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that's congress in a nutshell. there is a mean girl there. >> this is strange. well george santos apparently likes comparing himself to others. the battled lawmaker facing charges, while he has a new comparison. here he is responding to mitt romney. -- at the state of the union. >> look yes, what rosa parks did not sit in the back, and i'm not going to sit in the back. that's the reality of how it. works mitt romney lives in a different world, and he needs to buckle up because it's going to be a bumpy ride for. him >> right.
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>> john berman, sometimes silence says everything. >> yes it does. thank you so much. the curtain opens on a final act and the case against donald. trump the georgia addition. justice rudy giuliani takes center, stage hair and makeup -optional as. always i'm john berman and it's a cnn night tonight for cnn, tomorrow as i like to call it. tomorrow, which is just minutes away, is a milestone in one of the key investigations into president. trump tomorrow, selection begins with a grand jury which seems likely to indict trump in fulton county georgia, for his efforts -- his 2020 election. there this was the call he made
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to secretary of state brad lathcoats burger to find votes. there >>, so all i want to do is. this i want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. >> this new grand jury could move well beyond that phone, call and expand charges into the realm of fraud, and racketeering. it follows an investigation from a special grand jury that did not have power tinct, but sounds like it would have if it could have. they wrote, a majority of the and jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it, the grand jury recommends that the district attorney seek appropriate indictments for such crimes, or the evidence is compelling. this as we are learning, that is soon as tomorrow rudy giuliani could reach a resolution.
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and rudy, freeman after they accused him of defaming them. after the 2020 election. >> name, and i have lost my reputation. i have lost my -- sense of security, all because a group of people start with number 45, and his ally rudy giuliani decided to scapegoat me, and my daughter russia, to push their own lies about the presidential election was stolen. >> a lot of reality seems to be running down on giuliani and, including the special counsel asking him questions, and a washington post pennant recommending he be disbarred for his actions after the 2020 election. on the plus, that he is available on cameo for 3:25 for a personal video, and nine 75 for a live video call. about the same's dog the bounty, hunter and the guy who played newman on seinfeld.
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let's start though with the georgia grand jury, cnn legal analyst is with me now, great to see you. this grandeur, the selection begins tomorrow. what does that mean? what will they be doing? in a word, indict. they have the power to indict, we already know that this case went to a special grand, jury specially separate body that works -- but all they were able to do is issued this written reports, you've seen some of it. earlier this is now a regular grand jury. a real grand jury per se, and what will happen at the end of the presentation, what will happen over the next several weeks is -- will present evidence to the grand jury. it's a one-sided process. they will present their. evidence the only people allowed in a grand jury -- is the prosecutors and staff. there is no defense presence of any significance, and at the end of, it's if -- asks for an indictment, they will vote on. it the vast majority of times that does result in an indictment. that's where we are in this
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process. >> the fulton county district attorney has telegraphed that something is coming down. or coming up as the case may be, as soon as three weeks from now, she asked for special security, and said that people are going to be working from, home what are the ranchers of charges that are possible here? >> the most rate for you or charges here are election interference, and the key piece of evidence will be the infamous call to brad roethlisberger. there was more to the effort than that, there were also other calls to an investigator, to the governor, they try to get state legislators from georgia involved. we could say state -- election interference charges. we also have seen support reporting there could be racketeering charge. as what that means is that there have to prove an ongoing criminal enterprise. prosecutors get to decide how we define, this it could be the trump organization, not the business entity, but the trump campaign. the trump white house, and then you have to show that criminal
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organization engaged in what we call a pattern of racketeering activity. this means two or more interconnected crimes. that's a powerful tool for prosecutors, if to prove more but it could be a powerful tool in front of a jury. >> it is most ideally fit for the mob, but and can't and has been a pride to corrupt city governments, to corrupt officials, to corrupt businesses. there are broader applications. available >> the if not the only one sort of slipping around this case. the special counsel, jack smith investigating january 6th has talked to some of these. people he talk to roethlisberger. what is the overlap, for possible conflict? there is quite a bit of overlap, jack smith's investigation is broader because he's not limited to, georgia but then again -- has gone beyond georgia, she spoke to cassidy. hutchinson hutchinson never stepped foot in georgia. one of the interesting questions that i think we need to watch in the next few days,
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and weeks is who gets there first? it's doj going to charge then we sixth with january 6th crimes at all? or first? -- and if one could still, first what it does the other one back? off >> what gets the? if jack smith charges generous six, i i think she needs to take a very careful look at this case. is there any need to have an additional state prosecution that will really cover much of the same ground that jack smith will cover, less ground actually. to win it all of us need a fourth indictment of donald trump that will cover much of the same ground that will be brought by unelected democratic county level d.a.? where is she going to say, let's let doj do its job. we have a more definitive it of position here, and a little more institutional authority. >> that would be your suggestion, if she. asked >> on what we suggesting,
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but it follows her -- . great to see you. >> the legal issues are not confined to the former president. his former is negotiating this possible resolution to is on courting. and -- ruby freeman. they accused giuliani of scapegoating them -- statements like this. >> ruby freeman and shoot for men -- and one other gentlemen quite obviously surreptitiously passing around usb ports, as if they are vials of heroin or cocaine. >> this is the type of thing he may be reaching a settlement with them over. with us now is sarah matthews, who was trump white house deputy press detectors terry, who also testified to the committee, like those two women did. thanks for being with us. what is your view on the settlements. the idea that giuliani might have to pay for them on what he
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might do for them? >> i'm happy to see accountability happen, because it is a shame for what ruby freeman and sheamus have been through. we should never have had to go through this in the first. plus the fact of the matter is that one man, donald trump cannot accept the verdict that he lost the 2020 election, and so he can contacted conspiracy theories with his associates like giuliani to try to overturn the election and try to put the target and blame on other. folks we saw that happen with mike, punts and then trying to say that he could send the electors back to the states, and we saw that in the situation with these two. woman it's really sad, because it has real consequences. these election. laws these two women were the target of the threats. there were fun to be on a killer from one of the keeper. they faced harassment online. it's really sad, so i hope they
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get some peace of, mind and i'm happy to see county accountability take. plus >> how do you feel about the accountability that has been delivered on other fronts until now? do you think there has been real accountability for january 6th? >> i don't think that there has been real accountability for january 6th. i think that the work of the january 6th committee was really -- to help shed light on just what transpired in the lead up to -- act to feel -- it is disappointing to see many in my party choose to ignore the facts of that day for political it's expediency. and move on from it. i get that people are tired of talking about these, things but we cannot ignore the fact of what happened. i will be curious to see what happens with the doj investigation, and what comes of that. obviously donald trump has been indicted twice for two other, matters but could face
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potential indictment there with that case. there could be some kind of accountability. we were talking about rudy giuliani and this case he is, reaching how is he viewed? inside the white house among staffers. i saw a little small come across your face. there what did that smile mean? no, i think that a lot of people were very concerned with the advice that donald trump was receiving towards the end of his tenure at the white house for folks like giuliani, and sidney powell. there were folks in the white house who are telling trump that he lost the 2020 election. he obviously did not want to listen to, not because they were not telling him what he wanted to hear. he started to take them out, and started listening to folks who were telling him what he wanted to hear. personally, i did not have any opportunities with giuliani, but i think that myself and some of my other colleagues found him to be a bit of a joke,
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because of what he was pushing and obviously, trump was buying at. though >> haiti certainly isn't about of issues right now. thanks so much for being with. does have a great night. so what is the biggest loan for rhonda sentence right now? is it a, the media? they, the mexico? , say donald trump? or deronda santas? the answer, and a tv, first your -- when we come back. >> woman: why did we choose safelite?
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tonight, does rhonda centers have a ron desantis problem? i'm not saying he disbanded ugly doesn't have any problems. he's friendly second place in the national primary polls in just about every early polling staple. which is pretty, goodbye some state considerations. but over on fox they keep asking him why he is not doing better than that, suggesting
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he's a bit of a, wall, problem. this was his answer this morning. >> i think the fact that i'm the one that's targeted by the media, by the, left even by the president of mexico is because people know that i would be biden and i know that i would actually deliver on all of these issues and beat the democrat at the border, beat them on things like esg. beat them on things like crime. and they don't want to see that. >> so, he certainly doesn't have a remembering his lines problem because he gave almost the exact same response last friday on fox. >> well i think that if you look at the people like the corporate media, who are they going after? who do they not want to be the nominee? they're going after me. who is the president of mexico attacking? because he knows will be strong on the border, hold him accountable in the cartels. he's going after me. >> so, the left, the media, the president of mexico. they are the reasons he is not doing better he says.
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even with his big money campaign and it's heavy campaign scheduling and time spent in iowa, new hampshire and so on. it is not me, it's a media and democrats in mexico. it's like the opposite of every time i was stumped in high school. instead of it's not you, it's me. it's not me it's mexico. now i'm not sure what they were in high school but does it work in presidential campaigns? let's go to our expert. senior data reporter the author of the fight of his life. gentlemen if you allow, me i want to do this in multiple choice form. the biggest hurdle for ron desantis right now is a, the media be mexico, see donald trump, the iran desantis. harry? >> can i split it between c and d? >> sure, we are show but i guess my rules. here's the situation as far as i'm concerned. number, one you look at what
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desantis is very favorable rating. very strongly correlate historically speaking with how you do in the primaries. we have seen his very strongly favorable ratings drop. okay? so he has a problem. voters, republican voters in particular like them less than they used to. but at the same time, obviously, donald trump has gone up in the polls. it's not just desantis's fault. trump has gone. up it's the trump campaign who started. all of a sudden. trump picked up momentum. he's done well because of the indictment, republican voters apparently don't like. that's all i would split my answer between c and d. >> are you gonna play by the olympic one? >> i think desantis has a desantis problem. people do not like the guy. he may be the worst national retail politician since michael bloomberg. except bloomberg was more likable and relate-able. he may have cracked the code in florida, running against the disney corporations and avoid jiang culture wars. but he clearly justice tone-deaf on the national stage. he is out of his death.
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and that's why he's been sinking like a stone. >> there's a correctable though? >> i think ron desantis is stuck with what desantis. and i don't think that you can do a personality transplant and somehow recover. >> a long time ago. i will say that. i want to shift gears with an article that came out in axios this morning that suggested and reported that president biden has a bad temper. ok at, that old yell, or private very was the article. and here's a quote from it. he yells at his staff and the presidents admirations include, god damage, how the f-don't to know that don't bs me. and they say, if biden doesn't yell at you it could be a sign that he doesn't respect. do now i should note that christy quoted, this but i'm going to ask this. also is biden's temper a sign of a, mistreating his staff, the respect for his staff as
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this aide suggests, see his age or d, an issue that is not an issue. >> let me take it into parts. biden has a temper. but i don't think he has a temper problem. i wrote about this in my book, the fight of his life inside joe biden's white house. i'm one of the first things that jen psaki said to the president is that i won't feel like i'm the part of the inner circle until you yell at me. and she didn't have to wait long. biden has a short views. it triggered by sloppy staff work. sometimes, but decisions when he doesn't have good options. but look, i think that you can argue that if your president isn't losing it once in a while, he is not paying attention. he's not doing his job. so i don't see it as a problem. the problem for biden and the reelection is his age. he's 80 years, old he walks like a zombie that is not his fault. that is because of arthritis. cognitively he is fine and i know, this have been spoken to all the inner circles for the last two years.
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but that doesn't matter to a substantial portion of voters, many of them democrats who, in a perfect world would like a younger more vigorous president. and the problem is we are not in a perfect robe. >> harry enten, because i respect you so much. >> thank you so much i don't yell at you. you don't yell at me. i think that i agree with you right. it's very clear that he has a temper. but i don't think the reason that he would lose reelection is because of a quote unquote temper problem. we have had this discussion before john right when biden's poll numbers begin to drop during 2021. and we were like okay, is it the economy. what is exactly going on. and i think this did, which is i'm not sure even if the economy does improve, which it is doing we've seen inflation drop over the last few months over the last few years that that would necessarily improve biden's numbers and it hasn't. i think the real issue is his age. a lot of voters thought of him as a take kicker and they did not like the idea of two
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candidates facing off each other. we're north of 75, one is gonna be north of 80 come election day. and so i think the age is his real issue with this. it sounds like both of you are saying that ron desantis has around desantis problem. joe biden might have a joe biden problem. >> self awareness is key in political success. >> the irony here of course is that, in the world that we are facing right, now confronting from ukraine to all of the other problems that experience up to trump youth. but evidently not in the polls. >> also maybe a nice tempo, trump is a low -- and i ask that because president biden was photographed over the beach over the weekend shirtless, he was at the beach and, various he's doing what we all do at the beach. >> my question because i always think in politics, nothing happens accidentally, it's not an accident that he shows up -- >> was it's designed for donald trump, be, robert kennedy
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junior who does pushups shirtless sometimes. see, voters or the, vladimir putin. who himself, appeared shirtless in public sometimes. >> how about none of the above. this one is really above my pay grade and i think that this is one i'd have to throw to jeff, the white house chief of staff. what in the world are you thinking? >> i would say he, it was for me because that is something that i which to attain by the time i'm 80 years old. >> i promise the viewers this would be the first television broadcast where we read threats out loud. i asked people descended threads and i'm gonna read them and ask one of the threat questions that was sent to me by real matt cooper who asked what is the job like for anchors when they are not on the air. >> i think that is a beautiful job because you get to meet people like me. and meeting your husband one of my highlights at cnn. >> we hang up backstage, talking about pulling.
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that is helpful and we are. >> and where fund rookie. maybe we could hold a rifle. >> harry, chris, very great to see you. >> all right a band of mercenary csis a major city and marches towards the capital and say they want to oust the defense minister. what does vladimir putin do about it? he needs to. to discuss, quote, for their employment options. should we believe that? i'll ask the cia former chief of operations, next.
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or at least the shocking claims that vladimir putin met with the man who led the armed revolt against russia. and he met with him five days after the aborted insurrection. the kremlin claims that he held a three-hour meeting with yevgeny prigozhin, and other members of the wagner group and discussed, quote, for their employment options. for their employment options for the man who was marching troops, at least for a time, towards moscow. what kind of employment options were available for someone whose troops shot down russian helicopters and shook the foundations of putin's 20-year grip on power? what would that job listing look like? seeking middle aged men with experiencing global missionary war, treason and catering. must love dogs and have no commitments that require being alive. that last point gets the central question surrounding prigozhin at this moment. why exactly is he alive. the idea of a meeting after the revolt suggested that the
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seizing of russian city and marching towards moscow thing is somehow water under the bridge. putin doesn't seem like much of a water under the bridge kind of guy. he seems more like a throw you from the bridge kind of guy. that is, if there's no window available. there is actually a word that has come to symbolize thisype of activity in russia. deepinish station. a deep port for puzzles. a sinister word for survival and things like that. it describes the action, fallen as a surprising of rsians plummeting mysteriously from open windows. this happened to all kinds of people. so why not the guy who tried to fomented uprising. how long can prigozhin live in a windowless world? or maybe he has it. what do we know for sure about the itinerary since he relented? first we were told they want to belarus, the we were told it wasn't st. petersburg, now we're told there was a side trip at putin's place. we were told he went to all those places.
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but we never actually saw him. we haven't seen him at all. no disrespect. but will how can this weekend at bernie's keep calling around the idea of prigozhin? >> yes, but long existed. i know that, you know that. nobody else knows that. >> it least in the movie, we haven't seen anything. just an itinerary. which traces so many questions to get to the putting grip on power. so i want to turn to chief of russia operation, steve hall. steve, great to see you. why is prigozhin alive. if he is. >> you know there's so much that we don't know. you mentioned things like claims, data, these are things that political scientists really want. they want data points, right because i think they analyze something accurately if you don't have any data points, but
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we haven't seen for goshen in i can't remember how long ago. it is entirely, it would make sense that he wouldn't be alive anymore based on all of the things that you went through in the lead up to this, all of which is true. we don't even know if the meeting have been between prigozhin and putin in with his closest -- friends we just don't know but i can tell you one of the reasons that they're saying things like the meeting happened and they're saying the type of things that they're sending is because they're worried about him. they're very worried about it. and there's two distinct roots from people who are concerned that they're worried about. and so the russian population, and it's these millions that surround putin. the russian population is why you're seeing things like, yes, they met, everything is fine, you hear good things about it as a plan but they're worried that progression might actually have a grip on some of how russians might feel about the war. that concerns them and of course putin always has to be worried about the people who surround. so the reason that we're hearing about prigozhin is because they're still worried
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about them themselves. >> so you're not completely dismissing the weekend at bernie's stays with just that they're carting around this idea of prigozhin. i mean how long can they do that until we actually see him? well i think that they are playing for the long term here and i think what's actually going to happen to prigozhin and this goes back to the fear of what they might mean to the russian people. as we have seen before it takes a lot to get the russian people into the streets and actually do something. sometimes they'll come out into protest. but actually overthrow our government which, by the, way putin mentioned in response to prigozhin's activities he mentioned that the 1970 revolution. so they're working to combat. they've got to be concerned about that. how long is this going to go? and i think what they're going to do is it they could've killed him outright but what would happen is that they don't want to risk that upsurge of popular support for him. i think they're going to slowly
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move in. they've raided his apartment. they found all of these millions of dollars, rubles. they're going to try to paint him as corrupt and i think they're gonna end up in a prison someplace, or worse, for the long haul. so they're going to work to get him out but it's just going to take some time. >> all right, steve hall, i appreciate you being with us i really do. i just want to know when we're going to see the guy. if he really still exists. great to see. >> good to be with you. >> so how do you catch a survivalist on the run? that is what authorities are asking themselves when the murder suspect on the lam somewhere deep in the pennsylvania woods, tonight. with a replacement we could trust. that's servivice the way we want it. >> singers: ♪ safelelite repai, safelite replace. ♪
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goli, taste your goals. an escaped inmate who police
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believe may be armed and is certainly dangerous is on the front tonight. and believed to be somewhere in the woods, around one pennsylvania. michael charles, burham, a murder suspect is also being held in burglary charges. escaped from jail, friday, in the time honored method from every jailbreak movie you have ever seen. using tighe a bedsheet to climb down from the roof. police say they have found what may be his campsites. >> we do believe that he is getting some assistance from where or what that type of assistance, is i am not prepared to comment on. but as i have previously indicated, we are investigating that. and we are prepared to prosecute anyone who does offer him assistance. >> police say burham is a self taught survivalist, with military experience. what exactly does that mean?
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how long can a person survive on various and routes? and in what special skills will it take to capture a man who could do that and have nothing to lose? let's bring in our chief law enforcement analyst, john miller. sir, great to see you. pennsylvania state police say that they -- >> because these campsites seem to be stopped ahead of time. that suggests that he escapes the prison, that he goes on the run and that he knows where he's going to his designated locations where there's food, supplies and russians are waiting for him. >> what fascinates so many people about manhunts is how does a person of aid, law enforcement, how can a person of a law enforcement? i talked to so many experts, and they say one, if you get help they could last a longer time on the limb. on the other hand, if he has, helps there's more people to question. what is the truth there? >> both but let's go away from the generic man hunt. directly into the prison escape
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man hunt. so, in that case, you're assuming that there's going to be help on the outside and you start to look for that. and you start to look for that by saying let's begin with who's on his visitors. this these are the people who have been coming. do we have those on tape or not. who is on his phone call us? who's he making those collect calls up to? do we have those on tape? wants to see here's the escape plan. but once again to say, is there quoted language that, now, we see he's out of the institution and we can decode to say what does that suggest. so that's the beginning. those people are out of jail, and when you lean on those people and you start to cut off his continued help with the idea of, he's out of jail on the run now. but when you forgot to tell, them you're gonna go back to deal with. him and that could be a powerful argument. >> the police, say they're
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gonna try to force him to make a mistake. what are the kinds of the mistakes that fugitives like this do the job break? what are the mistakes they make? >> they're going to try to close off that circle if there is health. if that's one person, the people and they're gonna put pressure on that so that either have to stick their head off to reach out to one of those people. they'll be waiting. or they will try to eliminate those people from the circle. and then make them do something like they've got to steal a car. they've got to break into a house. and get some food or a weapon or keys to a car. they've got to force him out of the woods. remember eric robert rudolph. >> that's the name that always comes up. typically, people get caught. the one who didn't is rudolph. and he was not just a survivalist. >> eric robert rudolph, was the bomber from the olympics but he also bumped gay clubs, abortion
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clinics, and he was a serial bomber who, as police were closing, it ran into the net at national park which was bigger than some states combined. and disappeared for five years. living off the, land getting some help from the outside. and they finally what third down until they were caught. do we see mr. burham living in the national forest for five years? i don't think he has erik's rudolph's skills and i think they're going to put a lot of pressure and technology that didn't exist back then. >> that's a good point, john miller, thanks to see you. >> pga tour leaders in the hot seat just hours from now facing congress over their deal with saudi arabia's liv golf. bob costas tells us what to watch for, next.
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northwestern university announced, today, they fired the coach. this firing happened with the wake of hazing for the program. cnn reached out to fit joe for comment. we have yet to hear. back but he has previously said, he was not aware of the alleged hazing. now, through tomorrow, the controversy. the senate permanent subcommittee on investigations will be examining the proposed merger between the pga tour and the saudi-backed liv golf tour. and on the eve of that hearing, the pga tour confirmed that the -- rental stevenson, is stepping down for the pga tour policy towards serious concerns over the deal with the saudi arabian public investment fund. stephenson discuss the deal wi h resignation letter saying, quote, it is not one that i can objectively evaluate or in good conscience support
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particularly in light of the u.s. intelligence. concerning jamal khashoggi in 2018. with me now is cnn contributor bob costas. bob, great to see you. this hearing tomorrow before the senate, who is not going that should be? >> well, jay monahan. a commissioner of the pga tour was taken about a month up for an unspecified health concerned. he said he'll be back on the job next week and that he would have appeared at the postponed hearing. they declined to do that. so monahan is missing. jay monahan, greg norman who was at least the figurehead of liv golf in his own right, who is the primary representative of the private investment fund, the saudi private investment fund he, like norman claim, that he had a scheduling problem. but he was willing to appear at a subsequent hearing. so this is probably just the beginning. >> it is just the beginning.
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and they will get started, and ask important questions. but one question that liv golf on the pga tour basically asked behind the scenes is, hey, if joe biden, if the president of the united states can go to saudi arabia and fist pup mohammed bin salman, why can't we play golf together? >> well i think the concern is that you are better qualified to get to this point than i. but there is a certain concession, compromises, relationships that grow out of real politics as opposed to something that is quite possibly an exercise in sports washing. where everyone involved is whether willingly or unwillingly perhaps a public relations figure and ambassador for the saudi regime. that is the case when it was strictly, liv golf with austin johnson, phil, camp and others went over. they're now one of the big questions is how much influence
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know the saudis have when this merger is complete? they're playing out what is likely the last season of liv golf now. in, truth nobody really cares about the outcome of live golf tournaments. they get from it from a political standpoint. they're going to have to figure out how those who defected the film nicholson and others come back. there has to be some penalty involved. they can't just come back because those who remain loyal like tiger woods, rory mcilroy and others are going to be ticked off by that. those guys pocketed the money. and now they come back. so they've got to work all that stuff out. so perhaps it will be less obviously a connection to the saudis once that has all been arranged. and this deal still has many particulars that are yet to be put in place. but the idea is that this is, as richard blumenthal one of the heads of the committees alone with -- blumenthal, the democrat from connecticut put it that this is a beloved american institution. and the players and fans don't
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want to feel, at least many of them, against their will complicit in something that elevates every seam which many people find objectionable. so that is going to be one of the questions. monahan, the pga tour says that there will be a supermajority of ptc eight representatives on the policy board so that the saudis will not be the ones who controlled the sensibility and the direction of. it it will be something that's completely recognizable in a traditional sense to american golf fans. there's another question, which is an antitrust question. and the pga tour enjoys tax exempt status. they'll be looking into that as well beginning tomorrow. >> bob costa, always an honor. so we have to cut it short because there is some breaking news just in. tomorrow speaking, this really, tonight, is just. in former president donald trump's lawyers in a new filing are requesting that the court, this is the federal court here
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in the mar-a-lago documents case, the one which former president trump has been indicted. he is now requesting a consideration of any rescheduled child date. let me be my cb out this. they're asking tt the trial be postponed until after the election. lemeead you a direct quote from this. procdi to trial during the dependency of a presidential election cycle, where an opposing candidate are effectively, if not literally directly adverse to one another in this action will create extraordinary challenges in the jury selection process and limit the defendants ability to secure a fair and impartial education. the court should therefore withdraw the court order, setting and postponing any consideration of a new trial date. john miller is here with me now. wait till after the election, an election he could win or he could pardon himself. >> so, we saw this coming.
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we saw this coming with walt not us donald trump codefendant lawyers saying, we want to post one his arraignment. we want to postpone it again. and they have been asking for delays. and he's not a foreign tactic to trump and legal proceedings. both presidential and part to that. which is to drag these things out. however, there is this idea and there is two folds to this. one, that if you get within 60 days of the election, doj policy is that you don't go forward with criminal charges that are going to affect the elections which may be why jacks mitt has been saying in his moving papers that it is the opposite of the public interest to have delays. we need to get through this case, now. so that we don't bump up against that. there are many in doj who believe that there is a 60-day rule. in fact, the 60-day rule is kind of the standard that was kind of made-up that they've gone by as a guideline. but it's not a rule. it's not a law. so, you see these cross tensions here. >> and judge aileen canton, the federal judge, is who will
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decide this ultimately. >> that's right. and that's in her decision ultimately. and i think that when you look at jack smith in tristan donald trump's interest everybody is speaking towards the goal here. >> all right. >> there is the second fold which is that there is a scenario where donald trump could be elected president. and this is untested constitutionally. and, pardon himself of all federal criminal charges. which might leave, depending on who georgia indites and new york district attorney's case most forward, state charges that he can't pardon himself from. so there's a lot to unfold here. >> a lot to unfold. no doubt be in the news tomorrow. you heard it here first. john miller, thank you very much. >> before we, go i promise more threats. here's a threat from julie came 958. she, writes i would love it if every anchor signed off their shelves with something positive, something that a person is looking forward to. we'll hop out this. that's all for tonight. i'll be here all week. what could possibly go wrong?
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