Back hard plus blame the wife republicans piling on blaming Supreme Court Justice Samuel alitos wife as calls grow for alito to recuse himself from trump cases over these flags. And constitutional scholar laurence tribe, who warned the country about alito before he was confirmed all the way back in those Confirmation Hearings, you see him there. Hes out front tonight and russia just cannot get enough of Tucker Carlson. They are now re airing his show on Russian State Television lets go out front good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. Trump bashing biden and the democratic partys own backyard right now were going to make new york bigger, better and more beautiful than ever before. And that includes right here in the bronx that is happening right now, as i speak trump is at a rally in the bronx, right here in new york city he is ramping up a major effort to pull black and hispanic voters away from joe biden, voters who are crucial and to biden and whether he wins trump is holdin
Smerconish is up next is it, 1968 . The sequel Michael Smerconish in philadelphia this week in a deja vu of the vietnam era, Police Officers in riot gear across the country were called in to disperse antiwar protesters from College Campuses when they cleared out columbia universitys hamilton hall, it was on the 56th Anniversary of police arrests, ending a Student Takeover about the Vietnam Conflict in the exact same building and this august even more deja vu, the Democratic National convention will take place in chicago the same city which hosted the 1968 dnc, which was famously disrupted by both chaotic radical antiwar protests and the violent response of the police a bit of history, 1968 included lbj deciding not to seek reelection because of vietnam. Four days later, the assassination of Martin Luther king junior race riots, then the assassination of democratic frontrunner robert f. Kennedy, the republican challenger, Richard Nixon, who had lost to jfk in 1960, was promising to end
Right, thats a great way to end this friday, thanks to our panel. Thanks to all of you for joining hi, guys, im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now secret Phone Call Recordings tends testimony and talk of extortion. The jury hearing donald trump on tape talking about the Hush Money Deal and hes back in court today. Millions under flood watches this morning as severe storms, Flood Highways and tornadoes tear through. Mandatory evacuation its in place. And three tours went on a surfing tip of mexico and then suddenly disappear. Now, mx can officials are questioning three people in connection . With their disappearance. Im sarah sayyed and john berman and kate bolduan. This is Cnn News Central secretly recorded phone calls is sure to be in the spotlight. Again today. Donald trump returns to court for his Hush Money Trial this morning. The jury yesterday, listen to several Phone Conversations between donald trump and Michael Cohen surreptitiously taped by Michae
Was also the current president ial nominee facing trial for one of his crimes. He is accused of falsifying Business Records to cover up a payment made to an Adult Film Actress he is alleged to have an affair. To prevent her from going public with the damaging story. Prosecutors allege that his actions were in service of voters in the final days of the campaign. The former president was named as an unindicted coconspirator in two cases related to a multistate effort to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election. 200 miles away another one of his lawyers was arguing before the justices that the former president should be immune from criminal prosecution for anything he did while in office. Trumps attorney was forced to concede that in the teams view, immunity is so great that the president could get away with staging a Military Coup or ordering the assassination of a political opponent. If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person, and he orders the military o
Admitting that these facts were so inextricably intertwined in a colloquy with justice barrett, that it would be very difficult to separate them out on remand. Thats how i interpreted his statements. Please to translate that for people watching, that means that basically, if it wasnt official act, they would not be able to use that potentially at trial. He was arguing they should be able to use it to paint a bigger picture. But trump has argued, total immunity. He has not said, well, some of these are private x. This would mean the case could at least in part go forward and go to trial, we believe that without the official acts charged in the indictment, there is no case. Weve been very consistent in our position from the start, starting with the District Court proceeding through the circuit. Now at the us Supreme Court, that what were talking about is absolute immunity. Yes. But absolute immunity just for a president s official acts in office. I think thats a crucial distinction. And