winning somewhere. john king at the map. thank you. the news continues here on cnn. i m abby phillip in new york. welcome to a special edition of news night alongside laura coates in washington. we are moments away from nevada finishing off its critical caucus. we ll also hear directly from the likely republican nominee, donald trump. also today, historic arguments over a former president trump ballot battle played out inside of the supreme court. plus, a charging decision by the special counsel investigating the sitting president of the united states. there s new attention on joe biden s memory. tonight the president defending his ability to do his job and indignantly insisting that his memory is absolutely fine. he is replying to a special counsel report that called him, quote, an elderly man with a poor memory, unquote, by flashing some anger and throwing some, well, shade. i m an elderly man and i know what the hell i m doing. i doen t need this recommendati
ephemeral legislation. yeah. that went from being the word of the day a couple days ago, to now i think it s the word of the week. ephemeral or malodorous, it s one of the two. it s still early. we have a couple hours ahead. maybe we can find another one. meanwhile, the florida governor is seizing on a potential weakness in trump s third presidential bid. we ll show you what he had to say about that, and how he responded to questions about his last name. is it desantis, is it december desantis? did he answer it? he did, and it was unrevealing. huh. republicans are still upset with kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling deal. wah. one calling for a day of reckoning. are you kidding me? it is a day of reckoning for the extremists, who thought that they were going to be able to hold, not only congress and kevin mccarthy and the president hostage, but also hold the united states economy hostage. they weren t able to do it. these guys struck a deal, and struck a
the january 6th hearing is appealing to both. it s pushing people to feel u.s. democracy is under assault. many insiders, political pros, people who populate your tv screen all day had a gnawing feeling the presentation on thursday would not sway public opinion. the fact pattern should convince steptics to care more about the attack on the capitol and all of trump world s dishonorable conduct in the winter of 2020. but this is where the facts come into conflict with feelings. i m with jim sciutto on this one. the cnn anchor was sick of all the chatter whether any minds will be changed on thursday night. that s not our job, he wrote. our job is to report and disseminate the facts, and that s what we do. it s also a fact the american media has been so split apart, and that split affects every story we cover. it s like the weather. it has to be factored into everything all the time. fox news put the facts refusing to air thursday evening instead showing video while tucker carlso
judge jeanine pirro, harold ford jr., dana perino, and tyrus. it s 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. day 6 of the salem trump trials. it all started with the judge hearing the prosecution s request for trump to be held in contempt of court for allegedly violating his gag order ten times. aka, muzzling the leading presidential candidate in the think of an election. d.a. alvin bragg s team must ve gotten cold feet. today they said they don t want to lock up trump for speaking his mind, they just want to slap him with hefty fines. the judge hasn t made up his mind yet on what he is going to do. then to the main show. ex- national enquirer publisher david pecker was back on the stand. the prosecution hoping to convince the jury that trump tried to hide damaging stories ahead of the 2016 election. pecker testified that he has been catching and telling stories for a long time, which is perfectly legal, last time we checked, and pecker began doing it for trump star
yes oh, put your clothes back on. except you, sir. happy monday, everyone so. the annual tony awards aired last night on cbs and hillary clinton received a standing ovation. illaryhillary, of course, loves the crowd at the tony awards. so is that the only group of people who haven t had with her husbanhad d, largely a homosexual group, charlie. or so i m told, musicals musc and such. president biden appeared to freeze up for a few seconds at thes ansuch. end of a hollywd fundraiser before being led off stage by barack obama. a or, as joe kept calling him, him denzel. at the same event, the president posted this photo featuring george clooney and julia roberts and obama. julia roberts hasn t been this involved in bringing dead people bacs k life since flatliners. it s one of her earlier films. i suggest you rent it to check out this photo. i mean, hollywood is so far up biden s. which reminds me, where is clooney s hand?th the biden campaign says they raised over $30 m