried to overthrow him. and tonight, an arrest in serial killings othat terrorize new york for decades. the suspect, a married father of three, and an architect. let s go outfront. i m erica hill in for erin b burnett. cnn learning exclusively the special counsel has met with more top officials from states crucial to trump s attempt to maintain power after the 2020 election. interviewing the secretary of stays from pennsylvania and new mexico. these are the latest of course in a growing list of state officials whose cooperation with the special counsel is now public. the h