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Hurricane helene is more surreal than ever because the time that has passed. The Death Toll is now climbing above 220 people. It is expected to grow as hundreds of people are still missing in areas that are so tough to get to and that means that they are cut off from the lifesaving things that they need. This is the deadliest storm to hit the mainland u. S. Since hurricane katrina. This is the faulkner focus. The more our cameras can get in and show you this and the more people can get some of t...

Effective, and it is not safe. Thank you very much. That is all in on the thursday night. Alex wagner tonight starts right now. Good evening, alex. Thanks to athome for joining me this hour. This evening, weve got some fairly shocking news. President trump is asking the court to schedule one of his federal criminal trials before the november election, specifically, trump is requesting that maralago classify its documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that ...

B is august. He has made an immunity argument, the same argument that is made in d. C. One minor difference. He wasnt president. His argument is, but i took the documents while i was president. I have said, that is like a bank robber saying you know, i legally got the gun that i used to rob the bank. Right. I was a customer of the bank when they went in and took the money. Everything is just such an irrelevancy. But hes got judge cannon and so the question is whether judge cannon will sit on tha...

Classified documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal E...

doubts today. about whether they could accomplish that invasion. >> as china, russia, united states reached a critical point in the ukraine war. the cia says beijings having second thoughts about potentially invading taiwan. and a significant -- from the head of fox move. rupert murdoch acknowledging the hosts on his network promoted election lies. what this means for the billion dollar lawsuit against fox news. ♪ ♪ ♪ we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and a...

Campus of the university of Southern California this afternoon after Los Angeles Police cleared a pro palestinian encampment this morning. No arrest or violence were reported. Tensions have been running high on campuses across the country as administrators have tried to curtail protests ahead of commencement ceremony. Several schools have been compelled to alter or even cancel their Graduation Due to protest. Over the last two weeks more than 2,500 people have been arrested. President biden is l...

Versus gore which is a case that ended the 2000 election in florida. in that case, chief justice rehnquist for himself and two other justices said there are some limits when a state court goes too far. that seemed to be the backup position that katyal was pushing. if a state court does something that doesnt look like judging, but looks like just stealing power, then maybe there has to be some remedy. thats a really sky-high case or stratospheric case that was used. thats not this case. this is s...

Its also has to do and here we just heard this a moment ago from lindsey graham who is a judge in terms of the military himself and has that military background, about how she feels on other issues dealing with the military in american life. at harvard when she said after the courts said harvard was no longer subject to a ban because of military taking money from the military, she said, you know what? she didnt want recruiters on campus but she would allow them as a backup position to come throu...

Coverage. look, the policy has always been the federal government does not fund abortions, whether directly or -- nor do we fund insurance policies that pay for abortion. thats always been the law. now, going back to senator nelson, you have to remember senator hatch and senator casey tried to run the stupak amendment in the senate and it was tabled. it never came up. it was tabled. this is a backup position. so -- go ahead. >> are you basically saying this health care reform bill overturns the ...