Jake tapper and we start today with Breaking News and a cnn exclusive for the first time the man and only previously known as Employee Number five. In the Trump Federal classified documents case, is publicly going on the record about what he saw Behind The Scenes at maralago and how he ended up handling boxes of classified documents without even knowing it or having the clearance to do so trump Employee Number five is a man named brian butler he has worked at maralago for 20 years. He wasnt just any regular employee. We should note he handled the car service at trumps florida resort. Often directly making sure that donald trump and all of his belongings were moved from place to place, meaning he saw moments and movements and heard conversations that are now part of special counsel jack smiths indictment of Donald Trumps cnns Kaitlan Collins, Katelyn Polantz, our breaking the story for us and joining us now, Kaitlan Collins, it start with you, so you sat down with butler earlier today.
Trial dates in the trump documents case. Jack smith wants it sooner, the defense later. It says it wont be fair unless its much later as an after the election. And john kings Election Year journey all over the map, taking him to pennsylvania tonight to see how seniors view a race between the two oldest president ial candidate its ever. Good evening, thanks for joining us. We begin tonight, keeping them honest with immigration, the issue americans now called their top concern according to recent polling. Today, President Biden and former President Trump made dueling visits. The Texas Southern border, biden to brownsville, trump to eagle pass to cities about 300 miles apart. Two candidates who each in his own way has failed to fix a broken and severely overburdened Border Security and Asylum System. President biden, many believed by omission, by not making the problem enough of a priority until recently, even after a year of increasing numbers of people crossing the border. And rising Bo
Tuesday. All 50 states is Super Tuesday. Nikki haleys last hurrah or is there a plan b if she drops out of the race and by the end of the day that rematch that seven out of ten americans say they dont want, it could be on the next steps for joe biden and donald trump all right. 06 00 a. M. Here in washington, this is a live look at raleigh, North Carolina polls are opening there in just half an hour. One of the states were watching most closely today for clues about what we could learn ahead of the general election and good morning to you. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us Super Tuesday has arrived. Donald trump again hoping to pull off a 15 states sweep over nikki haley with more than a third of all the delegates at stake. If that happens, the former president would have more than 90 of the delegates needed to clinch the republican nomination. That of course sets up the rematch that most americans say they dont want trump versus biden on Super Tuesday eve, the former pr
Efforts and where the Ceasefire Talks stand right now plus a major cyber attack is nearly crippled Healthcare Businesses across the country with some saying they may have to close their doors. The impacts and whats being done to get them back up and running it will be another day of dangerous Fire Conditions across texas. We are live in texas as firefighters, their work to get the fire fires under control and his residents began rebuilding we are about to see a critical week play out on capitol hill and beyond Super Tuesday, of course, just a couple of days away. And then on thursday, President Biden will deliver his highly anticipated state of the Union Address. Hes currently at camp david with key advisers there is preparing that speech know hell address the nation hours before another partial Government Shutdown deadline are taking a live look at capitol hill right now. Now, Congress Passed the Stopgap Measure last week, but it only funded the government through march 8. However, th
Situation room. The lead with jake tapper starts right now cnns Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We are following Breaking News out of Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial in New York City were right, this i mean, it Michael Cohen is facing an incredibly aggressive crossexamination so far, trump attorney todd blanche has gotten cohen to confirm that he wants to see trump convicted in this case, that he makes money off of his antitrump social media posts and even sells merchandise showing trump in jail. Earlier today, prosecutors had cohen explained why he felt there was the Pressure Campaign to keep him from turning against trump. And how and why he eventually flipped from a loyal confidant to a cooperating witness. Prosecutors also tried to get ahead of the defense by having cohen admit to multiple lines. He has previously told including his plea of not guilty his plea of guilty to the tax charges the sent him to prison cohen also owned up to the fact that he lied