us tonight. cnn primetime abby philip joe starts right. now thank you, caitlin, good evening, every everyone. i m abby philip, welcome to cnn prime time. the clock is now ticking, donald trump in 18 codefendants have just ten days to turn themselves in, after being indicted in georgia on serious criminal charges. the former president is accused of being the head of a criminal enterprise, to overturn joe biden s victory in that state. tonight, a local sheriff says he s expected to be out of fulton county jail. what is going on right now in trump s world, with just ten days to go until surrender? we also have news on mark meadows making a last-ditch attempt to get the case against him in georgia dismissed. we ll begin to all of that tonight. plus, the 45th president of the united states faces a stunning 91 criminal charges across four separate cases. and it will be tied up in multiple courtrooms, throughout this presidential cycle. all while he s running for the second term.
biden s memory are things the president actually disputes. he says he does remember, for example, the dark somber fact of when his son died. now, tonight it s dialing up. axios reporting the republicans partisan plans to try to exploit and run with this as a matter of governance, i use that word specifically, you see the headlines about using subpoena powers to get weeks or months of hearings to hype just those parts of the report, not, of course, the part clearing biden. some admit republicans don t think it even matters what they find. now, that confession is in the article about the republican plans, which itself sounds damning and i want to tell you tonight, it s not sufficient to say, ah, this is just politics. politics is, of course, something a lot of people tune out precisely because there s so much spin and crap and that s been true for a long time. politics is what candidates in campaigns say. it can be hype, spin, exaggeration, i not saying false equivalents but t
political and intelligence and lists here tonight. but let s start with cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid and former federal prosecutor laura coats, ladies, great to see you. all, i will begin with you. let s get straight to that exclusive audio tape. what do we hear donald trump saying? all right, so remember this back in the summer of 2021 as new jersey golf club. and in the room alone with him are to have states who he knows are recording everything he says. because during that time he was in the habit of having his staff report him anytime he talked to journalists, members of the media, or anyone working on a book. the other people in the room or two people working on an audio biography of former white house chief of staff mark meadows. at the time it appears the former president s quite agitated about comments made by general mark milley regarding trump s feelings and his desire to attack iran. i am gonna let him take it from here, you can hear him in h
against donald trump. cnn has now obtained an audio recording of the former president. in which he is heard discussing classified documents in the presence of others and apparently holding and referencing a secret pentagon document that contains plans to attack iran. it is the tape that could be at the center of special counsel jack smith s case against trump for allegedly mishandling classified information. and the recording was made almost exactly two years ago in july 2021. during a meeting at trump s golf resort in bedminster, new jersey. where he was taking part in an interview for people who are working on that even more of his former chief of staff, mark meadows. now listen to what he said exactly on that tape. these are bad people. that was your key, you know, against you. well it started when really is talking about, oh, we are gonna try and know, they were trying to do that before you even sworn in. that s, right trying to overtone your let me see,
good evening. , tonight in the eyes of a federal giardia of his peers to donald trump, the once president of the united states, is a sexual abuser. six men and three women found him liable for sexually abusing writer e. jean carroll at a department store in the 1990s, and then defaming her about it last year on his social media site. the jury took just under three hours to reach their verdict and reward carroll approximately $5 million in damages. in a moment, we will be joined by jessica leads, testifying during the trial that a young donald trump groped her on a flight in the 70s. her lawyers neither put on defense, nor called him as a witness, leading the plaintiffs to play damaging portions of trump s testimony. they heard the access hollywood tape in which he says that stars can get away with women and heard them during the deposition, doubling down on that. historically, that s true with stars. it s true the stars that they can grab women by the ? if you lo