Deadly u. S. Wildfire in a century. New questions are emerging about the Emergency Response there. A chaotic smashandgrab caught on camera but was anybody caught by police . Im john berman with kate baldwin and sarah sidner, we are the anchors of cnnCnn News Central which starts now. Welcome to unchartered territory once again. Right now a grand jury is meeting in georgia. And moments ago, we have now learned that former Georgia State senator is inside the courthouse right now to offer her grand jury testimony. Things are happening right now. Tomorrow, willis is expected to call two more witnesses to testify as shes laying out her case to charge a dozen people. Overnight reporting into cnn, willis has Text Messages and emails directly linking trumps inner circle to the breach of the Voting System in georgia which is part of this overall investigation right now. Paula reid is outside of the courthouse. What is the latest were learning about the State Senator who is now testifying and wh
Its saturday august 12th, youre watching velshi. Im Charles Coleman Junior Filling in for my friend ali velshi. We begin this hour with the latest developments in the fastmoving case of the United States versus donald j trump. There are major developments in the Government Election interference case against the former president. Federal judge Tanya Chutkan granted the Special Counsel Team Request for protective order just yesterday. The protective order seek salute what trump can and cannot disclose about the case, and the trove of evidence that prosecutors are set to turn over to the defense during discovery. Now the government requested a protective order that covered all of the discovery materials. But the judges ruling did not go that far. It does stop trump from publicly sharing quote, material that the government doesnt, designates has sensitive. And quote. This would include things like personal information of possible witnesses, recordings, and transcripts of testimony. The def
Fascist dictatorship, and so bill barr, after, ive got to say, humiliating himself for several years, bill barr decides, this is where i get off. This is enough. This is my line. I believe in an imperial presidency, but i dont believe in a fascist presidency. Thats what donald trump was asking him to do. Asking him to steal an election. Asking him to arrest his political opponents. Asking him to do the sort of things, again, that fascist dictators do. He wouldnt do it. Now, trump has turned on him. As far as fani willis goes and jack smith and everything else, again, we can point you back to it and play it for you again, what we were saying in 2019. If donald trump lost in 2020, he would run again, and hed run again simply to avoid all the crimes he was committing. Im not good at math, but that was four years ago. Four years ago, we were saying he will run again so he can try to avoid jail. Going to jail. Here we are. I must say, a lot of people were saying that, so its hard to believe
with people who didn t have clearance. . how critical could that piece of evidence be in this case? plus, russian president vladimir putin speaks. the defiant president trying to project strength after the weekend rebellion, forcing new questions about his power. we re going to have a live report from moscow coming up as well. we begin, though, at the supreme court, where we expect more decisions to be released at any moment. we re watching for decisions on highly consequential issues. the court often waits to release the most controversial decisions until the end of a term. and we re getting right down to the wire here, folks. if we get one of those major decisions, we re going to bring you that and the very latest right away there. we re also monitoring some dramatic new developments in the trump classified documents investigation. an audio recording has surfaced in which the former president appears to discuss classified documents with people who did not have security
i believe it is. it remains to be seen if it will hurt him at all politically. he is still the front runner for the republican presidential primary. and trump s campaign is not slowing down at all. today he is on a stump in the south making his first speeches since the indictment in georgia and north carolina. i am simone sanders townsend and i have something to say about it all. what kind of democracy are weak? are we a mature democracy, capable of enforcing its rules and laws? or an immature democracy choosing chaos over the competition. questions after this week s historic federal indictment of former president donald trump. and if you didn t get a chance to read that damning 44-page document, or 45, i highly encourage you to do it. it is all right, because we have got you suffered. on thursday we learned the former president was indicted by the justice department and its investigation of mishandling of classified documents. and yesterday when the indictment was unse