Justice department is taking this language from defended trump very seriously. The Special Counsel team cited trumps truth social post in an immediate and pressing requests for the judge to impose a protective order to prevent the former president from making public any Sensitive Information turned over by the prosecutors. From that request quote, such a restriction is particularly important in this case, because the defendant has previously issued public statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys, and others associated with legal matters pending against him. End quote. In response, trumps Spokesperson Put out a statement, claiming the post is quote, the definition of political speech. End quote. The implication that it is protected by the First Amendment. The protective order that the quote is seeking, is in reference to trumps scheme to interfere with the 2020 election and that desperate temps to cling to power during the final weeks of his presidency. Its a ca
Exposed in the depths of his political depraft at this and corrupt and criminal acts has been laid bare. Not by radical leftists, or any of us in the media but by his inner most circle and the really, really committed ones as that. The Trump Officials who stayed on until the bitter last days of a bitter presidency tell us the riveting story of not one, not two but three Criminal Conspiracies that trump stands accused of by the United States government, in essence against the United States government. By the numbers jack smith has charged three Criminal Conspiracies, four criminal counts, named six Unindicted Coconspirators and shined the light on one who was willing to overturn his election defeat. The indictment brought by jack smith against donald trump makes the coup plot he directed Crystal Clear for the world to see. Here is how the Justice Department explains the first criminal count as the conspiracy to defraud the u. S. Quote, the purpose of the conspiracy was to overturn the l
Donald trump has another court date on the calendar after pleading not guilty for the third time in four months. Is he going to use this trial to relitigate the 2020 election again . And a Russian Naval ship towed away, the results of what appears to be a strike from an unmanned sea drone overnight. Sara is off, im kate bolduan with john berman and this is cnn news central. All right. These are the numbers hot off the presses, 187,000, 187 k jobs added in july, thats according to the bureau of labor statistics. The Unemployment Rate ticked down to 3. 5 . So these are the numbers, what do they mean . Standing with me here oh so naturally richard quest. You can answer the question. What does that mean . How big of a deal is that . Its important because if you are talking about a soft landing, according to one economist this morning, that is what a soft landing looks like. Why . It is lower than expected, under 200,000. The revisions of the last two months, they are also lower, which sugg
To stay in the 2024 president ial race, even if he gets convicted. It has been just over 24 hours since we learned the Justice Department added three new criminal charges against him in a classified documents case. Tonight trump was in iowa for the first big gathering of gop candidates, and he claimed the governments allegations were really about his race for the white house. If i werent running, i would have nobody coming after me, or if i was losing by a lot, i would have nobody coming after me. Trump is now facing a total of 40 counts related to his handling of classified material after leaving the white house. Nbcs Garrett Haake has more on the case against the former president. In the new charges the Special Counsel alleging mr. Trump sought a coverup to conceal classified documents at his maralago home by deleting Surveillance Video. Now charging a new defendant, maralago property manager Carlos De Oliveira with two Obstruction Counts and with making false statements to the fbi.
The Appeals Court hearing on Donald Trumps Immunity Hearing has wrapped up. The threejudge appellant panel facing this big question can the former president be held criminally responsible for actions that he took while in office to overturn the 2020 election loss. We heard a remarkable argument from trumps team who heard the argument that prosecuting a former president would open up a pandoras box as john sauer said that working in the capacity as alleged in the indictment by jack smith, the Special Counsels office pushing back on that. This notion that we are all of the sudden going to be seeing a floodgate, i think that, again, the careful investigations in the clinton era didnt result in any charges. The fact that this investigation did doesnt reflect that we are going to see a sea change of vindictive titfortat prosecutions in the future. I think it reflects fundamentally unprecedented nature of the criminal charges here. Cnns evan perez joins us now. Evan, you were inside of that