His fans. Quote, love is all that matters. Faithful and forever. Harmon was 74 years thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now so who exactly is trump employee number five and y in the world, should you care . Thats how you tonight on Laura Coates Live thats where i you know, reading these indictments sometimes requires a kind of a key code between the redactions and unnamed people. I mean, you really need a glossary. Do you not well, tonight one person has made a little bit easier by stepping into the spotlight he is the mystery man referred to as trump employee number five in jack smiths classified documents give me an indictment. Who worked behind the scenes at maralago for two decades. And now he is speaking out for the first time in a cnn exclusive. Now, let me catch Everybody Up For A Second On who this brian butler is. Hes already given testimony to federal investigators and tonight, he told Kaitlan Collins that back in june of 2022, so he helped trum
And kelly hyman, legal analyst and democratic strategist welcome to you all. There is a section in the Special Counsels indictment in which jack smith breaks down this alleged scheme into five distinct parts. First, it begins with the false claims of Election Fraud. It is important to note that the doj says explicitly that donald trump it is important to note that the doj did know that he had lost the election and made knowingly false claims about it. Second, the former president and his Co Conspirators launched a seven state strategy to pressure state and local officials to overturn the officially certified results. Third, they weaponised, to coin a phrase, Thejustice Department to lend credence to these false claims of Election Fraud to try to pressure State Officials. Fourth, they pressured the Vice President , mike pence, to do something they knew was unconstitutional and illegal. And finally, which brings us to the violence of january 6th, they exploited that disruption and redoub
reminder. we ll continue to follow those stories. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. more reports of noises from the ocean. in that desperate search for the missing sub. the lead starts right now. sounds of hope in what is still being described as very much a search and rescue mission. sensors picking up noises from the ocean, could those be from the passengers? trapped on that titanic submersible that vanished during a deep sea expedition. and another u.s. supreme court justice defending another undisclosed luxury trip paid for by another billionaire. this time it is justice samuel alito who many met with someone before the court. alito tried to get ahead of the claims. and diplomacy undone. was all that work by antony blinken in beijing ruined when president biden called xi jinping a dictator in an off the cuff remark. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead. we need to have hope. that is the message from the u.s. coast gu
trump bowing to fight back after on the ballot in colorado. state supreme court ruling that trump violated the 14th amendment of the constitution because of january 6th. the colorado supreme court confirmed that the district court got it right, that he did engage in insurrection. section 3 of the 1st amendment has to apply to the presidency because, if not it s a get out of jail free card. literally, jack smith, who would charge donald trump absolutely everything, including jay walking if he could get away with it, didn t even charge donald trump or most of the rioters on january 6th with insurrection. presidential candidate and former governor current florida governor ron desantis calling it an abuse of power and the u.s. supreme court should reverse the decision. katie: the white house hopeful vivek ramaswamy taking things a step further. listen to this. saying i pledge to withdraw from the colorado g.o.p. primary ballot until trump is also allowed to be on the ba
full court press to try to get their economic message out in the 11th hour. there are still questions over how big of a campaign footprint president biden will make in the next 12 days. over house republicans weighing impeachment hearings if they retake the majority. former presidents obama and trump set to kick off a tour of dueling campaign rallies to try to help turnout ahead of election day. an update on the tripledemic fears, with rsv, covid and the flu surging at hospitals. good day. the white house is feeling a sense of urgency to remind voters of their legislative victories, as republican optimism over retaking the house and senate grows by the day. the administration s immediate answer, get cabinet officials into battleground states to try to help candidates. mike memoli has been covering the story and joins us from syracuse, new york, ahead of the president s event there this afternoon. you write this is about reinforcing the president s economic message. it i