Staff member. Speaker kevin mccarthy. And the time to george santos. And pleaded not guilty, and the indictment says he asked for more than a dozen contributors to fund santoss campaign. He also got a 15 commission from it. Prosecutors allege hero a letter to santos back in 2022 saying quote, thinking my identity to big donor. You also wrote, highrisk reward. In everything i do. Something he said that in turn out to be true. Thank you so much for joining us tonight, cnn prime time with wolf blitzer starts right now. Excellent show, caitlin, thank you very much. To our viewers, good evening. Im wolf blitzer here in washington. We want to welcome you to cnn prime time. Theres Breaking News were following right now. A texas woman has been charged with threatening in a voice mail to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former president donald trump. Over his attempts to try to overturn the 2020 president ial election. The suspect, allegedly called the chambers a fede
Thank you so much for joining us tonight. Cnn prime time with laura coates starts right now. Hey caitlin, im telling you, if you thought august was winding down. This is heating up. Until your vacations, anyone watching. Did you have a vacation plan, kaitlyn . What is the thing called vacation . Do you go someplace . You dont work . I wonder how that goes . One to answer that one i would think. We are not, i will do a staycation right here. Im laura coates, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. Listen, tonight, donald trump is bracing for two more indictments. You heard that right. One potential counsel, jack smith, for efforts to overturn the election. Another in hot lana, for trying to overturn the results in georgia. And yet, that phrase teflon don . It continues to be one of the oddest juxtapositions in all of politics. As his legal problems start to pile up, guess what, so does his poll numbers. Take a look while it is still early of course. He is crushing the field. Look at
Something that has been of interest to the special counsel, jack smith. I should know this was first reported by the journal institution. Cnn confronted. As you heard earlier, the District Attorney in the state says that he and her fellow prosecutors would have years into the prosecutors in the state of georgia are, quote, ready to go. Thank you for joining us, cnn primetime at laura coates starts now. Hey kaitlyn, im telling you, if you thought august was winding down, this is heating up. Cancel your vacation to anyone whos watching. Did you have vacation plans, kaitlyn . What assisting called vacation . Does that mean you go someplace and you dont work . I dont know how that goes. Neither of us can answer that question, i think. Nope, we are not, but ill do a sticky shunted. Here i am laura coats everyone, and thank you so much for joining me. Donald trump is bracing for two more indictments. You heard that right . One for special counsel jack smith for efforts to overturn the electi
He signed up to be trump s chief of staff. and now this is coming to bite him in there and. one of the interesting things is that meadows denied some very specific parts of the allegations against him in the indictment that he was a part of a meeting in which he and trump asked a staffer, a senior staffer, john mcentee, to draft a plan for what would happen on january 6th. he said he does not to remember that meeting happening, or does not recall. that is a very specific denial it seems to me, given that, i would assume, prosecutors would have some evidence? oh, absolutely, and when i started tries my prosecutor s case as a prosecutor, one of the things that used to love is when someone said i cannot recall when you have evidence that they could not possibly have forgotten what happened. and here is the other thing that came out of that hearing. it was very subtle. the prosecutors are holding back evidence that is not in
More votes. meadow excused the call, saying that trump believed that there was fraud in georgia, he was trying to come up with a way to resolve the issues without going to court. raffensperger himself also testified and called this kind of outreach from a presidents chief of staff setting up the call extraordinary in his words. so we will see which way the judge rules and if meadows can get his case out of state court, abby? yes, very much important developments today, jessica, thank. you stand by for us. here with me in the studio is former gop congressman and host of the white flag podcast, joe walsh. also, wall street journal, white house associate professor at law of law at georgetown university former federal prosecutor jeanne rossi. i want to start with the lawyers at the table, both of you. jeanne, the georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger testified today as well. he was on that infamous call, trump is looking for his 11,000 votes.