Lays out trumps defense, claiming trump was just following orders from a trusted attorney, john eastman. Eastmans attorney is outfront, along with famed constitutional scholar lawrence tribe. Plus, um in flames. Putins military Recruitment Centers are being attacked against russia. Who is behind it, and we have new details tonight on why russian priests are telling fighters that their mission is to die. Just into cnn tonight, we have new reporting on what finally convinced President Biden to publicly acknowledge his Seventh Grandchild, Hunter Bidens 4yearold daughter navy. Lets go outfront. And good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, trump headed to court. In less than 24 hours, former President Donald Trump will make his Court Appearance in washington. Now, his appearance right now is scheduled for 4 00 eastern. Trump will have his fingerprints taken digitally. A mugshot lwill not be taken. But at this hour, security at the d. C. Courthouse is extremely tight. Police are moni
Standing by for a vote on House Speaker after all the chaos. New developments over just the last few hours indicate that this vote really, finally, genuinely might be the one. We have brandnew reporting just in. And the new u. S. Warning for israel to avoid a fullscale Ground Invasion in gaza, to avoid mistakes as the past u. S. Battles and there are new air strikes in gaza this morning. Donald trumps former Chief Of Staff mark meadows granted immunity and new details on what he reportedly said. Im john berman with kate bolduan, sara sidner is in israel. This is cnn news central. A speaker of the house, it might be imminent. This could be happening for real this time, maybe. Possibly. We are standing by for a full House Floor Vote on the Louisiana Republican mike johnson after the Republican House conference said he was their man overnight. Now, if youre following this at home, this last three weeks, they booted Kevin Mccarthy from the speakers chair. They then picked steve scalise, bu
people covering up fraud anyway. the ultimate check and balance is the united states congress. reporter: on january 5th, congressman jim jordan messaged meadows, insisting vice president mike pence should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional and stop certification. meadows response, i have pushed for this, not sure it is going to happen. and when the mob tried to violently force what pence would not, could not do, donald trump jr. messaged that his father had to act, he s got to condemn this. meadows reply, i am pushing it hard, i agree. witnesses place meadows in meeting after meeting with others who were allegedly pushing slates of fake electors, disingenerous lawsuits, and bogus claims of bad voting machines, saying little about it publicly. meadows sat down with the grand jury earlier this year, and since then he s been even more tight-lipped, spurring some to wonder if what mark meadows is not saying speaks volumes.
mr. meadows, quote he s got to condemn this shit asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough donald trump jr. texted. meadows sat down with sean hannity who was among those urging trump to call off his supporters. no mention of the text messages, but meadows did try to argue the committee is over stepping. if we look at senior officials, chiefs of staff and those senior to the president of the united states, compelling them to come in and testify and what we re seeing now, there s lots of jurisprudence and legal opinions and law that would suggest that that s not something that should be in the purview of congress. the full house is expected to vote on the committee s recommendation tomorrow night. should it pass, it will then be up to the justice department to file charges. another former trump insider,
sean hannity, the are just. as the violence continued. one of the president sons texted mr. meadows, quote, he s got to condemn this sheet asap. the capital police tweet is not enough. donald trump jr. texted. meadows sat down with sean hannity, who was among those urging trump to call off his supporters. no mention of the text messages but meadows did try to argue, the committee is overstepping. if we look at senior officials chief of staff, and those seniors to the president of the united states compelling them to come in and testify, and what we are seeing now, there is lots of jurors prudence and legal opinions that would suggest that that is not something that should be in the purview of congress. the full house is expected to vote on the committee s recommendation tomorrow night.