starts now. tonight on the source, breaking news. as the u.s. and its allies are striking back with a massive bombing attack on iranian backed forces in yemen in what could be a significant expansion of the war in the middle east. also tonight, it was a chaotic conclusion to donald trump s civil trial here in new york as the former president launched into his own closing argument and insulted the judge who will decide his fate. also, tonight there are two goats saying good-bye after historic championship runs. belichik may have had brady but alabama had nick saban. the legend joe nameth will join me to talk about that remarkable legacy. i m kaitlan collins. and this is the source. and tonight we are witnessing an expansion of the war in the middle east in what could be the beginning of a much more confrontational stance against an iranian backed militant group by the u.s. the white house confirming that the u.s. and a handful of its allies including the united caningd
concealing the documents. trump team will say we don t know what they are going to say, but they clearly are making the case about a two-tiered system of justice. i think it s fascinating to watch the gop candidates. remember, this is happening in miami. obviously the governor of florida is running against desantis, his comments have been to suggest there are two tiers of justice and the biden administration is slow and the hillary clinton investigation went nowhere, despite destroying 33,000 emails and destroying cell phones and the like. and talking about that is something that i think each of these candidates has hung on to. but there has been a bit of an evolution and some of them, like nikki haley, like former vice president pence who obviously worked for former president trump in that white house have said those things, the two tier system, that talking point but then said but these charges as written are serious. then you have others like asa hutchinson, former gover
so, he is just as close to trump today as he has ever been. but a witch described his granary appearance as quote, fulfilling a legal obligation, he also criticize the investigation halves quote a deeply troubling effort to get donald trump. it comes just one day after the new york times reported former trump chief of staff mark meadows testified in jack smith s investigations. according to two people briefed on the matter, thousands of secret service agents have been subpoenaed, or appeared before the washington grand jury in the classified documents investigation. here is a former federal prosecutor and member of trump s legal team during his first impeachment robert gray, summed a whole lot of these things up. typically an independent counsel investigation as i am familiar with, you bring people in who are the eyes and ears of what is happening around the president wore former president. so, those are the tied up to prepare a case for trial, so suggest that jack smi
presidential campaign with some harsh criticism of his former boss. will it have any impact for the race as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening s broadcast in the state of florida, where former trump aide taylor but a which testified for a miami grand jury as part of a special counsel jack smith investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents. and, but a which is very close to donald trump. he spent time as a spokesman before becoming the head of a trump aligned super pac. so, he is just as close to trump today as he has ever been. but a witch described his granary appearance as quote, fulfilling a legal obligation, he also criticize the investigation halves quote a deeply troubling effort to get donald trump. it comes just one day after the new york times reported former trump chief of staff mark meadows testified in jack smith s investigations. according to two pe
4:00 in new york with the skies above us are hazy from those canadian wildfires. we are all under air quality warnings. we re going to get to that story later in the broadcast. but we begin with what is shaping up to be a white knuckle day for the disgraced twice impeached now indicted legally liable for sex abuse ex-president thank foss fast-moving developments in special counsel jack smith s investigations, plural, into donald trump. today, a federal jury in miami is back in action hearing witness testimony as part of the special counsel s investigation into whether the ex-president mishandled classified documents. or obstructed government efforts to retrieve those documents after leaving office. and it was not just any witness, it was one of trump s closest aides. a former trump spokesman who have as super pac. saying that prosecutors weres partially interested in taylor budowich, after sending boxes of material from his private home to the national archives, trump left a