Today on inside politics, the United States investigator vus donald trump. The grand jury meets again and the nation is on pins and needles. Plus a new National Poll shows donald trump and Joe Biden Running even and as of now, criminal indictments have not tanked trumps chances of become ing the once and future president if hes on the ballot. And its the Vice President on the line. A former Business Partner tells congress that hunter biden put his father on speakerphone 20 times. Democrats say it was part of an illusion. Republicans see it as a biden lie. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, we are closely watching for any indicators that a federal indictment against the former president is coming. The grand jury that will make that decision whether or not to charge donald trump with january 6 related crimes is back in today. Cnns Katelyn Polantz is live outside the federal courthouse here in washington. What are you seeing there at this hour . Repo
it is all happening now. airports across the country are seeing the busiest memorial day weekend in year, and so when will you get to your holiday destination? also, 86-year-old pope francis is canceling all of the meetings today due to a fever. what we know about the condition with a report straight from rome ahead. a passenger opens up a emergency door mid flight, and the emergency landing that followed. it is all captured on video. this is cnn news central . so, at this moment, jessica watkins is in a washington, d.c., federal court where a judge is set to sentence her as a member of the oath keepers and her role in the riot. this is after yesterday the leader of the oath keepers was sentenced to 18 years, matt rhodes. now, we know that the judge found that it was the case for stewart rhodes and cal meggs who were convicted of seditious conspiracy, and the judge found that their crimes amounted to seditious conspiracy. today, the kelly did not get convicted of th
finds former president donald j. trump sexually abused writer e. jean carroll. the witness who testified in the case is outfront tonight. plus, breaking news. embattled congressman george santos lied about his resume and he is now facing criminal charges from the doj and we learned he can be arrested in just hours. putin mocked after one single tank was on display for russia s big victory day parade, what happened? a russia insider who predicted this is my guest. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, sexual abuse. a new york jury today finding former president donald trump sexually abused writer e. jean carroll inside a department store dressing room in the 1990s. jurors needed to believe that trump subjected carroll to sexual contact by physical force without her consent. the jury did that and they also found trump liable of defaming carroll. it awarded her a massive sum of $5 million in damages. and in the statement carroll writes,
makes history charging donald trump with more than 30 counts connected to a hush money coverup of his alleged affair with adult film actress stormy daniels. all those details are still under seal. but republicans aren t waiting on the facts and are rushing to defend the former president. this is legal voodoo. you got a misdemeanor that s been made of felony. this case will follow, like a cheap suit under legal scrutiny. plus team. trump plans to mount a loud defense in the court of public opinion and to keep a list of who is defending him. and who isn t. but first the people of the state of new york versus donald j. trump manhattan grand jury, returning a 30 plus count indictment against the former president of the united states. sources are telling cnn and the arrangement and the charges are expected to be on tuesday in a hold your breath moment for the entire country. but today, trump s attorney says that his client plans to plead not guilty, and he puts the odds of a plea
some republicans want medicare and social security to sunset. i m not saying it s the majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office. i ll give you a copy. i ll give you a copy of the proposal. good morning, everyone. welcome to capitol hill to the balcony here. listen, it was very interesting watching. i was asking kaitlin as that was playing, have you been as a white house correspondent to the state of the union. you say you are always at the white house. yeah. and you have been watching them. i don t know if i have ever seen one like that, to have that reaction. i remember the you lie moment with president barack obama, but i don t know if i remember one like that. i think what s so different in those two moments is the reaction. when the lie moment happened, everyone was stunned. last night it was feisty. almost expected. yeah. the president trying to cut through all of the noise and heckling from republicans. did he get his message acr