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concealing the documents. trump team will say we don t know what they are going to say, but they clearly are making the case about a two-tiered system of justice. i think it s fascinating to watch the gop candidates. remember, this is happening in miami. obviously the governor of florida is running against desantis, his comments have been to suggest there are two tiers of justice and the biden administration is slow and the hillary clinton investigation went nowhere, despite destroying 33,000 emails and destroying cell phones and the like. and talking about that is something that i think each of these candidates has hung on to. but there has been a bit of an evolution and some of them, like nikki haley, like former vice president pence who obviously worked for former president trump in that white house have said those things, the two tier system, that talking point but then said but these charges as written are serious. then you have others like asa hutchinson, former ....
again i m stephanie ruhle. alongside my partner ali velshi, covering our breaking coverage of this historic friday as the government has unsealed and estimating devastating 37 count and i meant against former president donald j trump. also the leading tender for the presidential nomination for the republicans. he s accused of mishandling documents and blocking efforts to get them back for mar-a-lago. the charges against him included violating the espionage act, improperly retaining national defense information. within the indictment, photos of what the government says are boxes containing classified material. onstage at mar-a-lago, in the ballroom, stacked to the ceiling in a bathroom. let s take a look at that. there s a toilet or. they re in a bathroom, classified government documents, piled up inside a storage room and spilling out across the floor in another room. today, for the very first time, we heard from the special counsel himself, who has spent some six m ....
degree murder and home invasion in the shooting death of his estranged wife. the tv appearance from three years ago did not come up at the trial but the marital troubles were central to the prosecutor s theory of the motive in that case. thanks for joining us. cnn tonight starts with alisyn camerota right now. that was a plot twist, abby, that i did not see coming. i thought that was your kicker. do not kill your wife. that s not a good idea. thank you for sending us off on that message. we will all take that to heart, abby, thank you very much. see you tomorrow. evening, everyone. we re awaiting the senate vote on the debt ceiling bill. we ll take you live to capitol hill to see if there are any last-minute obstacles. more follow-up to donald trump caught on tape discussing i classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. now team trump is trying to defend the former president with an array of different excuses, so we will fact check what they r ....
welcome to world news america in the uk, on pbs, and around the globe. we begin the programme with a bird s eye view of security issues, both here in the us and around the world, and it s been a busy week. the presidents of russia and china put up a united front against the west. questions swirled over the origins of covid. the pentgaon says the us took proportionate action when carrying out air strikes on thursday against iran backed forces in syria. that s after a us contractor was killed when a drone hit a coalition base in syria s northeast. and of course, we had thursday s marathon session in congress, where the head of tiktok faced a grilling over whether chinese authorities have access to americans data. our chief presenter sumi somaskanda just spoke to the head of the us house intelligence committee, shejoins me now from washington. sumi, what did he have to say? well, it s been an intense week here in washington, especially for chairman turner. democrats and repub ....
unbelievable. those highly sensitive documents, they were all found at mar-a-lago. some of them weren t even in boxes, but rather inside of trump s desk in his office. the doj writing that the fbi seized, quote, three classified documents located in the desk in the 45 office. despite a claim from trump s lawyer that she herself scoured the office and other areas just days before the mar-a-lago subpoena. now all of this is obviously very bad for trump. this filing is the clearest evidence yet that the federal government is also focused on the possibility that trump and his allies were obstructing the probe, and that is a crime. the government suggesting the documents were moved and hidden while they were searching for them. the filings stating, quote, records were likely concealed and removed, adding, quote, efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. joining me now on set is donya perry, former assistant united states attorney in the southern d ....