Opinion and my lawyers opinion. Donald trump who still wants us to believe he can legally stash americas most sensitive secrets in a maralago bathroom was back in court today, requesting that the whole Criminal Case be dismissed. Also tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris makes an historic visit to an Abortion Clinic as republicans continue to push for a national ban. And i call this one. The big push to force a Chinese Company to divest tiktok would allow the far right maga crowd to swoop in and gobble it up, which now seems very possible. But we begin tonight with the lone exception to Donald Trumps petulant attacks against the judges and prosecutors in the numerous criminal and civil trials against him. That would be one judge aileen cannon, a trump appointee, where remind you, who is overseeing the federal Criminal Case involving trumps mishandling of classified documents. Todays hearing in a florida courtroom on two of trumps motions to try to throw out the case is the latest exam
Violent mob against the u. S. Capitol and his own Vice President on january 6th. The Justice Department won the battle and politico reports Special Counsel jack smith obtained an extraordinary array from twitter about trumps account. While it remained unclear what sorts of information the messages contained and who exactly may have written them, it was a revelation that there were private messages associated with the twitter count of mr. Trump, who has famously been cautious about using written forms of consideration with his aides and allies. Hes reportedly sent over direct messages that were sent, received and stored in draft. Politico reports this, quote, u. S. District judge Barrel Howard held twitter, now known as x, in Contempt Of Court in february be fining that company 350,000 for missing a deadline. And he lit into twitter for taking extraordinary and apparently unprecedented steps to give trump an advantage. At one point the judge asking being quote, is it because the new ceo
Alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election. The twice impeached former president already hit with two other criminal indictments, pleading not guilty. When it comes to the second federal indictment, trump refuses to remain silent. In a social media post yesterday trump threatened, in all caps, if you go after me, im coming after you. Which got a response from the Special Counsels office. Overnight, attorneys asked the federal judge overseeing the case to issue a protective order on trump and his legal team to limit the information they can share publicly about the case. All of this comes as trump faces a trial on four Felony Counts laid out in Special Counsel jack, smith, damning 45page indictment. Those counts include conspiracy to defraud the United States government. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding. Conspiracy against the right to bow and to have one vote counted. That fourth charge falls un
Its the biggest election day of the year so far. Welcome to cnns Special Coverage of super tuesday im wolf blitzer in washington and im kate bolduan in new york. The first polls are closing in just a few hours from now. And turnout in states like North Carolina is strong as millions of americans and six next extreme states are now voting for republicans. It is a big day, 865 delegates are at stake. Donald trump expected to win most of them making the republican front runner almost unstoppable potentially. By the end of this light tonight, trump is expected to be within striking distance of the 1,215 delegates needed to win the republican president ial nomination, which raises the big question, what does nikki haley do next . Our less than an hour will be getting our first early clues about the outcome of tonights vote. Thats where we get the first results from our exit polls. We have our reporters fanned out across the nation right now is better. Voters are heading to the polls. I want
sodas to cereals. we ll go through that debate, joe, you and your diet coke. good morning and welcome to morning joe. well, let me say this, willie. let me say this, okay? yeah, i ve had a few diet coke in my day. five a day. growing up, growing up, i think we all knew three things. number one, of course, willie, we knew you never eat a big dinner before you go swimming, right? just don t do it. sure. number two, never, ever, ever, and mcarthur taught us this, don t get engaged in a ground war in asia. number three, i think we all knew from the first sip of diet coke that we had in 1982, like, we knew it caused cancer. no. you had a sip, you know, this tastes okay, but it is probably going to kill me. let me have another one. seriously, we were sitting around with our pop rocks and everything else, put down our tabs and mr. pibbs, then we pick those up. you drank diet coke, and you knew when you had the first sip, you knew, yeah, this is what killed elvi