welcome to the beat. i m katie fang, in for ari melber. we begin with the disturbing, violent rhetoric that s surging on the far right about a quote civil war. the new york times reporting, talk of civil war ignited by the mar-a-lago search, is flaring online. that search happened on august 8th. just hours after trump made the search public, mentions of civil war on twitter spiked a whopping 3,000%. the times says similar spikes happened on facebook, reddit, parlor, gab, and truth social. of course, some trump allies are fanning the flames. at a campaign event in arizona, michael flynn talked about governors declaring war. states rights, did you know that a governor can declare war? a governor can declare war, okay? and we re going to probably see that. that comes after margorie taylor greene said this at a trump rally in michigan. i m not going to mince words with you all. democrats won t republicans dead, and they ve already started the killing. when joe biden g
At accustoming. Com Closed Captioning brought to you by meso book. Com if you or a loved one have mesothelial, will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 tonight on three 60 Breaking News, new details and how the former president s Defense Team Plans to undermine Michael Cohens testimony in the criminal Hush Money Trial when court resumes tomorrow let me also tonight, President Biden and the former president agree on two debates with cnn and abc. Abc news, and George Stephanopoulos joins us ahead and more breakings this evening, the latest and the attempted assassination of slovakias Prime Minister caught on camera good evening. We start with our Breaking News about how the former president s attorneys expected to go after Michael Cohen. We can crossexamination in the new york criminal Hush Money Trial continues tomorrow, days after legal analyst criticized defense attorney todd blanche is initial approach and the New York
President ial debates also tonight, Michael Cohen is bracing for round two of his fiery crossexamination in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial the next moves by the defense could go a long way toward deciding if jurors believed the longtime trump fixtures incriminating testimony against his former boss at a cnn exclusive this hour for inside the illegal gun trade in haiti, a cnn team flies over the country devastated by Gang Violence to see how Deadly Weapons are smuggled and why thats making efforts to feed starving people even more dangerous welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer and urine the Situation Room our top story tonight the deal is now done and the date is set for President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump to go headtohead on the debate stage here on cnn, a first in their historic rematch. Cnns jeff zeleny has bore and how this all came about, and i would could impact the race well, make my day pal, ill even do it twice
Now tonight on three 60 Breaking News, new details and how the former president s Defense Team Plans to undermine Michael Cohens testimony in the criminal Hush Money Trial when court resumes tomorrow morning. Also tonight, President Biden and the former president agree on two debates with cnn and abc. Abc news, and George Stephanopoulos joins us ahead. And more Breaking News this evening, the latest and the attempted assassinatioion of slovakia is Prime Minister caught on camera good evening. We start with our Breaking News about how the former president s attorneys expected to go after Michael Cohen when crossexamination in the new york criminal Hush Money Trial continues tomorrow days after legal analyst criticize defense attorney todd blanche is initial approach and the New York Times noted that his questions produce know gotcha moment. Aside from a reprimand from the judge at the outset for making the cross about himself. Im joined now by johnny jones, the third former chief judge