escaped death. today we remember harry reid s remarkable life. and a diplomatic follow-up. we re now learning president biden plans a thursday phone call with russia s vladimir putin. just moments ago at a white house coronavirus briefing, the nation s top health officials reminded us about complacency as covid cases are skyrocketing in the u.s. they said data overseas points to the new variant being less dangerous to vaccinated people, but its exact severity especially for children is still to be determined, and a contract for billions of free home tests is expected to be completed next week. health officials are also defending new guidance to allow people who test positive to leave isolation sooner if they don t have symptoms. the cdc director told cnn they re following the science but also human behavior. it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. we have seen relatively low rates of isolation for all of this pandemic, so we real
abby philip. welcome to a special edition of cnn prime time primetime. against the former president in the classified documents case. now, you will recall he is has already been indicted along with one of his other aides, and now another aide is now a defendant being charged as well. here is what they are accused of doing, according to the superseding indictment. trump ordered that his aides delete mar-a-lago surveillance video server now, keep in mind, trump s aides are accused of moving boxes of classified materials all over the property to hide them from investigators, and even from his own lawyers. so, that is the new obstruction part of this indictment. in addition to that, jack smith s team now confirms that trump indeed possessed a top secret plan to attack iran. and he did show it to people who did not have the security clearance necessary to see it. by alleging this, prosecutors are calling one of trump s defense is a lie. who is no document. that was a massi
documents case, prosecutors allege that trump obstructed two of his employees, walt nauta and carlos, to delete security camera footage to page 29 of the superseding indictment out tonight reads, quote, the oliveira than insisted to trump employee number for that, quote, the boss wanted the server to lead it and asked what are we going to do? and, you will remember that audiotape that cnn obtained that captured donald trump apparently showing secret documents to a group of people who did not have security clearances. we now know that the special counsel knows exactly what was on that secret document. just to remind, you here is how donald trump described it then. these are bad, sick people. that was your coup. against you. when millions talking about they were trying to do that before you are even sworn in. you re trying to overthrow. with milley, let me see that, also you need to ample. he said i wanted to attack iran, isn t that amazing how. this was a. they pre
with milley let me see that. i will show you an example. he said that i wanted to attack isn t it amazing a big pile of this was him. they presented me this is off the record. this was him. this was the defense department and him. and this was him this was all sorts of stuff. paige is wrong. let s see here. yeah i just felt isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know? except it is highly [laughter] this is secretive. but look at this. hillary would print that out all the time. and anthony weiner. the pervert by the way, isn t that incredible? yeah. i was just saying he wanted to attack iran. he said this once done by the military and given to me. i think we can probably try to try to de-figure now i it relates to an iran military attack point that trump and shelling off to people in his office and talking about mark milley and that document is was noticeably absent in that that included 31 clas
leveling more charges against the former president in the classified documents case. you ll recall he has already been indicted with one of his other aides and now another aide, a third, is a defendant being charged as well. here is what they are accused of doing according to the superseding indictment. trump ordered his aides delete mar-a-lago s surveillance server to evade investigators and prevent evidence going to the grand jury. keep in mind trump s aides are accused of moving boxes of classified materials all over the property to hide them from investigators and even from his own lawyers. that is the new obstruction part of this indictment. in addition to that jack smith s team now confirms that trump indeed possessed a top-secret plan to attack iran and he did show it to people who did not have the security clearance necessary to see it and by alleging this prosecutors are calling one of trump s defenses a lie. there was no document. that was a massive amount of pape