keeps moving and moving and even friday, saturday, sunday. doesn t matter what day. aren t you exhausted? aren t you exhausted by the con constant of it all? look, i am 17 years old. look at me since i ve done this show. the past eight and a half years 17 again. good for you. it s been rough. the entire over the entire cycle with the administration, the entire news cycle has changed and you never know what s going to happen. you re rolling with it. you re doing a good job. it s fri-yay. she s like don, stop talking to me. i m ready to get out of here. enjoy your weekend. take care. you, too. this is don lemon tonight and we have a cnn exclusive because our sources are telling us here at cnn the former president s legal team is fighting a secret court battle to block a federal grand jury from getting information from his ex aides about his efforts to overturn the not a secret. we saw through of his lawyers coming out of court yesterday so more on that in a
coming out of court yesterday. so more on that in a moment, but it has been a no good, terrible, very bad week for the ex-president and his legal team. his own hand picked special master telling him he can t just declassify documents with his mind. he s got to have proof. he can t just make wild accusations the fbi somehow planted evidence during that search of mar-a-lago. he s got to say exactly what he claims they planted. and oh, there is the new york state attorney general filing a monster civil fraud lawsuit against trump, three of his adault children, and the trump organization, one that could cost them a quarter of a billion dollars. remember that? it s been quite a week. and there s more. tonight the intelligence community has restarted its review of the potential damage from those classified documents being moved to mar-a-lago. and ahead of the january 6th committee hearing next week committee member jamie raskin says they have more to reveal about roger stone as w
cnn speaks with asylum seekers in and out of the country. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we begin with scenes of utter devastation in northern california, where wildfires have burned through more than 9,000 acres. the mill fire has left hundreds of houses ablaze in the small town of weed. firefighters say they re making progress, but the fire is still only 25% contained and the nearby mountain fire is 5% contained. streets are littered with charred remains of cars and cinder blocks where houses once stood. officials say help is on the way, with fire strike teams ready across the state to respond when necessary. now, those wildfires are being fueled by a blistering and dangerous heat wave that continues its stranglehold across the western united states this weekend. more than 40 million people are under heat alerts as temperatures soar 15 to 20 degrees above normal for the fifth day in a row electric companies in california are telling cu
bad news. lindsey graham in his attempts to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county grand jury in an effort to overturn the election results in georgia. a federal judge refusing to put a hold on the ruling. we re also getting new information about concerns inside the biden white house and the intelligence community about classified information taken to mar-a-lago. joining me now to discuss legal analyst and federal prosecutor elliot waylens and also joining us palm beach county state attorney dave aaronberg. we have a whole law firm spread happening right now. i love it. who are we billing right now? we don t know. i ll begin with you, elliot, here. it is just a week ago we learned from the court that trump was keeping top secret, highly classified documents at mar-a-lago. then we find out the doj interviewed two top white house lawyers about it. early next week we may learn what is in the affidavit that made it so urgent for them to seize this material. when yo
closed captioning brought to you by feel away optimum, enhanced calming for cats. bad news for lindsey graham and his attempts to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county special grand jury. the one investigating republican efforts to overturn the election results in georgia. a federal judge refusing to put a hold on her ruling at the senator has got to appear. we are getting new information about concerns from inside the biden white house and the intelligence community about classified information taken to mar-a-lago. legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elliot williams, visiting professor of american law university, the author of how to think like a lawyer. and joining us, palm beach county state attorney dave ehrenberg. nice to see you here, we ve got a law firm spread happening right now. who are we billing for this hour? we don t know, but look, it s just a week ago today that we learned from the court that trump was keeping top-secret, highly clas