his mountain of legal troubles. new reporting from the new york times revealed the ex president has spent a staggering $50 million of donor money on his legal bills and he has a lot of legal bills to pay. he faces 91 felony counts in four cases. a lawsuit that threatens to take down his family business. not to mention the millions he owes e. jean carroll after losing two lawsuits. from that new york times reporting, quote, mr. trump has used funds in his political action committee known as save america to underwrite his legal bills. the account was originally flooded with donations that were collected during the period immediately after the 2020 election. he was making widespread and false claim of voter fraud. with save america s coffers nearly drained last year, mr. trump sought to refill them through a highly unusual transaction. he asked for a refund of $60 million that he had initially transferred to a different group. a pro trump superpac to support his 2024 campaig
the judge overseeing the classified documents case issues her first order. the deadline today pushing incomplete legal team to apply for classified clearance to view the documents in the case. the first of the trial is genz putting montana on trial, and what this could mean for the fight against climate change. this is cnn news central. terrifying footage from the storm chasers who captured the severe weather that devastated the small texas town in the panhandle. a twister picks up speed, and really gets going right here. there is other video that shows twister as it is hitting perryton, a town of around 8,000 residents. at least one killed and a resident says she saw dumpsters flying. there was a time that i thought that i was going to die, and i would leave a lot of things undone. i know that there is people here who died today serving our community. and some of the best people i have ever met in my life are here in this town. i think that there is a sense of fear
former president suggested to his attorney that he falsely tell the fbi and the grand jury that they didn t have any documents, and they go through chapter and verse of his conversations with evan corcoran, who is identified here as attorney number one. they also say that the former president directed his valet, his assistant, his aide, walt nauta, to move boxes back and forth to conceal them from evan corcoran before corcoran did a search, and then was able to tell the justice department there were fewer documents than there really were at mar-a-lago. again, the justice department saying these are some of the things that the former president did to try to get his attorney to hide or destroy documents. he said that they they say he provided the fbi with just only some of the documents that had been demanded under a grand jury subpoena. and he s also caused a certification to be submitted to the fbi saying they were producing all the documents, when, as you know, when the fb
a closer look at the shadowy effort that s getting high-profile results getting the war in ukraine on to russian soil. we begin tonight with exclusive new reporting, the prosecutors investigating former president s handling of classified material have in their position a recording from the summer of 2021 in which the former president is telling people around him in a meeting at his golf rissoles or it in bedminster that he has held on to a pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. cnn s reporting this undercuts his argument that he declassified everything, and on the tape, as he spoke, it sounds like he was waving a piece of paper around, raising the question, was he holding the classified documents in question? which goes to what cnn s kaitlan collins asked him at cnn s town hall earlier this month. when it comes to your documents, did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? not really. i would have the right. two by the way, they were declassified
the imminent indictment watch on the mar-a-lago documents. i don t think about it, all i know is this, everything i did was right. tonight have got thoughts on trump s real motive for taking all that classified info. then, the winning strategy for candidate desantis. being the most anti vax person on the ballot? we can never allow warp speed to trump informed consent in this country ever again. plus, president biden s oval office address. passing this budget agreement was critical. the states cannot have been higher. and the crazy story of why republicans in iowa have stripped the power from the state auditor? all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. president joe biden just wrapped up a primetime address to the nation from the oval office touting the debt ceiling deal that he brokered with speaker kevin mccarthy this week. a lot of attention has been focused on the swift passage of that bill in the house on wednesday, the senate la