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effort to dismiss this case, but they are open to delaying this sentencing for up to four years, because they understand that it's going to take time to litigate this issue of the future of this case. so they do not agree to dismiss this case but while that question is being litigated, they understand that the sentencing has to be paused. so president elect trump will not be sentenced next week and the next step is the two parties will litigate this issue. and again, they understand that this sentencing, if it goes forward, may not happen for another four years. >> paula, please stand by. >> let's go to cnn's kara scannell now. surprise given donald trump's election the unprecedented nature of this. and, of course that supreme court decision from over the summer. >> yeah, it raises all sorts of complicated legal issues having the president elect facing a conviction in state court and then a potential sentencing by the judge. and add on top of that, the supreme court's decision on immunity. so those are all the factors that the prosecutors say they have taken

into consideration. i mean, they say in here that they deeply respect the office of the president, that they're mindful of the demands and obligations, but they jury's verdict. and it was 12 new yorkers who delivered that guilty verdict for donald trump in may, finding him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. so prosecutors saying that they are still going to fight to maintain this conviction so donald trump's team there saying they'rewith postponing the sentencing. so trump's team can file their motion to dismiss and they said they are going to oppose that. they are still asking the judge to move fairly quickly here, saying that they want to file their response to this motion on december 9th because they are expecting this case to be appealed no matter what. the decision is that trump's team, if they lose, will continue to fight it through appellate courts. and so that is attorney's office says that they don't oppose postponing the the sentencing because they think that would on how this litigation is

expected to play out. so for now trump's sentencing is expected waiting for the judge to actually sign off on that. he is the one that is ultimately in control of that. it's possible trump's team will indicating if they agree with this timeline, or if they're asking for how much time they should have to file this expected motion to dismiss so we may hear from them, or we may hear from the judge setting a briefing schedule in this case. but it is still the judge's call on whether to adjourn the sentencing. but with the district attorney agreeing now for the third time that they are okay with postponing it it is likely that the judge will agree with that as well. guys. >> and carrie cordero, you know, a lot can happen, a lot can change in four years, a lot can. >> and this makes a lot of sense. >> i mean, at this point, there really is no rush from the court's perspective to get to a sentencing given the fact that the president is going to be stepping into office, given the fact that he absolutely was going to appeal this case just

on the merits of it itself in terms of the legal questions and the legal theory that the prosecutors brought this case on and then added to that, the additional challenges that he would bring based on the supreme court's immunity decision. so even without the immunity decision, i think he would have appealed anyway, just on the interpretations of new york law and then added to that, the supreme court decision that he has immunity now that he is reelected and will step back into office in january. >> kelly, no surprise here that the district attorney elie honig is with us. i should point out we we got the letter from the da here. no surprise that they're not eager to let this go. and they point out in their letter that there's no law that currently establishes that a president's immunity comes with that requires the dismissal of a post-trial criminal proceeding. in other words there's nothing in the supreme court's ruling that gives the president immunity for being found guilty of something before he was

president, let alone for acts that may not be deemed official. suffice to say, this is complicated yeah boris, this is brand new territory. >> this is the crazy law school hypothetical come to life we've never had a situation. anything like this. but to your question, i see two major takeaways from this filing we just got from the da. >> first of all, the d.a. is okay with adjourning the sentencing indefinitely, which means it will not happen before he takes office if the judge agrees, kara makes a very important point. >> this is just the da's position ultimately, it's up to the judge. really jumps out at me is the d.a. in this letter says, what you just said, boris, about immunity, that it doesn't necessarily cover post-trial proceedings. and so the d.a. floats the possibility. in their letter they say we want to look into various options, including possibly having his sentencing sentencing happen in 2029 when he's done his second term as president. to me, that is a preposterous suggestion. just as a practical matter, you

can't put off sentence four plus years. i think donald trump would have a very strong argument when this day comes, when he's 82 years old and finishing up his second term, that that's just too long to wait. but again, this is all unknown. this is all brand new. but i found that really interesting to see that the d.a. is actually floating the possibility of january 21st, i guess of 2029. >> yeah. i was going to ask you what the practical effect was of pushing something four years to when someone's an octogenarian, but it's like you're psychic, ellie. kristen holmes, i want to bring you into this this is obviously going to be something that is certainly welcome to trump's ears. i'm sure they would like to completely put all of this to bed but delaying this for years is certainly something he must be pleased with yeah and just to piggyback off of what ellie was just saying, donald trump's team believes they do have a strong case that this would not be something that would be

feasible to be sentencing in 2029. >> so they believe that in some ways they have actually won this round. now, of course, again, i am only talking about how they feel specifically not exactly what is being said. and this is the statement that they put out they said, and this comes from steven cheung, the spokesperson for donald trump. this is a total and definitive victory for president trump and the american people who elected him in a landslide. the manhattan da has conceded that this witch hunt cannot continue. the lawless case is now stayed, and president trump's legal team once and for all now, there are some things in there that are not true, but one thing that is true is that they are going to move to dismiss this case and again, this is all part of what they saw as an overall tactic, not just with this case, but a number of cases. they wanted to delay everything past the election, and that included that sentencing. remember the original sentencing was supposed to be before the election. they wanted everything to be delayed because they thought that if he could win, which of course we now know he did, that, it would be a lot easier to get rid of

to dismiss these various cases, whether it be through running the department of justice or through now. these concerns and questions about sentencing a president elect and after inauguration, the president of the united states. so they believe they have a strong case now to actually dismiss this, and they will be moving forward with that. of course, as we've been reporting, this is all going to be in the hands of the judge. this is just the first action. however, donald trump's team feels very good right now and paula, you were getting reaction from a source literally 30s before we went on air. >> what are you hearing? yeah. >> to dovetail what kristen said, i mean, this is viewed internally as an enormous victory remember, this case was defended the trump was convicted. this case was defended by todd blanche, trump's nominee to be the deputy attorney general of the united states they have successfully delayed this sentencing, and now they will litigate this issue of the constitutional protections that a president elect is entitled to. and this parallels a similar conversation that we're seeing related to trump's federal cases. jack smith is in

conversations with top justice department officials. he believes that it's pretty clear that based on internal justice department guidance, you cannot continue cases against the president elect. and they're working out the mechanics of winding those down, likely dissolving those cases before trump gets into office. the difference between the federal cases, though, and the state cases, the federal cases trump if he once he gets in the white house, he could have his attorney general dismiss them. that is not the case at the state level. so now his lawyers really need to succeed on this constitutional issue if they don't want to face this sentencing, potentially in about four and a half years. >> carrie, i wonder when voters reelected donald trump, did they essentially give him a stay on everything? this was the one case where he had been convicted, and there are a bunch of others that are in various states of being either rolled back or they're just so far delayed they could be picked up again in four years. but like i said, a lot can

change in four years. did they essentially erase potentially the fact that he will ever face the music on anything? >> well, whether they whether that motivated them or not i'll leave to the political commentators. >> but with respect to the practical impact the practical impact is that a president elect and a president is in a unique position when it comes to prosecution and specifically with respect to these federal cases. >> the long standing justice department office of legal counsel assessment is that you cannot have an ongoing prosecution of a sitting president. and so whether or not that is what voters intended, that is the practical result. >> and the punting of it could mean that it is delayed in such a way that he doesn't face the music. >> they succeeded spectacularly. they said, for all his two state cases, his two federal cases. i've been talking to his lawyers for years. they just wanted to delay, delay, delay, get him reelected. so the federal cases go away. the state cases are on

ice. this is the manifestation of that plan they set in motion years ago. >> to that point, ellie, this plan by the trump team that they've been pushing now pursuing for upwards of two years, it worked >> i mean, paula and carrie are exactly right. there's not going to be prison time for donald trump. nowhere in the foreseeable future. that's just a reality and it is true that donald trump's strategy was to delay. but i think it's important to add any cognizant half decent defense lawyer would have made the exact same strategy, would have raised the immunity defense that ultimately succeeded to the supreme court. and i know that can be frustrating for people. how can somebody who's been convicted of one crime and indicted four times face no consequences? while the clock ran out and if you want to apportion blame for why the clock ran out, let's remember when these cases a half years over two and a half years for doj to get these things indicted. and by that point, i wrote well in advance of that. the clock has already run out. merrick garland just

doesn't realize it yet. well, here we are, and the clock has run out. so this is our system in progress it's highly imperfect. and as carrie was saying, we like to say no person is above the law in this country. but the fact is, one person largely is and that's the president because of the immunity ruling and because of the carrie were just talking about. that's just sort of the cold hard reality of the way our system works it certainly is. >> everyone, thank you so much for your insights. still ahead there's no signs of relenting president-elect trump applying some heavy pressure on senate republicans to confirm his embattled attorney general pick matt gaetz, as some in his party push for the release of gaetz's house ethics report. >> plus, doctors are calling it a life giving procedure, a suicide survivor who was left severely disfigured getting a second chance at life thanks to a new face

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and this is cnn that he becomes the nation's top prosecutor. >> we're learning the former congressman is now directly calling republican senators urging them to give him a shot as attorney general, president elect trump meantime, doubling down on his controversial pick, sources telling cnn that he's also gaetz despite growing apprehension on capitol hill, with some lawmakers saying they want to see how a house ethics report on allegations of sexual misconduct against gaetz, a lawyer for two of the women who testified for that report, spoke with cnn the testimony before the house was, yes, that

representative gaetz paid my client both of my clients for sexual favors throughout the summer of 2017, all the way to the beginning of 2019. >> she testified to the house that as she was walking out to the pool area, she turned to her right and she witnessed her client, i'm sorry, her her friend having sex with representative gaetz and her friend at that time was >> the lawyer also said his client did not believe that gaetz knew at the time that her friend was underage and gaetz has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. cnn's kristen holmes is back with us now from west palm beach, near trump's mar-a-lago resort and kristen, tell us more about this pressure campaign that is building to ensure that gaetz gets through despite the controversy over what's happened here. >> yeah brianna, moments ago, alayna treene and manu raju, two of our colleagues reporting that this pressure campaign is extending to in-person visits and that vice presidential nominee or elect jd vance is

actually taking a number of trump's cabinet picks up to the hill this week to meet with various senators and among them is matt gaetz. but as you said, donald trump himself has doubled down on this idea that matt gaetz has to be attorney general. now, of course this all coming before we've even seen this ethics report. it does seem likely at some point, we will get at least an idea of what is inside of it with more details. but as of right, this second, donald trump has told everyone around him that the most important thing that he wants to get done is get matt gaetz confirmed. and that's why he has been personally calling a number of senators up on the hill trying to lobby for support asking what their reservations are. and i was told that donald trump has acknowledged to allies close to him that he doesn't believe that matt gaetz at this point, has the actual votes to get confirmed but that's part of this pressure campaign. now, when it comes to some of his other cabinet picks, who might be incredibly controversial, talking about rfk jr., tulsi gabbard pete hegseth, some of them are going to be up on the

hill with jd vance. but i'm also told that donald trump has said that no matter what happens with other candidates donald trump himself is all is the most important pick. and that's not surprising given what we have been reporting since even before donald trump was actually elected, that he had always said that if he was to be elected, the most important post in his administration would be an attorney general and i'm told that because he hand selected matt gaetz, that is part of the reason that he has continued to double down on the efforts here to get him confirmed all right, kristen holmes, thank you for the report from west palm beach boris, let's discuss the latest with republican congresswoman of florida anna paulina luna. >> congresswoman, thank you so much for being with us. let's start with this pick to lead the department of justice, matt gaetz. this is a pick that you've celebrated and defended even against criticism from fellow republicans. i want to get your response to this attorney for the two women who testified before the house ethics committee, saying that gaetz paid them for sex over

ten times during a two year period, one of them alleging that gaetz unknowingly had sex with an underage woman. at one point, all allegations been able to review their testimony? how much of it have you seen i've been able to get firsthand knowledge from the department of justice and fbi. >> once they came out and dropped their investigation into him because they found that all those allegations, as you had just stated were actually unfounded. you know, i really would appreciate it if networks would cover the fact that this was also tied to a $25 million extortion scheme against matt gaetz and his father, and to furthermore, you know, i find it interesting that these actual allegations come out at peculiarly peculiar timing while he's being nominated to be the attorney general. to be clear i do think matt gaetz is going to be an incredible attorney general. i think this baseless smear campaign, frankly is abhorrent that it's happening to someone like matt gaetz, who's done so much to fight the government corruption. and there's a reason why president trump won,

not just the electorate vote. frankly, people trust president trump's judgment more than any news outlet out there. >> congressman, i just want to clarify something. you said you got direct and the fbi when they declined to prosecute him criminally, were you able to review the testimony yourself what i can tell you is they came out in a public statement and actually had dropped charges against representative matt gaetz. >> that's what i mean by that. and frankly, what i'm finding is these baseless allegations when people go out there and smear reputations, this happened to justice brett kavanaugh. this happens to a lot of male republicans or people that are nominated to positions of power and frankly, as someone who knows representative gaetz, you know, when i was first elected to congress, i think it's incredibly important for women out there to know i was only a few months pregnant. i had a reporter come up to me and ask me how many members of congress i had had sex with. also alleging that i had a relationship with matt gaetz, which was categorically false. but the reason why they did that is

against the machine that exists here in washington, d.c. so be aware that these types of smear campaigns do exist. that's why i've been so adamant about getting the facts out there and i still back him. frankly, i think that if the doj and the fbi had evidence they would have prosecuted because matt gaetz is a thorn in their side. but that's exactly why i think it's important for your network, especially to put the facts out there. and that's why i chose to come on today. >> well, we appreciate you coming on doj declined to prosecute gaetz because they had doubts about whether the central witnesses would be perceived as credible by a jury. shouldn't the senate, as it weighs this nomination, have access to the testimony of these women to see it for themselves to gauge for themselves whether these accusations are credible you know, i will say this. >> i think representative gaetz would be incredible at explaining this to the american people and i think he has. i think he's anticipating on doing that. but what i don't want to have happen is there to

be a political, intentional release of information that's false and only done to smear someone. and i think that's exactly what you have happening now. you know, it's not by accident or by coincidence that you had someone apparently hack the emails or hack into the testimony but if the doj and the fbi had issues and questions of credibility, then why would we then even allow that person to have a platform? i'm sure, you know, being in the public eye that you've probably had people say things about you that are simply not true. and i think that that's what's happening in this instance. what's really unfortunate, though, is that the american people are not being given the facts. and the facts is, is that this man, matt gaetz, was actually extorted for over $25 million with his family. his father had to wear a wire that the fbi advised him to do so. and as a result of that, the people that were trying to extort him ultimately were saying that they were going to make these allegations go away. so if you have that type of the department of justice, i could not be happier that president trump is putting someone like matt gaetz in charge because i know that he's absolutely going to weed out the corruption. and mind

you. merrick garland defied subpoenas to congress. he broke the law, and he's in the sitting seat of the attorney general. if you have someone there, how can you have a truly equal system in this country? frankly no one is above the law. i'm sure that my friend matt gaetz would say the same thing. and that's exactly why i continue to back him and president trump. >> congressman you're you're claiming that the department of justice is corrupt, though they declined to prosecute gaetz, they also declined to go after president biden over his classified documents. and during that chapter, you demanded transparency you pushed to get the robert baer tapes released. you wanted to in contempt and you wrote, quote, for congress for congress to legislate effectively we must have access to the information that will enable us to make informed decisions when congress is denied this crucial information, we are left to navigate complex issues in the dark. can the senate make a proper decision about gates's nomination without weighing the testimony that is in this house? ethics report? >> i think that when you run

the risk of having an unreliable witness, that not just the doj, but the fbi declined to prosecute gates on, i think that you then open up a can of worms to having any joe schmo out there bringing forward testimony that might not be credible against this isn't just congresswoman, respectfully, respectfully, this isn't just any joe schmo. >> this is testimony that was given to the house ethics committee. this is a report, a bipartisan report that's been compiled that republican senators are now asking for, should it not be released. >> this is yeah this is the same testimony that was again dropped by the doj and the fbi because these people were not credible. and i will say that for the senators that are coming forward and stating that they need to read this testimony, let's look into these people's stock portfolios and how they're becoming multimillionaires off of $175,000 a year. the reason why people want outsiders, the reason why people are not buying this gaetz smear campaign. and that is exactly what it is is because of the fact that they understand that there is a two tier justice system. you know you mentioned earlier that i do think the doj is corrupt. absolutely. when i

find that they are giving special treatment to the attorney general that he doesn't have to testify to congress yet, if any single other american does that, they go to jail. that is absolutely government corruption. but when you're then talking about cabinet picks, you're talking about an ethics investigation. i mean, i'm pretty sure matt gaetz has also been investigated for a campaign or misuse of campaign funds that were also dropped. so the fact is, is that matt gaetz has again, time and time again, stood up to the swamp. frankly, i know him as a person. i know his family and i have been able to be privy to the conversations behind forward to this leaked ethics report, because they know that it's going to smear him. i'm not going to state who the members are, but what i will say is that that type of behavior, putting this forward to the american people smearing matt gaetz's reputation and then also undercutting the credibility of president trump, who, again, the american people trust to lead this nation. i'm not going to play that game. frankly. i hope that congress can get back to focusing on why we're avoiding a war with ukraine and russia. >> i do want to go back to something you said, congresswoman, because these are republicans. the republicans asking for this

house ethics report to be released. it's people like senator john cornyn of texas. he it would be hard to describe him as anything but aligned with maga. are you suggesting that there's something in his stock portfolio that's questionable? >> i'm suggesting that john cornyn i to my knowledge, made statements that was actually anti maga about president trump. and same with the new elected senate leader. but i will say that thune has since changed his tune. and it seems like he's more aligned with maga and president trump. >> so i will say that when they ask for when they ask for the house ethics report do you think that there's something corrupt about that when they're asking for testimony, when they're asking for this report? again, a bipartisan report, do you unethical about that i think that what's unethical about it is that this has been shut down, that they're not requesting reports on other people who are knowingly under investigation currently, and that those people from the get go have not wanted matt gaetz to be the attorney general pick. >> so in my mind yes, it's absolutely a smear campaign. being that that actual

investigation per the doj and also separate agency, the fbi were dropped that they're not covering the fact that there is an extortion claim tied to it. and the fact is that and i believe that matt gaetz is innocent. >> we do have to leave the conversation there. congresswoman anna paulina luna, thank you so much for joining us. look forward to having you on again sometime thank you still ahead, 1000 days of war and now a major escalation ukraine hitting russian territory with u.s. made missiles as vladimir putin broadens russia's nuclear doctrine hinting at a potentially devastating response. stay with us awkward question. >> is there going to be anything left over? >> yeah. >> oh absolutely. >> my kids don't know what they want. you know, who knows what she wants me with empower, we get all of our financial questions answered. >> so you don't have to worry. >> empower what's next? >> hey, kids. >> what do you call the nordvpn black friday deal? the black friday deal woo

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missiles on targets inside of russia just days after president biden gave ukraine the green light to do so. it's a major escalation in a war that has now raged for a thousand days. the kremlin says six missiles were launched at one of its weapons arsenals in the bryansk region, and it claims that five of those six were shot down. russia's foreign minister says the attack marks a new phase of war by the west, and the timing here is quite notable. today, president putin lowered russia's threshold for using nuclear weapons. let's talk about this now with former nato supreme allied commander, retired general wesley clark. general said, russia is saying that only one of the six atacms made it through here and that one was damaged before fragments of it hit a military facility in bryansk. is this weapon a game changer or just another weapon in the arsenal well, first of all, we don't know how many missiles really made it

through. >> despite what russia might say but it's not a game changer. >> it's another weapon in the arsenal. there's not enough of them. they don't have enough range they're being used in a fragmentary basis. they add some every weapon helps it and it adds some leverage. if you're going to go into negotiations, it's okay, we won't shoot any more missiles and into russia. if you won't do x but, uh, no, it's not decisive. and russia knows this very well. >> so we're in a very good point. obviously not to take russia at its ukrainian officials that they hit a ammo depot there inside russia state department spokesman matthew miller said that russia bringing in north korean troops, i think the u.s. estimate right now is it's over in the kursk region, along with russian troops, that it's, quote, a major escalation by russia. then you have the u.s. okaying ukraine using us made longer range missiles. is the

biden that this is okay to do? because it may actually be time limited by trump taking over the white house. how do you see this as trump certainly wants to end the war quickly i see it more as a continuation of existing administration policy. >> it's a for tat policy in which the biden administration has tried to manage the escalation so if ukraine is is winning, then we don't do as much. if russia is going to win, we don't want ukraine to lose. so we're going to do more and we've managed to continue this policy with slow motion on artillery himars tanks f-16s, atacms and now atacms into russia. it's always the same decision process and we're probably at some level even talking to the russians and saying now we're considering this because the russians have already begun fortifying their airfields. and so forth that are in atacms range to reduce

their vulnerability to it so this is a political gesture from the beginning. the administration has not wanted ukraine to win this war. i don't know how they thought it was going to end. at one point, jake sullivan was saying, well, time is on our side. time is on our side. but actually, if you look at ukraine's manpower, if you look at the fragility of western democracies, if you look at putin's resolve and now bringing in the north koreans, we don't know if time is on our side or not. it really depends on american leadership and ukraine's manpower is about a fourth of what's available for russia so that was never a good recipe for success. really there's this is going to continue until putin decides he can't win or until we give him most of what he wants and he's willing to take a pause and wait to get the rest of it. >> when you look at russia lowering its threshold for using nuclear weapons today,

and it's doing so, it says that it now considers an aggression by any non-nuclear state. but with participation of a nuclear country obviously, that would be ukraine with the u.s. to be a joint attack on russia. how do you read that i read it as typical russian propaganda. >> here's the truth brianna. putin could use a nuclear weapon anytime he wants, as many as he wants regardless of what any russian doctrine says that russian doctrine is for public consumption in the west. and it's adding to the pressure, you know, from the beginning, the president said he didn't want a confrontation with russia. he said at one fundraiser he didn't want to start world war iii. donald trump is on the out there, and his son don junior saying it's going to be world war that process of trying to influence public opinion in the west to not help ukraine, to

not offset russia and escalation, to do less. and eventually let ukraine crumble so yes, there's always a chance that this could escalate into something that's dangerous that's why the u.s. has nuclear forces that's why we have a deterrent and that's why, you know, we have missiles aircraft. we deploy them around the world. and russia knows this but we don't want to engage in that reckless talk, whereas putin has found it very, very useful to do so because it does inhibit the western response general wesley talk to you especially at a pivotal time like now. >> thank you thank you brianna. and ahead from tragedy to transformation, attempt, then became the recipient of a groundbreaking surgery. we'll have his

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