breaking news, new reporting on the trump attorney who wanted to try to settle with the justice department and keep his client from facing charges. the catch, his client. also tonight, cnn gets frontline access to ukrainian special forces on the hunt for russian commanders to corner and kill. and later, a father is speaking out about nearly losing his children and their remarkable, simply remarkable story of surviving 40 days in the colombian jungle. we begin with the new reporting on what you might call the exit ramp not taken by the former president, one that might have kept him off his current road to trial in the documents case. quote, one of donald trump s new attorneys proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. the former president s team could try to arrange a settlement with the justice department. he joins us on the telephone now. josh, walk us through this reporting. one of the president s attorneys wanted to turn down the temperature, went to the former president
the issue in the case will be whether or not the defendant acted recklessly. the prosecutors will argue that for the extent that you had your arm around his neck for a long period of time, certainly you can foresee there s a substantial likelihood that he would die. in the event that the jury does not buy that, potentially they buy negligent homicide. what is that? that means you acted with criminal negligence, you acted with carelessness. when you talk about second degree manslaughter, you re talking about a potential sentence of 5 to 15 years. when you re speaking to the issue of criminally negligent hods, you re talking ability 1 to 4. in new york state, it goes, a, b, c, d, e. that s nay yoture of what he s facing. based on the limited evidence you ve seen so far, do you think prosecutor versus a strong case here? so, i think the defense has a number of things to overcome.
party cannot come together? well, i haven t been spending all my time on it, but i ve got to tell you i am not worried about the final analysis. i think in the final analysis, everyone is going to come around and get behind president joe biden who represents the progressive main stream not just of the democratic party but of america. and he is really the perfect president for this moment. and so, you know, the progressives are saying rightfully so we don t want half of the biden program. we want the full biden program. and yet, you know, president biden i think understands that there may have to be trims taken in here or there in terms of the program. hey, i mean, that s in the nature of products. that s in the nay yoture of lif. 50% haircut on the senate side, jamie. it s not a trim. right. and, you know, the point we want to make is that the original