monitor this storm on cnn and the effects of it. continue to watch here. and thank you for joining us tonight. that news will now continue with cnn used tonight with abby philip. donald trump has left many of legal excuses and his knew what might just take the cake. that s tonight on news night. good evening, i m abby philip in new york. raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens. immunity on matters? donald trump lost a few of his favorite reasons why he s not a criminal. at this point, trump is a collector of defenses like some people collect pokémon. but there is almost too much account at this point. and trust us, we tried. he says he s immune. presidents can t obstruct justice. his intent wasn t corrupt. the case is moving too fast, or movement too slow. it s an unfair venue. the judge is biased and so are the clerks. the juries, to. he s never met her. he doesn t know who. she is not his type. it was his personal account, political persecution. which hunt. perfe
question. what was the cause of the civil war? she managed to give an answer they did not include the words slavery. we re going to show you that later in this hour. and explain. why she gave that answer. lawrence i m looking forward to that because i saw also that same comment after we did our segment so i m glad you re covering it. thank you, jonathan. thanks, lawrence. on christmas day a 77 year old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell. and unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn t mumble it to himself bitterly, alone in his jail cell, awaiting trial. he didn t say it angrily to a cell mate. he said it through the reach of social media to the world and while he was at it, he said the president s united states should rot in hell. the 77 year old criminal defendant is also the leading republican candidate for president of united states. thanks to t
Willis to explain how all 19 cases there would possibly, or could possibly, be tried together. That is a tomorrows news tonight. Plus, what is the strategy of those 19 defendants Behind The Scenes in the georgia r. I. C. O. Case and are they getting a little bit of a preview of the governments case . Well tell you all about it. And, listen to what Georgia Secretary Of State Brad Raffensperger told Anderson Cooper tonight. Weve got much more to come everyone, on all of that, but i want to begin with all of the fast moving developments tonight in the criminal case against donald trump. Joining me now is former Trump White House lawyer james scholz and Georgia Prosecutor chris timmins. Im glad to see you both here, gentlemen. Lets begin with you here, jim, because trumps lawyers are honing in on this comment that was made by judge chutkan in a case of a rioter from january six. Does that argue meant stand up . The filing says this, the bugle mob that capital were there in fealty and loyal
We know that is what it is. the goal is always to make today better than yesterday. what did you make of that angela? [laughter] you are mad at joe biden kamala hairless, and rightly so for being bad up messaging. they are this poor and addressing raisman. it s just to be clear. are you gonna defend the? when tim scott said this is not a racist country, vice president kamala harris agreed with him. and so it d i m not defending any of what does that prove in your mind, that vice president harris? clearly all politicians are piece poor about speaking racism on this country. you talked about mother emmanuel, one of the things the few that i think joe biden did well yesterday, he addressed
Institutions that enabled the abuse to continue. by bring in the former fbi assistant director of the criminal division and laura coates, senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. good evening to both of you. thank you for joining me. let s start with the i.g. report saying the agents involved betrayed their duties. the indianapolis field office first learned there were allegations against nassar from three gymnasts but they only to one. it was by phone. raisman said they took 17 months to speak to her. it is frankly almost unbelievable. what went wrong? you know the fbi. what went wrong here? don, this is as bad as it can get. chris wray said today on the hill as he testified, he had no explanation for it. not only did they do no investigation despite receiving