john king here in for anderson tonight. thanks for your time. the deal that might have been. some breaking news, new reporting of a trump attorney who wanted to try to settle with the justice department, and keep his client from facing charges. the catch, his client. also tonight, cnn gets frontline access to ukrainian special forces. on the hunt for russian commanders, to corner and kill. and later, a father a speaking out about nearly using his children and their remarkable story of surviving 40 days in the colombian jungle. but we begin with the new reporting on what you might call the exit ramp not taken by the former president. one that might have kept him off his current road to trial in the documents case. it just hits the washington post, quoting one of donald trump s new attorney s proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. the former presidents team could try to arrange a settlement with the justice department. just aussie of the post shares the byline on that story. h
head back because it s what five or six, seven in the morning there, and our teams are going to continue working. now, we have had a packed few days here at hiroshima and you think we have had productive meetings at the g7 summit. we also held the quad meeting in hiroshima rather than australia and important bilateral discussions with prime minister kishida of japan, prime minister albanese of australia and president zelenskyy of ukraine as well as the prime minister of india. this is my third trip to the indo-pacific as president and i look forward to rescheduling my stops in papa new guinea and australia later. i have spoken with the prime minister of papa new guinea and secretary blinken is traveling there to meet with the pacific islander partners and yi am goig to be hosting the leaders of the pacific islander forum in washington this fall because i won t be able to make it to papua new guinea. and prime minister albanese, we will have a state visit later this year. i al
he agrees to pay $3 million up front. he comes in, this is right after the raid, they just raided his property and he said you should take the temperature town, we are going to try to find a way out of that. and what you propose is that they go to the justice department, this was before special counsel had been appointed, and taste the appetites. is merrick garland and his team interested in any sort of settlement agreement that avoids criminal charges. and he positive that idea to the former president, and to his other lawyers, it was rejected. and after that, what we report is that there were multiple locations where trump lawyers, trump advisers, try to get him to simply give the documents back. so what ended up happening, the indictment on friday and then i was at the proceedings yesterday, and he just simply refused to do it. you say and the story that he had this let s turn down the temperature, let s see if we can negotiate an agreement here, and pugilist forces in trump
back a sense of normalcy, taking the temperature town and yet the former president is far and away way the leading con tenor to be the republican nominee in 2024. congress now dwaded after the midterm elections is once again doing what congressing do over the course of the last decade and raises real questions about whether or not the u.s. is moving in a different direction than where it was perhaps for the four years that led to events that looks to foreign leaders like completely polar opposite what they would ever kpkt the united states to operate like as, or whether or not this has become kind of the new norm. and i think all of that feeds into it, guys, and i think there is a broader concern despite the fact this was screwed as a successful g7 summit. phil, aaron, lynn, thank you, sam kylie in ukraine as well.