system as we now know it? conservative say there s another effort going on here to pressure the court to bend to president biden s progressive agenda. and to steer clear on abortion and guns. justice john roberts, the court is led by a reputation of a nonpartisan at reputation over the imperative to get direct results. former judge, u.s. general tonight with his view. but first, to brooklyn center where it is another night of confrontation between law enforcement and activists turning out in force despite the county s decision to arrest and criminally charged veteran officer kim potter with second degree manslaughter in the death of daunte wright. life there on the ground, hi, mike. shannon, a very different look tonight beard that is because we are outside of the perimeter that has been established by law enforcement with the brooklyn setter police department, about a quarter-mile behind me. what they have done, what troopers are calling is an encirclement. they have cor
attorney general were inconsequential. it is dated december 16th and was signed just two days later. and he had a meeting with sydney powell who was lobbying to become counsel. take a look. so we have mathematical evidence in a number of states of trump votes being trashed, just put in the trash like you would on your computer with any file. and biden voting being injected. president trump won by a landslide and we ll prove it and reclaim the united states of america for the people who vote for freedom. yeah, that was all nonsense. also at the oval office meeting, michael flynn who seemed to be quoting directionally f a ally from the draft order just a day later. he could immediately on his order seize every single one of these machines around the country on his order. he could also order he could order within the swing states if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those s
they tried to punish him for the insurrection and that gives us all a lot of insights, not only about hypocrisy but about the road ahead because america is still dealing with this, including open questions about who will be charged. they later publicly disavowed what, according to a new book, is their own beliefs. so let s get into it. this is one of the stories first in the new york times on a book by two top reporter has a lot of big stuff. reporting that kevin mccarthy told house republican leaders on january 10th, i ve had it with this guy, what he did is unacceptable. nobody with defend that and nobody should defend it. from the north coming book, this will not pass. and he said he would go to trump and tell him i think this will pass and it is my recommendation that you should resign. now that is something else. this is right after the insurrection. but within weeks, mccarthy famously reversed course with the pictures you see here. this was, we know something that a
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. there s brand new reporting that drives home the fact that donald trump is his own worst enemy when it comes to his many, many, many legal problems and when it comes to the indictment and the classified documents investigation turning him from a disgraced twice impeached once indicted ex-president. in that case he has no one to blame but himself. the washington post reports late last year team trump hit a fork in a road, a point in which trump could have chosen an option that very well may have avoided an indictment in the documents case. from that new reporting, quote, one of trump s new attorneys proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. the former president s team could try to arrange a settlement with the justice department. the attorney, chris kise, wanted to quietly approach justice to see if he could negotiate a settlement that could preclude charges hoping the department would want an exit ramp to avoid prosecuting a former pre
threat. but moscow has been signaling displeasure that washington recently green light getting ukrainian attacks on russian territory with us supplied-weapons speaking ahead of the cube and naval visit, vladimir putin warned of a possible russian response. easley, and you put it today in the west lai weapons to the zone of combat operations and call for the use of these weapons against our territory. then why do we not have the right to do the same? to mirror these actions? i m not ready to say that we ll do it tomorrow, but we of course, should think about it elsewhere moscow has been stepping up tactical nuclear drills to staging exercises with neighboring belarus near the ukrainian border. russian tactical nukes delivered from either ground or air can level entire cities or the kremlin insists it has no plans at this stage to use the matthew chance cnn moscow. thanks so much for joining us. the situation room begins now happening. now, breaking news, hunter biden s