good evening. i m kaitlan collins. there s so much news to talk about tonight when it comes to the former president s legal troubles, it s almost hard to know where to begin. there s brand new cnn exclusive reporting that his former personal attorney rudy giuliani has recently been interviewed in the special counsel s january 6th investigation. there s also fresh details coming from the new york times tonight on the documents case and how investigators zeroed in on another one of his properties, not mar-a-lago. there s also a new defense coming from the former president himself tonight, who is reacting to the blockbuster audio that you heard here last night first. this is the defense that donald trump is now offering today. i had a whole desk full of lots of papers and mostly newspaper articles, copies of magazines, copies of different plans, copies of stories having to do with many, many subjects. and what was said was absolutely fine and very perfectly. we did nothing w
that s all for us tonight. thanks for joining us for all of that breaking news. cnn tonight with abby phillip starts right now. good evening everyone. tonight we begin with ida section of the tape that maybe central to the federal case against former president donald trump. the tape that he responded to today, and we will get to that, but first let s start here. it started right when the that we re trying to do that before you even sworn in. well, with milley, i ll show you an example. she said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of paper. come on, look. from the start, this explains why trump allegedly slashed a classified document to people who didn t have a clearance. to counter general mark mullens claim that trump was itching to attack iran. speaking of clearance, in that clip, he asked his aide to hand him papers. it s unclear who exactly did and whether that person had a security clearance either. they presented me this. they
typically. brian i kohberger back in court. as he faces the death penalty. whoever did this should be charged. whoever did this heinous. asked to turn over more evidence. i m trying to fly over to d.c. deadly storm wreaking havoc across the region. look over there there is a tornadoes. look at the bright side. i have been laughing this whole time. what else can you do. in florida we pride the law enforcement. endorsement by largest police union. the choice for us could not be clearer. for police officers, we re going to support ya. steve: all right. it is 7:00 here in new york city. we start this hour with daniel penny s arraignment. the marine vet is due in court today here in new york city. as criminal charges against him will finally be unsealed. brian: he was initially arrested on manslaughter charges in connection with the chokehold death of a home lazarus man on a subway train as you probably know. bryan llenas is live in mid-atlantic with the
That sounds. in every conversation i ve had with him he has been gracious with me and he is always accepted my advice and been very flattering. i do not find immediate difficult client. i don t like clients talking about cases, but he is donald trump, he s going to talk about what he wants to stop about and people understand that. one thing that we have to take a step back and take a broader look at this case, i know ambassador fulton kind of alluded to it, but rooms that you have millions of people who believe that this never should ve been brought as a criminal prosecution. never underestimate the value of a jury nullification. so no matter what is on any tape, some of the people, the reaction will be listen, can you imagine what conversations hillary clinton had about the documents that she had or can you imagine when biden was taking those documents with him, conversations that he might have had? it might not get past that discussion you know, it is an interesting point. but in
Be president. had a major slip-up yesterday when it came to china and the uyghurs. that s the muslim group that has basically been rounded up, a million of them. organs harvested. forced to convert. being tortured. brian: it s genocide. here is what happened on the hugh hewitt show. ultimate question, show, will will you be talking about the uyghurs in your campaign? the what? what s a uyghur? okay. we will come back to that. you have got to get smart on that. gave me homework, hugh. i will look at what did you call it a weble. the uyghurs. you have got to know about the uyghurs. i will search uyghurs. i m a good learner, i m a fast learner. steve: i think i heard somebody on his team then say he was mystified by the pronunciation. he knew what it was but didn t identify with the way it was