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and fingerprinted a federal court appearance captured by a sketch artist. youre seeing one such example. these moments youre looking at here are that which donald trump has blatantly tried to overshadow with this is own series of events and speeches and recent pr programming. well, we can all see how this case is different right now. the early reporting is focused on how it will follow a traditional trajectory. "the new york times" puts it that way. next up we have a date for trump cod...

go basically around the clock until the x date. margaret talev, thank you for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" on this tuesday morning with us. "morning joe" starts right now. optimistic we may be able to make some progress because we both agreed default is not really on the table. we have to get something done here. and the consequence of failing to pay our bills would be the american people would have a real kick in their economic well-...

evidence. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." russias military said to be divided tonight over ukraines stunning military offensive, retaking thousands of square miles from moscows forces, which are now on the defensive in eastern and southern ukraine. cnns senior international correspondent matthew chance has the latest for us. matthew, cnns reporting that putin himself is giving directions to generals on ...

its caught on video. >> mike: great to be with you, sandra. this is "america reports," happened hours ago in new york. >> sandra: attack lasted nearly 20 seconds before the suspect was stopped. >> mike: all this coming more than 30 years after the ayatollah of iran issued calling for rushdies death over his book "satanic verses." >> sandra: it all just happened, brian, what are we learning about rushdies condition at this time? >> we do not know much about his condition. we have not re...

Attorney/client privileged information. it doesnt mean shes bound by that decision for the separate question what can be talked about to the trial jury in open court. shes going to be on the receiving end of all kinds of prosecutorial misconduct allegations from trump and his legal team. they already went to the justice department to complain about the supposed wrongdoing by jack smith and his team. that is surely coming into her court. it happens in every case. prosecution was mean to a witness...

Biden, trying to create this. it strikes me this is their strategy, the same trump strategy we have seen, defend,d because they dont have a lot else to go on. what is the alternative for them other than simply calling him out? >> it would be -- the alternative would be to allow justice to play out and the facts to prevail and let trump take his chances in a court of law. that risk is too high for them. you are exactly right, deflect, distract, deceive are the tricks of the trade when you dont ha...

Tim scott or any of them and says, here is my infrastructure, let me help you get elected president of the united states as a republican nominee instead of me? in what world does that happen? >> im struck by how different the party is today. in the 1980s, ronald reagan trying to address violence in schools, decided he was going to engage the department of justice to get more involved in whats happening in schools, in local communities. thats the level of faith he put into the department of justi...

Them. >> wouldnt that be on videotape potentially? >> no, i dont think so. they were in a room. >> now of course they have until next friday to produce this list of any items they believe the fbi may have planted. >> and all this is coming right now, as you well know, evan, as the justice department has resumed its work reviewing those classified documents seized over at mar-a-lago. >> thats right. and the fact that this 11th circuit court in atlanta, this three-judge panel including two judges ...

Thats not how it should be. >> mike: republicans are not the majority party on capitol hill at this point. are you confident there will be appropriate briefings, perhaps for classified settings for the relevant committees on some of the background of this raid? >> im disappointed that has not already happened and ive talked to some people who are historically briefed in a classified setting on things like this. it has not happened on this case yet. it should have happened days ago. why is the ju...