Needed for his almost half A Billion Dollar civil fraud bond, despite approaching 30 companies asking for help. They have all said no. The deadline to post the bond is next week, if he fails too, Letitia James can seize his assets, unless a judge steps in. Joining us now, vaughn hillyard, and brooklyn prosecutor here in new york and msnbc legal analyst, charles coleman. Vaughn, this money stuff, you and i have been talking about it. Clearly its a major problem. Bring us up to speed. Right. This is an issue here. Well, youre looking at him campaigns in ohio over the weekend. Of course the state of arizona continues to be a focus point for their political operation. Donald trump and his family and the Family Business is wholly focused on the fact that they have got to somehow come up over the next seven days with 450 million. Even whether it be in cash or whether it be in the form of an appeal bond, but what this motion here from Donald Trumps lawyer this morning, to the Appellate Court
emma like am i free? can i watch you guys? now, i know. all right. burning the midnight oil, chris a s. i ghlove to see, my friend, i have a good night. you do. thank d you for joining me this evening. it took nearly a month to get it, but we finally have it, the d.c. circuit court of appeals has ruled on presidential immunity, donald trump s last best attempt to evade a criminal trial for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. it is unanimous ruling, rimmed i by all three federal appeals court judges overseeing this case, to biden appointees and one appointee of president george h. w. bush. those judges spell it out and no uncertain terms. donald trump s claim that a former president cannot be duly prosecuted is worthless. quoting from the ruling, it would be a striking paradox if the president, alone, is vested with the constitutional duty to take care of the laws he faithfully executed, where the e sole officer capable of defying those laws with impunity.
former president had knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and very publicly about that raid. he also fundraised off of it and really, he took every opportunity to point out what a victim he was for a deep state which hunt. but his first real defense, his first real justification for why he kept all those documents in the first place, that came in the form of a statement said exclusively to fox news, quote, president trump had a standing order the documentary from the oval office and taken into the residence were deemed to be cool declassify the open moment he met them. they idea that a paper pushing delegate delegated by the president needs to approve the declassification, is absurd. so that was trump s defense. he had a standing order to declassify all of these documents. whatever a standing declassification order is. cool. except nobody bought it. cnn interviewed 18 former officials from trump s own administration who called this explanation ludicrous and ri
for abortion rights. and to witness the states democratic governor, roy cooper veto the 12-week abortion ban that the republican-controlled state legislature passed in the first week of may. now north carolina republicans claim that the bill was, quote, a mainstream approach to regulating abortion, but critics say it is full of hidden restrictions and medically unnecessary obstacles that take in together were we dramatically reduce access to abortion and cause women s health clinics across the state to shut down. but the fact that republicans are trying to market this extreme abortion ban as reasonable and mainstream is important. it s part of a larger national effort will cancel determine unacceptable abortion ban standard that they could enact without politically backfiring on them. for the most, where they ve been unsuccessful in this regard. again, the majority of americans support abortion rights. opposed this is importing the criminalization of women and their doctors
thanks, rachel. all right, that is going to do it for us for now. i will see you again on monday. it will be back here for the rachel maddow show monday night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. it was, i believe, 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldn t believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinion, and then, getting it today was also shocking because the stuff that we and others pointed out in it, that could easily have been cut, was still in there. the quoting, you know, these guys from the 16 hundreds in england, who thought witches should be tried and executed. the witch trial moral authorities are still in this opinion. they are still being quoted as guidance for samuel alito. yeah, justice alito, and the majority, they were not taking pains to make sure that this would be broadly