night. tonight, donald trump s latest delay tactics in his criminal trial, he is still trying to get d.a. fanny willis kicked off the georgia election case, and fighting his gag order in the hush money trial. plus, wall street journal reporter evan gerst of h has now spent one full year in a russian provision, but the biden administration is doing to bring him home. then rebuilding baltimore s key bridge, the cleanup just beginning, but so is the fight over federal funding. it s the 11th hour underway, this friday night. good friday evening to you, in for stephanie ruhle, we are now 221 days away from the election, and it has been another busy week for republican presidential candidate donald trump. but, not on the campaign trail. he s managing four upcoming criminal trials, plus dealing with massive financial penalties in multiple civil suits, today his attorneys continued their flood of pretrial motions, and challenges to delay the process. in georgia, trump is appealing
documents case. details from pennsylvania, he is the victim of cost control. and trump versus grievances, chuck smith is moving forward to the january 6th in 2020 investigation. it could result and a criminal indictment. what you can expect one of trump s legal fronts this week. plus, president biden has more good economic news to highlight. even as congressional republicans keep talking about impeding with pressure coming from donald trump. based on what? we will unpack that strategy. let s get started, we have a lot of business. we are looking at a consequential week ahead for donald trump and for democracy in america. on tuesday, a federal grand jury in washington d.c. will meet for a potential third criminal indictment against trump. of course, efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election this comes just days after the special counsel s office tacked on three additional charges. we are looking for espionage obstruction who died but in the documents case. special
condemn. the proud boys stand back and stand by. the proud boys celebrated that shout-out from then president trump during a debate in 2020. months later, members of that group would be heavily involved in the violence on january 6th. and now they are facing serious prison time for their actions. much more on yesterday s guilty verdicts in just a moment. meanwhile, in new york jurors in donald trump s civil rape trial heard more of his video deposition yesterday while taking through some of that testimony, and also ahead, more ethics issues for supreme court justice clarence thomas. this doesn t sound it s not good. it keeps on coming, and i m not sure what the consequence is here but it looks really bad. there is new reporting that clarence thomas wife was paid nearly $80,000 by a nonprofit that had a case before the high court. and her payments to her would come with instructions from leonard leo not to tell anybody she s getting the money. seems pr
Ensuring justice and our country. jennifer, justice alito is reacting to efforts to impose a code of ethics on a supreme court. as the secretary just pointed, out this is just like the ones for every other federal court that they already had. why is this not more of a bipartisan issue? it shockingly political, isn t it? the manner in which justice alito s phrasing this and responding to this, this is the most openly political court we ve seen in my lifetime, certainly. in my adulthood. every week that passes, it feels like the conservatives on the court are becoming more openly political. lower more pro-republican as opposed to pro democrat. it s really shocking to hear them behave in this manner, to speak in this way. i would say that for justice alito and any others on the court who are coming forward
Favor given to justice gorsuch, but most surrounds clarence thomas, of course. the harlem reporting just yesterday, a pro-republican on the show talking about tuition payments paid for a child raised by justice thomas. who ginni thomas is here. hugely important fig other than the right for a number of years and indeed her text messages to mark meadows so key. she was urging him in the wake of the 2020 election to keep fighting to try to overturn the democratic process. showing them now talking about how an arrest and detained for ballot fraud. people should be going to gitmo. she said go back to that last one. ginni thomas saying that the biden crime family should be on barges, criminal barges, off of