thank you alex! have a great show. thank you. well this is the breaking news that i m holding in my hands. this is a letter from donald trump s attorneys to attorney general merrick garland. the letter to the attorney general says, we represent donald j trump, 45th president of the united states in the investigation currently being conducted by the special counsel s office. they go on to propaganda rise about hunter biden which acquires makes no sense. and then they say what the letter is about in the final sentence of there s a very short letter. we request a meeting at your earliest convenience to discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your special counsel and his prosecutors. thank you for your attention to this matter. so there it is tonight, the trump lawyers asking merrick garland, attorney general of the united states for a meeting about special counsel jack smith s criminal investigations of donald trump which of course includes the documents
kevin mccarthy, the speaker oflf the house, all of his meeting requests. he wouldn t even pick up ta the phone and take mccarthy s calls. he even blaststhy s calls. a go. bill raising the debt limit, the very thing that woulvedry ti tht the u.s. fromwith a defaulting. but now, with the possible pblea default, only twenty two daystoda away, joe biden, well, today he finally met with the speaker ofy the house and the minority leader in the senate. but lat is this a little too? little, too late? we all right.will coming up tonight, we ll ask louisiana senator john kennedy that question. that we start tonight di with this. did the cia activelythe cr helpr joe biden get elected president in the fall of twenty 20 ? did they put a cinder blocke on the scales of the election? s isas is alleged about the fbi? we have a bombshell new report from the house judiciary committee. it is exposing a shocking levele of election malfeasance among tployees at the ciact. according to fox news,
agreed to up to $75 million to settle a case involving sex offender and former financierjeffrey epstein. the wall streetjournal first reported that the lawsuit alleged that the bank did business with epstein for five years while knowing he was using money in his bank accounts to further sex trafficking activity, and that the bank ignored red flags including payments to numerous young women. with me is news correspondentjessica parker to discuss this further. great to have you with us, tell us what deutsche bank is saying about all this. about all this. deutsche bank toniuht about all this. deutsche bank tonight are about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying very - about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying very little. | tonight are saying very little. it is officially no comment at the moment from the bank. but there have been pointed to a statement they made in 2020 where they talked about acknowledging the
against the company for faciliating financierjefrey epstein s sex trafficking ring. a woman listed anonoymously as jane doe in court papers filed the suit last year on behalf of herself and other accusers. she alleged deutsche bank did business with epstein for five years while knowing he was using money in his bank accounts to further his sex trafficking activity. the lawsuit alleged the bank ignored red flags including payments to numerous young women. epstein took his own life in a federaljail in new york in 2019 while awaiting trail on sex trafficking charges. the journal reports the settlement is expected to compensate dozens of epstein s accusers. in a statement to the newspaper, a spokesman for the bank said: in recent years deutsche bank has made considerable progress inremedying a number of past issues. according to thejournal s sources, the bank did not admit any wrongdoing as part of this settlement. this information has not been verified by the bbc but we
bombs itself hitting a city of more than 400,000 people, leaving a massive crater. and blowing a car onto a roof. so just how effective is the russian war machine? accidental bombing that is again raising that question. deadline day for a case with huge implications for the entire country is supreme court decision could drop it any moment on medication , abortion and the fate of a pill that millions of women have used for more than two decades. the worst kept secret in washington, president biden said to announce his 2024 campaign next week with the election of mere 564 days away that went fast. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. a powerful explosion overnight right in the heart of belgorod, russia near the ukrainian border , not the work of ukrainian forces, but a russian fighter jet with the brief flying through the air. the kremlin has acknowledged that one of its own warplanes accidentally dropped t