Request to limit what the former president can say about the case against him. Now accusing federal prosecutors of trying to restrict trumps First Amendment rights. Do they have a case on this at all . Trumps former white house lawyer ty cobb will be with me. Plus, a deadly strike. Russia ramping up attacks on civilian targets. We are learning tonight of a russian plot to assassinate the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. And an alarming scene as a massive brawl breaks out between a black man and a group of white voters in montgomery, alabama. And tonight police are vowing to make arrests. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, team trumps response. The former president s legal team just now responding to a request from the Special Counsel that came after trump posted if you go after me, im coming after you. All caps. Trumps team arguing that his ability to share information in the January 6th Case is covered by the First Amendment. They say in a trial
Anderson cooper sunday at 8 00 on cnn. Former President Trump lashing out on social media as a key deadline in the federal january 6th case looms. Streets are being blocked off at a courthouse in georgia. The local official Presare Prepg for another potential indictment. We are in in georgia with the latest. And so now is this captain obvious or a new Campaign Strategy . Sara is off today, and im in with kate bolduan and omar jimenez, and this is Cnn News Central. Lawyers for donald trump have until 5 00 p. M. Today to respond to a protective order in relation to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Officials are concerned that he may leak some of the private details publicly. Trump and his team are looking to delay the trial, and he wrote if you come after me, i am coming after you. Jessica schneider is following this. And walk us through what happens after the 5 00 p. M. Deadline. Yes, omar, there are a flurry of deadlines. So first to the protective order deadline. The judge w
shoo shootings. near a shelter for migrants sunday, and the day before, eight people were killed in a mass shooting at an outlet mall on the other side of the state. investigators are looking at whether the gunman was motivated by far-right extremism. an image of the shooter s body shows him wearing all black tactical gear and he had a patch on his clothing with the letters, rwds, which police believe stands for right wing death squad. he also apparently had a lot of neo-nazi and white supremacist social media posts. we re now hearing from a survivor who hid inside a bathroom closet with 12 other people. the gunshots, just, it sounded like a war zone. if it was horrifying and it felt like you were in a dream. like, just shock, but we were in a bathroom closet. and we were just in the closet trying not to be heard, crying, praying, people were trying to call 911. we couldn t dial out. i just remembered thinking, oh, god, he s coming in here next. and when i was crouching d
a daring evacuation. the u.s. military carries out an operation to pull government personnel out of sudan s capital. but thousands of americans are still trapped in the country as it descends deeper into chaos, and the white house says it s not safe to get them out right now. the gop s fight over abortion erupts over the weekend. political peril for the republican party as the national battle over reproductive rights heats up. and kimberly potter set free after serving only 16 months in pr prison for killing daunte wright. the former police officer spent more than two years behind bars for fatally shooting wright while yelling taser. critics say the punishment didn t fit the crime. we re following these major developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. scrambling to get out of sudan as foreign powers rush to evacuate the war-torn country. the biden administration says that u.s. special forces have carried out a daring rescue operation, s
present are dying suspiciously back home. cnn takes us closer than anybody else can to a secret chinese lab to a blacklisted spy balloon maker. it is an investigation that completely blows china s cover. new details about what led john fetterman to check himself into the hospital for depression. a fellow stroke survivor opens up about strokes and depression. good friday evening. i am erin burnett. we have video of the brutal life and death on the front line. in this clip which is disturbing, we will go inside one of the countless makeshift trenches in ukraine. the ukrainian who is filming this, as you can see there is shooting. then runs to one end of the trench. you will see him turn and run. as that happens there is more shooting going on. then they look up. you see the terrain and then you will see the russian soldier. advances in combat mode, look the wrong way. you saw his death. the flying caseins. you have to think about this. the ability to film a moment like th