today on inside politics, more problems, more money. donald trump s donors foot an enormous legal bill and the trump co-conspirator accused of trying to destroy evidence for the boss sees the inside of a federal court. the polls. all of them. all for donald trump. republican voters fall in line behind the frontrunner as ron desantis reasons for running appear to fall flat. and the president corrects how he counts. joe biden acknowledges his seventh grandchild for the first time and now he hopes it returns to being a private matter. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, saving america or saving his skin. today we see on paper how much money from donors donald trump spent on legal bills. sources put that number north of $40 million for his own defense and the defense of those who are sticking with him. this morning, cnn cameras captured the glimpse of one of those individuals carlos de oliveira, the man federal prosecutors say sc
the attorney for heuermann s estranged wife will join us in moments. first to bryan llenas live outside that courthouse watching all of this unfold just moments ago in river head, new york. hi, bryan. hi, martha. what we just heard, the suffolk county direct attorney ray tierney explain what happened. there was a 30-minute delay. the two attorneys spoke with the judge and the preliminary conference hearing began, lasted 5-10 minutes. rex heuermann in his black coat suit, khaki pants, staring ahead with no emotion as they discussed the fact that they have to begin the long process, weeks-long process of turning over 13 years worth of evidence involving these three murders that he s accused of committing to the defense. that process is going to happen on a rolling basis. the d.a. saying there s about eight gigabytes worth of evidence. none of the evidence that has begun to be turned over doesn t include the evidence that they removed from the house after that 12-day search th
peddling? what does the law say about this? this is largely more than anything else a political process. all of the above matters because what they are doing. they are investigating to see whether or not they should impeach joe biden. when someone has a pattern of lying. joe biden has lied about the origins of hunter s laptop in the debate of 2020. he lied about that. he lied about china and hunter biden. he has lied about his interaction with him, business dealings. why do you keep lying if there is no there there. sandra: i imagine the republicans in that room will listen for any changing wording or messaging. it comes down to that, right? there was the messaging from the biden white house on whether or not the president had any dealings with his son or had any knowledge of his business dealings. it seems like that evolved over time as well. jonathan. it has. one of the moments that if i was a fly on the wall i would be listening for is when they get to the dinner in
we re ready to go. that s the quote from the fulton county d.a., saying the work is done in the investigation. an indictment decision could be announced at any time. it also comes as the classified documents case against the former president moves forward. we re on top of all those moving details. a lifeline for student borrowers. the white house outlining a new plan that could lower monthly payments,ing reduce the total amount borrowers must pay back. we ll break down exactly how it works. plus an american nurse and her child kidnapped in haiti. how u.s. officials are working to get them home. we re following these major developing stories, all coming in right here to cnn news central. this is mar-a-lago property manager, now codefendant, in former president trump s documents case, carlos de oliveira. de oliveira was indicted last week on four charges. he did not enter a formal plea during this brief hearing, and was released on a $100,000 bond. he will be form
go as a federal jury meets tomorrow as special counsel jack smith gets new evidence in the mar-a-lago case. plus, remarkable new video into outfront of ukrainian forces taking out one of putin s prized rocket launchers as a putin arch nemesis loses his appeal. his wife is outfront. a long-time republican operative quits ron desantis. why he says the problem isn t the campaign, it s desantis himself. ed rollins is my guest. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, new surveillance video in the mar-a-lago case just surfacing. a development tonight, a breaking development. we ll share more details in a moment because it comes as two major indictments are looming for trump. in washington the grand jury investigating trump s efforts to overturn the election are expected to meet hours from now. in georgia a grand jury that could vote on whether to indict trump met today. that vote could come as early as tomorrow. in atlanta where barricades