did someone tamper with the tapes? plus, senator manchin on the debt ceiling, biden s re-election. that interview is coming up. who was behind the drones the kremlin say were sent to kill putin? let s go outfront. good evening. i m pamela brown in for erin burnett. breaking news, tapes at mar-a-lago. special counsel jack smith is now asking questions about the handling of surveillance tapes from trump s home in florida. whether the tapes could have been tampered with. smith of course is leading the criminal investigation into trump s handling of classified documents. they want to hear from one or two executives. they re said to know a lot about mar-a-lago s inner workings. trump went on fox news to boasts about the tapes he handed over to prosecutors. they raided mar-a-lago. vicious ly raided mar-a-lago. i have tape, i gave them tapes. i gave it to them. i could have held that back. i gave them tape. but you know the tape they don t want me to reveal, if possible,
formerly president and would be the largest story in the political universe if it were about anyone else who has fewer legal problems. that is my factual introduction to the ongoing civil defamation and sexual assault/rape trial for donald trump. e. jean carroll alleges donald trump raped her in the 1990s. today is the sixth day of the trial and we are learning a lot as we are right in the heart of it. the jury also heard in a way from trump himself, but not live. instead, this jury, which is assessing these very serious allegations, heard from trump in a deposition that was taped in okay. now, there s no video of this new deposition available. we do know broadly what it looks like. it s a contrast to past depositions that trump faced. we also can tell you reporting today in what is a small portion of a 45-minute deposition was reported as evidence. this is something off the top i want to explain why it matters before i go any further. donald trump as a legal and political ma
undoubtedly sign the thing. now, if you are live in the real world, and the words diversity, equity, and inclusion sound like positive things to you, what happened today in florida feels like madness. but if you re a fox news viewer, this all might make perfect sense. it might even seem overdue. let me take a step back. this is christopher ruffo. he s now one of the people that governor desantis has appointed to the board of trustees that oversees new college in florida that s a school that we, on the show, have done quite a bit of reporting on. it is the school that governor desantis is essentially trying to make the test case for anti woke education. christopher ruffo is also likely the reason your conservative uncle wouldn t stop talking about critical race theory, or crt, at thanksgiving last year. ruffo is even the reason former president trump became obsessed with crt. and september of 2020, ruffo went on tucker carlson s show to not only make his case against crt, but
give some of these republican officeholders truth serum. and get out why they were doing this. like, why get into the whole election came? what would they say? because well i think power is one thing. but to really have no principles that you can particularly articulate other than winning. i mean, and texas it s particularly interesting, and it s interesting in a lot of the states. cnn missouri, ohio s not like you guys are on the run. you re doing fine! you don t have to rig the rules. the paranoia is so the paranoia, yeah. but to holders point, if there wasn t so much no, there weren t. it s a confession. it s a snake eating its own tale. exactly. thank, you my friend, as always. today, the florida state house of representatives cast a bill that prevents colleges and universities in florida from spending any money on anything that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. the state senate already gave this bill the greenlight, so not heads to f
russia s claim that it fewas behind an attempted drone strike on the kremlin allegedly targeted putin for assassination. cnn is analyzing the video as theories emerge about who and who not to blame. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the news. a suspected gunman is on the loose and considered armed and very dangerously police. ryan, give us the latest. we ve been talking to our sources throughout the afternoon here in atlanta to figure out what happened but the focus is on the building behind us. it s up there on the 11th floor where the shooting happened and of course people here in the midtown area have been shocked by this. that shooting happening in the waiting room. the family was upset because they believe the man was having a terrible time getting help from the va. he used to be a coast guard member, served four years and at some point, went to the va for help and when