federal government. plus, in the next 30 minutes, president biden takes his political fight to florida, home to his biggest potential rivals. and devastation in syria and turkey, almost unimaginable as the death toll closes in on 20,000. we re live in turkey where one of our reporters just witnessed an incredible rescue. but we start with some explosive moments in those hearings we just mentioned, both democratic and republican lawmakers going hard at the biden administration and its officials for not doing something sooner about that chinese surveillance balloon. the truth is i got a problem with the chinese balloon flying over my state. by the administration s logic, we would allow the chinese to fly surveillance balloons over the pentagon or other sensitive sites near populated areas. as an alaskan, i am so angry. i want to use other words, but i m not going to. i want to bring in nbc s ryan nobles who s on capitol hill and michael crowley as the diplomatic c
any of them here? i m sure some of them are. yes, sir. half of them? there are a substantial number of charges here and some in hampton and allendale, there may be others i m not thinking of right now. we might have worn out our welcome here. i will take this opportunity to thank the sheriff here and all of the court officials and really everyone i ve met and dealt with while here in carleton county have just been great. we ll schedule some of the other matters. i know the scheduling is complicated and you sacrificed quite a bit to be able to be here defending mr. murdaugh, as well as the attorney general s office with all the other many, many things and obligations you have. and to be able to have the attorney general here, allen wilson, for the period of time that he has devoted to being here along with everyone else, it has been quite a sacrifice. but there are victims whose cases deserve to be heard. and this case has jumped some of those other cases, perhaps jump
used for medical reasons. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, former president trump is signaling he s going to stick to his old playbook as he appears poised to run for the white house again. trump seemingly undeterred by weeks of damning evidence presented by the january 6th select committee or by a dueling speech delivered today by his former vice president. here is cnn s chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny. former president donald trump returned to washington tonight for the first time since leaving office and picked up right where he left off. i ran for president. i won, and i won a second time, did much better the second time. did a lot better. reporter: what began as a policy speech about crime, immigration and the border turned to grievances as he inched closer to launching a bid for the white house. we may have to do it again. we have to straighten out ou
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Allegations in the u. S. So we talked about this sort of circumventing the american tax system. Overseas payments and overseas Bank Accounts and never reported which is what is alleged. What is the bank fraud part of the case. It is the prosecutors allege that after 2014, when the spigot of cash was turned off, he needed to fund his lavish lifestyle. What he had was Real Estate Holdings that he purchased through the bogus loans. What he did, was he began overstating the value of these property. Faking a profit and loss statement for his company. Showing cash that he didnt have for bankers including while he was chairman of the campaign. They call it bank c and that is
the kind of fraud that they are alleging. Prosecutors are going to show that in fact it was false. Zoe, tad davine was there. He was a partner with manafort in his work in ukraine, what did he have to say . So tad talked about being brought in starting in 2005 to head Media Strateg
the defense opened the door and the court of appeals and the supreme court ain t going to reverse this case. dana: what about the first responders, the police, the investigators, and how they did leading up to this? so when you are really deep in a hole as the defense you attack the police and you attack the process. and the police work here wasn t impeccable but you know what? i never had a case that was perfect and never lost a case at trial. so you have to consider that. they did mark them up a little bit. discrepancies between one of the testifiers what he said in grand jury and what he said at the actual trial and so, you know, that puts the liar hat on him and sometimes a sidestep to well, if he is lying all the police in this case are lying. he is the problem with that. if you are going to do that you have to say the police are lying then what did really happen? what s the counter narrative? right. they never the defense never