he was find and loving and encouraged his six children to work hard for what they want in life. may they rest in peace and may their memories be a blessing. follow me on twitter and stain gram. tweet the show, @cnnsitroom. erin burnett out front starts now. president trump's attempts to ditch his tax returns denied by the supreme court. and breaks news tonight, the united states hitting the grim milestone of 500,000 people dead from coronavirus. president biden trying to comfort a hurting nation, a nation that had zero deaths and on the 35 known cases a year ago today. plus, why was kim jong-un

offered a ride on air force one? let's go out front. a major blow for trump. trump tonight lashing out of the supreme court after justices said the former president must turn over his tax returns to manhattan prosecutors. help has hidden his taxes for years, and trump issuing a statement packed with lies and grievances that i wonlt repeat but he concludes with a slam of the supreme court, saying, the supreme court never should have left this phishing expedition happen but they did. look, the former president is nervous. he is angry at a supreme court that he put all the justices on. but there is reason. right now, we know few details of what the attorney is investigating. his only response today, a tweet, the work continues. and it is good he is silent. he should be until mes had something to say.

and when americas see what they need to see. what he is refusing to do show his taxes. trump kept saying one thing about his taxes and doing another. >> maybe i'm going to do the tax returns when obama does his birthe birth certificate. >> we will see what i do with tax returns. i may tie them to release of hillary's emails. >> i'm under order. >> do you think the voters need to see the tax returns. >> i don't think they do. >> as soon as it's finished, if i was finished with the audit, i would have an open mind to that. >> saying one thing and doing another. and maybe does he didn't pay

taxes. "the new york times" report that says he doesn't pay a dime for 15 years. but trump is saying -- >> i mean, honestly, i have brilliantly -- i have b brilliantly used those laws. i have often said on the campaign trail i have a fiduciary responsibility. >> if that is nothing, it's nothing. maybe the truth is he didn't owe any money because he was a business failure. that could humiliate trump. it say this is not true. >> part of the beauty of me is that i'm very rich. >> i built a great company in a short period of time with billions of dollars of met worth. >> maybe there are people in countries that he is involved with that would have made americans so no way?

whatever the reason is, trump went to every possible length he could to hide his taxes from the world. he succeeded until now. and in blow from the supreme court comes as his legal troubles are mounting big time. the new york attorney general is looking to see how they read the assets and two people who are suing trump for defamation, and there is a fraud lawsuit, and a possible incitement for the insurrection and there are two investigations to overturn the free and fair election map. >> so look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we. because we won the state. >> jim acosta is out front live

in washington. this is a major blow from the supreme court, and something that trump has done everything to hide. how concerned is he? >> this is a massive defeat for the former president. i spoke to a formered a vidser who said they were just happy to be able to trump the president's tax returns under wraps nor long. but it may not be much longer because cyrus vance has won the huge victory at the u.s. supreme court. the high court deciding that the president's accounting firm has to turn over the tax records. eight years of tax returns that trump has tried to keep secret for all these years and financeable documents. not just tax records. but it's tied to the trump organization. that is going to be swept up by cy vance. he hired a new prosecutors with a potentiality in the white clol

prime and activity. i will tell you talking to put'sed a vidsers, people who speak with him on a regular basis, this slt kind of thing that concerns the former president the mold, that he could get ensnared in a criminal investigation, and all of it as he is trying to make a comeback on the public stage. he is expected to speak at a conference this weekend. this is not the headline that trump wants if he is trying to make a comeback to the public stage, to have people speculating he's not going to be looking at running for election in 2024 but evading prosecution in 2024. that is how things are stacking up in trmp world. one of the things we have to keep in mind, a lot of what we think we know about donald trump's history of paying taxes is already well known. you mentioned "the new york

times"ist vest gags, saying he has not paid taxes over the years but that is not going to absolve him from embarrassment, if there is a prosecution looming over his head. >> jim mentions cy vance, and i mentioned him as well. he is doing his job and not litigating to the public stage. but he is the center of the story. district attorney cyrus vance jr., once he gets them, there is a lot that he would then explore. pamela brown is out front. >> reporter: a criminal investigation spanning more than two years that could threaten donald trump, his businesses and members of his family. manhattan district attorney cyrus vance investigating whether the trump organization

violated state laws, tax fraud, insurance fraud. now a break in the case with vance's office access with trump's tax returns and financial record, concluding a legal battle that lasted 16 months and two trips to the supreme court. originally focusing on hush money payments made to two women who said they had sexual encounters with trump before the 2016 election. trump has denied the affairs and knowledge of the payments. the trump organization said it has paid all applicable taxes. he has called it a fishing expedition. >> this is a continuation of the witch hunt. where people want to examine every deal you have ever done see if they can find a comma out of place. >> reporter: vance has been pursuing other lines of investigation as well.

prosecutors have deutsch bank. when he has favorable tax treatment. >> if the president or his company ever inflate assets or revenues? >> yes. >> and was that done with the president's knowledge or direction? >> everything was done with the knowledge and at the direction of mr. trump. >> reporter: also subpoenaed, records relating to fees the trump organization paid to consultants including one paid to the company owned by trump's daughter, ivanka. who treated the investigation was harassment, pure and simple. the investigation includes the

trmp family compound in west chester county. according to lawyers and people familiar with the invest gigs. trump himself seemed worried about the legal jeopardy he might face. a source telling cnn he has been asking about the criminal exposure he might face after his impeachment trial is over. >> that was pam brown reporting. i want to go now to our investigative reporter from "the new york times," and lara coates, former federal prosecutors. you unearthed what we know about president trump's taxes. cy vance is about to get more than a dump of taxes. explain. >> it's interesting. the taxes show you top line detail of these things, big categories for legal expenses,

for example. but it's not broken down. you have to do outside work. but cy vance is going to get the documents that will show the under pinning of the records. i mentioned legal fees. are some areas where they are close to $1 million or or of legal fees, and cy vance will see what each one of those was. if there was a payment to storm yi daniels and covered up as a legal fee to michael cohen, they will have documentation of that. it has to be unnerving to know that cy vance will have a road map in his office. >> just to be clear, you talk about that, to get that documentation and the big questions people have about how much money does donald trump owe, to whom does he know it? there is a lot of information on

that if you get backup information too. >> we came across it when he found how much money he got from his father and the texas records show you again big numbers. but the financial statements, his accountants, are not part of the tax filings, i have a narrative of what was done and why it was done, and it can lead to the legality of what they were worried about and they want banks to see and not see, and he is also going to have correspondents, and seeking certain things. >> lara, when you put it together, how much legal trouble could trump possibly be here in here? >> the equivalent of panda -- pandora's box, and cy vance has been clear with the appeals

court. it may have begun with the push payments. but unenearthing, they have to have these documents for corroboration, and remember, all of these so far are part of the grand jury investigation, not a criminal trial investigation. the idea is to be able to have access to all sorts of information, to determine whether a law has been broken. they have all of the information that have and michael cohen's test testimony in the past, and whatever kit be in the accounting firm, they could have pandora's box. there is no other explanation why he is uneasy. but it's terrifying if you have been trying to keep the information away and there is ultimate transparency on a host of issues? this is really a huge decision

by a court that has three of his ow own appointees on it. >> and which is amazing. that this is -- their jurisprudence is without question. but a fee, a $7,000 fee, that matched a payment disclosed by ivanka trump. some sort of illegal self-dealing if it continues down that path. we shall see. does it then go beyond the former president? >> to his family, i think it very well could. look, this is a family company. he presented it as a massive operation. it's a small company that operates on two floors of trump power and the people who he

trusts have been his children and they have involved in every decision that is made. consulting fees are for licensing deals and when we look at that they are all revenue, he gets a $1 million check for putting his name on something. and it has no other expenses and some of the cases, you see a $1 million payment, to unknown consultants and we are able to match it up to find some of it went to his children. they didn't do any work to those and that a gift, that could rise to a level of fraud, and he may have to repay taxes in a time when he is under a cash crunch. >> a bear minimum. i mean, the penalties here -- let in ask you about another loss. the supreme court denied an appeal from pennsylvania republicans over the state mail-in voting procedures.

you have justices that the president put on the court and they voted against him. there is one dissent from clarence thomas that seemed to show support. he writes w refortunate that many of the cases we have had observation provides only a small conform. an election free from strong evidence and systemic fraud is not alone sufficient for election confidence. what do you make of that? >> it's odd that the supreme court, would insinuate that the e next integrity, it's an odd thing knowing there are so many decisions, including by people on the other side of the court, in the sense of those who actually signed on for the majority opinion. what he is actually saying, especially, is an odd statement, given the fact fa the pennsylvania state is all about

whether the state legislature relying on the supreme court could make changes, essentially, regarding how you are able to receive already valid votes. three days after a pandemic here. it doesn't transform it in swid spread voter fraud. there is no ef dense aside from the statement to suggest anything to the contrary. i'm not sure why he would make that statement. >> all right, well, i appreciate you both very much. thank you. and next, biden's pick for attorney general says investigating the capitol hill insurrection is his priority. and the united states surpassing half a million deaths from coronavirus. tonight, president biden with a message for the american people. >> we are fighting the pandemic for so long, we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. >> and cnn learning trump offered north korean dictator

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work our way up to those who are involved and further involved. i can assure you this will be my first priority and my first broefing. >> garland saying it will workist way up to trump. with me, former assistant attorney general. i really appreciate your time. i'm remembering that day, listening to mitch mcconnell who after voting to acquit, said president trump is liable for everything he did in office. he didn't get away with anything yet, after he laid out that trump was responsible for everything that happened. how do you think that garland will go in prosecuting trump? >> all the way as long as the facts and the law take him there. this was the biggest piece of news out of the hearing today.

he's a noncontroversial nominee. he can play it safe. but you can't just do a co comprehensive investigation and not consider the role of trump, which we all saw or trump jr., are you a hero or a zero, giuliani, trial by combat. these factors are part of the criminal puzzle here. it doesn't mean he will spring challenges. but he brought it to himself to say this is my call. there will be some people who will be saying you need a special council. and garland made it clear this is part and parcel of the bigger investigation, i stays was. >> his prosecuting domestic terror, he led the case against the oklahoma city bomber. it was brought up a number of times today.

garland has called it. how will that experience influence how he handles the january 6th inrecollection. >> it was really impressive the way he did it. he was down the hall and he could have been the person in washington kind of having daily conference calls. he went to oklahoma city. i remember being there when he begged, basically, the deputy attorney general to let him go. he was there on the ground. he carries around the names of the victims. he really was hands on about it. that was a seering experience for him, and he made clear today the january 6th experience was far more searing, far more grave. so you can expect him, i think to leave no stone unturned. >> so we also saw him get emo emotional today. i want to play that part. >> i come from a family -- where

my grandparents fled anti-semitism and persecution. the country took us in. and protected us. and i feel an obligation to the country to pay back. this is the highest best use of my own set of skills to pay back. so i want very much to be the attorney general that you're saying i could become. i will do my best to try to be that attorney general. >> unexpected and i'm sure had to connection with anybody watching. you know him. were you surprised he get so emotional tearing up there? >> i was a little surprised.

it was so lovely. look, his smarts, his integrity came through. but there were flashes of his decency and humility and that was a prime example of it and it seemed absolutely genuine to me. but it was really struck at the emotion of the moment. i think it overtook him some what by surprise as he explained his commitment to equal lights under law for people now who face oppression because he had experienced or his family had, in the past. >> obviously, he was pressed significantly by huchbltnter bi and the russia investigation, by attorneys appointed by trump. whether he would let those go through. how clear was that and how much

of a headache will these be for him? >> medium and a big headache. he was imperm able today because he wasn't there yet. i don't think there is anything to pursue. hunter biden is a different matter. the indication he came to me is he could keep the trump u.s. attorney there. that won't be enough for a lot of people. people will be screaming in the senate. it will, i think, impede biden's agenda some. but i think that is the way it goes. he is willing to be independent in the sense it stays with the attorney. but i do not see him having a special council ever though many republicans will scream for it. >> thank you so much. good to see you. >> thank you. next, the united states surpa surpassing 500,000 deaths from coronavirus.

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president joe biden leading the nation in marking a grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic, holding a candle light ceremony at the white house has the u.s. death toll hits 500,000 dead americans. you see the candles there. it's the highest reported death toll for any country. he is saying never forget the americans who lost their lives to covid. >> this nation will smile again. this nation will know sunny days again. this nation will know joy again. and as we do, we will remember each person we've lost, the lives they lived. the loved ones they left behind. we will get through this, i promise you. >> 500,000 americans is about the population of the city of atlanta, georgia. it's more than the combined

losses of two world wars and vietnam. it's a number that was unimaginable a year ago. here in the united states a year ago today, there were 35 reported cases and no deaths notch deaths. one day later. former president trump said there was nothing to worry about. >> we have it very much under control. in this country. >> since he said that, 500,000 americans have died. caitlyn collins, it's a different story with president biden who is banking his presidency on covid and leading the country of it. >> reporter: yeah, president biden said he knows his time in office will be nudged on his response to the pandemic. and i think so will former president trump's and how he

responded a year ago, and you saw just how different their leadership tones are today. the way that president biden came out and spoke. he says he gets a little card every day that says the number of infections in the united states and the number of deaths from coronavirus in the united states. and every day, he says he looks at that, and seeing him cot out tonight with 500 kacandles. each one representing 1,000 people who died. and this is the spot where he accepted the nomination on the south lawn to see how different it is now with president biden and vice president harris out there. we should note as they with trying to mark this, they lowered the flags at the house at half-staff. and he is pushing for the accounts" relief bill to get

passed on capitol hill. we're expecting a vote on it later this week. you are seeing on this week, on this day, just how different president biden's response is and how he is trying to be more empathic. >> thank you. i want to go now to two doctors we have been following the pandemic along. dr. craig spencer, director of global health of emergency med sin who just completed a shift in the u.s. and dr. acta who has been creting patients across the country. let me start with you, dr. spencer. when the pandemic first hit, you were at the center of it here in new york and as bad as it was in new york and across the country, when you think back a year ago, did you think that we would hit 500,000 people dead from the virus? >> absolutely not. less than a year ago, dr. fauci

said we may reach 240,000 deaths and we doubled that. we have gone through such horrible pain here in the country and we need a moment of national grieving. when i worked in west africa twee treating ebola patients. you are not allowed to touch anyone and you come back and you touch people and you are physical again, and it's very unsettling, and i feel we're in the same scenario n a limbo, in a crisis, and people are under mining how difficult it's going to be to go back to a sense of normalcy, despite how much we want it and part of is because 500,000 of our friends on loved ones will no longer be here, and we have to keep in mind how rememorialize and think of the friends, colleague, loved ones we lost. >> dr. fauci was asked today about the horrible milestone and

whether more would have been done. we know, yes, more could have been done. i want to play how he said it today. >> 500,000 americans, families grievings across the country. did this have to be? >> well, certainly, some of it but not this bad, george. i mean, i believe that if you look back historically, we have done worse than most any other country. and we're a highly developed rich country. >> and doctor, worse than any other country? we are the richest country independent the world by so many measures. how many deaths do you think -- all the shifts you have done in the e.r., would have been prevented. >> well, the best way of looking a it it is comparing it to other countries. if you look at the european

coun counterparts, we have done worse. if the 500,000 we lost f we acted like taiwan, we could have saved 499,500. how can it be? that is how marked a difference our country has had than some of the other countries that did well. i'm not saying we should shot to be number one. but to be as low as we have been cost hundreds of thousands of live that would have been prevented. >> invedible. dr. spencer, the seven day average, is down three-quarters since january 11th. hospitalizations down 60%. we have seen a plunge in metrics. what do you think is behind the declines? >> i think at will lot of thing.

1.5 million people a day. we have 80 million americans that have had the virus and the statistics you point out, they are much better than a few weeks ago, and that is certainly heartening. and the same for the summer and hospitalizations. i'm glad we're going in the right direction. this is not a time for complacency. the best way to get back to normal is to double down, not do things we know that can risk reigniting outbreaks. the majority of people in the country, despite previous invexs, the majority of people still have no protection against covid and can get inflected and can continue to spread. so we need to double down right now. that is not to instill fear. that is to let people know, we

need to double town. >> everybody remembers how it was, there was a vaccine, but those are dark times. doctor, are you optimistic about the trends or do you think some of the numbers, as good as they may look, could be deceiving? >> completely agree with dr. spencer. i thought i was going crazy. yeah, the numbers if you look the last week or two look great. covid hasn't been around a week or two. it's been around a year at least. if you look at the graph, as dr. spencer mentioned, we have basically down to levels we were at the peak of the summer. remember, the peak of the summer, you had me on a lot because of things in arizona and how terrible things were in the country. now, look how good things were, we have taken it as a new normal. a ton of hospitalizations, and aen to of cases, and i'm glad

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trump said that he and kim jong-un quote unquote fell in love in the seummits, in the trump presidency. i talked to a senior official in vietnam. at the conclusion of the trip when it didn't result in anything, it ended up being a big failure, trump said, if you would like to get home faster, i can offer you a ride on air force one. i talked to a senior official who said he was just doing it for his friend, and i can tell you this is something that has been confirmed by matthew pottener. who said some of it to the bbc a couple days ago. >> so well me what happened. so trump just does this out of the blue? and what happened?

obviously it didn't end up happening. who have wut the kibosh on it or what happened? >> according to what we are hearing from the sources and what matthew pottinger told the bbc, it was kim jung unong-un wd no. we might still be in there right now. and he has an entourage of people, had those people been on air force one, it would have been a national security problem. but erin, it goes to show you how cozy donald trump was with kim jong-un in inthis administration, and joe biden made it clear he is not going to take the same approach that trump did. >> this is incredible when you think about it. the lack of thinks about it, not

just the national security level, but how you do it. with you have to land -- >> yeah, what would have happened next? i have no idea. there was no plan for what came after that, erin. >> all right, jim, thank you very much. next, why so many texans are facing sky-high power bills after a deadly storm that left them without power. >> how much have you been charged now? >> my bill is a big one. $6,300. >> and nasa releasing new video tonight from mars. than $30 each. 2 unlimited s call 1-800-t-mobile or go to t-mobile.com/55. new projects means new project managers.

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ed lauvenandera is out front. >> reporter: imagine the shock n nova flores got when she pirintd this bill after the storm. how much have you been charged now? >> my bill is this one. $8,315 is for just maybe five days. not even a month. so, yeah. >> reporter: flores works in a nursing home making $11 an hour. even as she sat in the dark and cold with her husband and children for three days without power, she kept seeing the charges skyrocketing. are you scared that this is going to wipe out the savings that you have? can you afford to pay this bill? >> no, not right now because i don't have any savings at this moment. i'm already spend my money when this month, you know, i don't

have any saving money in this month. so i'm really, really scared about that, yes. >> reporter: state lawmakers will hold hearings this week scrutinizing what went wrong in last week's power grid chaos but the state's republican leaders are scrambling to calls for regulation of the state's energy market. senator ted cruz who is trying to rehabilitate his image after his well documented 24-hour trip to cancun in the middle of the crisis now says regulators should act swiftly to prevent this unjustice but in 2019, cruz tweeted the success of the texas energy market was built on low regulation. and after a week of intense criticism for his handling of the crisis, governor greg abbott is calling for state officials to help. >> texans who have suffered through days of freezing cold without power should not be subjected to skyrocketing energy bills. >> reporter: state officials say they're working to find relief for residents on variable rate electric plans who are facing these crippling electric bills.

one lawmaker said federal disaster aid could help cover the cost. >> so you're saying you'll use the disaster relief funding from the federal government? >> yes, that's the current plan with the federal assistance. >> reporter: fema says federal disaster aid can be used for temporary housing and housing repairs, it does not include provisions to use the money to pay off energy bills. texas created its power grid to stand on its own to be free for regulations. texas consumer watchdogs say it's on republican leaders to fix this mess. >> homeowners are being hit with these massive bills, something has got to be done with it and ultimately, it's a texas problem and, you know, we need to figure out a solution here with our local lawmakers. >> reporter: there are still millions of people without water in texas, water distribution sites are set up all over the state. crews are working to repair water main breaks and people like rachel stevens are recovering from the mess left by the aftermath.

>> we have lines that were just gushing water. so now we've got zero water in the house just due to having to turn it off until somebody can come out here and fix things. >> reporter: and erin, it is really amazing to hear the news tonight of texas attorney general ken paxton under fire for a series of other controversies and situations that he's involved in. a spokesperson for paxton telling us that he would not tell us when the attorney general and his wife who is a state senator left and came back to the state. they did say they left after the majority of the power was turned back on in the state. this is significant because the a.g.'s office that investigates allegations of price gouging and this crisis, that's exactly some concerns many texans had last week as this crisis was unfolding, erin. >> ed, thank you very much. next, wait until you see what perseverance just sent back from mars. blatche

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