Opinion and my lawyers opinion. Donald trump who still wants us to believe he can legally stash americas most sensitive secrets in a maralago bathroom was back in court today, requesting that the whole Criminal Case be dismissed. Also tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris makes an historic visit to an Abortion Clinic as republicans continue to push for a national ban. And i call this one. The big push to force a Chinese Company to divest tiktok would allow the far right maga crowd to swoop in and gobble it up, which now seems very possible. But we begin tonight with the lone exception to Donald Trumps petulant attacks against the judges and prosecutors in the numerous criminal and civil trials against him. That would be one judge aileen cannon, a trump appointee, where remind you, who is overseeing the federal Criminal Case involving trumps mishandling of classified documents. Todays hearing in a florida courtroom on two of trumps motions to try to throw out the case is the latest exam
how did we get here? well, the war in iraq went sideways and there were never any wmds. katrina exposed how unprepared we were for natural disasters. and then a great recession cooked up by bankers left the country in a huge hole. and not a single one of these crooks went to jail for it. we re losing faith in our institutions because they keep failing us. and in other cases these institutions are being destroyed on purpose. a new gallup poll shows less than half the country has confidence in the police. this started in ferguson. they told us an unarmed black man was killed by a police officer while he had his hands up. remember? the riots over hands up, don t shoot? turns out it was a hoax. then george floyd s death created the defund the police movement that caused the a crime wave. even less, americans trust the medical system. people don t like getting billed by insurance monopolies and we don t like being drugs we don t need by doctors who are compensated by drug companie
A pleaeal. Jury selection in that trial is expected to begin today. Cnn news central continues right now. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Hello, everyone. Im kate bolduan here in new york. John berman is off today. Sara sidner is in israel. We have a lot of Breaking News happening right now in israel, in washington and potentially in georgia. Were going to get to all of it right now. Happening right now in georgia, Jury Selection is under way at the Fulton County courthouse there in the Racketeering Case against former trump attorney kenneth chesbro, you see his mugshot there. Weve also learned that he has been offered a plea deal and we could learn at any moment if hes going to take that deal. Just yesterday we learned on r peon charged alongside trump and chesbro, Sidney Powell, she pleaded guilty as part of another plea deal, and in doing so agreed to testify in future trials which would mean testifying against donald trump. We have a lot going on here and its playing out in co
story. so there is certainly a lot of information that is available to the attorney general. some of the trump organization s accountants also has been in front of the investigators. the interesting thing, and this is a little inside baseball, ali, is it s unusual to be pushing so hard on a civil investigation that has a parallel criminal investigation. you cannot use a civil investigation as a stocking horse to develop evidence that you could then use in a criminal investigation. and that s one of the arguments that the trumps lawyers make why these subpoenas and or depositions are inappropriate now. and it is a legitimate argument. so it will be interesting to see how this plays out going forward. the trump legal team prior to tonight had addressed this issue in which they said the state attorney general is engaged in a criminal investigation that has an active grand jury. it cannot issue subpoenas for
taken and that progress that has been made on our own borders. the russia and china relationship. what china might be learning from this war and the u.s. response. what are your thoughts? i think the most important thing is how do you deal with the problem of china and russia ganging up on you. russia s stocking horse in europe. it s trying to create a weak and divided europe, which is exactly what china wants and you have to make you have to make russia a less desirable partner for china and the way to do that is to take away the things that allows putin to threaten you. so, again, it comes back to energy and the ability to deter them. bret, quickly from you, what more do you think the u.s. could be doing right now to try to