their case for them. new tension in fulton county as da fani willis weighings the timing of a possible fourth donald trump against donald trump. take a look at this house collapsing into a river in alaska. it s just one result of record-breaking b glacial flooding in juneau. the floodwaters forcing residents to flee and officials to declare a state of emergency. that s one example of the severe weather hammering the country today. we ll start with donald trump s legal team on the clock. they have just a few more hours to respond to the doj s request to restrict what the former president can publicly disclose about evidence. special counsel jack smith made the request after trump wrote on social media, quote, if you go after me, i m coming after you. here is what trump attorney alina habba had to say about the request for the protective order. this is jack smith coming out as the victim here, saying it s more him being afraid. the protective order in terms of witness t
pence has been subpoenaed. this is been a major move by the special counsel investigating donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. pence was key to trump s plans to stay in power. this is what the former president said on january 6th. i hope mike is going to do the right thing, i hope so. i hope so. because, if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. all vice president pence has to do is send it back to this dates to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people. okay, i want to bring in cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller. also legal analyst jennifer rodgers, and andrew mccabe, the former fbi deputy director. great have all of you tonight. jennifer want to start with you, we had nick akerman on last hour, former watergate prosecutor who said that without pans there is no indictment. that the special prosecutor does not bring in indictment without pence s testimony. do you agree with that? i do not kn
joining us tonight. you can follow me on facebook, instagram and twitter and tiktok. i m jake tapper. our coverage continues with the strong laura coates and the mighty alisyn camerota, as i head off on this thirsty thursday to do what i do best, sit at the kitchen table and drink. i know you saw. well laura, i think we re gonna have to really step it up with the superlatives. one time i carried you and now you re strong. i don t need a superlative. i don t need hype girls, i m good. he s just young. have fun with your bourbon, we will see you later. good to see you ladies. and we re keeping the conversation going tonight, good evening everybody i m laura coates in washington, d. c.. and i m alisyn camerota in new york. this is cnn tonight. we re here with our panelists across the political spectrum. one team here with me and the other team, the right one, in washington, d. c. here with me. and after we get started to look at two key states that people have been
and thank you so much for joining us tonight. you can follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter and the tiktok on jake tapper. our coverage continues with the strong laura coats and the mighty alisyn camerota as ahead off on this thirsty thursday to do what i do best, sit at my kitchen table and drink. i feel like we have to step it up with the superlatives. i lifted his car one time and i m strong. one time. i don t need a sue perlative. i m just i don t need hype girls. i don t need hype girls. you are just you. you have no power here. good-bye. we re keeping the conversation going tonight. apparently i m strong and you re mighty. i love that. i m laura coats in washington, d.c. i m alisyn camerota in new york. one team here with me. and the other team, the right one, in washington, d.c. here with me. we will look at two key states that people have heard a lot about and one that we haven t been hearing enough about and frankly it is flying under the radar,
the conversations, the chaos in the west wing that day. things we had never heard and things we had never seen. just a few of the new developments. testimony that trump never made a single call to law enforcement or to the pentagon. testimony that the security detail for vice president pence was calling loved ones, worried they wouldn t make it out alive. testimony that trump initially resisted using the word peace while tweeting about the riot while it was happening. audio of rioters interpreting trump s tweet in realtime seeming to suggest it gave them a green light to attack the capitol. and, quote, mike pence let me down. those were the last five words that an aide heard trump say that day before he left the west wing to go to the residence for the night. nothing about the attack according to the committee, just his grievances with mike pence. and one of the most revealing moments of the hearing, the committee showed outtakes from the speech that the former president