but, donald trump chose kaitlan collins. that is common in these situations, with news networks. the candidate, in effect, chooses through the moderator will be. cnn have many said the name caitlin collins first, before donald trump in, the trump then accepted that name, when he could have rejected that name, and gotten anyone else he wanted at cnn. this is the way all networks do these things. this is not by accident that donald trump found himself on stage with kaitlan collins. i've never seen anyone at cnn do a better job of interviewing donald trump. i have never seen anyone, at any other network, to a better job of interviewing donald trump. i do not think that i could have done a better job of interviewing donald trump, but there are many people who could. many of them do not work in tv news, where the conventional style of tv questioning, absolutely, does not work with donald trump. never has, never will. the one thing that i would not have done is wasted to questions. asked some stupid questions. it took a village. it took a village to, ask questions from the stage last ni

people are saying today poor kaitlan collins, she tried her best. and i'm a great admirer of kaitlan collins' interviews previously. she did a good interview recently with rick scott, but last night, it wasn't good enough. if you're going up with trump at 8:00, primetime television, the biggest interview of your life, where was the prep? why go in as you say with that question? why were you not prepared for his lies? we knew what trump would do. this is not 2016. we haven't gone back in time in a time machine. there's no excuse for not knowing that trump is going to steamroll you, that trump is going to verbally abuse you. when he said you're a nasty person, it was almost like, tick, i was waiting for that. no way he was going to go through the night without insulting her, no way he wasn't going to mock e. jean carroll, he wasn't going to say rigged election again and again. at one point, she said it wasn't a rigged election. you can't keep saying that all night long, yes, he can, and he did. and cnn helped him. you have no plan for it. i have a cha

kaitlan collins was alone on stage, on her own network's town hall meeting. jon meacham, as you watched that, you do wonder, let's say ron desantis does get in the race a couple weeks from now. does he really have a shot against that, though, when that passionate trump wing, the loudest and most vocal and strongest part of that base, is so enthralled with trump and cheers all the things we've been laying out here for the last 30 minutes, all of the abhorrent statements, all of the lies, all of the insults? it appear to be what that part of the republican party, which is most of it if you look at the polling right now, wants, and donald trump will, in fact, be the nominee. >> you know, i'm always wrong about this, but if you have the original, why would you watch a spin-off? you know, you can play the metaphor out. if you have real coke, why would you want coke zero? so i don't see -- there is an elemental connection between trump and that base. it is remarkable. it is deep. it's real. and it could be controlling, right? it could be disdispositive. when we tal

we heard donald trump just last week tell kaitlan collins that he had declassified it.as varied as to how he declassified but i think that is absolutely something the defense team would have known about and i think mr. parlatore's comments confirm there was never a declassification order given in writing or verbally. >> and tim also said, i asked him about the certification. people had questions about, the legal team certified that there had been a search for documents. he said that the certification didn't necessarily mean that all documents had been turned over. just that the ones they found had been turned over. what is your assessment of that? we've never seen the certification. >> yeah. he said that this was a very carefully lawyered statement. he basically said, all we certified was that we did our search and to the best of our knowledge, we had turned over everything we found. that might hold water if all they had missed was, let's say, one box of documents, or two or three documents here or there. the fact is, after this certification was made, the doy and fbi w

. >> kaitlan collins was trying to do it in that format is interesting it's not a debate it's a town real time and that's sort of an impossible task and the audience there was filled with a lot of new hampshire republicans. you will could hear in the audience cheering trump on as he was answering questions or even insulting kaitlan collins. >> bret: all right. panel, thanks. ♪ >> bret: finally tonight, a special delivery. >> the president was, like, well we will just on stage get her diploma and get her in and out. >> the pregnant woman had her hans full almost. kelsey huddy 38 weeks, dilated saturday. she insisted on going on stage to get her degree. she said she would carry her newborn with her if necessary. it wasn't but she did go to the hospital right afterwards. the baby was born monday. congratulations to her. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair balance and unafraid. "jesse watters primetime" starts right now. i'm trying to be really good on time. jesse? >> jesse: you mailed it to the t. thanks. >> jesse: last night cnn did

paula reid and katelyn polantz, terrific reporting, along with our colleague kaitlan collins. stand by as we bring into this discussion more of our political and national security experts. thank you all for joining me. this recording just described by paula and katelyn capture trump acknowledging the limitations on the ability to declassify documents. how damning do you think this is going to be? >> i think it's very damning, particularly for the prosecutors' decision whether to charge or not. i can easily imagine trump defending himself or his lawyers defending him in trial saying he didn't understand at the time just what he could declassify, et cetera. but for the prosecutors who need to be certain that they have evidence of his state of mind, something like this would be very significant to them and could get them over the hump of being worried about proving his state of mind. >> beth, you used to brief the former president. when you heard that he was allegedly waving around classified plans to hit iran in front of these people who had no security clearance at his new jers

kaitlan collins challenging, fact-checking in real time former president donald trump on everything from abortion to ukraine as he runs again for president under the cloud of criminal investigations and felony charges. here is some of those key exchanges. >> it was not a rigged election, it was not a stolen election. you and your supporters lost more than 60 court cases on the election. it's been nearly two and a half years. can you publicly acknowledge that you lost the 2020 election? >> let me just go on. if you look at through the vote, they found millions of votes on camera where they were stuffing ballot boxes. >> republican officials debunked those claims about fraudulent ballots. >> >> who? >> republican officials in georgia and every single state. your own election officials, mr. president. can you say if you want ukraine or russia to win this war? >> i want everybody to stop dying. they are dying. russians and ukrainians. [ applause ] >> i want them to stop dying. and i will have that done in 24 hours. i will have it done. you need the power of the presidency to do it. >> what c

let's get straight to kaitlan collins. what's on this report? >> reporter: it's significant, jake, because it's something that could significantly undermine everything that trump has been saying in defense to this document investigation. the reason they this is a meeting that matters is it was months before the effort under way to get those documents from mar-a-lago back to the national archives. there was back and forth. this was in the summer of 2021. trump is meeting with people writing an autobiography for mark meadows. they are talking about a story that came out in the new yorker that susan glasser published. it was on general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. it was about his concerns in those waning days of the trump presidency that trump was going to take military action when it came to iran. what we're told is on this tape is trump discussing a documents that classified, that he says, if he could show it to the people that he's speaking to, it would undermine general milley's argument. general milley was pushing b

thanks to cnn, congratulations, cnn, congratulations to kaitlan collins, you have injected all the kind of energy that this gu had before back into his effort to become president again. and, look, i give it to him. it is in this situation he responded to the questions that were put in front of him. he knocked them out of the park. and what are we to be surprised about when it come to this? this is exactly the kind of forum in which he succeeds. we know this now. and cnn should know this now. there is no trap to be strong. this is something that is just jet fuel for the kind of situation that allows donald trump to succeed time and time again, which is confronting our media elite with the hypoc hypocrisies, allies and the ubiquitous elitist absurdities that they rollout over and over and over again in front of the american people, calling them for what they are >> ingraham: governor, spot on analysis. governor, trump kind of put the script on all of them when he was asked about roe v. wade. >> getting rid of roe v. wade was an equitable thing for pro-life on i consider the answer to be r

he repeated a core lie to kaitlan collins that he won the 2020 election. >> polls show that you were dominating the republican race but also under active federal investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election results. your first term ended with a deadly riot at the capitol and you still have not publicly acknowledged the 2020 election results. why should americans put you back in the white house? >> because we did fantastically. we got 12 million more votes than we had as you know in 2016. i actually say that we did far better in that election. got the most that anybody has ever gotten as a sitting president of the united states. i think that when you look at that result and when you look at what happened during that election, unless you are a very stupid person, you see what happened. a lot of the people in this audience and maybe a couple that don't, but most people understand what happened. that was a rigged election and it is a shame that we had to go through it. >> now, you could hear some laughter there from the trump friendly audience. they also law enforcemented edl c

kaitlan collins had a question. >> a jury of nine people found you liable of sexual abuse. do you think that that will deter women from voting for you? >> no, i don't think so. just so you understand, i never met this woman. >> what kind of a woman meets somebody and brings them up and within minutes you're playing hanky panky in a dressing room. i don't know if she was married then or not. i feel sorry for you. >> the laughter there fgs striking. even if you want the to believe donald trump, to laugh at him mocking a woman who says she was raped, the jury found him liable for sexual babuse. >> it's part of the trump show. it's part of the group think that we think in rally after rally. and the question is, i don't think anyone is surprised that donald trump 3.0 is the same. the question is are voters different? have voters learned? we will see. the audience without question, there's a strain of donald trump supporters, but he lost new hampshire in the general election quite significantly to joe biden. lost it narrowly to to hillary clinton. that's not the case. one thing t

he is participating in a presidential town hall in new hampshire moderated by kaitlan collins.as the primary field is beginning to take shape. we're still in the early stages. i'm sure a lot of people like it to stay in early stages. this is starting to get real. take a look at where things stand today. who is actually in the ring? the former president. he was in the race the first one in. also, former south carolina governor nikki haley, asa hutchison and the hand that got a little hot early is also in right now. more are coming. the best time line to get in, how you challenge? here's one. south carolina governor senator is not officially announced yet. the plan is moving in that direction. they think very highly of the republican senator. whether he will be able to challenge. a very open question. he'll have money and name rorgs and respect. who else is out there? this is also interesting. former vice president mike pence is traveling all over country before he makes a decision. chris christie was in 2016. he has been lambasting former president donald trump as he tries to fi

he was asked about it by kaitlan collins. take a listen. >> another immigration policy you had was the zero-tolerance immigration policy that separated families at the border. if you were re-elected, are you ruling out instituting that? >> when you have that policy, people don't come. if the family hears that they're going to be separated, they love their family. they don't come. i know it sounds harsh, but if you remember, remember they said i was building prisons for children? it turned out that it was obama that was building the prisons -- >> would you reimplement that if you're re-elected? >> we have to save out of country. >> that's a yes? >> no, no -- when you say to a family, if you come, we're going to break you up, they don't come. and we can't afford to have any more. >> so that's a yes, donald trump is going to reinstitute the family separation policy which cruelly stripped children from their parents. i think there are still some kids that haven't been returned to their parents. >> there are. >> i guess it doesn't

as good a job as kaitlan collins did trying to fact-check him, it is impossible to fact-check fully because he lies so shamelessly. now many of you think cnn shouldn't have given him any platform to speak. and i understand the anger about that, giving him the audience, the time. i get that. but this is what also think. the man you heard from last night, that man is the front-runner for the republican nomination for president. and according to polling, no other republican is even close. that man you were so upset to hear from last night, he may be president of the united states in less than two years. and that audience that upset, that's a sampling of about half the country. they are your family member, your neighbors, and they are voting. and many said they're voting for him. now maybe you haven't been paying attention to him since he left office. maybe you've been enjoying not hearing from him thinking it can't happen again. some investigation is going to stop him. well, it hasn't so far. so if last night showed anything, it showed it can happen again. it is happening again. he hasn't chan

donald trump facing critical questions from our friend and colleague kaitlan collins during last night'sral abortion ban? does he want ukraine to win against russia? we will bleak down the key moments and get reaction from the biden campaign and former trump officials. >>> and title 42, the controversial immigration policy is about to expire hours from now. u.s. troops and federal agents have surged to the southern border as crowds of migrants gather on the other side. >>> plus, a look at the criminal case against congressman george santos. he has been charged with 13 felonies. a growing number of fellow republicans are calling on him to resign after he pleaded not guilty to federal charges. it's all ahead this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. >> and here is where we begin in hour. kaitlan collins challenging, fact-checking in real time former president donald trump on everything from abortion to ukraine as he runs again for president under the cloud of criminal investigations and felony charges. here is some of those key exchanges. >> it was not a rigged election, it was not

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he literally steam rolled kaitlan collins. >> jesse: when you allow him to stand up in that town hall format, that really shows the energy that he has especially when you contrast that with joe biden. >> judge jeanine: right. >> jesse: the interrupting. of the constant need to do the fact-checking. do you think they're going to be able to keep that up? it's annoying as a viewer. >> judge jeanine: it's very annoying. >> jesse: they don't do it with democrats. >> they don't do it with democrats. that he was the thing liberals do that's the reaction afterwards. why did they turn it off? why did they do it in the first place in the left is furious. some people on the right who are furious. here is a president who has been through so much since he left office. i mean, think about all the things that's happened to him. he comes out with more verb, more energy than the president of the united states. he wants to talk about issues like the economy, inflation, energy independence, the border. and they want to talk about just as you said in your open all the old issues this was a win for donald

because kaitlan collins asked him, why did you add scrapped whispered find you votes?sounded good in the moment. but here's what i would do as a prosecutor. i would play two audio clips for the jury back to back. the first one is donald trump saying, i didn't ask brad raffensperger to find me anything. and the second is and audio clip from that ruffle courted phone conversation. where he asked brad raffensperger, i just need you to find maybe 11,080 votes. that's when these lies come home to roost. after playing those clips, i returned to the jury and say, ladies and gentlemen, i saw your eyes roll up in your heads when you heard donald trump lie at the town hall meeting. trying to cover up his own misconduct, and i can almost feel you saying, when can we retire to begin deliberations? so we can vote guilty and hold him accountable. that is the kind of argument prosecutors are going to make, based on donald trump's lies at the town hall. >> i've got to be quick with you here on this last one. but the e. jean carroll case, trump's lawyer has filed a notice of intent to

and called kaitlan collins the moderator, nasty. which is what he calls any woman who stands up to him. it was disturbing. to hear him speak so highly of qanon conspirators and insurrectionists who assaulted police officers and our democracy on january 6th. it was awful to hear him spread ridiculous lies about the election. it was certainly disturbing to hear that audience, young and old, our fellow citizens, people who love their kids and go to church, laugh, and applaud his lies. and his continued defamation of a woman who according to a jury of his peers, he sexually abused in defamed. as good a job as kaitlan collins did trying to fact-check him, it is impossible to fact check fully, because he lies so shamelessly. now, many of you think cnn shouldn't of giving him any platform to speak, and i understand the anger about that. giving him the audience, the time, i get that. this is what i also get. the man you are so disturbed to see and hear from last night, that man is the front runner for the republican nomination for president

cnn's kaitlan collins is getting credit for trying to fact check the former president in realtime. cnn's being criticized for even having last night's town hall. eric windfall from the washington post saying, collins knows better than saying what she said in the midst of cnn's went in a town hall with trump. the election was not rigged, mister president. she said after yet another trump lie about his loss to 2020. you cannot keep saying that, all night long. sure he can. he can live a president of documents. he can lie about his impeachments. he collided his record in office. and there is nothing and impeccably prepared interviewer can do to prevent any of it. she can rebut him, correct him, interrupt, him another wife battle with him over every point, but that's no match for csis mendacity. of the town jerry into michigan, democratic collar. what did you think of the town hall? >> i think it was -- let's just say they are making a big mistake by letting trump on. greetings from motown, by the way. i wanted address, if i could, a bunch of the line of the donald trump was telling, m

i mean i don't think any -- i have all praise for kaitlan collins and i think there is a praiseworthy and important service that they did this and stumbled because maybe the collective people that have to cover him, as you said, we do every day, but we can't pretend that we haven't been at this, i mean he tried out birtherism 11 years ago. >> i totally agree. and all i mend, when i said the thing about kaitlan collins was to say, the platform, the debate, when we're talking about this, should you give him a platform and when i hear about platforming, what i think about will you give him a free shot, like on cnn, let him run his campaign rallies uninterrupted by commercials, free time, an hour. uninterrogated. >> all three networks did. >> this is a different thing. one of the things we can learn from this, one of the things we can learn is, not have him on live, maybe one of the things we can learn, do these things live to tape and one of the things to learn is it should be in the context of other candidates. i don't think anybody who looks back on 2017, 2016, that period, has -- ther

tonight cnn town hall moderated by kaitlan collins., the 2024 presidential campaign is now in the books. >> from washington, it was an interesting night. mr. trump's first ally was -- the 2020 election was quote a rigged election. and the falsehoods kept coming fast and furious about the january 6th insurrection, about the threat to vice president pence, about pence's ability to overturn the election. he called the black law enforcement officer a thug. he said people here in washington, d.c., and chinatown, don't speak english. he said caitlin is a nasty woman because she's trying to get him to answer questions. perhaps most chillingly, the day after the nine person jury of his peers in new york found him liable for sexual battery and defamation, and ordered him to pay writer e. jean carroll $5 million, he made fun of her account, of her sexual assault. and many in the audience laughed. >> and applauded. the former president making his first appearance tonight on this network since the 2016 election. he spoke with and took questions fr

kaitlan collins did the best she could. that audience all republicans, mostly trump supporters who cheered and gave him standing ovations and laughed along as he insulted collins and as you'll see later in our show, e. jean carroll. >>> we turn now to the ongoing debt ceiling fight. president biden reiterated his push for a clean debt ceiling comparing the republican tactics to, quote, hostage taking and a true threat to the nation's financial credibility. biden also talked to reporters about the meetings his staff is having with house speaker mccarthy's as well as a potential timetable for a deal. take a look. >> it's to lay out what we think the answer is, what we think should be discussed and begin the discussion. >> some negotiations happened the last second. some negotiations happened way ahead of time, but we'll see. >> the president held that gaggle in front of marine one and the helicopters. it was a little difficult to hear, but president trump also addressed the ongoing debt ceiling fight during his town hall last

investigations and we'll hear from donald trump later today, tune in for the town hall mod rated by kaitlan collins. it all starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern in new hampshire. that is thursday, 8:00 a.m. in hong kong. >>> first major in-person meeting in months between u.s. president biden and top lawmakers over the debt ceiling standoff has come and gone with virtually nothing to show for it. both the white house and republican leaders still seem unwilling to budge from their positions. >> speaker mccarthy offered a very different way forward. he proposed deep cuts that i believe will hurt american family, millions rely on medicaid and would be at risk of losing that. >> the house has raised the debt ceiling and passed the bill. that is why we had a meeting today. everybody in this meeting reiterated their positions. i didn't see any new movement. the president said the staff should get back together. but i was very clear with the president, we have now just two weeks to go. dwl >> both sides will meet again friday with the clock ticking towards a potential catastrophic default. manu raju reports from c

big thing i wanted to get an answer on is that you may remember at the town hall our colleague kaitlan collinsied materials if he had shown the materials to anybody else, and he said not really, and he said there is no evidence that he had shown the classified documents to anyone, and so a lot more questions than answers. >> a lot of wiggle room, but data points in this time line. thank you, paula, in that interview that you did. back to you, kate. >> right now, we are standing by for a crew of private astronauts to open the hatch and board the international space station. a team of four successfully docked last hour, and now they will spend eight days in space working alongside the existing team, and conducting more than 20 experiments and other projects. cnn's carlos suarez is live at kennedy's space center for us. carlos, last hour they docked and when is the crew expected to enter the space station and what is going to happen now? >> well, kate, we expect that to happen within the hour. a few moments ago we heard that the arena the astronauts are going to use to cross over into the interna

donald trump declined to tell kaitlan collins whether he would sign an abortion ban and suggested florida'stoo harsh. governor desantis has now responded to that. take a look. >> protecting an unborn child when there's a detectable heart beat is something almost probably 99% of pro-lifers support. he didn't give an answer about would you have signed the heart beat bill. that florida did. that had all the exceptions that people talk about. the legislature put it in. i signed the bill. i was proud to do it. he won't answer whether he would sign it or not. >> what do you make of this? it's really one of the first times even though he, not trump, has said anything mildly critical in person about trump. >> there are two really important elements going on when you look at this in the gop. the backdrop of the gop presidential race. the first is there's a big split that's showing up in the polls between college educated and non college educated. the college educated crowd is really looking for somebody else. the abortion issue is a very important part of the crowd. they have to keep that in mind. t

the cnn host kaitlan collins also asked trump if he had any regrets about his actions on january 6. this was his response. pres. trump: january 6 was the largest crowd i have ever spoken to. that was prior to the walk down to the capitol building. i don't think -- and i have spoken to hundreds of thousands of people. i have never spoken to a crowd as large as this. that is because they thought the election was rigged. they were there proud. they were there with love in their hearts. it was an unbelievable and it was a beautiful day. what i was asked to do -- i wasn't involved very much. i was asked to make a speech. i made a speech. i said, walk peacefully and patriotically. many different things. amy: can you respond to this, kristen doerer? >> it is a bit -- it is unsurprising in some ways. we saw immediately after january 6, trump -- or even during january 6 trump not wanting to tell the protesters to go home. he has always remained very loyal to those who are unapologetically for him most of think he saw the oath keepers as tools, as allies in a certain sense. and i think he als

trump also returned to his name calling tactics of past campaigns referring to kaitlan collins as a nasty person when she pressed him for answers and knocked down his false statements. he also called the woman who accused him of rape a whack job just a day after a federal jury found him liable. and the court awarded $5 million to that woman. he has vowed to appeal the verdict and denies wrongdoing. >> a manhattan jury found that you sexually abused the writer e. jean carroll and defamed her. what do you say to voters who say it disqualifies you for president? >> there aren't too many of them. my poll numbers didn't go up. and i didn't do anything else because i have no idea who the hell she is. >> given your recounting -- >> i tell you this, are you ready, and i swear on my children which i would never do, i have no idea who this woman -- this is a fake story made up story. >> we should note that the crowd of republicans and right leaning very was friendly, often loudly cheering after some of his remarks and his repeated claims that the election he lost was rigged. >> a lot of people in t

. >> first off, a shoutout to kaitlan collins for doing that.ere is some vast quote-unquote witch hunt where the judicial system, party elites, the legal system, the federal government, are all against him and he's in that -- everything that's happened, anything, any bumps in his path to the white house is being grossly exaggerated. so that's the argument he wants to make with the e. jean carroll case. at the same time, it's very, very serious, it should not be brushed off. but this is the argument he's making. and the broader electorate is the one that's going to decide this. not that 30% of the republican party that is immovable from supporting trump. >> on desantis, i wanted to ask you about this escalating fight with disney. we heard from disney ceo bob iger last week that the threat war $17 billion in investment over the next ten years. do you want the tourists, governor desantis and the jobs that disney creates? or do you want the sort of, you know, the fight about what desantis says is a woke corporation. is that a losing battle for desan

separation, president trump made -- >> talk about it, and you bring it up in the cnn last week, our kaitlan collins asked the president if he would reinstate the family separation policy that he had for a time, and re-reading the transcript he would say yes. >> he certainly did not announce it, and it is shocking. >> okay. so talk about it. >> we brought the family separation lawsuit to stop the policy, and we found close to 6,000 children separated. we are still addressing the damage friom it, and we believe up to 1,000 children still not with their parents. >> now? >> now. and not only that, the children who come back with their parents are so traumatized and there are still children who are staring out the window to see if men are going to come take them away or pull them out of bed to take them away, and the thought that he would do it again is unthinkable. the american public does not know that so many of the children, and people were outraged in 2018, and they are still not back with their parents, and we are fighting to find the families and get them back together. so, i think that we have t

let's first listen to something he said to our colleague kaitlan collins during the cnn town hall when did he show them to people. >> did you ever show those classified dumts to anyone? >> not really, i would have the right to. >> what do you mean not really? >> thought that i can think of. i don't have anything. i have no classified documents. and by the way they become automatically declassified when i took them. >> the back part we know he did have classified documents and there's a process. a president can declassify things, but to the idea if -- you know trump's defense. he says he doesn't remember doing it or not really, but if the defense is, yeah, i had these and i just thought it was cool, a keepsake. and i showed them to the guys in my office, is that a defense? >> that's not a defense at all. what prosecutors have to prove here he had them in his office and had criminal intent. that detail that he had people in his office and showed them to people at times. first of all, he knew those documents were there. i don't think there's much dispute about that, but you have to establ

new hampshire, the 2024 republican presidential candidate will take questions from cnn anchor kaitlan collins, and that starts at 8 pm on the u.s. east coast, eight 8 am thursday in hong kong. right here on cnn. >> former pakistani prime minister, is scheduled to appear at a special court hearing on charges of corruption, connected to his time in office. his arrest, on tuesday sparked nationwide protests and violent clashes between supporters and police. security has been increased outside of the police station where he's being held as supporters are gathering there now. all, right i want to go live now to islamabad where cnn has the very latest. so, sophia, imran khan faces charges of corruption, and he's hearing, he is set to start very soon, but his lawyer said he had had no contact with his client. so what more are you learning about all of this? >> rosemary we are actually right outside of the police compound, and this is the police headquarters of the capital city of islamabad and they moved her in the dead of night. there is an immense amount of security outside of this compound. we kn

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kaitlan collins is on the story for us. kaitlan, what message is the federal judge sending with these sentences? >> well, wolf, this judge has to determine how serious the punishment should be for the people who took part in very serious crimes on january 6. and these aren't just any january 6 cases. these are the cases about the people who were tried with the oath keepers militia group, the people who assisted stewart rhodes, the leader of the oath keepers, and who was convicted of seditious conspiracy. the two people sentenced today were not convicted for seditious conspiracy, but the judge pointed out they are more than just foot soldiers. jessica watkins got eight and a half years in prison. one of the things she was doing on january 6th, she was in the stack formation marching with people into the capitol. she also was a person who was in touch with rhodes and was recruiting members of the oath keeps to come to washington, d.c. on january 6th. the other person sentenced today, kenneth harrelson, he received four years f

tonight, kaitlan collins was trying to get at him to say whether he would sign a national abortion band. he wouldn't really take a position. but here is what he said about overturning roe v. wade. >> i consider the other side to be radical, because the other side, under roe v. wade, and other things, the other side, they are radical, because -- remember that debate with hillary clinton that said, rip the baby out of the womb at the end of the night, they would kill the baby. and if you look at that crazy governor of virginia from the former governor, where he said, no, the baby will be born, and then we'll decide essentially whether or not to execute -- >> but mister president, can we talk about what you would do if you are reelected -- >> obviously, he would rather talk about positions that hillary clinton never took than his own position, which is not supported by polls, just to be clear, the things he would think about democrats were not true. hillary clinton did not say anything about ripping the baby out of the womb. let us talk about the politics of this. overturning roe v. wade

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up on what could have happened with these documents and you saw him being all squirrelly with kaitlan collins. so he has asked the trump organization and trump about seven countries that the idea is that maybe trump in fact took the documents after the presidency and share them with other countries or business gains or's own interests. a whole another avenue of inquiry by smith. >> bradley ross, there is donald trump on cnn offering the legal theory that he has a perfect right to show those documents to anyone he wants to? >> i always wondered who is truly giving him the advice at this point that makes him believe this is how the presidential records act works? i guess, maybe it is boris epstein, or whoever it is who tells me how these things work. none of it has any basis in reality. no, he did not have the right to takes the documents with him, they are not his documents. and no, he does not have the absolute right, as he likes to say, to show off documents with classification march on them to every wants. they are not his, they belong to the u.s. government, and when it comes to documents

>> kate, it was dramatic, and asked by kaitlan collins, a simple question that had a revealing answerine to win the war, and virtually anyone who would be asked that question here in the u.s. certainly in the congress, the republican party, et cetera, they would say ukraine, and donald trump did not say that. take a look at what he said. i don't think of winning and losing, but i think of in terms of getting this settled to stop killing people. so you think of stopping to kill people of course is the ultimate goal here, but he did not once again take an opportunity to put distance between himself and vladimir putin. and in fact, he really expressed the affinity for the russian person. this is why it is important because there is a robust policy debate happening on the future of ukraine on funding, et cetera. the former president right there sending a message that he does not see the difference and does not even say he believes should win that war. so, kate, of all of the things that you listen last night, beyond the election lies, there were many new things in the town hall, and that

that's why donald trump came in and tried to steam roll over kaitlan collins.alls. >> we'll see if networks make adjustments from what they saw last week. there's also reporting on trump and his front runner status. we're a long way out, but if it remains that way, what it could mean for senate candidates next year. tell us about it. >> we have some interesting analysis here. basically, with trump at the top of the ticket, it changes mitch mcconnell's calculus as to which senate target. donald trump at the top of the ticket, montana, west virginia, ohio, those are the democratic incumbents they're more likely to target. but the downside is that democratic-held seats in michigan, nevada, wisconsin, they become much, much more difficult for republicans. the already slim margin in the senate becomes even smaller if you're a republican. >> is there any early sense as to what role trump might have in pushing candidates for the seats? last time around, trump backed a bunch of names for seats who then all lost. >> it's important to remember that mitch mcconnell and do

also classified documents when you listened to how kaitlan collins questioned the former president onhose classified documents taken to mar-a-lago. the former president gave some revealing answers from there. he said, i took the documents, i'm allowed to. but he also did not say he didn't show them to other people. that is exactly what the special counsel, jack smith, has been looking into. across washington today from capitol hill to the white house and at the special counsel's office you can bet they are looking and parsing the former president's words because his answers last night on a variety of topics were about the campaign but also could affect legislation and perhapsan even the investigations that he's still very much a part of. >> could have a direct impact on policy and legal matters starting right now. jeff zeleny, thanks for being with us this morning. kate? >>> there was a lot there last night. fact checking required in real time and afterward on some of the many falsehoods you have heard from donald trump before. sunland, let's focus on three areas, the border wall, the

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let's get straight to kaitlan collins. what's on this report?could significantly undermine everything that trump has been saying in defense to this document investigation. the reason they this is a meeting that matters is it was months before the effort under way to get tho

. >> of course it was just -- one week ago today that he told kaitlan collins at the town hall that -- he said this -- again, it's incorrect -- that he had every right to take the records with him. in so doing, they became declassified. take a look. >> why did you take those documents with you when you left the white house? >> i had every right to under the presidential records act. i was there. i took what i took, it gets declassified. >> do you still have any classified documents in your possession? >> you ready? >> do you? >> no, no, i don't have anything. i have no classified documents. by the way, they become automatically declassified when i took them. >> it's interesting he's citing the presidential records act and then says things that are not what the presidential records act says. that's not how it works. >> let's say for the dozenth, not only is that not how it works, he had no right to take them. when a president leaves the white house, those records go to the presidential archives, they are the custodian of them. again, he could not have automatically declassified just by

. >> wolf, this is an ongoing case where it's not just that that trump was saying to kaitlan collinsn and he was posting on truth social about e. jean carroll a day after the jury verdict in new york about the complaint she won and this other civil lawsuit it's another thing that e. jean carroll is still pushing in court and trying to trying to twist the knife and trying to convince the judge and not only should she win another defamation case about all of the things he's said about her and that he's demeaned her and he's denying abusing her still and that maybe it should be considered what he was saying after that jury verdict because maybe he should be punished even more if the jury finds in her favor, if the judge finds in her favor, wolf? >> caitlin, i want you to stay with us. i want to bring in our legal analysts. you heard the comments. how do you assess e. jean carroll's case here? >> i think those comments helps a lot and they were made when he's not the president anymore, and it really tees up a difficult issue for the justice department because they've taken this position

the vechb chew, new hampshire, for a town hall held by kaitlan collins.rance is not noteworthy. he remains the front runner for the presidential nomination. his appearance comes without ground rules, meaning anticipate questions about what a jury says is true. that trump sexually abused e. jean carroll. carroll relived the moment that verdict was read in court. >> the verdict came in. she squeezed my hand so hard i almost yell. ed, but it was a great moment. the jury decided that e. jean was telling the truth? >> this verdict is for all women. somebody has held him accountable in a courtroom. >> let's go live to kristen holmes in the town hall room in new hampshire. let me give you a big understatement. a very big night tonight. >> yeah, it absolutely is. we talk about that verdict. i want to note that trump advisers and the former president himself are anticipating questions on that verdict. the thing to be watching is how voters actually interact with that verdict. is this something that they care about? or does it fall into the same category we have se

it's not just kaitlan collins talking to him. it's an incredible gift to trump.x news after a soft ban and every time trump would pick on desantis, mark levin would say this isn't helpful, they'd tweet about it. they've all come back around, given in and they're going to give him regular air on fox and this idea that he's going to be on cnn, obviously the most important thing that it's going to be a huge advantage for trump. >> hi again, everyone. it's 5:00 in new york in 2023. here we go again, treating donald trump like a normal politician, not the inciter of an insurrection against our government, the taker of classified information to his pretty residence, the ally to dictators all across the globe that he actually is. as donald trump kareens into the 2024 election season indicted under criminal investigation by the d.o.j. in fulton county, georgia, accused of rape in new york, he's lapping up the red carpet as the leading republican candidate in early primary states. it's incumbent on us to ask is it really two sides -- airwaves have open up giving him the l

now, kaitlan collins helped break this exclusive report. she joins me now. kaitlan, this is incredible whwhen you think about it. lordy, i hope there are tapes. and now here there actually are. what more do you know about the actual context of this conversation trump was having? >> what's fascinating to me is this is months before thuge figt that happened to get the documents that trump had back to the national archives. that's when they sent those 15 boxes, it was around december, january. this was back in the summer of 2021. he's not at mar-a-lago, he's at bedminster, his club there in new jersey. and he's angry. he's in this meeting where people who are writing an autobiography for his former chief of maf mark meddews. he's angry about this new yorker story and how basically general milley who is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, one of the highest-ranking officials in the national security realm for trump, was worried he would try to take military action in iran as he was in those waning days the presidency disputing the election results, of cour

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