For the prosecution shows and tells how donald trump operates like a mob boss. Thats tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby phillip in new york and tonight, cnn puts a voice and a face to the key facts that you could read on paper in that case against donald trump. Meet brian butler. Hes also known as employee number five in the criminal indictment from special counsel jack smith. Butler is not a random person who trump can suddenly claim. He doesnt know he knows trump and it has known him for 21 years since he took a job as a seasonal valet at maralago. He has years of pictures and messages with everyone important in the trump orbit. He worked for he worked hundreds of p. Stance feet away from carlos de oliviera, the other maralago employee . He was indicted alongside trump, and they took lightly walks together. They were friends, but their paths now look very different. They oliviera is alleged to have lied to investigators. Meanwhile, butler has cooperated and he is helping pros
gaffes and a special counsel report highlighting his cognitive struggles. but as per usual, the mob, m the media, they raceedia to defense. take a look. i thought it was a ihot waught s good for him to show who he is. this is not handlers. this is no, thist pollsters. this was joe biden. you knowsters, t, sort of lettia everybody know kind of where he s coming from and how he feels. nd hows. i think that makes hm more youthful, more engaged, more humanaged, more relatable. do you want to give the age thing? because this is let s call it o what it is. this is ageism. snuck into a report clearing the person of any wrongdoing. if someone says you re too far left, you can tack to the centerfa. 0 year there s not. the man is 80 years old. he rides a bike. let me educate our friends in the mob, in the media, because this sea is very seri. according to the special counsel s reporto ,e bide biden presented was presented as, quote, a sympathetic, well-meaningn esented eld
the liberal media is hammering joe biden for snubbing an audience of one hundred million americans and skippingri the super bowl in virtue for the second year in a row.in it seemsg like a no brainer. a brinudg your reelections metageo a mass of voters.in some in the national press say the big baby in the white houseo couldn t handle it. su i couldn t figure that out. he can get his message to an audience waiting for him. is it because he can t handle it? if he s not able to follow theah questions. if his staff is worried problem. he s givinroblg up an opportunity to talk to millions of people this sunday, turning down a presuper bowl interview. he will never have that size hav audience again to make his case. but maybe there is good reason the white house wants to hidehe biden. w it would be a total disaster. joe biden has been racking up embarrassing moments lately. like forgetting the name of the terror group hamas or claimingai to meet with a french president tha
protect china? take the banking sector, for example, it was just years ago when the big wigs of wall street decided to fall in line behind black lives matter, remember? and al sharpton, all that. that was after george floyd s death that they railed against american racism. in social media posts. and then they went on to commit billions to promote racial justice, ended up being in large , say, giveaway to racial hucksters coast to coast. but when pressed in congressional hearings this week on chinese abuses, we do condemn the ongoing human rights abuses in china at the hands of the chinese communist party can condemn is a very strong word. yes, it is . so is and slavery. yes, we certainly are very distressed to see it going on and we do not want to have human rights abuses happening anywhere in the world where we or anyone else operate. it should distressed. did she say she was just distressed about it? i d say things are pretty distressing for hundreds of thousands bein
Fullscale invasion of rafah. Lets go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. A crying little expletive. It got ugly in the Hush Money Case Today For Trump and right away, i mean, right off the bat. That was just one of the first leinz trumps defense attorney, Todd Blanche Confronted Star Witness Michael Cohen. The width as the crossexamination began this afternoon. So i was there watching as trumps former fixer went toetotoe with the trumps attorney. And as i said, it was literally i mean, basically the first line, trumps attorney todd blanche starts his questioning by confronting Michael Cohen and hes he whether he was pretending to be or truly angry, he came off so angry that he was shaking and he pulls up a video that Michael Cohen and posted on tiktok and he said you went on tiktok and you called Me A Crying Little Expletive, didnt you i mean, it was just so intense. Now, cohen responds. Sounds like something i would say. Trump leaned forward is blanche went o