on a now famous oval office meeting just weeks before the january 6th insurrection. a meeting that devolved into a screaming match between white house lawyers and a group of outside advisors who were pushing extreme ideas to try to keep donald trump in power. prosecutors have been asking witnesses about those outsiders. former national security advisor michael flynn, the attorney sidney powell and former ceo of overstock patrick burns. ideas like having the military seizet videoing machines in key states, invoking martial law and appointing sidney powell as a special counsel to investigate supposed voter fraud. rudy giuliani was in that meeting. prosecutors questioned him about it when he voluntarily sat down for a lengthy two-day interview with investigators. and we know that trump s white house lawyers they pushed back hard on the wild ideas. i don t think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. and so i didn t understand how they had gotten i
strong. he s going to have a much more favorable jury pool politically. there is a range and a scope here that is truly unprecedented. what we see is a justice system where the scales are weighted. it s called election interference, they re trying to destroy our reputation. this is a perfect example of somebody who just kept digging a hole deeper and deeper. it s a second tier double standard of justice in this country. i think this indictment is only going to make the former president stronger. jack smith has got his ducks in a row. there s no reason in the world to think that a special prosecutor would risk his career for nothing. quite a morning. quite a last 12 hours, what has happened. good morning, everyone, we are glad you re with us for this special coverage on cnn this morning. phil mattingly is here, and stepping back from this moment that was more and more expected in recent days, but it has happened for the first time in history that a former p
only $0.63 a day. we ll send you this adorable love to the rescue blanket as a thank you. tonight on three 60 is the gop okay with their presidential front runner barring an ocean and very words, from hitler? some answers from 2023 not 1933. keeping them modest. also tonight, breaking news, a legal setback for his former chief of staff mark meadows. and, really giuliani who has been ensued again for repeating the lies he told about two georgia election workers. later, more fallout on the case of the border republican party chairman, his moral crusading wife, the accusations of sexual assault, a threesome, and hypocrisy. pamela brown in for anderson tonight. we begin with the return of the tepid reaction to outrageous statements the former president makes that have slowly been returning within the republican party since the shock of january 6th. specifically, reaction to this from over the weekend about undocumented migrants. they are poisoning the blood of our country, th
good evening, this was already a sad and difficult day for survivors at marjory stoneman douglas high school. , 17 young people murdered five years ago today in parkland, florida. today, parkland is back the news but not as an example of how far we ve come in making such massacres a thing of the past. instead, it s a reminder that the sister and brotherhood of mass shooting victims and survivors is always growing. today s, loved ones of three michigan state university students join that number, after a gunman opened fire last night shooting eight students country them. it is near the first nor the 61st shooting this year. it. according to the gun violence archive it was a 67th mass shootings with four more people shot or killed. in fact, number 68 happened today, with four wounded outside a high school in pittsburgh. before we talk about the larger school though, here s what we know about who was killed in michigan. alexandra verner was in a junior year, and came from the s
see me tomorrow morning on cnn news central. the news continues now cnn primetime with caitlin collins. tonight representative reinstated protests engulfed the tennessee capital in support of expelled lawmakers. justin jones has been a nashville city council votes to return one of the legislators to his seat. the people have spoken republicans react plus sad reality should not continue to happen just two weeks after the school massacre in nashville, another mass shooting this time in louisville . very close friend that didn t make it today. so when we talk about frame, i hope people will will anything change and a portion fight. the justice department looks to texas judge s ruling banning and fda approved abortion medication. we have to go to court and we have to prevail on this party s double down by demonstration should ignore. this ruling maybe have come a point where house republicans have to defund fda programs. cnn prime time starts now. good evening. i m caitlin collin