outfront next, the trump pinted judge making her first ruling in the classified documents case. is it a sign she s not stepping aside? new details about the judge. why a case she s working on now could shed light on how she ll rule in trump s case. plus, a graveyard of russian missiles. ukrainians utilizing putin s deadliest weapons. what they found may surprise you. a special report. and where is melania and ivanka and the family? trump s 2024 campaign is anything but a family affair. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. no recusal. the judge who was appointed by trump and is presiding over the classified documents case issuing her first order. a sign she has no plans to heed the calls to recuse herself. ordering both parties to start the process of obtaining security clearances for their lawyers by tomorrow. it comes as there are mounting questions about her record in past cases. the judge, who was piappointed 2020, has little experience in oversee
supporters in new jersey where he claimed he, quote, did everything right. he did not address the court in miami, he sat huchblghunched with his arms crossed and a scowl on his face. also in the courtroom, jack smith. it was the men s first encounter. no words between the two were spoken. the judge ordered the former president not to speak with walt nauta, his co-defendant. he will appear in court again in two weeks. and also new reaction from contenders. mike pence said he can t defend trump s alleged conduct and nikki haley said she d be inclined to pardon the former president if convicted. cnn this morning starts right now. such an important day, and to hear the president s response last night to all of it. just how fast things commingled from the legal to political. not that they were ever separate, but if you ever had any doubt about how things were going to be going the next couple months, very abundantly clear last night. and we ll talk about all of it, w
addressed the unprecedented indictment friday. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. if applying those laws, collecting facts, that s what determines the outcome of an investigation. nothing more and nothing less. paul: joining me now is the former attorney general of the united states, michael mukasey. judge mukasey, good to see you. so you ve read the indictment. how strong is it? well, if the facts set forth in there are provable, and a great deal of it indicates that they clearly are, it is very strong. a lot of the evidence comes from his own lawyer who was compelled to testify over a claim of attorney-client privilege based on conversations he had with donald trump that show that he knew that he had classified information. there was, there are two instances in which he met with people on the outside, one a writer, the other a fundraiser. and showed them classified information and said that he knew that he had it and knew that it was cl
lot like something else we saw this week. all who spent years riding hard for each other, just tearing each other apart. yourself. cheese grater. you. you re disgusting. and i wish nothing but the worst. ever happen to a person on you. it was wild and i don t know when we ll see something like it again. at least not until the first republican primary debate. i mean, it s already getting messy. we got pence, who stood by trump s side scandal after scandal now running against him and saying this about his former boss? full no. me more as a as a as a quiet vice president standing off the president s shoulder loyally supporting him all the way until the day when my oath to the constitution required me to do otherwise. then there s chris christie in 2016, he said. this about trump and there is no one who is better prepared to provide america with the strong leadership that it needs both at home and around the world than donald trump. now he s saying this about trump. a lonely self
but at least they have, like, i don t know it s nicer there generally. what a day. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. tonight we have new reporting which confirms something that up to this point we d only suspected. former president donald trump is officially a target of the criminal investigation of alleged mishandling of documents at mar-a-lago. that news reported first today by the guardian. multiple outlets are now reporting federal prosecutors notified trump in a letter that he is the target. now, nbc news has not independently verified those reports, but donald trump is the person who allegedly took those classified documents from the white house and then refused to comply with the justice department s order to return them. so if anyone in this case is going to be targeted for potential criminal charges, it is probably donald trump. for his part trump today posted a caps lock-heavy statement arguing being the target of an invest