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a florida courtroom as he pushes to delay his classified as thousands of russians gathered to pay their respects to alexey navalny crowds chanting his name and turning his funeral into a protest against vladimir putin plus an extreme winter storm is slamming california, bringing 100 mile per hour wind gusts and dumping up to get this ten feet of snow will talk about that in a little while from now. in the meantime, i'm jim acosta in washington as the news right now >> and
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>> we begin with for president donald trump returning to his playbook of attempting to delay another trial this morning, trump is set to appear inside a florida courtroom as a matter of fact, we think he just five moments ago and the federal criminal case over his handling of classified documents, a judge could determine whether the trial will go ahead in may or be delayed. cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid is live outside the courthouse for us in fort pierce, florida paula, what do we think we're going to see today? >> well, jim, we know the former president did just arrive a few minutes ago. and any time now this hearing, this high-stakes hearing, is expected to get underway, and the judge overseeing this case, trump appointee, judge aileen cannon, has scheduled this trial. this is the trial where trump faces approximately 40 charges related to his the alleged mishandling of classified documents. she had put this on the calendar for may 20, but signaled she will likely push it back and ask both sides of this case, the special counsel and the trump legal team to come prepared
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today to talk about scheduling. jim, and any other case scheduling would be a routine matter. but here, timing scheduling, this is the most consequential issue. we know there's a tension between the special counsel and the trump legal team. the special counsel wants to move as quickly as possible, but trump's team wants to delay this potentially until after the november election in terms of lawyers are arguing that their client should not be in a federal courtroom when he wants to be out campaigning. they since that's a violation of his first amendment. now i will also note though, jim, if trump is reelected, he could through his attorney general, make this federal case. and the other one he faces go away. so another incentive for him to delay, but the special counsel is urging the judge to put this trial on as quickly as possible, suggesting july 8 as a possible start date. now, i'll note the trump team conceded that if this trial has to go, they would be okay with it starting on august 12. now, i want to note there's a little bit of gamesmanship going on here. if they can take up some time with
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this trial on the calendar and august, it could make it more difficult for other trials to be scheduled and they could always come back and try to get it delayed again. so very high stakes here. all eyes on judge aileen cannon. >> yeah. paula, i thought they wanted this trial postponed until i don't know the next millennium or something approximately as i think they'd be down for that because they hope that their client will be reelected and he could make his attorney general fire >> jack smith and get rid of these cases. but jim, we know right now the only thing we know for sure is that the former president will face his first criminal trial to state-level case. so not one that he could make go but even if it was reelected in just a few weeks on march 25th, he faces that hush money case in manhattan. the district attorney there, alvin bragg, also framing that as an election interference case. but if you look at that calendar, that's the only trial that we know for sure. who go before the november election all right. >> paula reid outside the courthouse in florida, one of many courthouses you're outside of these days, paula. thank you
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very much. turning now to a different trial and forming involving former president donald trump. we are just hours away from final arguments and lana were fulton county district attorney, fani willis is fighting to avoid disqualification and prosecuting the georgia election subversion case against trump in cnn's nick valencia joins us now from outside that courthouse. nick, i guess trump can't be at both of these at the same time, but slightly different matter where you are. it's final arguments there. what can you tell us >> yeah. good morning, jim, defense attorneys for donald trump and his allies are expected to trying to prove that fani willis, the da here in fulton county, and the top prosecutor, nathan wade, lied on the stand about the extent of the relationship. and when it started in order to underscore that their argument, they're going to introduce cell phone data that they secured through a subpoena, which they say shows thousands of phone interactions between wade and willis during a time period that was before they said they started dating that cell phone communication, according to trump attorney steve sadow, also allegedly
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shows that nathan wade visited the area where fani willis had a condo at the time multiple times and some of those visits allegedly going late into the evening and early morning hours the judge presiding over this case, scott mcafee, he spoke earlier this week and he talked about how we expect today to go dry. they would just be argument and counsel can proffer why they think it's significant. and if once i've heard the law and the argument of counsel at assigned that that is going to have some material bearing on the outcome, then we will we can reopen the evidence and have a properly admitted and authenticated and subject to cross-examination >> the motion to disqualify fani willis began over allegations that she financially benefited by hiring nathan wade as the top prosecutor. but now defense attorneys arguments have evolved in to whether or not fani willis and nathan wade lied on the stand during questioning. jim. >> all right. nick valencia. thank you very much let's
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discuss more now with former us attorney for the southern district of florida, marcos jimenez, and cnn legal analyst and former house judiciary special counsel in trump's first impeachment trial. norm eisen norm you're here in the studio, at least start with you first what do you think? i mean, obviously, i mean, we're talking about delays with the documents case down in florida. this is a delay in the georgia case, potentially, how do you think this is going to play out? do you think fani willis gets disqualified here? >> jim? >> just based on georgia law, which requires some actual harm to the defendants to have a sufficient conflict for disqualification. and the evidence that has come in here including fanie willis is very strong performance as a witness in rebutting the judge's primary concern was she essentially setting up a secret bonus arrangement for herself where she was incentivized. she said, no, we went dutch. we were a couple. we went dutch the law and the evidence do support disqualification, but
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the judge has had to preside over a gigantic disqualificatio n. and he is going to be struggling with can he just say, oh, it's all fine moon will move along. that's why i've said there needs to be some compromise. mr. wade should say, hey, i'm willing to voluntarily step away. we don't know if he'll do it, but on the lawn, the facts know fani willis should not be disqualified. >> yeah. really gotten into the weeds of her personal life during all and marcos, just this week, trump succeeded in delaying his other federal trial when the supreme court got him baldwin, that how do you how do you think he's gonna do is going to be successful with this documents case down in florida. what do you think >> well, that's his best play. in my opinion, this classified documents cases, the one that presents the most legal jeopardy to him. recall that most of the conduct that occurred in this case was after his term in office. so his
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legal or presidential immunity claim is extremely weak. i think the other defenses he's raised are very weak. so the defense attorneys here are doing a very good job so far of delaying this and i think judge cannon will delay the trial she'll probably said it prior to the election but i doubt very much that this case will go to trial before the election. i think that the judge will listen to the defense attorneys and give them as many opportunities as possible to delay this case. >> yeah. i'm hearing a recurring theme here. these delay tactics, working norm i mean, it sounds as though he's gonna he's gonna get away with delaying or almost all of these cases potentially except for the alvin bragg case up in new york, which you've talked about many times. what about this documents case? do you think that he might be successful here as well? >> well, certainly marcos is right. this is a judge, judge cannon, who's shown outrageous
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bias and partiality towards donald trump. she's been reversed twice by the extremely conservative 11th circuit earlier in the investigation for moves she made favoring him. they repudiated her for saying a president has special legal standing. it's an unbelievably bad pattern that being said you do see the elements of a compromise, possibly emerging. jack smith says july, trump says, i don't want to go to trial, but if i have to august and trump has some motivations to do this, the supreme court in his dc case is good how reject absolute immunity. that case will go to trial. they won't decide that any later than the end of june. that case will go to trial. if this one doesn't. so maybe trump will say, well, favorable, judge florida jury, that's a lot better than dc. we're going to use this case as a blocking maneuver and then
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of course, you have the 2016 election interference and hush money case that is definitely going to trial. so i wouldn't be surprised if we got two trials. there's room for two. if i were betting, i would say don't rule out that second trial is a companion to the 26th teen election tampering case. >> margaret, what do you think about that? do you think jack smith is going to be able to present some kind of a case. i have some kind of a trial and one of these two cases before november well, i look i i'm i'm a pessimist by nature and i would like these cases to go to trial before the election but i don't see how that happens. i i agree with norm that there is an avenue for something to potentially happen but first of all, let's go to the classified documents, case. classified documents cases are very difficult procedurally because they involve classified
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documents and review and specialized procedures you have a defendant who is in four different cases and has conflict schedules. you've got he just fine i'll motions to dismiss, which if they're denied, he will appeal. and that's going to take additional time. so there is there are many avenues and the classified documents case for this to be delayed and i don't want to speak about judge cannon's motivations or her prejudice i think she is a fine judge. >> however, >> she was appointed by this president. and i think she has shown some inclination to listen to his lawyers, which all judges actually do. and if they can, if the defense attorneys can present credible grounds to delay this trial past it's the election they absolutely will. i don't think their strategy is to try this case first, i think their strategy is to try no cases. first, they said
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>> august, we'll do august now, margo's so that i know where they said, well, we'll do august now. >> because they have to say something before the election. they can't say to the judge because it's so obvious, hey, judge >> how about december? >> i mean, that's that's just very obvious. so they're picking a date in august that's relatively close to the 11th and gives them enough time to employ additional defensive maneuvers and delay this it's trial. >> yeah. i mean, normal to the folks who are sitting at home and watching this, they're saying only donald trump, i'm have to think that some folks are saying only donald trump can get away with this just about anybody else on planet earth cannot delete this many trials and employ these kinds of tactics to push everything. password is an obvious date that he has marked on his calendar, november 5. >> well, jim, i made a good living for over 30 years as the white collar defense lawyer. yeah. >> with delaying cases. and i
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will tell you that in our country, the wealthy and powerful can take advantage of the inherent caution of this system, which is not a bad thing. we're country that is built on checks and balances. we want prosecutors to be tested so it's not some of these, you know, the supreme court consideration of immunity. that's actually an expedited schedule, relatively speaking, for the supreme court, it's a it's a structure of the system that he's taking advantage of. >> mark milley's playing the system like a fiddle that is, and he's, and he's doing it he is pushing the levers that are there in the system. we don't know if he's going to succeed with that second case. there's three candidates for that second case, team may not be able to dodge all three of those cases. no one knows for sure. i think there's reasons for trump that's why i think mar-a-lago might go. he wants to use that case to block the
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case that he's the most afraid of the federal 2020 case. if that case is going, then if when the supreme court rejects immunity, judge chutkan can't put that case back on if mar-a-lago is happening to what so it's trump has motivation and we'd, nobody knows for sure. marcos and i are having a heated agreement lot of uncertainty. i just think it's too soon to say never in my hunches, you've got a shot at a second case to go with 2016 election interference. >> all right. very good markus and norm >> guys. thank you very much. really appreciate it. coming up. it's the one thing president biden and donald trump's seem to agree on that something needs to change at the border. they have radically different ideas how to do that. we'll talk about all that. and just few moments plus thousands of defiant mourners gather and moscow to say there final goodbyes to election. navalny >> for us and for me personally was like i had no russian
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blamed biden for recent crimes allegedly committed by migrants. he spewed baseless conspiracy theories and incendiary rhetoric widely associated with white nationalists. and joining me now to talk about this is democratic congresswoman veronica escobar of texas. she's also the co-chair of president biden's reelection campaign. a congresswoman, thanks so much for being here at what was i mean, people were talking about this split screen yesterday, these dueling visits, what was your response to what you saw yesterday? >> president? >> kinda call on trump to come halfway and solve something. how did you feel about that? >> to me, it was a sig know that the republicans in congress will take their orders from donald trump. and as soon as donald trump told them not to support the bipartisan senate bill, which by the way, gave republicans everything they wanted, offered nothing that democrats wanted basically said, we'll do it your way. but when donald trump said to them,
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we, i need you to walk away because we want the issue not the solution it what president biden said yesterday was a recognition of that, that it will take donald trump giving the greenlight to republicans because they take their orders from the former president. >> and trump was talking about actions that he would take if he gets back into the white house. of course, this has been in the news. he's talked about a massive deportation programs. some of his aides have talked about camps detention camps for migrants. let's listen to what trump had to say. >> we have to deport a lot of people and they have to start immediately. we're going to give immunity to police and we're going to let the police do the job that they have to do because the local police are going to turn them over and we're going to have to move them back to that when it was going back to using this rhetoric that they're poisoning the country. i mean, he was doing doing all of the stuff that he's done over so many years. what was your response to what you heard from him? >> it should be terrifying to
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every american in our country. he is wanting to take us back decades to very dark areas in our country's history. and i think it's so important, jim, for us to have a broader context democrats have been willing over the decades to not just address border security as a whole, but also to address our workforce needs and to make sure that we remain a country of immigrants. immigration is good for us economically. it's, it's important for us to recognize that in 2006, in 2014, 2018, this year every time democrats have said, we're willing to work together, we're willing to compromise to create security, but also legal pathways. it's been republicans who've walked away hey republicans have created the current situation and we need solutions. but what trump
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is signaling is horrific. he really does want to take us back to an era where people feared being in their own country simply because they belong to a minority group. >> yeah. and he was talking about again he's he's lying about what is taking place and saying that countries are emptying out there insane asylums and their jails. and he's been asked his campaign's been asked several times a where's the evidence of this? doesn't present any evidence of this do you think the president should be making this appeal to donald trump if he's going to employ this i mean, wildly dishonest and racist rhetoric. i mean, should the president just call out republicans and say, you guys had a chance to pass something and you didn't do it? what do you think he needs to be a little tougher? >> he's he's been doing that and i'm very proud of the way the campaign and the president both separate and together, have been pointing out to the american people we we, i should say senate democrats and many
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house democrats were willing to give republicans everything they wanted, and they walked away because donald trump instructed them to. and i think he's been pointing out the president has been pointing out that that he would have signed that bill the minute it got to his desk. >> there's any hope of that legislation getting out of the congress no, not unless donald trump signals that it's okay for republicans to do it. i mean, the constituents of these house republicans and senate republicans need to recognize that the party that once existed is gone forever. and it is now the match trump party and whatever donald trump wants, that his acolytes will follow their orders. donald trump wants a serious situation at the border. republicans are going to follow suit. donald trump wants no solutions. donald trump has even said he
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wants the economy he did collapse. these people are willing to do whatever he tells them to do. >> and when you hear him talking about detention >> camps, a massive deportation program what does that say here? >> that signals to me that he's willing to violate the constitution, violate our civil rights, violate constitutional rights. and let me tell you, it is impossible to deport every undocumented person in this country. there simply are not the resources nor is it advantageous to us i mean, i'm sure you've seen the reports, jim, that it has been immigrant labor, the immigrant workforce that has actually propped up our economy. the, the challenge we face is that congress has not created legal pathways for them. we can have both manageable immigration system and a well-managed border, but it takes congressional action. >> but when you have cases like the case down in georgia, the case up in new york where you have migrants committing crimes
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that get a lot of attention, horrific crimes is there a is there a need on the president's part? shark calling some of this out, even though you look at crime in these cities where migrants have been bussed up to places like new york and so on. crime is actually coming down in those places. when you do have these high-profile cases, as the president to speak out more on some of these cases. >> it look, we every human being from the president to members of congress every american mourns the loss of anyone, and we need to see justice prevail criminals prosecuted but as you mentioned, the fact of the matter is immigrants commit crimes at less significant rates than native born americans. and in in communities where migrants have been bused, crime has gone down anyone who commit such a horrific crime? absolutely needs to be prosecuted within the full extent of the law. but
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also the fact of the matter is when donald trump was in office, over 1 million migrants were released. i'm i'm sure that there was a fraction of those migrants who all so committed crimes. the issue is not that migrants commit crimes. the issue is we have not reformed a system that is badly broken and it's been republicans standing in the way of that every year that we've tried this for decades, we can still do this but we need republicans to have the spine to come to the table and take a vote. >> all right. we'll congressman, thank you so much for coming in. congresswoman veronica escobar. thanks for being in the studio with us. thanks so much. appreciate. all right. thanks so much. i'll coming up next. thousands risk arrests to attend the funeral for russian opposition leader alexey navalny will take it a moxa moscow next vegas story of
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the world. here is the crowd leaving his funeral and marching the one-and-a-half miles to his burial. mourners there were heard chanting russia without putin and just a short time ago, navalny's widow posted this heartfelt tribute on social media because she thanked her husband for quote, 26 years of absolute happiness and quote, cnn's matthew chance is in moscow and he filed this report let's take those been very dodgy here. they put an umbrella blanket. it seems over the whole area and we couldn't get signal out, but we're here now and you can see the line of people stretches into the desk distance. thousands of russians have come out to pay their last respects to alexey navalny, even though you've just said that the funeral in the church, which is a short distance from here, it is now over. you can see people are still coming
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along carrying flowers and messages to lay at the cascade are inside the church where alexey navalny has just been taken away from. hi, thank you. sir. thank you. >> why have >> you come here today with so many other russians to payers, i guess it's symbolic value for people who don't agree with everything that's happening in russia, right? i can be specific because we can say like a bird words, you know, it's risky for you to be here. yeah, it's certainly raised to why take because if that's most tense and fragrances and i believe that's to show solidarity that you are not the one who is has to deal with this all right. so thank you very much. i've got i've got polina over here as well. the fact that alexey navalny is dead. what is that united people here. what does it, what does it say about the state of the united? some people, but it's the same time. it's quite obviously horrible, says it upsets me. obviously, other
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people here in this group what i think it's kind of uniting thing since a lot of people come, we came here to pay their last goodbyes, shows. >> what does it say about your country, about russia >> they're obviously some people who are, i guess against the whole thing. that's happening right now, i can say obviously but there are some people who have good hearts. basically it right? >> thank you very much. really appreciate it. thank you. we don't have it >> a lot of people here coming out, they're very careful about what they say because obviously it can be risky. speaking your mind out publicly in this way. remember, hundreds of russians who was simply putting flowers that memorials across the country over the past couple of weeks have been detained by the authorities. and so people know that they're taking a risk here. but look, so many thousands of people have come out despite the very intense security operation has been underway here, riot police have
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been put in place all along the route to cold people back. but at the moment, we haven't seen any crackdown yet by the authorities. the authorities are still allowing these thousands of people to file past, to go to this church, which is right right behind us. there and to pay their respects to russia's most prominent opposition figure from here in the next few hours, the funeral will take place at a cemetery which is not not far from here and so this parade, this procession will continue throughout the course of the day. we expect all right. matthew chance >> continuing to do some brave reporting there in moscow. join me now in washington, cnn anchor and chief national security analyst, jim sciutto. and in addition to matthew's bravery there, i mean, just to see all of these russians taking the chance. to go out into the streets to pay their respects, to speak to an american american based
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journalist in matthew chance it's pretty remarkable. >> you can be certain that russian authorities are taking names and faces. they're recording faces, taking pictures to know exactly who showed up. those people you see in those long lines there here are showing enormous courage in that country because they already know how russia punishing, not just dissidents or political opponents, but people willing to show support for dissidents are political opponents. a lot of them end up in jail. they get followed, they get harassed, they get financially penalized, or worse, that's an act of courage and you know what struck me about those photos as i watched, not just the interviews on television broadcast around the world. the interview with matthew, but but showing up, laying flowers, chanting his name. their faces are uncovered. whose faces are covered? the security forces, i don't know if we have it in this shop. all the security forces i saw there were wearing face masks. it's a classic contrast of false strength versus genuine courage. and in
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a country that has had two decades of harsh repression that a show of support like this is still possible, is remarkable. >> and if any americans have, i mean, obviously we hear different things from trump in the us when it comes to vladimir putin. and what's going going on in russia, he compared himself to navalny, which was obviously silly, but this, i mean, this gives the world what life is like inside a thug accuracy. no question that is what vladimir putin has run here. and alexey navalny is dead because the state killed him. no question. yeah. let's >> and by the way, as we know, they they tried to kill him for right. with the most powerful nerve agent in the world, nova check during trump's presidency, we should note back in 2020, navalny is the latest in a long line of people who had the courage to stand up to putin and various ways and are now dead or have been punished and other ways you think of navalny, you think of yet have geny prigozhin, i'm not calling them to say, but prigozhin led a brief coup, died in a quite
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mysterious plane crash. you think of mikhael hoda roski who was an oligarchy, but putin viewed as a threat to him. he went to prison for many years. garry kasparov, former chess champion, has to live in exile. now, go back even to people who challenge putin's preferred candidates and others country, other countries to ukraine. viktor yushchenko, who challenged putin's favorite candidate and ukraine 20 years ago and was poisoned with that. you remember the pictures of his face poison with some sort of metal poisonous metal that nearly killed him as well, as well as dissidents or alexander litvinenko poisoned with radioactive polonium. >> but something here is really little spark collection navalny, he's an interesting one because he's not just a political opponent to putin right here. he is someone who exposed putin's corruption. >> and that's one >> reason he drove so much support there because putin is corrupt. putin, putin and his cronies still from the people that's why they are billionaires. that's why they own palaces. and so on. and
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farret, that money away around the world and navalny documented at the russian people are smart enough to know. that's right here on the respect for that, i think that's one of the reasons you saw them out there today? >> it's really inspiring, and not just election evolving and the life he led, but the response that we've seen today, it really is just a very inspiring jim sciutto. thank you very much. appreciate it. in the meantime, a massive and extremely dangerous winter storm has already slamming parts of california. we're tracking the rare blizzard conditions in the cnn weather center that's next vegas story of sin city. sunday at ten on cnn >> growing up in fiji, carrying isn't sometimes it's just the smile. other times, you can taste it enough food in the way that we are generous without time >> boy in the wall, that most people reserve for the closest of family >> because all
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