Good evening and welcome to a special early edition. Im laura coates. Live. We begin with breaking news. Special counsel jack smith is now thinking a gag order against donald trump in the classified documents case. Jack smith is asking the judge to quote, make clear that trump may not make statements that pose a significant imminent and foreseeable danger to Law Enforcement agents who are participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case. So now, why is it special counsel asking for this . You might be asking, well, its because of what donald trump said this week when he falsely claimed, but fbi agents who searched maralago or quote, Locked And Loaded and authorized to shoot him. He was misrepresenting the standard language and documents and the fbi says it uses routinely. Heres by the way, how attorney general Merrick Garland explain it just yesterday okay. And that one that allegation is false and it is extremely dangerous the document that is being referred to in the a
Tapper in 2009, South Carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rock star. In 2009, South Carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rockstar his reputation as a Budget Slashing Deficit Hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person the search for sanford through his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of leinz that coined the phrase to hide the Appalachian Trail. But it also revealed something deeper. How even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of the human being and counterintuiti vely, when the world was crashing down around him, bearing at all might have been the sound have you, as political move of mark sanford is career its monday, night. Do you know where your governor is . Thats what the citizens have South Carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor of mr. Tonight in South Carolina. The states governor, mark sanford dis
Reveals what happened on that president s helicopter that someone had survived for hours lets go out front im good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. The Breaking News trump claims Deadly Force Authorized quotes. The former president and his allies absurdly accusing President Biden of trying to assassinate trump. And moments ago, trumps team sent out this newsletter, just got came into my email. They call it the palm beach playbook, but it comes from donald j. Trump. Com the very first line under top news falsely claims that deadly force was authorized against trump during an fbi rate at maralago that the intent of that being possible assassination, the newsletter coming just an hour after trump gave this Radio Interview newly released Court Filings showed that the fbi was authorized to use deadly force if needed during the rate of your private home in august 2022, its stunning. Youre a former president of the United States what was your reaction that it was authorized by biden
What else on his bucket list is there that he wants to do . Dwight says hed like to go into orbit thank you so much for watching these night. Laura coates live starts right now no more testimony, no more witnesses. The jury and the trump trial gets ready to finally have it say, plus trump says one thing about Birth Control restrictions i went to then say another. So what does he actually believe and theres a new twist of the death of Matthew Perry, why a Criminal Investigation is malbon launched, all tonight im Laura Coates Live you know what occurs to me that something nights it might be really easy to forget that none of what weve been saying is actually anywhere near normal. That might be in the Rearview Mirror frankly, if former President Running for reelection surrounded by legal carnage, one might also become numb to the headlines but tonight is one of those nights where the flood of news very quickly remind you just how unusual this really all is. Just bear with me for just a mo
Tonight on three 60, the defense of the trump trial rest, but not without a damaging crossexamination. Theyre only witness also new photos we have never seen before in the classified documents case allegedly showing a trump aide and codefendant moving boxes inside maralago before trump attorneys were to check for classified files . And severe turbulence on Board A Singapore bound plane from london, one dead dozens injured. How it happened tonight. Good evening. The defense of donald trump ended today in a manhattan courtroom. The former president whos made wild accusations outside the court chose to remain silent and not speak to the jury under oath the one witness, the defendant did want the jury to hear an attorney named Robert Costello. The defense called him yesterday to try and undermine the credibility of the prosecutions key witness, Michael Cohen but today, prosecutors badly undermined his they used emails involving costello, sent within weeks of Michael Cohens arrest by the fb