tonight with a stellar panel, anja manuel author of this brave new world, executive director of the aspen security forum, and also with us tonight lord kim darroch, former uk ambassador to the united states and author of collateral damage, britain, europe and america in the age of trump. good evening. ten people killed in a privatejet that was flying from moscow to st. petersburg telling us prigozhin was on the manifest will the flight was covering seven passengers and three crew. it was said to have crashed northwest of moscow. these are the pictures. there are multiple videos on social media that appeared to show the jet crashing. in the tracking date, load doesn t show with the plane departed. it does show it climbing to an altitude of near 29,000 feet before the data shows that dropping suddenly ending up shows that dropping suddenly ending up at zero feet. eyewitnesses said they heard to live bank shortly before hand. while the cause of this crash is not clear this man p
jail for several years for counterfeiting one vote. if they try to vote illegally once, he tried to steal the entire election. and his lawyers out there are saying that it s just a matter of him expressing his first amendment rights. and that is deranged. that is a deranged argument. trump s lawyers also making the case that mike pence will be the defenses, quote, best witness. today on cnn, pence contradicted laura s take on the pressure campaign to block the certification of president biden s election victory. what president trump did not do is direct vice president pence to do anything. he asked him in an aspirational way, asking is covered by the first amendment. in the days before the president was talking about us rejecting votes. and then late in the process, his lawyers suggested that we return votes to the states. but frankly, the day before january 6th, if memory serves, they came back, his lawyers did, and said we want you to reject votes outright. they were
Happen. and here s the problem that the court will face and the prosecutors will face, jack smith wants to takes his case to trial. he does not want to let anything happen that could delay that straight line chance he sees. if you get into a situation where you are litigating with a defendant about whether he violated his terms of pre trial release, that custody, then the first amendment issues piled on top of that in trump s case, that all adjusts special counsel single-minded purpose of going straight to trial. i think we will see them try to avoid these sort of sand traps along the road and just drive straight for the hole in one. a dramatic way to delay indeed. i want to ask you, joyce, trump s lawyer declaring today that mike pence will be trump s best witness. a lot of bluster or something there? well, you have to bluster, i, think when you are in that position as a defense lawyer. look, mike pence seems to have find a bit of backbone that s been missing up until now.