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lets take a look at the weeks top stories. >> as you know, i cant talk about particulars of this or any other ongoing criminal manner. as i said when i appointed mr. smith i did so because it underscored the justice departments commitment to an oath independents and accountability. mr. smith is a veteran career prosecutor. he has assembled a group ive experienced and talented prosecutors. and agents, whose share his commitment to integrity and the rule of law. any questions about this ...

plus, democratic pushback. representatives judy chu, and ted lieu, shut down republican defenses of trumps actions. theyre gonna join me live to talk about that and more. im ayman mohyeldin, in new york, lets get started. tonight, we begin with a new move in the justice and its classified documents case against donald trump in a motion filed yesterday at a -- detective order. this bar is trumps legal team from discussing sensitive material from the discovery process. the evidence inclu...

people in the world. we dont use them. >> were going to use our smartest and our best. were not using political hacks anymore. thats the people that do these deals. theyre political hacks. >> we want experts our finest people. we dont want people that are b-level, c-level, d-level. we have to get our absolute best trump hired all the best people, now many of those same people, his former attorney general, defense secretary, national security adviser, and others say he endangered nati...

reelection again with a rally in philadelphia with union members. the president is seeing endorsements from some of the countrys largest unions, a preview in just moments. also new today, more details on trumps indictment. the justice department filing for a protective order which if granted would prevent trump from sharing any classified material for people not involved in the case. new york times says that order says ongoing investigations could identify uncharged individuals. ill be...

justice department for pursuing charges in the first place. they have sunk back to school yard antics. whining, and what about-ing, and an echo of eight years, the phrase, but her emails has made it back into the gops political rhetoric. which is a reference to hillary clintons use of private email server when she was secretary of state. it was a controversial and flawed decision that the state department ultimately did say increased the risk of compromising classified information. but...

juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans, and as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is that the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college administrations. does that mean that it achieved its purpose or that were abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. we will soon know the results. one involves harvard, the other the university of north carolina. the conventional wisdom is...

>> reporter: you never had an insurrectionist president before who would seek reelection. the president of harvard university resigned today weeks after her controversial testimony before congress about antisemitism. the average, came not from her academic peers, but rather from her political foes led by conservatives who put her career under intense scrutiny. i think its going to be very tremendous victory in iowa. i will defeat president trump, foreign square. i have no doubt...

trump was being arraigned in florida not only were fake electors from trumps plot to overturn the 2020 election, not only were those fake electors testifying before special counsel jack smith sent january six grand jury, but at the same moment congressional republicans were holding their own bizarro hearing about january 6th. at the exact same time of former president was arraigned on federal criminal charges related to unlawfully hoarding documents. witnesses were testifying in jack s...

>> an extreme movement of america, the maga republicans led by a defeated president is trying to steal history now. theyre trying to steal an election. now theyre trying to steal history. >> we have an economy thats so fragile, and when theres a crash i hope its going to be during this next 12 months. >> trump is expected to attend as a three-judge appeals court panel decides if he can be charged with election interference. >> and i feel that as a president you have to have immunity, v...

thanks for joining us. fear not. nicolle will be back tomorrow. "the beat" with ari melber starts rite now. hi, ari. >> thanks so much. im ari melber. after all this breaking news coverage of trumps indictment -- we have been at the table. all of our colleagues following this. tonight we turn from this fast fluid first draft of history to a wider view of how history may absorb this historic precedent breaking week, because tonight pulitzer prize winning journalist bob woodward who you ...