Week but theres no question overall two big things stuck out to me. First of all this week was an extraordinarily reminder of just how much legal trouble the legal president is in. Its really something to have all eyes glued on the courthouse in washington, d. C. Watching what jack smith is going to do, waiting for an indictment in the investigation and his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, only to have a new separate Superseding Indictment Draft in the investigation into his mishandling of classified documents. All happening within the span of hours. You really cant make this stuff up sometimes. And put 1 figure on this mountain of legal trouble, just last night the Washington Post came out with a new piece detailing the more than 40 million trumps Political Group is spent on legal costs to defend not just trump, but his advisers and others in the first half of this year alone. The first half of this year alone, at 40 million from Trump Supporters all across the country footing l
i m ari melber. we begin with breaking news. donald trump s federal trial is back on because this court is ruling against defendant trump today. they re green lighting the trial sought by special counsel jack smith. this spruling sets a precedent for holding a former president accountable. we have special coverage we ve been working on since this broke early on the east coast today. we start with the basics. you don t need to be a lawyer or constitutional scholar to understand this. the ruling rejects donald trump s very far-fetched arguments that his job history as president should mean he could never be arrested, indicted or tried for anything related to his time in office. trump s lawyers argued he should basically retain a kind of permanent immunity from the fact he used to be president. the court is rejecting that today. we re going to begin, like i said, with the clarity of this single spare sentence. quote, for the purpose of this criminal case, former president trump
governor greg abbott is refusing to remove razor wire that is stopping migrants from entering the country at shelby park in eagle pass. good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. we have team coverage for you this evening for lucas tomlinson is standing by with more on congressional republicans fight for border frederick new york congresswoman claudia tenney is here with reaction to president biden s promise to secure the border. but first mount for him is live in eagle pass, texas with the ladies in the texas sized fight between governor abbott and the feds. john, texas is not cooperating with the biden administration deadlines to reopen this a park to border patrol agents texas insists this is state land that has the constitutional right to seize this property. the united states in this latest argument says it has the right of access to this property. the state attorney general kenna paxton fired back to the federal government riding in part quote i respect
$83 million for defaming her. this is an incredibly meaningful amount of money. there may be more to come. tonight, a massive punishment to stop trump with the co-counsel for e. jean carroll. the whole point of this, this enormous damages, unprecedented damages, is to tell donald trump to shot up. then, the politics of a party about to nominate this man. i don t even know who this woman is. i have no idea. as republicans keep trying to and reproductive rights. we ll know veterinary career, thousands of ultrasounds on animals. all that in today s major ruling from the world court on the israel gaza war. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. 83 point $3 million. that s a lot of money. that s almost on trump has just been ordered to pay writer e. jean carroll for repeatedly defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. the jury spent four days hearing about what donald trump did and witnessing his ongoing contempt tow
are inherent in marbury versus madison are like delivering a seal when requested, because there is a separate statute, and the secretary of the state had two of the hats on and he was on one hand the direct agent of the president, and that could never be examinable by the courts, but on the other hand, the original statute had imposed all of the purely ministerial duties that had to do with the recordkeeping and delivering of documents and if you had a land deed that had a seal on it, and the person asked for it no, discretion at all, but the take-care clause, there is no statute that could impose on the president, a, a mandatory duty to engage, and the notion that when the president is meeting with the department of justice and enforce federal fraud statutes and that being ministerial strikes me as insupportable. well, i think that you are missing what i am asking. which is, i think that it is paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care of the laws be fait