decision? special counsel jack smith has been aggressive in getting around attorney-client privilege. there are certain pieces of information he believes he needs in order to answer the question about whether classified documents were mishandled and there were efforts to obstruct. he went through the proper channels to get to around attorney-client privilege. you want to speak freely to your attorneys without it coming back to potentially bite you. paula, stick around. i want to bring in tom dupree, former assistant attorney general. what do you make of the contents? it s extraordinary this was allowed to be revealed. what do you make of the contents? the way it s not surprising is the president wants to fight the subpoena. that s what we ve seen, his lawyers often over the course of his time in office would urge cooperation with the justice department. that s not his nature. his nature is to fight. doesn t surprise me. that s the first question, what can we do to battl
latest from the front lines. plus a new search has just been announced in the missing toddler madeline mcgahn. we re following these major developing stories and more all coming in right here to cnn news central. in just a couple of hours president biden and speaker mccarthy will give it another try. they will meet face-to-face again in the ongoing staredown over the debt ceiling. so far neither leader has blinked. because of that the u.s. could default if no agreement by june 1st. running out of money for social security and military salaries. last hour speaker mccarthy told cnn a deal has to be ironed out much sooner than that deadline. reporter: do you need to have a deal tonight? it would be better to have a deal sooner. if we can get a deal tonight or tomorrow, you ve got to get something done this week to be able to pass it and move it to the senate. reporter: is it possible to get it done? i think it s still possible. reporter: square my diamond is tr
turning on their own country. just in to cnn, e. jean carroll seeking even more in damages from trump after the former president insulted the writer again at cnn s town hall. that was just one day after she won her sexual abuse and defamation case against him. and he s the son of a single mother who rose from poverty to become the only black republican in the senate. but does tim scott s amazing life story translate into a path to victory? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, another putin critic dead. this time it s russia s deputy science minister, fee oh ter kuch renco. he was just 46 years old. according to the ministry of science and higher education, he was feeling ill while on a plane to the russian delegation that was returning from a business trip to cuba. that s their quote. the flight on saturday reportedly made an emergency landing in southern russia, but it was too late. doctors apparently could not save him. outfront spoke t
we re only ten days out from a potential u.s. default, and there is still no deal on the debt ceiling. that s only step one. keep in mind it still has to clear congress quickly. another critical meeting between the president and house speaker just hours away. we re going to take you live to the white house and capitol hill. also ahead, the naacp issues a travel advisory for florida, accusing the state of being openly hostile towards african americans. details on the driving force behind that warning and how governor ron desantis is responding just ahead. and instead of walking across the stage to get her diploma, a transgender teen opts out of commencement after the school said she had to wear pants. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. the federal government is running out of money and d.c. is running out of time to get america s accounts in order. later this afternoon president biden and speaker mc
attorney for palm 3w5beach coun. where is this investigation potentially headed? good morning, erica. i think this provides further evidence that the department of justice is investigating donald trump. the doj clearly wants to learn what trump said and did on and about january 6. remember, they already interviewed marc short and greg jacob and now they want the two pats. last week we had reports that do skrchlt was trying to block the claims of executive privilege the reason why is to get at trump s communications. why do you want to get to trump s communications? not so you can indict rudy giuliani, although that may happen, but to investigate the former president. also to put water on this, it means that an indictment of donald trump is not imminent. because when you litigate issues of executive privilege, that normally comes at the beginning of an investigation rather than the end. how do you see that playing out in terms of executive privilege here? i think that do