hey, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. i m in for nicole wallace. special counsel jack smith is a prosecutor that stays out of the spotlight. he prefers to speak through his fiings. that s why his laltest brief in the federal election case merits our attention. over the weekend, the justice department responded to trump s claims that he is immune from prosecution. what he did was within the scope of his duties as president of the united states. it s an argument that trump was taking to the courts in order to get the whole election case dismissed. the special counsel is speaking to the court. let s be honest. he s also speaking to any of us who care about the health of our democracy. prosecutors acknowledge the fact we re dealing with an unprecedented situation. for the first time in our nation s history, a grand jury charged a former president of committing crimes while in office to overturn an election he lost. in response the defendant claims to protect the institution of th
what a change it made so fast. i feel like anything is possible after accomplishing what i ve done with golo. thank you so much for letting us into your homes. we are so grateful. the beat with katie phang in for ari melber starts now. always good to see and thanks to you for everything. for the rest of you, welcome to the beat. i m in for ari melber. we start tonight with breaking news trump reportedly caught on tape. damaging new evidence in the trump classified documents criminal investigation. cnn is reporting prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former president donald trump acknowledges that he held on to a classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. the recording indicating trump understood that he had retained classified materials after leaving the white house. the report adds on the recording trump s comments suggest he would like to share the information but he s aware of limitations on his abili
the day is now in police custody. authorities say the 24-year-old, dion patterson, a coast guard vet, was arrested in a condominium complex. patterson is accused of killing one and injuring four others just afternoon local time inside a waiting room in a hospital facility in midtown atlanta. gary tuchman is there. you ve been at the scene of the capture. what do you make of what police revealed and what are you learning from sources how it transpired? reporter: all right. we can give you additional information you haven t heard from the news conference. this man was captured in this waterford place condo community, gated, upscale community. because people had heard already it was likely this man was in cobb county, georgia, this is 11 miles northwest where the shooting happened, everyone was on alert. we talked to a woman inside here. we walked inside the complex and she heard two dogs barking inside loudly. they weren t stopping. she s heard them before but they kept barki
a suspect in court. the man accused of killing a homeless street artist in new york city is arraigned. his lawyer says the former marine ha his head held high, but prosecutors laid out the case against him in the case that could put him behind bars. the battle forb bakhmut in ukraine is heating up. they claim it s gaining ground in admits to losses north of the city. are the battles part of kyiv shaping the battlefield for a counteroffensive that they hope could end the war once and for all. and now what? title 42 is expire d and border officials are seeing a spike in the number of migrants trying to enter the country while the white house scrambles to patch a broken immigration system. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. the man that you see here, former u.s. marine daniel penny earlier today walking out of a police precinct in new york in handcuffs. he was just arraigned and charged with second deg
i ve never met this person in my life, he said, in 2019 after carol told the story in her book she s not by type, he added a few months later in an interview with the hill. today, during carol s testimony, he called the case a made-up scam he said her lawyer is a political operative and that carol should have produced the dress she was wearing that day joining me now from outside the u.s. district court in new york city is nbc news correspondent ron allen. so ron, some very heavy testimony today. what else did carol say, and how was she how was she pushed back how did donald trump s lawyers push back against her testimony? reporter: they re going to zero in based on their opening statement on some things that they say are just unbelievable for example, she could not tell the jury exactly when this incident, this alleged incident happened she says it was probably sometime in the spring of 1996, but she has said she doesn t know the exact month, the exact date when this hap