Setback in his attempt to delay his upcoming hearing in the january 6th case. The judge rejecting his legal teams request to push the hearing unless next week. Tonight, a defiant trump sounding off. Plus, Trench Warfare. Were going to take you to the front lines to see how one ukrainian soldier is risking his own life in order to bring comfort to the families of the fallen. It is a Special Report that you will see first here outfront. And the Suspected Gilgo Beach Serial Killer is now refusing to provide his dna to investigators. Why . The sheriff in the case will be outfront. Lets go outfront. Good evening, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, rejection. Trump losing his effort to delay a Court Hearing in the january 6th case. The judge shutting down trumps efforts to move the hearing to next week, saying that it will happen this friday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. Now, this puts trumps team in a Florida Court for a hearing in the maralago case thursday, and then friday in washington for a j
i m ari melber. we begin with breaking news. donald trump s federal trial is back on because this court is ruling against defendant trump today. they re green lighting the trial sought by special counsel jack smith. this spruling sets a precedent for holding a former president accountable. we have special coverage we ve been working on since this broke early on the east coast today. we start with the basics. you don t need to be a lawyer or constitutional scholar to understand this. the ruling rejects donald trump s very far-fetched arguments that his job history as president should mean he could never be arrested, indicted or tried for anything related to his time in office. trump s lawyers argued he should basically retain a kind of permanent immunity from the fact he used to be president. the court is rejecting that today. we re going to begin, like i said, with the clarity of this single spare sentence. quote, for the purpose of this criminal case, former president trump
race across all five primary states. donald trump s candidate, dr. oz, leads dave mccormick with over 95% of precincts reporting. pennsylvania state law requires an automatic recount if the margin of victory is within half a percentage point, which it looks like it will be. for the democrats, lieutenant governor john fetterman won his primary by a big margin, despite a last-minute health scare. fetterman, who just suffered a stroke, was having surgery to insert a pacemaker, even as the votes were being cast. and pennsylvania s republican voters rewarded candidates who supported stop the steal. far right republican doug mastriano will face off against josh shapiro for the governor s mansion. if elected, he promises to reset pennsylvania s voter rolls and force everyone in the state to reregister, though it s not clear that s legal. mastriano was not the only republican on a stop the steal ticket. ted budd from north carolina defeated a republican running for senate and urged m
The prosecutors are looking to exploit. jenna ellis, for example, the trump attorney, is now publicly questioning why her funds are there aren t funds for her legal fees. former georgia gop chair david schaefer is now charged for posing as a trump elector and the reason he says is donald trump. in fact, this is in a filing. he and other electors acted at the direction of the incumbent president. trump and his legal team have floated the defense that he was simply relying on the counsel of his own lawyers all along. now, i have told you we tried to book a special show on a special news night and that brings us to a very special guest. leslie caldwell was the head of the entire justice department s criminal division, which means she has extensive experience in federal cases, including those that involve conspiracies or multiple codefendants, which is of course the situation in georgia, while the doj case with jack smiths has several undenited people listed as coconspirators. leslie, th
Case, and they re expecting they ll need this drawn-out time line. but we ve already seen the judge in this case tanya chutkan moving very quickly. so we ll see how she ultimately responds to these calls to try to push the trial. all right, that is a crucial request. thank you very much, jessica. i want to go to ryan goodman now, the former special counsel at the defense department, of course, and we also have the former head of the justice department s criminal division. he hired jack smith, and has remained in touch with him. so, let me just start with you on what trump did today, calling jack smith a deranged lunatic, attacking him on social media, as we all have seen, calls him a drug prosecutor, accuses him of acting at biden s request. how do you respond to these accusations? the president is just plain wrong. the truth is jack smith is a