after more than 40 witnesses and 40 days of bombshell testimony, new york attorney general letitia james against former president donald trump, and his namesake company, has now entered into his final stage. on wednesday, testimony came to a close with a.g. james s office colin its final rebuttal witness, who happens to be an accounting professor, and then resting its case. the trial is now set to take a month long break, with judge arthur engoron expected to announce findings after january 11th. then, the fate of trump s real estate empire will rest entirely in the hands of the judge. remember, there is no jury, meaning as judge engoron, and judge engoron alone, who will determine the future of the disgraced ex president. even with a month off in the new york civil case, this is hardly a holiday break. trump s team has stayed very, very busy. on friday, the fmer president s lawyers to against him. that request came just 24 hours after an appeals court and which bars
the search in several states across the south for the remaining fugitives now. 24 hours after declaring he is running for reelection, our mary bruce asking president biden about his age, whether he considered agent s own decision and if his decision to run would have been different had donald trump not run again. how he answers it all. columnist e. jean carroll taking the stained in her lawsuit against former president trump, declaring today i am here because donald trump raped me. the judge issuing a warning to trump s lawyer about the president. our parent company, disney filing a lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis accusing him of i targeted campaign of retaliation. click on how the governor is responding and what s behind all of this. tonight, the first call between president zelenskyy and china s president xi. what president she warned about nuclear war. back in the u.s. tonight three high school seniors under arrest in the deadly rock throwing spree near de
ian are learning more about how their lives are upended by one of the most powerful storms to ever hit florida. minutes ago we learned that power will likely not be restored in many areas before next sunday. think about that. but ian is also proving to be one of the most deadly in recent years and officials in florida say that at least 66 people are confirmed dead and more than half of the fatalities are here, amid the widespread devastation in lee county which is home to fort myers, sheriff says there that more than 600 rescues in that county alone, and more than 100 1,100 across the state. and there is a threat of a levee collapsing which is a 15-foot wall crashing into the neighborhood. officials reopened a stretch between north port and englewood and there have been lanes that had been shutdown in both direction, but it is reopened now. and earlier governor ron desantis said that overflowing lakes and rivers have created havoc. there are other areas that may be experien
everything. and trump was pretty upset about the search and he put out a statement that said they even broke into my safe. they even broke into my safe [ laughter ] trump is like, dammit, i knew i should have flushed that safe down the toilet, i knew it. all right. 6:00 on the east coast, there are new developments on the justice department investigation of donald trump including confirmation that the fbi search of his florida home, mar-a-lago, was related to the handling of classified information. we will have the outlandish claims from his attorneys. desperate for some sort of defense here, i guess. plus, the former president is set to be deposed in new york state s investigation into the trump organization today. and a sixth trump-backed candidate wins the republican primary for governor, this time in wisconsin. we ll have the latest on that election and others. also, the very latest from ukraine. new information this morning on how ukrainian forces are pulling off
boxes retrieved from mar-a-lago in january. quoting page 8 here, the boxes contained newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous printouts, notes, presidential correspondence, presidential records, and quote, a lot of classified records. most significant heerkre, the concern that highly classified records were unfolded and intermixed with the other records, and otherwise inappropriately identified. let s go now to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. investigators listed the kinds of classified documents they thought could still be on premise there at mar-a-lago. right. and this is the reason. this document is the reason why the fbi conducted that extraordinary search and seizure at the former president s mohom more than two weeks ago. it goes to the documents that were found in the initial 15 boxes that were retrieved by the national archives, earlier this year. they were brought back to the national archives and in it, you know, when they s