politics the former president s pardon play. donald trump s lawyers make a hail mary request for an april 2026 start to the 2020 election trial and try to make sure the case never sees the inside of a courtroom. plus a game of risk. new reporting outlines how republicans plan to conquer a trumpless debate. how another republican warns his party appears poised to fulfill the textbook definition of insanity. president biden invokes the whole enemy of my enemy is a friend theory of foreign policy today pushing two neighbors to put aside a generation of bad blood and send a message to the country a couple blocks away, china. i m phil mattingly in for dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we re going to start with this up first. two questions. do you know what you re doing on monday? do you know what you re doing in april, 2026? the answer is no for me on both of them. donald trump, though, has plans for both. more specifically mr. trump knows where he w
Witnesses. so it is going to be a lot less difficult for the judge to cut through that i think. kaitlan, we heard from the former president yesterday. he had a sit down interview with larry kudlow. i want to play some of that. take a listen. they have four of them now if you look. i mean, this is not even possible. four. over the next last couple of months. and frankly, it discredits everything. and they are all very similar in the sense that they are, there is no basis for them. it s a disgraceful thing. and republicans can t let them get away it. republicans have to be tough. i m less interested in his actual comments themselves than what is happening behind the scenes with his legal team in particular how they view the four indictments and whether there is a basis for them i think the one they are the most worried about actually happening next year is this case in washington. they ve seen how judge chutkan has handled this and know she is moving pretty aggressively. so as
Documents, and included a very handy visual aid in their court filing of what those 11.5 million pages of documents would look like if printed out compared to the is statue of liberty, the first little block you see there, then the washington monument the second little block you see there. again, it is up to the judge to decide when the trial date is going to be but this is how the trump team is framing it in their filing last night. as a reporter in your former life at the wall street journal the show don t tell aspect here is, you know, you appreciate that. we love a visual aid. thanks so much. here to share their insights cnn s kaitlan collins and a former lawyer for the january 6th committee and cnn s evan perez is live for us in washington. tim, i want to start with you and what was pointed out. you read through the actual filing and it says even assuming we could begin reviewing documents today we d need to proceed at 99,760 pages per day
For both. more specifically mr. trump knows where he won t be on monday and what he hopes he won t have to do more than two and a half years from now. we start our coverage with cnn s sara murray in washington. let s start with monday. what won t mr. trump be doing? sadly for him he has canceled this press conference he wanted to have where he could talk all about the baseless allegations of voter fraud especially in a state like georgia. he was encouraged not to go through with this. obviously he has a number of pending legal matters that this would not look great for. here is what he said on social media. my lawyers would prefer putting this i believe irrefutable and overwhelming evidence of election fraud and irregularities in formal, legal filings. now of course we will wait to see whether his attorneys actually do include any of what he calls irrefutable evidence that s been refuted many, many times in these court filings but i think there is a lot of concern about the former pr
From border towns to big cities, the record spike in migrant crossings is having ripple effects across the country. in texas, the national guard is patrolling, the red cross is setting up shop in the el paso convention now outfitted with hundreds of cots to shelter migrants. in new york the mayor of new york city is tapping into hundreds of millions of dollars to try to deal with the influx. in chicago residents have donated tens of thousands of dollars to provide essentials for the migrants who have arrived in the midst of a winter chill but in washington the big question remains, can the biden administration offer more than just band-aid fixes? let s discuss with former homeland security secretary jeh johnson. thank you so much for being here. pleasure to be here, ana. so you ve dealt during your