prosecutors say admitted to having ties to russian intelligence is in jail awaiting trial for lying to the fbi. so today, a different gop witness will testify again, not on capitol hill, but from federal prison where he is serving time for unrelated fraud charges. meantime, former president donald trump, who actually was twice impeached in searching for new ways to postpone his election subversion trial, asking the supreme court to delay the proceedings and doubling down on his claim of total immunity, arguing that rejecting it would be quote, the end of the presidency as we know it, but we begin with this morning s house oversight hearing on the impeachment inquiry into president biden. cnn s melanie zanona joins us, live up on capitol hill for us. melanie, what are republicans? i trying to accomplish with this hearing well, initially this hearing was billed as a way to highlight discrepancies and hunter biden s closed-door testimony. remember this is only the second publi
all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin with a breaking news out of russia, state media. they re publishing our report of a purported confession from one of the 11 suspects arrested and an action with a deadly terror attack on a concert venue near moscow. cnn cannot independently verify the veracity of the report or the statements made aid by the alleged attacker, which may have been made under duress. friday s massacre killed more than 150 i m sorry. more than 130 people now, an injured more than hundred others. isis is claiming responsibility. cnn senior international correspondent, fred pleitgen, is tracking all of it from berlin. fred, what our people in russia saying in the wake of this rampage? either fredricka. well it certainly is a fast moving investigation. the russian seem to be conducting there. they say that they have 11 people in custody, four of them apparently were the actual shooters. they say
unusual. the new defense from trump world to avoid paying his half $1 bond. i have a former temperature attorney with me to try to make the case also tonight, the dnc prepares for war with third party candidates and one of them, 20 tonight, i m laura coates live all right. can you imagine what must be going on and donald? trump s head tonight? i mean, he s got five. just count them five days to come up with nearly half 1 billion and a bond, and he has civil fraud case in new york. and so far, insurance companies who could back that bond are sending his calls the voicemail. the last thing the field of gop nominee want the world to see is the allegedly multi-billion-dollar man would ever who actually might be worth going perhaps hatton hand are selling properties like his namesake trump tower for bargain basement prices because make no mistake. the new york a jaylen should james, she has zero sympathy, maybe even negative $464 million worth of sympathy. but now th
put one on the calendar for trump to stand trial in georgia, and it s this second request, but by all means be a boolean move from fani willis considering what we ve been talking about for the last two months, we ve been talking about allegations of an improper romantic relationship that willis had with her special prosecutor. what sources close to her even acknowledged was a major distraction in this case. but now that willis has at least been told she could remain on the case by judge mcafee. she thinks it s time now to push him to put a trial date on the calendar and we could see that come in the coming weeks. now, look, that doesn t discount the challenges that you still going to face mcafee obviously, was really critical of willis s credibility, really criticizing her for her actions that almost got her disqualified from case. and also the threat of his qualification still looms it was over willis and appeals court is going to decide whether or not it wants to review mca
is making another move to try to get the judge on the case thrown off. let s get straight to cnn s paula. paula with the breaking news. what exactly are trump s lawyers attempting? here? which i were less than two weeks out from the beginning of this trial and hear trump s lawyers are asking the judge to allow them to file a motion for the judge, juan to recuse himself. they are arguing that he is conflicted by his daughter s work as a democratic political consultant. now, last year they made a similar similar request which was rejected by the judge. i m saying that it would not be in the pu inrest for him to recu hielf.ut nowrump s lawyers are arguing sce this should be reconsidere because the judge s dahter they argue is in a position to potentially financially benetf unclear if this will succeed, jake, but again, this is just another effort by the trump team. it appears to if nothing else delay this trial further. all right. paula reid, thanks so much from trump, the de