They name. But certainly the former president s team has spent the day bracing for bad news. They appear to believe that this could potentially reference him. That his name could be one of those on those ten indictments that were returned. Theyve issues taken just a few moments ago. Lashing out at the District Attorney, fani willis here. Something that we have seen the former president doing repeatedly on social media in recent days. They are actually accusing them of Election Interference. Which we should note is, of course, ironic given that what the heart of the indictments potentially. Lets go back to cnn sarah murphy who has been outside the courthouse in atlanta all day. Sarah, obviously we are waiting to see when we are going to potentially hear from baku District Attorney, fani willis, that trump has been attacking here. Whats the latest that you have heard . , thats right, i mean, she is still expected to make remarks to the press this evening. But obviously they want to get t
The Special Counsel. This is the first signal that Delay Tactics will not stand in her honors courtroom. Plus, Congressman Colin is on the ballot in texas. Hes vying for senator ted cruzs seat. How he plans to impact his democratic rivals. I am symone sanderstownsend and i have something to say. By this time tomorrow, Donald Trumps attorneys will be up against a five pm deadline. The judge in this case could be setting the tone for what is ahead. This election interference trial. The first major decision of the case, judge Tanya Chutkan denied the trump legal teams request for an extension of the deadline to respond to the governments proposal for a protective order. Appointed by former president barack obama in 2014, judge chutkan has handed down at least 38 sentences stemming from the january 6th insurrection. 19 of those sentences were harsher than penalties requested by the Justice Department. The Protective Order Proposal Shelby considering would limit the Trial Information that d
trump campaign, and the russian government. and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia s efforts. it would later be revealed that trump had demanded loyalty from comey, and repeatedly pressed him to end the investigation into trump s first national security adviser, michael flynn. after he refused to do so, trump fired comey in shocking fashion. in a remarkable oval office meeting the following day, the day after he fired him. trump told russian diplomats that by firing comey, the previous day, quote, i faced a great pressure, because of russia. that is taken off. around the same time, he all but admitted to lester holt that he had fired comey because of the, quote, made-up russia investigation. with comey gone, andy mccabe became the acting fbi writer director. in one of his first actions, the very next day, was to open up a counter intelligence investigation into the president, in his ties to russia out of fears that he too would be fired. and
we have an entirely different show planned for tonight, but the business the former fbi director, james comey and his former deputy, andrew mccabe. both of whom president trump saw as enemies. both of them faced rare, supposedly random, but highly intensive irs audits. you may remember back when then fbi director james comey oversaw the early stages of the investigation into ties between the trump campaign and russia. in the summer of 2016. with questions swirling about those ties, as trump took office, comey dropped a public bombshell in the early days of the trump presidency. i ve been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi, as part of our counter intelligence mission, is investigating the russian government s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign, and the russian government. and whether there was any coordination between
Think there s going to be as much conflict as people might think about these different cases. laura, when jack smith sees what fani willis s grand jury has found, can he ask for that evidence for his case? is that something that can be done? i mean you get and no to the questions you don t ask, jake tapper. so they might ask for that. he would be able to, if it extends, and there are some basis to extend his own first fiction in florida, remember he did name georgia as one of the different states and the indictment, i would foresee an opportunity for him to solicit it. however, remember there was already a conflict between the january six committee. people can become very possessive of their information because they might fear that, well, obviously there is a federal indictment that is looming. people might want to clam up if you re trial might go before mine, i have an interest as a prosecutor to ensure that whatever you say in that trial