Also ahead, delay, delay, delay, donald trump looking to push his federal Election Interference trial to 2026 like more than two years from now. Can he stall his way out of legal jeopardy . And the clock is ticking down in georgia, the new Security Measures there with just a week left for the former president and allies to surrender. Happy friday, its great to be with you, it is 10 00 eastern, im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york, and this among Hurricane Hilary is a cat 4 and barrelling towards Southern California. The National Weather Service Warning hilary could bring significant impacts to the southwest this weekend and into early next week. Now, this morning weve learned parts of Joshua Tree National park will shut down in anticipation of extreme flooding. Park officials telling the public to, quote, reconsider outdoor activities. If it makes landfall in california as a tropical system, that will be very rare. Its only happened one other time this past century. Lets get right to
we will watch the court, maggie vespa, thank you very much. that s going to do it for me. deadline white house starts right now. hello, everyone, it s 4:00 in new york. i m ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. just a few hours ago, attorneys for donald trump filed a brief defending their can client s place on the ballot in that critical 14th amendment case that s before the supreme court over whether his role in the january 6th insurrection bars him from running for office. oral arguments before the justices are on thursday. we are also hearing from special counsel jack smith, his prosecutors are mounting a defense of the classified documents probe in a filing to judge aileen cannon. we re going to have more on that in a little while as well. we begin with developments in the middle east where the threat of further air strikes looming across the region and a furry of diplomacy with one goal, preventing the war in gaza from widening even further. president biden and his
so many investigations, so little time, so few answers. let s go to david spunt and what we re learning right now. hi, david. i m at the famous justice department where karine jean-pierre is instructing everyone in the briefing room to relay their questions to. i ve reached out multiple times to folks here at the justice department with attorney general merrick garland s office. also with special counsel robert hur s office. no surprise, no comment. they re being incredibly tight lipped with information about this investigation in to the president of the united states and these classified documents. now, something that is curious, we re trying to find out more from the white house side, from the doj side, last thursday white house special counsel, white house attorney richard sover went to delaware to collect documents. he was there with doj officials at president biden s resident. this was several hours after attorney general merrick garland announced the existence of spec
silver bowls. so where are they now? let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. erin burnett outfront. russia s epic meltdown in a stunning and rapid turn of events. ukraine now has putin on the run. you can see over on the top right of this map highlighted in solid yellow, you can see the land that ukraine has recaptured in a week. that is now land that russia captured in five months. in one week, more land taken from putin than he was able to gain in more than five months. ukraine has now taken back more than 2,300 square miles total according to president zelenskyy. the onslaught was so swift and so unexpected that russian troops fled any way they could, disguised as locals literally taking bikes and stealing them and trying to bike away. this was far from an organized planned retreat. it was chaotic. these are some of the images we are now seeing of ukrainian forces. this is just one village. look at the utter destruction there. just completely destroyed. repor
Im martha maccallum. On this friday, ill be joined by bret baier and Ari Fleischer about the battle for speaker of the house. Brand new developments in this. We will talk about it coming up shortly. Also, the big announcement that is coming from r. F. K. Jr. Joe rogan speaks out on the trump trial. Well get to all of that. First, chicagos democrat mayor also throwing his hat in the ring. He will head to the border as well to see whats going on. His citys parks and Ohare Airport turn in to shelters with the city holding the Democratic National Convention Next year. His people are starting to fight back. Watch. The reality is, we have to say no. Thats the simple solution. No. Coming in to the community of black people where we get the low scraps. You want to take the resources that we have and put us at the bottom of the barrel . [chanting]. Martha you work for us is the chant there. Very significant meeting this week. Lets go to Garrett Tenney reporting from Ohare Airport. High, garrett