Massive manhunt, Trump severs ties, Mitch McConnell cleared

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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BREAKING NEWS: an extremely dangerous inmate is on the run after escaping prison outside Philadelphia. Plus, Trump pleads not guilty in the Georgia election subversion case and files a new motion to sever his ties from co-defendants seeking a speedy trial. And, a Fulton County judge gives the green light for Trump’s 2020 election subversion case to be televised. Also tonight, a Capitol physician medically clears Mitch McConnell for work, and is there a two-tiered justice system in America?

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0:00.0	I think I'm Laura Codes and we are apparently in La La Land, but this is CNN Tonight.
0:11.3	It's a very busy news night and we're covering all of it for you.
0:14.3	We've got our breaking news.
0:15.8	The manhunt going on right now for a convicted murderer who broke out of a prison in Pennsylvania
0:21.8	today.
0:22.8	Danelo Cavacante is on the run after escaping the Chester County prison, which is about
0:28.4	30 miles west of Philadelphia.
0:30.6	Now, he had been sentenced to life without parole last week for the murder of his former girlfriend.
0:37.6	He stabbed 38 times, everyone, in front of her two young children.
0:42.2	The DA says, quote, his depravity knows no bounds and this is someone who has nothing
0:48.0	to lose, unquote.
0:50.1	We had the very latest on the manhunt with dozens of law enforcement agencies, canine units
0:54.6	throughout, drones are out, helicopters, and I'll talk with that DA.
0:58.8	Plus, the very jail where Donald Trump turned himself in just one week ago in Georgia is
1:04.1	now the scene of a deadly violent act.
1:06.6	An inmate was killed and at least two others injured in a mass stabbing and this isn't
1:11.1	even the first in custody death at the jail this month, let alone this year.
1:16.5	The big question is why is this jail so dangerous and what does this say about justice for all?
1:23.0	And on the docket, the 45th president of the United States pleading not guilty today in
1:27.7	the sprawling, Fulton County election interference case, and he wants to sever his case from his
1:33.5	co-defendants, all 18 of them, some of whom want a speedy trial as in October, which Trump
1:40.3	definitely does not.
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