This is not someone in a maga hat at cpac last year. It is a random new yorker in the year 1985. 1985 was the year that Rudolph Giuliani made a name for himself. It was the year that giuliani pioneer the same prosecutorial tactics that now very much look like they could be his downfall. But let me back up just a little bit. This is carmine the cigar galante. He was allegedly the boss of one of new yorks most powerful Crime Families. And in the 70s, galante flew a little too close to the sun. He was shot point blank at an Italian Restaurant in brooklyn. Allegedly the motivation of his assassins ways that galante had to decided he should be the head mob boss. But the other mob bosses didnt want to agree. A Guy Named Anthony Indelicate whackwhacks palm print but mr. Indelicato whackwhack was almost definitely not the person who decided the fate of carmine the six car. Whackwhack may have been part of the group that but he would not have mr. Indlicato ways what is referred to in the mafia
At the white house, right now, President Joe Biden preparing to Face Congress and the American People and deliver a speech that could have huge consequences for his reelection campaign. Theyll soon leave for the us capitol to give his state of the Union Address. Less than 48 hours after his long anticipated rematch with donald trump became a reality. Welcome to a Special Edition of ac360. Im Anderson Cooper and im jake tapper. About an hour from now, President Biden will walk into the House Chamber under enormous pressure to forcefully and successfully sell his vision for america and his argument for a second terme. Mister President Biden needs to take advantage of this opportunity with tens of millions of americans watching to make his case and perhaps, perhaps the most important speech of his decades long career in public life, this will be a critical test of the 81 year old commander in chief. He will try to convince skeptical voters that they have benefited from his presidency, and
hey everybody, good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. donald trump is in for the fight of his life. the former president faces a tuesday arraignment on 37 criminal counts, involving his refusal to turn over classified documents that never should have been in his possession. this hour, he s gonna be taking his defense public within appearance in georgia. as his gop political rivals tiptoe around the story. in addition to the politics of, this we are going to dive deeply into the substance of the allegations in the indictment. it is a treasure trove of damning material from photos that showed documents being hoarded and bedrooms, bathrooms, and even the mar-a-lago ballroom. conversations where trump himself waves around top secret material as well as evidence, in which he apparently tries to get his own lawyers to lie to the feds. looking for the documents. we will get into all of this coming up. we begin with the new information that we re learning with the unsealing of the h
i-95, the highway remains closed in both directions to traffic, firefighters are trying to extinguish an ongoing fire that you can see there, we will bring you more on the updates as soon as we get them on the story. straight ahead, we are going to miami for a report on what to expect ahead of trump s arraignment on tuesday. plus, the twice impeached now twice indicted president, is telling his followers that the justice department is not just coming after him, it s coming after them to. i m going to talk to the person who literally wrote the book on authoritarian strongman about his dangerous line of attack, another hour of velshi begins right now. right now. good morning, i m ali velshi, in today s trump suspected to surrender himself to authorities in a miami courthouse where he will be arraigned on a 37 count indictment regarding his mishandling of government records and obstruction of justice. it will be the second time in about two months that the twice impeached former
troubles, as you know, he s already been indicted by the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg in the hush money case, and there are still pending investigations in georgia, and in washington d.c., related to his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections. so it s possible that trump could be the defendant in multiple criminal trials, as republicans head to the polls to vote in the primaries. and in a new interview with political yesterday, trump vowed to stay in the race even if he s convicted of a crime, telling the reporter, quote, i will never leave. now, that s not at all surprising, he s previously vowed to continue campaigning for the republican nomination if he were indicted, a threshold that we ve already crossed twice now. and although few republicans have come out to denounce him and call former trump out of the race, the maturity of the party has come to his defense and criticize the justice system instead. yesterday, just two days after h