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4:00 in new york with the skies above us are hazy from those canadian wildfires. we are all under air quality warnings. we re going to get to that story later in the broadcast. but we begin with what is shaping up to be a white knuckle day for the disgraced twice impeached now indicted legally liable for sex abuse ex-president thank foss fast-moving developments in special counsel jack smith s investigations, plural, into donald trump. today, a federal jury in miami is back in action hearing witness testimony as part of the special counsel s investigation into whether the ex-president mishandled classified documents. or obstructed government efforts to retrieve those documents after leaving office. and it was not just any witness, it was one of trump s closest aides. a former trump spokesman who have as super pac. saying that prosecutors weres partially interested in taylor budowich, after sending boxes of material from his private home to the national archives, trump l ....
release the affidavit. several news outlets have asked for it to be unsealed. but the doj says unsealing the document would hurt this and other high profile investigations. the wild card here is all the heat that is coming off the search in mar-a-lago. the death threats to the fbi and government officials. just yesterday, a pennsylvania man was charged for threatening to kill fbi agents. and remember last week, when an ohio man tried to break into an fbi field office with a nail gun and an assault rifle. trump oddly has acknowledged that the temperature needs to be brought down. in the same breath, he s continued to attack the doy and federal agents. while the former president faces mounting legal trouble, he s not the only one on the state level, rudy giuliani, donald trump s personal attorney, is now a target of georgia s investigation into the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. he is set to appear before a special grand jury there tomorrow. and here in new york, ....
thank you so much for joining us. cnn prime time starts right now. hi, abby! hey, thank you so much. have a good night. good evening, everyone. it is shaping up to be one of the biggest criminal trials in american history. literally. today was the very first televised hearing in that georgia case against donald trump and 18 of his allies. district foreigner fani willis and her team revealed three big things. first, they want to charge and try all 19 co-defendants together. second, this trial could last four months. and third, they ll call more than 150 different witnesses. that means that the former president of the united states could spend a third of the next year sitting in a courtroom. in just one of his cases, while running for a second term. it is just extraordinary. and we are getting a preview of the tensions to come. two of those co-defendants, trump s legal adviser, sidney powell, and the so called architect, they want their cases to be separated. today th ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. And his time working with manafort was laid out by the prosecutors, the next thing was the Plea Agreement with the government and then more discussion later on of the same basic theme. Prosecutors seem to want to get that out on the table very early. Folks may remember the defense brought this up in the opening argument that gates had stolen money from manafort or from manaforts firm. And the prosecution definitely wanted that laid out before we quit court today. They wanted that out on the table and brought it out before they went through chronologically the different crimes that they may or may not have been involved in. They were cleearly trying on inoculate him. I think it is what giuliani called hanging a lantern around your problems. Covering the manafort case for politico, thank you for covering it for us as well. Now lets bring in our legal power panel. Bar ....