Politics the former president s pardon play. Donald trumps lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 Election Trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. Plus a game of risk. New reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. How another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. President biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a Friend Theory of Foreign Policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. Im Phil Mattingly in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Were going to start with this up first. Two questions. Do you know what youre doing on monday . Do you know what youre doing in april, 2026 . The answer is no for me on both of them. Donald trump, though, has plans for both. More specifically mr. Trump knows where he wont be on monday
Good evening, everyone, i am abby phillip, and welcome to cnn primetime. There are doxxing threats against the grand jurors in georgia, and a death threat against a federal judge in the wake of Donald Trumps for four criminal indictments. Meanwhile, hes now proposed a date for one of the multiple trials that he faces. This one, jack smiths federal election subversion case. And that is april 2026. Yes, that is more than two and a half years away. And it comes as he is negotiating his surrender over in georgia on charges that he and 18 codefendants orchestrated a Criminal Enterprise to overturn joe bidens election victory. I will talk to one republican who says the rico charge in georgia is, quote, a nuclear bomb where a bullet would have been appropriate. And we have got much more on all of this to come and plus, imagine you are on a flight to cancun, and just 27 minutes into your trip, you see this outside of your window. Smoke and flames shooting out of the right engine and tonight, i
Were breaking down the historic summit that just wrapped up at camp david a short time ago. Also tonight, were learning more about Donald Trumps plans to skip next weeks republican president ial debate. Sources saying an interview with former fox news host Tucker Carlson is now in the works as trump aims to steal the spotlight from his rivals. And a categoryfour Hurricane Lashing Mexico and is posing an unprecedented threat now to Southern California. The region is under its first Tropical Storm watch ever, and potentially facing a years worth of rain in a matter of hours. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzers off today. Im alex marquardt, and youre in the situation room. The Camp David Summit is our top story this hour. President joe biden working to strengthen ties with japan and south korea as the three countries face urgent threats from china and north korea. Cnns Arlette Saenz is at camp da david. And will ripley is standing by. H
Criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. A senior Law Enforcement official tells me former President Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in at the end of next week. Trumps surrender and arraignment are likely to look different from those in his previous three criminal cases. The Fulton County sheriff has suggested he wants to treat trump and the others similar to any other defendant. That could mean they would have mugshots taken and be fingerprinted. All of this will happen just a day or two after the first republican debate. We have a lot more to come on all that. Plus, we have a brandnew up date from the National Hurricane center on hurricane hillary. The storm could dump over a years worth of rain on the southwest, including the los angeles area. Stay tuned for that. Gentlemen, thanks for staying up late. Let me start with you, john. Trump is set to surrender for the fourth time late next week. This time, the world could get a mug shot of the former president. You wo
White house correspondent Jacqui Heinrich is at camp david tonight. Good evening, jacqui. Good evening, bret. The leaders convened to show, give a show of force, rather, against threats from north korea and also from china. They announced a new Joint Commitment to consult with each other in times of crisis, increase their military exercises, jointly in the region. Step up intelligence sharing, and also a new plan to convene annually at a new summit. The leaders did Call Out North Korea by name. But they were careful not to oreillyrile china. Make clear this is not the beginning of a new formal alliance. The president s domestic problems loomed in the background, too. Get some lunch . President biden dodged the press for a full week after david weiss, the u. S. Attorney investigating his son, was elevated to special counsel. And today he ended up taking his first question about it shoulder to shoulder with two major u. S. Allies. I have no comment on any investigations going on thats up