documents case, prosecutors allege that trump obstructed two of his employees, walt nauta and carlos, to delete security camera footage to page 29 of the superseding indictment out tonight reads, quote, the oliveira than insisted to trump employee number for that, quote, the boss wanted the server to lead it and asked what are we going to do? and, you will remember that audiotape that cnn obtained that captured donald trump apparently showing secret documents to a group of people who did not have security clearances. we now know that the special counsel knows exactly what was on that secret document. just to remind, you here is how donald trump described it then. these are bad, sick people. that was your coup. against you. when millions talking about they were trying to do that before you are even sworn in. you re trying to overthrow. with milley, let me see that, also you need to ample. he said i wanted to attack iran, isn t that amazing how. this was a. they pre
outfront. plus, new reporting from the k file this hour on where rfk jr. s money is going. why the democratic candidate for president is paying republicans and anti-vaxxers who compared mandates to the holocaust. and a story we ve been following closely outfront. china break its silence about that missing foreign minister who vanished more than a month ago. he s been replaced. no word, though, on where he is or why he was purged. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, no show. there was no sign today of the federal grand jury in the case involving trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and the reason is unclear. but it was significant because we do know that the jury is expected to meet every tuesday and every thursday. and we do know the activity in this particular investigation has been ramping up. and by all current accounts, is expected to end in a criminal indictment of the former president. trump, in fact, has been
thank you so much for joining me tonight. cnn primetime with abby phillip starts now. hi, abby. good evening, everyone, i am abby philip. thank you for joining me. this morning, hunter biden woke up thinking he had a plea deal. but tonight, not only is he without one, but he is still under active investigation. now, the president son had expected to plead guilty to tax and gun possession charges after making a deal with the justice department. but the judge today raised some concerns about the deal, calling it unusual and tangled. in fact, at one point, she asked, is it even constitutional? now, prosecutors and biden s lawyers fought back and forth. and eventually, he changed his plea when the judge said that she could neither accept nor deny the deal in its current form. so, now, after thinking a deal could put all his legal problems in the rearview mirror ahead of his father s reelection run, no less, the politics just got a little messier. it s giving republicans a n
said doesn t exist. plus, dramatic new video from the front lines where ukraine says it is making gains tonight as we are seeing just how far putin will go to keep his friends in his corner. and cnn is taking you underwater to see firsthand the full-blown emergency along florida s coast as the only living coral reef in the continental u.s. is now dying because of blistering ocean temperatures. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m jim sciutto in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, trump caught lying as the former president faces major new charges in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. cnn is learning tonight that one particular document about iran war plans, the document that trump openly discussed on tape, was, ultimately, returned to the national archives by the former president s team. that is significant because it s a document that trump has denied is even real or that he ever showed them off to anyone on tape. i want to play cnn s exclusive audio of t
dozens of felony counts. in addition to more obstruction charges, the special counsel was not charging former president with the willful retention of a national defense document. according to this indictment, it is the one he mentioned during a taped discussion two years ago it with biographers working for former white house chief of staff mark meadows. none of whom, all of the people in the, room again according to the indictment, none of them possessed a security clearance. here is that recording. these are bad sick people. that was your crew, you know, against you. it started right at when millie is talking about they were trying to do that before you were sworn in trying to overthrow with milley, let me see, that i will he said, that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing to have a just look. this was him. they presented me this. this is off the record. but they presented me this. this was him. this was a defense department and him. wow. this wa