russian forces surrounding ukraine are in attack position. all of the signs are there. all the danger of a russian invasion. very real. here at home more bad news for the former president a federal judge ruling civil lawsuits to hold him responsible for what happened at the capitol on january 6 can go forward and saying and i quote here the president s january 6 rally speech can reasonably be viewed as a call for collective action. the judge going on to say we used repeatedly in this context implies that the president and the rally goers would be acting together toward a common goal. that as the essence, that is the essence of a civil conspiracy. so the essence of a civil conspiracy is what the judge is saying this is a big deal. it comes as there s news from the national archives acknowledging that there were classified documents in the boxes of the former president took to mar-a-lago when he left
also laid out how trump could be held accountable for inciting the capitol riot, writing quote, the president s january 6 rally speech can reasonably be viewed as a call for collective action. joining me now is elie honig. elie, it was an interesting week for the former president on the legal side of thing, but these comments specifically by a federal judge and trump s civil liability for january 6th. what do they mean? well, in the narrowest sense, this decision keeps donald trump in the lawsuit. which means the next step here is going to be discovery where the parties exchange information. that means donald trump will likely have to sit for a deposition and answer questions under oath in this lawsuit. it s also really interesting to note that the judge threw out the claims against other people. against donald trump jr., rudy giuliani. the judge decided what the former president did was different and worse than what those people did. you just read the exact clip how the judge said i
january 6th to go forward. she wrote in her opinion in the opinion, the president s january-6th rally speech can reasonably viewed as a call to collective action, end quote. may be deposed for accounting reasons right now. do you have any sense of how concerned he might be or his advisers are for these civil cases surrounding january 6th? they are less concerned around the january 6th civil cases. they are certainly not thrilled but that is a different bucket. anything that in the former president s mind relates to his family business or to him directly, not related to january 6th, he is much more concerned about. however, it is interesting, john, that in this suit, you know, you had a bunch of defendants who successfully argued to be removed from the suit. most notably, the former-president s son. rudy giuliani was removed. he left donald trump saying, essentially, this is often an unprecedented moment that that him citing free speech
for what happened at the capitol on january 6th can go forward. and saying and i quote here the president s january-6th rally speech can reasonably be viewed as a call for collective action. the judge going on to say, we used repeatedly in this context implies that the president and the rallygoers would be acting together towards a common goal. that, as the essence that is the essence of a civil conspiracy. i was thinking there was a sound byte there, pardon me. so the essence of a civil conspiracy. that is what the judge is saying. this is a big deal and it comes as there is news from the national archives acknowledging that there were classified documents in the boxes the former-president took to mar-a-lago when he left washington in disgrace. the archives are talking to the doj about this now. about all of it. and there are still records missing, including deleted tweets from his personal-twitter account. but there is outrage over what happened in a minnesota
good afternoon to you for just a few moments ago cpac wrapped up for this year. as you well know, traditionally at the end of this event attendees get a chance to find out who they would like to see as the republican nominee and the next presidential race. given the audience who seen at this conference it s really no surprise former president donald trump taking first place in this year s cpac poll. just like he did a year ago in a second florida governor desantis with 28% support of and the numbers trailer up pretty quickly with former secretary state michael pompeo filed by kentucky senator rand paul and also the governor of south dakota. trump received a hero s welcome lesson when he took the stage. it really felt like the rally speech the presidential election was going to happen any day. we did hear some the same one-liners were used to hearing from him out on the campaign stoppard but he also dropped some of the strongest hints to get about a potential third run for the white h