Skis, cnn Breaking News, because thats good right to the Breaking News, cnn has exclusive new interview with a key witness in the Trump Classified documents case, known only as trump employee five, at least until now . Cnns kaitlan, polands as a west palm beach, florida near maralago, kaitlan. Who is this witness . And why is he speaking out now well, if this is brian butler, brian butler worked for donald trump for 20 years at the Maralago Club at one point, running the car service for all of the gases thats coming in and out of the club. He eventually left that job in fall of 2022, but that was not before he had been privy to some major conversations and moments in this classified documents investigation. And now he is someone who has spoken to prosecutors multiple times and clearly is a key witness. For the indictment. One of those moments he recalls, wolf is June 3 Of 2022 when he was working at the club and the bodyman of donald trump, walt nauta, asked him oddly in his estimation
to broadcast the hearing and whether trump s indictment will be unsealed before it begins. we re also tracking the massive security operation underway right now, as officials prepare for the former president s movements. through the city and the courthouse. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. our top story tonight. we re less than 24 hours away from the arrangement of former president donald trump had a new york city courthouse. cnn correspondents are on the ground in manhattan with new information about the case. we also have a team of experts ready to break down this truly historic moment from every angle first, let s go to our senior legal affairs. correspondent paula reaches just outside the courthouse for us. give us the latest paula great. we learned that trump s lawyers are opposing having cameras in the courtroom for tomorrow s historic arrangement. a media organizations, including cnn,
National affairs correspondent jeff zeleny, standing by just outside trump tower in new york , where the former president is huddling with key advisers tonight. so what s the latest there, jeff? if we do know that former president donald trump has been here at trump tower for about 90 minutes or so he arrived through a side entrance. there were just a couple of dozen or so supporters chanting his name, unclear if he could hear their messages of support or not, by m told that he has huddling with political advisors as well as talking to legal advisers this evening on the eve of that court appearance. in. ah here in the new york tomorrow morning, and wolf former president has, of course spent so many so much time in trump tower is so symbolic of his presidential candidacy. of course, this is where he launched his campaign. he arrives here now is the front runner in the republican presidential race. he raised some $7 million just in the last few days alone because of this indictment, but
Provider about theo s mp tries out as little as $25. closed captioning brought to you by flexible family of products fill swift here this is flex superglue gets like super glue and the entire flexible family of products at flex seal products .com. more now on our top story. urgent security preparations are underway for tomorrow s historic arrangement of the former president donald trump in manhattan. cnn she even approach to pest is on the scene for us in new york chemo and what s the security situation? like just outside the courthouse where trump will be arraigned? well well for tomorrow. this area will certainly see some of the roads and the streets closed down up the street. here, as we ve been talking about, is exactly where the former president will be surrendering. his motorcade will drive up this street. we will see him walk
94% of democrats near nearly universal on the democratic side approve but 62% of independence . that s a big number for the critical voting block in the middle there. and even one in five republicans approve of the indictment. we asked folks is donald trump s behavior in this stormy daniels matter. illegal unethical, but not illegal or not wrong at all. take a look. 37% of americans say it s illegal. what donald trump has done here, 33% say it s unethical but not illegal. so if you add those up the big majority, say donald trump s done something wrong here illegal or not only 10% of americans, wolf say, donald trump has done nothing wrong at all in this case and then sort of along the lines of donald trump has been arguing to his supporters. do americans see this as a political matter? overwhelmingly they do 76% of americans say politics played a role in bragg s decision in the