long. you can feel it. the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smith s evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today, the new york times is naming names. the new york times reveals the workers who moved the boxes containing white house documents ahead of a meeting between donald trump s legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. the new york times reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trump s valet, and that they moved the boxes into the room before search of the storage room that sam day by evan corcoran, a lawyer for trump. for trump. this brand new reporting, which we should mention, has not been independently verified by nbc news, raises a whole host of questions when viewed in terms of whether it helps to answer essential questions in the case. did donald trump clearly and flagrantly commit obstruction of justice? as jack smith barrels to an indictment of the president, we h
of them. had we not done that, we would have been in the same situation, i was watching election night, and i knew when i saw what was happening in these other states, that would have been texas and we would have been in the same vote, one of those battle ground states that they were counting votes for three days and donald trump would have lost the election. i have no words, so mark, over to you. first of all, it s like the election deniers and the vote suppressers fighting one another. it s hard to know who to root for, you have the bad guys versus the bad guys. the second is, ken paxton is a blessing for ted cruz, because ted cruz was the most despicable politician in texas. and now you have ken paxton. you know, what we have in the state of texas is not a legislature that somehow decided it wants to get on the right side of democracy. we have an interparty skirmish,
prisons? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. breaking news in our politics lead. moments ago president joe biden arriving on capitol hill and now meeting with house democrats hoping to mend the interparty skirmish. one member of democratic leadership, hakeem jeffries of new york, expressed optimism this afternoon that the delayed infrastructure vote will happen today. and he says it will pass. the speaker has indicated we re going to vote today. i expect a vote today. i expect that the bill will pass today. whether or not that happens depends on if progressives in the house democratic caucus are happy with the progress made on a separate piece of legislation, the much larger build back better act. a bill that would expand social safety net programs such as medicare or child care. we know a compromise has been floated by the white house and
actually achieve meaningful change in this country. republicans still hurting from their own stubborn factionalism when they were in the house took pleasure in the democrats interparty skirmish. so to the white house. four democrats that nancy pelosi seems to be in a catfight with these days. fun to watch. they even voted against the democratic aid package buried senator schumer down by the contract noting that progressives call for restricting how border money is spent is a widely held view among democrats. we all want tough restrictions on the dollars, and you will see in a few days i and others will be introducing adulation that will talk about those tough restrictions. still some huge immigration questions, how to handle the surge of the southern border, what to do about the citizenship question on the census, and what to do about president trump s planned ice rates, planned well over two weeks ago and then delayed at the behest of speaker pelosi. will they ever happen?