end. then, nikki haley fanning the culture war flames. a fact check on what she said over the weekend. and apple debuting a 3500 dollar headset. but is there more to this? with just a hefty price tag, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good monday evening. i am stephanie ruhle, with a lot of news to cover tonight. and the special counsel s investigation into donald j trump s handling of classified documents appears to be at equivocal stage. and i know i ve said that to you before, but this time, i really think it s different. this morning, three members of trump s legal team went to the justice department to meet with the one and only jack smith. remember, just two weeks ago, trump s lawyers sent an official letter to attorney general merrick garland asking for a chance to make their case. the attorney general was not at today s meeting, we don t know everything that was discussed. but the washington post reports this, people familiar with the matter
announcement. the twitter meltdown during ron desantis much-anticipated run for president. and on day one, the florida governor attacks donald trump. i don t know what happened to donald trump, but he has a different guy today than when he was running in 2015. norah: the shocking story of an 11-year-old boy shot bylit wrist officers officers are tied to a domestic call at his home. hisast words were, why did they shoot me? what did i do? norah: traveling for the holiday weekend? we will have the weather and travel forecast. 3.3 million people are expected to fly, surpassing pre-pandemic levels. it is a 13-foot great white shark. they are thriving off east coast right now, and we will explain why. norah: and we go person to person with olympian mikaela shiffrin. how she turns struggles into success. to be here, now, it s pretty surreal. norah: good evening, and thank you so much for joining us on this thursday night. we begin tonight wi
you know, there is an old saying in washington. it s not the crime, but the cover-up. so we already knew that the special counsel was looking into trump s handling of classified documents. we now know that they were looking to how they handled security footage in mar-a-lago, and whether it was tampered, whether was withheld. so that is a sign that the investigators are strongly looking into possible obstruction of justice charges. and then our fabulous colleagues, paul reid, and caitlin polantz found out that there are two senior trump level organization employees who are gonna go before the special counsel tomorrow. that s on the lookout for. and they are expected to be asked about that footage. and that reason why that was just so important, because they can really shed light on how this documents were handled. cnn reported that there is a footage of this other truncated who is running out boxes of documents from a storage closet. and so this is a very significant step in
Daily shows roy wood jr. And before the speeches over the next couple of hours, were going to cover the biggest stories driving the week. Setting the stage for our coverage, and of course of this iconic d. C. Event. That also includes mike pence testifying before the special counsel reinjury, to e. Jean carroll trial, newly incriminating sound that could come up in the future lawsuits against fox, the firing of Tucker Carlson, the ethical lapses of Clarence Thomas, neil gorsuch, and the conservatives on the Supreme Court. But lets talk about some of the characters who are certain to play a prominent role at tonights event, perhaps in the remarks as well. This week President Biden officially kicked off his Reelection Campaign. In his First Campaign ad, biden cast himself as a warrior, fighting for the freedom of the American People. Part of the president strategy here is to frame the gop as a quote, extreme movements bent on overturning fair elections, restricting access to abortion, an
Laura coats, and this is cnn tonight. Weve got two huge stories tonight that were following, of course right here in the nations capital, our continuing coverage of the state of the Union Address. Meanwhile, another sided country in los angeles, we have breaking news on another major story, in the world of sports. Entertainment, and frankly american culture. Lebron james tonight breaking the record to become the nbas alltime leading scorer. Passing a fellow laker, Kareem Abduljabbar. Once he broke this record the game was actually stopped for the celebration that was certainly do lebron joined on his court by his family, by the man he also passed, Kareem Abduljabbar. And even the nba commissioner, adam silver. In other words, everyone was watching to see whether tonight would be the night that he actually did it. I came into the game, and watch what happened in this really important, powerful moment. Lebron, for the record, hes got it. Hes done it. Lebron james is now the alltime leadi