Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
Good evening. Im abby phillip in new york. And tonight, how joe biden got his groove back and why youre about to hear what he said last night. More than a taylor swift single on the radio. 30 plus Million People tuned in last night to watch the president insist that the state of our union is strong, but also to see if biden could still look strong himself. Its something republicans told you over and over again that he simply could not do. President biden, on the other hand, im not even sure if he knows where he is. And i dont say that flippantly, neal. It actually hurts. He is our president , even if i disagree with him violently. But he clearly is not all there may be automatically that we laugh at it, because some of his ideas and all of his ideas are are laughable, arent they . But also, the longer we laugh, the less hell speak. Probably, or the longer hell have to be up there. Republicans. They bet on sleepy joe and a day later the spin is suddenly totally different. Biden wasnt sl
bowser fuming. she s asking for the national guard to be activated after the illegal immigrants started jamming up her city s homeless shelters. balzar is calling it a humanitarian crisis is lashing out at red state governors. well, it s obviously politically motivated. and the reason why we re different in this is that people aren t coming to d.c. as their final destination. what we see is that they are moving on to their final destinations through d.c. and the white house accusing republicans of using migrants as political pawns. what republicans are doing the way that they are meddling in the process and using migrants as a political pawn is just wrong. so the white house preference would be for 40% arizona to take care of these migrants rather than large metropolitan city. what they was that is not what i say that there really aren t . they re sending migrants to big cities on purpose, using them as a political ploy. but texas isn t backing down. gov. greg abbott vowing t
trump has been calling for it to be released on social media. his lawyers have yet to take legal action on this. lawyers for news organizations, including nbc news, are petitions in court today for the affidavit to be made public. dr. fauci will be with me as cdc director dr. walensky announces a major overall at the cdc, acknowledging the agency failed to respond quickly enough to the pandemic over the last three years and did not serve the public. all this as the agency is scrambling to deal with monkeypox, a polio scare in new york and rolling out booster shots in the next couple weeks for omicron subvariants of covid. we begin in florida with nbc s cal perry, ken dilanian and former u.s. attorneys joyce vance and chuck rosenberg. cal, set the table for us. what do we know about this magistrate judge? who is going to argue before him this afternoon? we understand the trump lawyers were not taking part. reporter: yes. the two parties that we are going to hear from are
excessive climate change. good afternoon, i m jim sciutto in for erin burnett, and outfront tonight, preparing for battle. cnn has learned that investigators want to force former trump officials to testify in court, and will use the court to do so. they want to know the actions of former president trump around january 6th, and this is the clearest sign yet that they are zeroing in on trump s actions as he tried to cling to power. this development is coming as the january 6th select committee is speaking to former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and former secretary state steve mnuchin, and a key witness, mnuchin had conversations with trump cabinet members hours after the cabinet, and he had a conversation about trying to remove trump by evoking the 25th amendment, and a number of people that he spoke to included secretary of state pompeo, and tonight, pompeo also appears closer to sitting down with the committee. we have had discussions with them about potential a