my mother s journey may not have even begun, if not for brave journalists who chose to chronicle history and real time. and i don t know how to ever repay my mom for what she s done for me and what she s done for so many people in alabama. but just know mama. if a white billionaire call you and offer to buy your house, please sell it. because i might want to become an n f t thank you so much. correspondentsassociation. thank you so much for keith. thank you all so much. good night. you ve been watching roy wood jr at the white house correspondents dinner that concludes cross countries live coverage. i m laura jones. we now join one nation, brian kilmeade already in progress.. . more like this. around 30 feet gives it a good wrap. whispering, like a golf tournament. why was he whispering? it was supposed to be joe time. even yell at us and provide us with a vision this country has been lacking. and the most critical time in our country s history with china. we lost 85,000
with president biden and putin today bolstering their respective alliances with nato and china. their pitches come just days before the first anniversary of moscow s invasion of ukraine. global tensions between the superpowers highlighted on a day of diplomacy in both warsaw and moscow. acidity many times, i ll say it again it s absolutely clear. article five is a secret commitment the united states has made. we will defend every inch of nato. meantime, as trace pointed out, with respect to joe biden s 2024 presidential campaign prospects, typically the question has been, should he or shouldn t he run again? however, now, increasingly democrats are wrestling with a very different and indeed pressing question. it will he or won t he? tonight, politico reporting that democrats are quietly preparing for the possibility that the 80-year-old simply won t be up for the task. and the longer he waits to officially declare his intentions you guessed it, a growing number of would
search of mar-a-lago. prosecutors made the case for secrecy because evidence might be destroyed, they said, but the judge set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit as soon as next week. ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words coming from former trump senior officials who dispute the former president s claim that he had, quote, a standing order to declassify documents that he took from the white house. cnn reached out to 18 former top trump administration officials and all of them told us they never heard any such order issued during their time working for donald trump. we re going to have much more on that in just a moment. joining us now is former senior counsel to ken starr, former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the department of homeland security, paul rosen swig. i want to talk about the document released yesterday by judge reinhart which outlines some of the reasons why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s home and one o
his attempt to overturn the election. someone who knew what he was doing. according to congresswoman liz cheney, he had every reason to know that what he was doing was wrong. the argument seems to be the president trump was manipulated by others outside the administration. that he was persuaded to ignore his closest advisors and that he was incapable of telling right from wrong. this, of course, is nonsense. president trump is a 76-year- old man. he is not an impressionable child. the first time the public were shown testimony from pat cipollone, who spoke to the panel friday. going to start by asking you if you agree with all of the individuals that there is no evidence of no election fraud sufficient to change the outcome ? yes, i believe that. did you believe that the president should concede once you made determination based on the. did you form the believe that the president should see the election loss of a certain point after the election. well, yeah. i w
advisors. and that he was incapable of telling right from wrong. this of course is nonsense. president trump is a 76-year-old man, he is not an impressionable child. today, was the first time the public was shown the testimony of principle on who spoke to the panel last friday. start by asking you a few questions, mr. cipollone. more than bill, bore all of the election i agree with that. did you believe, mr. cipollone, that the president should concede once you made determination based on investigations since you credited the doj did but did you have in your mind a president should concede the election laws that a supreme point during the election? again, i was the white house counsel, some of those decisions are political, so to the extent that if your question is, did i believe he should concede the election at a point time, yes, i did. i believe that was i believe in due process. that would be in line with my thinking on these things. the mcconnell spee