just ahead on cnn newsroom new charges and a new co-defendant for former president trump. this gives jack smith and his team potentially some more leverage and donald trump potentially one more thing to worry about. in israel, we have the supreme court has a lot of checks but there are no balances. the next step will be no more fair elections. we have to stop them. the heat causes problems, period. the heat is global boiling. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, july 28, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. at mar-a-lago, florida where former president trump is facing new federal charges in the classified documents indictment. the special counsel says that trump asked mar-a-lago employees to delete security camera footage to keep it away from a grand jury. prose prosecutors say that maintenance worker lied to the fbi when he said that he didn t help move boxes around the florida resort. prosecutors also
investigation, but the jury is expected to meet again on thursday. in the meantime, we have significant revelations about what special counsel jack smith may be investigating. this week we got new reporting that the special counsel has been focus sing in on a white house meeting on valentine s day of 2020, february 14th, which was of course months before election day. on that day president trump reportedly met with senior u.s. officials and white house staff to discuss the election itself, and during this meeting the president was apparently bragging not just about, well, all the things he always brags about but about just how secure the election was going to be. according to the reporting we have, trump touted his administration s work to expand the use of paper ballots and support security audits of vote tallies. president trump was so encouraged by federal efforts to protect election systems, that he suggested the fbi and the department of homeland security hold a press co
i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, when it comes to u.s. weather the good news says there s little relief in sight for the country. the latest on heat alerts from coast-to-coast. republican candidates, including donald trump, gather in iowa. sew how one found out the hard way what happens when you target the former president. and the other side of the debate in israel. we ll hear from those who say they support at least some of president benjamin netanyahu s controversial judicial reforms. and we begin this hour with more than 100 million people still right across the united states waking up to those heat alerts in the hours ahead. that s nearly one in three people in this country from southern california right up to the northwest and new england. but remarkable improvement from the 150 million affected yesterday. but then there s phoenix, where temperatures are expected to stay above 110 degrees right through the weekend. the scorching temperatures in the mid
new tonight, the top official fired by president trump after the 2020 election is talking to special counsel jack smith. chris krebs is another big name who may have deep insight into what was going on behind the scenes. smith s team has been asking about krebs firing and the timeline anderson it. another detail as trump awaits what he says is he sure will be a third indictment. but the grand jury did not meet today. why? more on all of that coming up. also, disturbing news from the world of basketball. lebron james son bronny james suffered a cardiac arrest during basketball practice at usc and was hospitalized yesterday. he is only 18 years old. so what happened? and how common is this in young seemingly healthy athletes? we discuss all of that as well as the controversy and covid vaccines conspiracies that always seem to arise in these cases. our dr. sanjay gupta weighs in on all of that ahead. plus, a threat to impeach president biden growing as republican house spe
keeping track of trump s various legal predicaments, we ll bring you along on the journey over the next hour. the ex-president, as a reminder, was charged with 37 counts related to the stolen documents just last month. remember, it was detailed in the indictment, exactly what those documents were. according to the indictment, trump engaged in a months-long plot to hide the documents you re seeing some of the places. remember some bathrooms with gold ornaments. and he was keeping them from federal investigators who wanted the back, along with his codefendant, a former white house valet named walt nausea. but then tonight, around six pm, just two hours ago, we got an updated superseding indictment, with new charges, and a new defendant. trump now faces three new charges a willful retention of national defense information and obstruction. on top of those new charges for the ex president, a third man now joins trump and walt nauta as a defendant in the case. a maintenance worker