And on the ground in tehran tonight is mourners flocked to the president s funeral and a top official reveals what happened on that president s helicopter that someone had survived for hours. Its go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. The Breaking News trump claims Deadly Force Authorized the quotes. The former president and his allies absurdly accusing President Biden of trying to assassinate trump. But moments ago, trumps team sent out this newsletter, just got came into my email. They call it the palm beach playbook, but it comes from donald j. Trump. Com. The very first line under top news, falsely claims that deadly force was authorized against trump bring an fbi rate at maralago that you know, the intent of that being possible assassination, the newsletter coming just an hour after trump gave this Radio Interview newly released Court Filings showed that the fbi was authorized to use deadly force if needed during the rate of your private home in august 20
Preferred better science, better results im Elizabeth Wagmeister in los angeles in this cnns Breaking News hello, and a warm welcome to all of us joining us Around The World. I, max foster, it is 1 may 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 1 00 a. M. In los angeles julies where protests on the campus at ucla are turning violence. As you can see, according to local media, things came to a head about two hours go when propalestinian and proisraeli protesters got into a Confrontation Kabc Reports Fireworks were thrown inside the propalestinian encampment Campus Police say theyre responding to the incident of course, College Campuses across the us having swept with protests over the last several weeks, but we havent seen this level of violence up until now demonstrators demanding an end to the war in gaza and for their universities to divest from israel as well, were trying to get a proper sense of whats happening on the ground. They are clearly clashes between protesters and other groups. But its a
Im period in question. I thought in many what we did a concession at all was Michael Dreeben essentially admitting the attorney for the special counsels office, essentially 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 interpret for his statements at least. Well, and 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
Livelihood depends on President Trumps destruction referring to cohen so that was all well in the courtroom. But then after court, when trump walked out and you could speak to the public, he said this about cohen what are they going to look at all the lives that gone . Good in the last row . He that joint line so he got caught lying pure lime well, im Insider Cohen firing back hey, Von Expletive in pants, your attacks of me, stink of desperation. We are all hoping that you take the stand in your defense. Lets public spat between a key witness and the defendant is remarkable in a court. And trump, of course, is under a gag order forbidden to speak about any witnesses in the trial. But this public brawl breaking out just hours before trump is back in court facetoface with the judge, juan merchan for hearing on gag order violations. He faces fines and of course, violations could ultimately put them in jail. So this is really serious stuff. And it comes as witnesses are already taking the
you cnn breaking news thanks for joining us on cnn news central this afternoon, we begin with breaking news, a judges upheld the criminal indictment against former president donald trump in georgia. the judge, they re rejecting the argument that trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election were protected under the first amendment cnn s zachary cohen is part of a team that broke this story zach, walk us through this decision by judge scott mcafee yeah boards. you ll remember that we heard we watched a hearing in fulton county, georgia just about a week ago, and trump s lawyers argued strenuously. that s entire case should be thrown out because in his argument that the political speech and that the claims about voter fraud that trump was pushing after the 2020 election are protected by the first amendment. now, the judge today roundly rejecting that argument as we ve seen him do multiple other times in this case for other defendants in georgia saying, look, quote, the de