For the prosecution shows and tells how donald trump operates like a mob boss. Thats tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby phillip in new york and tonight, cnn puts a voice and a face to the key facts that you could read on paper in that case against donald trump. Meet brian butler. Hes also known as employee number five in the criminal indictment from special counsel jack smith. Butler is not a random person who trump can suddenly claim. He doesnt know he knows trump and it has known him for 21 years since he took a job as a seasonal valet at maralago. He has years of pictures and messages with everyone important in the trump orbit. He worked for he worked hundreds of p. Stance feet away from carlos de oliviera, the other maralago employee . He was indicted alongside trump, and they took lightly walks together. They were friends, but their paths now look very different. They oliviera is alleged to have lied to investigators. Meanwhile, butler has cooperated and he is helping pros
into focus. crime, education, abortion on the ballot. top concern for voters by a long shot as the economy and republicans have the edge. the poll shows more voters trust the gop to handle the economy. republicans are up double digits on crime and inflation. bill: the republican plan to address the issues drawing criticism from democrats. republicans dismiss it as a desperate attempt to deflect. democrats have no plan. this he are attacking us because they have created crises across the country. if they weren t worried about the commitment to america they wouldn t be talking about it so much. they re talking about it because they know it s bad. bill: mark meredith kicks off a new week. we ll hear a lot about the economy between now and november. the white house says it doesn t view what happens on wall street as the main indicator how the u.s. economy is faring overall. americans are worried about 401k, investment and savings. 74% of voters believe the stater po
florida on this monday. we have fox team coverage. senior meteorologist janice dean is tracking ian but we start with nicole, standing by in tampa. behind you, the sun is out, it s the calm before the storm, but i know that there is sandbagging going on throughout the tampa bay area because of a potential storm surge. steve, ainsley, brian, good morning. absolutely. many trying to take advantage of these next few days as the weather is absolutely going to be better than what we could see later on this week, as hurricane ian approaches the gulf coast of florida. already, hillsborough county we are in tampa right now moving to close schools. they are preparing to use more than 50 of their public school buildings to potentially become shelters if needed, as many tampa bay residents gear up for what could be, again, a couple scary days ahead. we are already seeing lots of people out making lines, some waiting three hours if not longer for sandbags to try to protect their ho
live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukraine s president will be appealing for more international aid this week when the ukraine recovery conference gets under way in switzerland. he urged his fellow ukrainians to stay optimistic. here he is. translator: no matter how difficult it is for us today, we must remember that there will be tomorrow. and tomorrow should bring maximum benefit to ukraine. everyone should do absolutely everything possible for this. russia s relentless rampage in ukraine is now most heavily focused on the key city of lysychansk, one of the few places still under ukrainian control in the donbas. a local ukrainian military official says the city is on fire. meanwhile days after russian forces abandoned snake island in the black sea, ukraine s military is claiming it destroyed some of the equipment russians left behind. as they put it, russian spirit does not stink there anymore. scott mclean is joins us live from the ukrai
also, this is a critical week for the economy. we are expecting a deluge of economic data to drop almost every day. it will hopefully provide insight to the millions of americans getting pummelled by 40-year high inflation. some analysts believe the u.s. is hurdling into a recession but the white house is hammering the message that the economy is resilient. we ll get a better sense of how the public is feeling tomorrow when consumer confidence numbers come out. then it s the federal reserve s turn. it meets wednesday and will likely hike interest rates again to try to tame surging prices on everything from eggs to beef, to everything, rent as well. thursday gdp second quarter results are due. cnn s matt egan and rahel solomon are here with us. all of this economic data is going to be coming this week. what is most important? this is shaping up to be a pivotal week for the economy. politico dubbed it a category 5 storm of economic news coming and it could help the big