We are grateful you join us tonight. Happy to. Thank you very much. It has been quite a here of course, only the first of many as we learn today that there are many more court dates to come. The news continues, i want to turn things over right now to cnn prime time with wolf blitzer and laura coats. Our Special Coverage continues now on the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. Im wolf blitzer along laura coates, truly an extraordinary and unprecedented day right here in washington d. C. The former president at one point was in the custody of the very government he allegedly tried to overthrow. Just a mere step or two or three from the center of democracy with his supporters attacking on january six and a combination of a plot to overturn the election. Donald j trump arrested and arraigned for the third time in four months, on for federal charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. The next He
Our Special Coverage continues now on the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. Im wolf blitzer alongside laura coates. Truly an extraordinary and unprecedented day right here in washington, d. C. I mean the former president at one point was in the custody of the very government he allegedly tried to overthrow, just a mere step or two from the center of democracy of supporters even attacked on january 6th in the culmination of the plot to overture election. Onald j. Trump arres arraigned for the third time in four months on four federal charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy against rights. The next hearing now scheduled for august 28th when the judge intends to set a trial date. And donald trump was standing up in court today, and he actually pleaded not guilty to all four of those criminal charges. And before boarding his private plane to return to new jersey, he was railing against the indictment and try
investigators. the death toll rising overnight after a russian missile strike on kramatorsk. and another hot and hazy day ahead, millions of people under heat or air quality alerts. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin with new developments in the donald trump efforts to overturn the 2020 election. later today jack smith s team will speak to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger as part of their january 6 investigation. you may remember then president trump called raffensperger in january of 2021 to press him to, quote, find the votes needed to win georgia which joe biden won by nearly 12,000 votes. here is part of that now infamous call. so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11 sk1,780 votes which is one more than we have, because we won the state. and we re also learning that the former attorney rudy giuliani has been interviewed as part of the probe. the meeting between giuliani, his attorney and invest
the january 6th case that could be approaching its end game. plus, in the classified documents investigation, previously unreported details on a subpoena for surveillance footage, not from mar-a-lago this time, but from donald trump s bedminster golf club. first, though, something exciting to share that s a little closer to home. tomorrow on this very program at this very time, president joe biden will join us in what will be his first live sit-down interview since becoming president. we don t have to tell you there is a ton to ask him about and talk to him about. you won t want to miss it right here at 4:00 tomorrow. but after i pick my job off the floor that i just actually read that, we ll go back to our top story, rudy giuliani, mr. four seasons total landscaping himself met with special counsel prosecutors in recent weeks. nbc news confirmed that he did that with his own political adviser, ted goodman after earlier reporting in the day from cnn. crucially, goodman insi
by hamas. the lead starts right now. three hostages shot and killed today. tragic news, plus, verdict watch at a dc courthouse that any moment we expect the jury will return a verdict, one that could cost and cnn exclusive. the case of the missing classified binder. once in the hands of donald trump, how did this notebook with top secret material on russia just vanish? poof. in the final hours of the trump presidency, and could the information now be in the wrong hands? welcome to the lead. we start this hour with an exclusive from a team of cnn journalists that report a binder containing highly classified intelligence on russia s attempts to in the election, disappeared in the final days of donald trump s presidency. there s many theories of where it might be. and who may have taken it. one theory is from cassidy hutchison. who wrote about mark meadows taking the file in her book. i watched him climb into the limo, noticing the binder tucked under his arm. it s a