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all coming in here to cnn news central i'm brianna keeler with alex marquardt thanks for being in for boris today and we are beginning of course with breaking news nearly 2000 pages of documents that former president trump fought to keep secret have just been made public, which just 18 days until the election special counsel jack smith, releasing this huge trove of documents that are nearly entirely blacked out, almost entirely redacted. they're part of the prosecutors election subversion case, the january 6 case against former president donald trump. prosecutors have charged trump with four crimes stemming from his actions following his 2020 election loss. including conspiracy to defraud the united states, as well as obstruction trump, of course, has pled not guilty. cnn's evan perez is here with us now, so evan, you and your team are still going through these 2000

documents. what can you tell us about what you've seen so far? >> well, a lot of them a lot of these documents, we can't see just yet eventually, we presume if this if we have a trial that the jury will get to see a lot of this evidence. but for now, the judge has kept a lot of this under seal. we are seeing though a few documents that really underpin what the prosecutors say is the evidence to prove that donald trump is guilty of these for crimes that you've pointed out. one of them is a previously partially redacted document that is an interview with a white house aide that was there in the oval office. that was there in the presidential race dozens on january 6, as the rioters happened putting out the cat, the capital and again, this is an interview that was done with the january 6 committee and we're now seeing parts of it. you can see right there he says there's writing down at the capitol and he says, what do you mean? i said it's like they're rioting there at the capitol and he says, really, and then he said, let's go,

let's go now. and so they bring him a television and according to this aid, he says i stopped. i stepped out to get him a diet coke, come back in and that's pretty much it for me. he was watching it and he was like seeing it off for himself. this is the former this is the former president. and his conduct on january 6. this is part of the evidence that jack smith wants to use to say that he could have tried to intervene to stop some of the violence and chose not to. that's again, part of what they are going to try to bring this in court now, judge tanya chutkan is the one who decided to release these documents. the former president has argued that this is election interference 18 days from the election. why are you putting this out now? she responded to that to that with this statement, she said, if the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it that withholding could itself cost institute, or appear to be election interference. in other

words, the public has a right to see this information and therefore, this is why it is coming out. now all right. evan, thank you so much for taking us through that. let's bring in cnn legal commentator tim parlatore, a former lawyer for donald trump, and tim, as we noted, nearly all of the pages out of nearly 2000 appear to be completed italy redacted. i wonder if you think this actually has the effect that the trump team was worried that it would i don't think it does. >> i mean, i went through them briefly myself and i didn't really see much of anything new evan just pointed out a couple of pages, but i'm sure that you know, once everything he's gone through, there's not really that much to come out i think that really what the trump team is probably more worried about is just a focus going away from the campaign issues, going back to this case in the last couple of weeks before the election. but i don't think i haven't seen

anything that's really going to move the needle factually tim, we also heard evan reference what judge judge chutkan said about the trump claims of election interference. i want to put that back up. there. this is from the judge saying if the court withheld information to the public, otherwise had a right to access solely because of the potential political consequences of releasing it that withholding and could itself constitute or appear to be election interference. do you agree with that argument i do. >> i think that the judge is in a very difficult position here because she really kind of highlights the idea that she's dan does she does if she doesn't and it really goes more not so much to the court, but more to doj is decision to be doing certain things before the election. i mean, the parties could have decided to hold off this briefing until later, but as to the judge's position she really doesn't have much of a choice here and i think that you perfectly

illustrated the position that jack smith put her into from what we can see, which is we note is not a whole heck of a lot here do you get a sense of where jack smith is planning to go with his argument that trump was acting in his official capacity as president and he shouldn't it'd be immune from prosecution sure. >> i mean from what i've seen so far, it doesn't really seem like anything new that we didn't see in his briefing before. his argument is going to be splitting between candidate trump and president trump and trying to focus everything on what he did as a candidate and i think that in certain circumstances that's a very murky. and in other circumstances is pretty clear, but he's trying to just take the court's attention is solely over to that, but, you know, even devin's point a couple of minutes ago when he serves to get into the things that he could have done and didn't yeah, that's when jack smith runs the risk of going right back over too. well, should the president have done

something to intervene versus should the candidate have done something. so it is a sticky situation for him tim parlatore. thank you so much for your insights thank you. on the heels of more evidenced been released in trump's federal election interference case. today, the former president turns his focus to battleground michigan hill rally in detroit, just a week after comparing the city to a quote, developing hoping nation. let's talk now with republican congressman from pennsylvania, dan meuser, who is co-chair of the trump campaign in that state. i do. congressman want to get your reaction to this? the timing of these court documents even though they do seem to be considerably redacted, what do you think well, you're on analyst good to be with you by the way, called it an october a cheap shot jack smith has more than just a legal case. >> he seems to have a personal vendetta feda against the president. i think his case was

weak. >> it was of course taken down by a higher court he's brought it back, which is completely inappropriate. >> again, according to an eu or analysts and to do this right now is is it political maneuver to to try to damage the president credibility and i do want to add president trump yeah, i do want to ask you about how things are going in pennsylvania and specifically something that you were involved in there, which is a lawsuit that challenges ballots from overseas in pennsylvania, and that of course would include from the military who are overseas deployed, their family members as well overseas military families, including some i've spoken with see this as an attack on their right to vote. >> what do you say to them? >> entirely it's a real shame

that the voting has become this battle. and my this lawsuit was if our secretary of state, who out to relationship with not put an issue in costume, said covered voters are exempt from election code he requirements overseas voters and no longer are exempt from voter id. >> recall and that's why would he in pennsylvania and it's federal law, by the way. but he did that. were they his office? >> he seems like too much of a reasonable guy and actually it make she wants and what that means. >> we have 15,000 in pennsylvania 15,000 eligible overseas voters, 3,300 of them are military. 85% are not military says it's not a military thing. my god, we want every eligible registered voter citizen to vote but when you remove deliberately a week, three weeks before the

election, the standard voter id requirements that have that have existed for decades we said, why are you doing that we feel you shouldn't be doing that and we're having to file a law abiding a court based now a protest is really what it is. >> leave the federal law alone, and i'll tell you what i'm involved in another lawsuit. we have you know, biden issued an executive order i want to ask you about this. >> one of the euo cava uniformed and overseas because i hear you saying that some of these are not military ballots, but they're all together. they're all governed by the same law yes, absolutely you know, you if you throw out the bathwater, you're throwing out the baby here or if you hold it too as you want to say, verify it, your it's all it's all together. there's no separating the two. i just want to be very clear. you can't separate the uniform from the overseas. they're all together. but what evidence do you well, certainly not about the military. that's why well,

but it does it is about the military because they are included in these votes. so it's going to affect them. what you're talking about. but why evidence? congressman, what evidence do you have that this is being exploited or is going to be exploited? what is your concern about how that would be exploited? by? >> our concern is we have a federal statute that states that these id requirements are required for overseas citizen voters and in pennsylvania were not aware. we think there's a couple of other states that have tried to do this as well. >> they have waived the id requirements that have existed for decades. >> okay in very way, very much awake. it protects our military because they are eligible citizen we don't want an ineligible of ineligible individual to vote when they're not when they when they shouldn't be. thus eliminating the, the vote of a military

personnel, military personnel are obviously american overseas where we want the requirement and my guess is all of those military men and women overseas appreciate the idea that we require some sort of id as does 90% of the country it's, not it's not new. i think what may be new is this focus on trying to do gotv on get out the vote when it comes to overseas voters, that's that's something that is new on the part of democrats well democrats said that unbelievably well in 2020 and we're doing our best to do it effectively this time around. >> very simply, of course not engaged in illegal behavior such as ballot harvesting but but but simply a lot of door knocking and reminding people that they sent in a mail-in, they got mail-in ballot application, such encourage them to fill it out. but

there's nothing there there's nothing outside the bounds of legality surrounding that look, we just want her action before an election. >> experts said, well, there are a lot of rules being changed before this election is you're aware we're seeing that in some states, including in georgia but experts say it would be very difficult two create some sort of widespread fraudulent voting because i just want to be clear to our viewers about how this works. people have to go through. their local election jurisdictions. so you're talking about broadly for the whole country, 7,500 think more than 7,000 jurisdictions. you'd have to know who is overseas, their identity, where they are, where they're home of record or where they are their home of record or their address of record is in the state you're talking about in this case in pennsylvania, could be another state this is something

that would be very difficult. is this a problem? you in is a solution in search of a problem? >> they changed the election code, allowing overseas eligible. we hope they're eligible voters not to provide an id, any sort of id that they provided in the past, we know our military personnel will have that id, make a copy, send it in along with and we met shut up the directive was to our county commissioners to not require weeks ago. >> it wasn't weeks ago. i'm just looking at it here. it wasn't weeks ago september of 2022. is that what you're talking about i'm talking about when we issued our suit against this. >> right. >> but you're saying what you're leading our viewers to believe that this was a change put in place here recently on the id, and it wasn't explain

that because that's not good faith what it is is that we just became aware of it and we have a very serious election and we want to inspire voter integrity. that's not okay. that's your problem though you're making if you're making it sound like they did, you're making it sound like they did this. the only thing that is new here in the last few weeks is a blog that known for conspiracy theories posting about how this is going to be exploited without a basis. and then trump posting on truth social about how democrats are going to cheat about this. there's no new id thing that you've been saying is somehow brand new. i want to make sure i wasn't calling you on something inaccurate, but it turns out that that's just not true. >> well, here's what is true, brianna, we have a lot of questions. my constituent you raised them in 2022. >> why do you raise the lauer

election? >> we are on the side of creating voter confidence, as are many democrats. and i mentioned there was no problem with these votes even in 2022 before this no id. >> so this no idea is put in place. there's an election, there's no problem with the votes and now you're raising the issue. why we're raising the issue because we have a presidential election coming up. that's going to be very close and it was apparently just discovered. i just was brought and i would've known about it in 22 i would have i would have signed onto it then but what we were doing it now and we will see what happens. we'll bring it to the attention and maybe, maybe reasonable minds will say, yeah, we should have id matching for why do you think you didn't notice it before? >> i can't speak to that. you know what i'm i'm i'm a member of congress. i'm not a i didn't intend to be a election and voter expert which unfortunately i've had to become over the last several

years because of the changes that okay. >> congressman, but i'm assuming you have military voters, military family voters in your district yes. >> it's have you ever facilitated 1 military member voting overseas? >> it is hard and a lot of them report that even though they've requested absentee ballots, they don't get them. it is a hard thing to do, even the guarantees in the law that say this should be able to vote, don't always end up in then voting. and if you talk to those voters, they'll tell you this. i mean, these kinds of things are going into effect and they've continually revised law i was to protect these voters to preserve their ability to vote, which is enshrined in federal law. that's why these changes are there. i mean, if voters, you could know this id helps and shrine that and inspire confidence. why would they minimize the need to bring quiet to mandate a identification that's existed for decades. that that's

really just a very weak argument over asking for is to abide by the federal law that exists it's okay. it's not as if we're trying to even add a new law, abide by what exists, provide id and the military are not the problem. >> okay. maybe there is no problem. but again, we're just maintaining a security level that existed for decades. and i think that's very reasonable i do not suspect we will have a voter integrity accusations and blame because we are all working together well, when you see things like this, meaning of pennsylvania but when you see things like this, we'd need to do something about it. i don't like it. i don't like when it's a slippery slope, when you when you diminish the need for hurricane identification for an overseas ballot that does not make sense to me. that doesn't equal voter integrity right? id does equate to this was done an election ago, more than two

years ago, just to be clear, you could or raised it then congressman for what a called to my attention, i perhaps would have well, it comes to your attention, i guess when you're looking for it congressman dan meuser. thanks so much for being with us. >> well, looking for free and fair elections, that's all we're looking for. and i think we're actually going to get it yeah. >> let's i mean, i think we're all aware sir congressman, thanks for being with us. all, right thank you. >> still to come, president biden acknowledges that the death of hamas leader yahya sinwar alone will not resolve this situation in the middle east as hamas remains defiant following sinwar's killing, we are live from the region, plus a texas inmates execution is put on hold at the 11th hour. we'll tell you why by it was halted and where that case goes from here with powerful, e-trade makes complex trading easier. >> we acted fast moving markets with dynamic charting and to futures ladder, the lets you place flattened or reverse

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its leader yahya sinwar just yesterday announced by the israelis, he was of course the chief architect of the october 7 massacre. >> and israel just over a year ago, the israeli military released this remarkable drone video, which they say shows sinwar's final moments in the southern city of rafah on gaza, a senior hamas official is now saying that hamas will not return any hostages to israel until a quote, aggression against the people of gaza stops. that is amongst several of their hardline conditions. but this morning, president joe biden did express hope that sinwar's death will be a turning point that could end the violence in gaza ticket all the primaries, divisional yesterday that's also make this moment an opportunity to say a path to peace a better future in gaza without hamas and joining me now is former hostage negotiator gershon baskin, who has extensive

experience dealing with hamas. >> he's also the middle east director of the international communities organization, gershon. thank you so much for being back with us. i wonder if you agree with the president and his administration that this is a moment here, a moment to try to resurrect these efforts around a ceasefire and a hostage deal. how much of an opening is there? do you think? >> there is a moment here of opportunity if it is exploited by the israelis, both in appealing to people who are holding hostages in gaza to release them in exchange for safe passage out of gaza with their families. and a lot of money to go along with that there's also an opportunity for israel to appeal to the egyptians and the qatari's and say we're willing to re-enter the negotiations on a deal that will bring all the hostages home at once in a very short period of time. that will also lead to the under the war. there are conditions that hamas has made that they will not retract from. and that includes ending the war it includes releasing palestinian prisoners

surrender. and i think this is the mentioned of defiance that we're talking about. but i think that each side has their ability to present in their own way their victory picture in nothing you got. here's the killing of sinwar and the hamas spokespeople have said we bought the palestinian issue back to international attention. this is their victory here, but we can't really talk about victory when so many people have been killed, when so much damage has been done, when both israeli and palestinian society is living in trauma, we need to get this done. we need to get the hostages home and president biden needs to use his influence and the leverage of the united states over the government of israel to make sure that this is done. the egyptians and the qataris and others can put pressure on hamas. but it's time for this war to end. >> well, how much do you think that the death of sinwar could complicate those talks? and perhaps endanger the lives of the hostages who are still being held in. and how much do you think hinges on who could

succeed sinwar there is talk that sinwar gave orders to people holding hostages that should he be killed, they should execute the hostages we don't know if that's being done, if that will be done, it is a very dangerous moment for those hostages as well. >> in who will succeed sinwar, they will find something. there's a competition for leadership already going on. we probably won't hear anything in the next days of a real decision because they'll have a three-day mourning period but there is a void of six leadership in gaza right now, if you sinwar's brother muhammad sinwar is one of the military commanders there, but he's not a political leader. there are a few members of the shura council, the upper polit bureau of hamas, who aren't gaza, but we haven't heard much from them since the beginning of the war. the primary leadership is outside of gaza. there are at least two significant gazans tour in doha right now how do you look? hayya was the deputy of sinwar and his contesting for leadership and khaled mashal, the old day leader of hamas,

definitely wants to come back as leadership. and then the question is, does the outside leadership have the ability to enforce a deal? should they reach one with israel? can we ensure that they will release hostages? studios, and that the war will be over from the point of view of the hamas fighters in gaza, we don't know that this is going to be up to tested and verified. >> aggression. we only have a couple of moments left, but you mentioned something that netanyahu said yesterday, which was essentially calling on hamas members to release hostages it is and there'll be allowed to live. and this is something we're starting to hear from us officials as well in an effort or pressure to try to get whoever is holding hostages to release them piecemeal given the disorganization, right now, in gaza, do you think there's a chance of something like that happening i think there's a chance that for all the hostages, but for some maybe we can retrieve some of those hostages. >> it's not enough for interrupting you to say that you'll be able to live. they need to be offered in guaranteed free pass passage out to another country. there

are countries that would accept them. and i think they should be encouraged by knowing that they'll also receive a large sum of money to encourage them to do this. this is breaking discipline and it will be very difficult for them to do it. but i imagined that some of those people holding hostages would rather take the money and run and let the hostages live. there not possibly getting killed by israel following not releasing the hostages well, it is clear of course, if the administration sees this as a real turning point with the potential to finally get this war to end. >> whether israel and hamas agree that remains to be seen. gershon baskin thank you as always for your thoughts and for your time today thank you and a new report on what senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said after the 2020 election about then present and then donald trump, mcconnell reportedly called trump stupid, ill tempered, and a despicable human being. what he's now saying about those remarks, that's next on cnn and new central