donald trump s legal team responds, accusing the special counsel of going after trump s first amendment rights. and now both sides are facing a new deadline. brand new exclusive reporting. u.s. officials just briefed on the ukrainian counteroffensive are now calling the progress being made against russia, sobering. not in a good way. the challenges that ukraine is facing. and a violent brawl in alabama goes viral. a group of white boaters accused of jumping a black security guard and then a full-blown fight escalated on the river front. warrants are now filed as demands for justice grow. i m omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. cnn news central starts right now. special counsel jack smith and donald trump s legal team now face a 3:00 p.m. deadline today to respond to the judge over seeing the 2020 election case. at issue now is how much and under what conditions evidence can be publicly disclosed ahead of this historic trial. trump s legal team not surpri
request to limit what the former president can say about the case against him. now accusing federal prosecutors of trying to restrict trump s first amendment rights. do they have a case on this at all? trump s former white house lawyer ty cobb will be with me. plus, a deadly strike. russia ramping up attacks on civilian targets. we are learning tonight of a russian plot to assassinate the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. and an alarming scene as a massive brawl breaks out between a black man and a group of white voters in montgomery, alabama. and tonight police are vowing to make arrests. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, team trump s response. the former president s legal team just now responding to a request from the special counsel that came after trump posted if you go after me, i m coming after you. all caps. trump s team arguing that his ability to share information in the january 6th case is covered by the first am
toenails. that s disgusting. disgusting. we did pull your advice staff on this on whether you re allowed to wear shorts in the office, interestingly there s a split. they say it s okay for women to wear shorts. but it is not okay for men to wear shorts. that feels a little sexist to me. but i don t know what s going on. i don t think such a rule would be allowed if it wasn t across the board. i believe inequality for the genders. sure, harry, thanks very much. i don t know what that was about. the news continues, the source with kaitlan collins begins now. straight from the source, tonight, you can potentially hear any moment from the judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case. as we wait, the special counsel s team just swung back at trump and his lawyers after they complained in the free speech rights could be limited, and there s a nondisclosure order over evidence in the case. of course, this is also coming as we are learning more about a foiled pl
now. i am writing myself a note. it s worth just put the 20 bucks in. buy lottery ticket. it s tonight, right? yeah. to do. i will do that. maybe i ll see you back here tomorrow morning. would you come back if you won? yes. oh, okay. you not? no. a billion and a half dollars? yes, i would. i like what i do. i like it too. but not when i m a billionaire. i hear you, my friend, victor. let s get to the powerful storms ripping across the east coast. they ve been deadly. we know this morning at least two people have died, hundreds of thousands of people, though, waking up to power outages this morning. oh my god. that is a tree snapped in half in north carolina. while indiana residents are digging out after a tornado touched down there. maryland state police say 47 people were rescued after being trapped in their vehicles for hours. look at this. this is the people who were trapped between these power lines. today already nearly 900 flights hav
rights could be limited if there s a non-disclosure order in the case. of course this is also coming as we are learning more about a foiled plot in ukraine when it comes to ukrainian president zelenskyy. what we are hearing about this informant. he was apparently passing along key intelligence about the ukrainian leader. also tonight, we have one of the greatest athletes of all time here to join us. katie ledecky has swung her way into the world record books, defeating michael phelps, taking out one of his titles he previously held. we ll talk to her live in just a moment. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. as we noted, tonight we are waiting to potentially hear any moment from the judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case. as we wait, the special counsel s team has just responded to trump and his attorneys from a filing they sent in just about three hours ago, where they complain that his free speech rights could be limited if there s a non-disclosur