Much for joining us. Cnns primary coverage continues right now with laura coats and abby philip tonight, too big checkmarks. One has all already happened, and were expecting the other any minute now. And when it does, you can officially lock in your Matchup Cards for what might be the most important election of our lifetime welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight. Im abby phillip in new york, and im codes and washington dc, its a short time ago. Joe biden made official well, the obvious and he will be the democratic nominee come this november. He is celebrating clinching in a new video asking voters, are you ready to win . Well, tonight, biden adding important victories to his win column. Look at all of states, State Of Georgia, one that he won in 2020, put them over the top. Its also a state were done for trump tried to deny democracy and say, well, donald trump is on trial for Election Interference. And tonight the president put the november choice and quite the star in terms. Are
The places and the person who will likely decide the most consequential until election of our time. Thats tonight on these lines good evening im abby phillip in new york and welcome to the official start of the general election is shaping up to be a rematch for the history books. In the red corner is donald trump twice impeached, indicted insurrectionist, depending on who you ask. And the blue corner, joe biden, older, unpopular and beset by questions about his ability to do the job for four more years but there is a third man in the ring to robert f. Kennedy jr. More on him in a moment. But first, a reminder, this election will be close and it will be decided by a few thousand votes in roughly a handful of states. Six to be exact. So here is where it could all come to a head. This november six states where lets face it, each ballot might make a bigger impact than in the rest of the country. Nevada, arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. These are the swinging list of
Skis, cnn Breaking News, because thats good right to the Breaking News, cnn has exclusive new interview with a key witness in the Trump Classified documents case, known only as trump employee five, at least until now . Cnns kaitlan, polands as a west palm beach, florida near maralago, kaitlan. Who is this witness . And why is he speaking out now well, if this is brian butler, brian butler worked for donald trump for 20 years at the Maralago Club at one point, running the car service for all of the gases thats coming in and out of the club. He eventually left that job in fall of 2022, but that was not before he had been privy to some major conversations and moments in this classified documents investigation. And now he is someone who has spoken to prosecutors multiple times and clearly is a key witness. For the indictment. One of those moments he recalls, wolf is June 3 Of 2022 when he was working at the club and the bodyman of donald trump, walt nauta, asked him oddly in his estimation
His fans. Quote, love is all that matters. Faithful and forever. Harmon was 74 years thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now so who exactly is trump employee number five and y in the world, should you care . Thats how you tonight on Laura Coates Live thats where i you know, reading these indictments sometimes requires a kind of a key code between the redactions and unnamed people. I mean, you really need a glossary. Do you not well, tonight one person has made a little bit easier by stepping into the spotlight he is the mystery man referred to as trump employee number five in jack smiths classified documents give me an indictment. Who worked behind the scenes at maralago for two decades. And now he is speaking out for the first time in a cnn exclusive. Now, let me catch Everybody Up For A Second On who this brian butler is. Hes already given testimony to federal investigators and tonight, he told Kaitlan Collins that back in june of 2022, so he helped trum
Viewers joining us from All Around The World and to everyone streaming us on cnn max, im always with church just ahead. As ramadan begins in gaza, theres still no ceasefire between israel and hamas. What israels Prime Minister says about the possibility of Military Action in the Southern City of rafah. Questions about the wellbeing of the Princess Of Wales have started a new after this photo released by Kensington Palace was recalled by several media organizations cnn has new analysis of the closure that those groups say may have been manipulated. Plus, it was hollywoods biggest night and the results of the oscars are in, we will have more on the big winners and the memorable performances live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with Rosemary Church good to have. You with us. Well, us President Joe Biden says the humanitarian crisis in gaza is quote front of mind in a statement marking the start of the holy muslim month of ramadan. Mr. Biden acknowledged the terrible suffering of the Pal