what can you tell us about the response as it stands right now because the stories we re hearing are that locals are not getting what they need. we know president biden is going to be visiting i think next week on monday, but what about the disaster response? has it been in any way adequate? we re hearing about people crowd funding to get supplies and again, going back to the fact these people, specifically natives this is not their first rodeo, so they have this disaster response infrastructure setup that just came online in really impressive speed. they re called pods. they have distribution centers setup and talking on walkie-talkies because power and comms has been an issue. they were wondering 72 hours after this fire, it s one of the biggest ports in the world, why there weren t supplies coming in, why it took so long to get
phone about the moment of paper they re dealing with. it s coming up. i had an intuition that would be there. when you see stacks of paper compared to national monuments, and you at home are going to get treated to that in just a few seconds. thank you, my friend. you bet. thank you all for joining us this hour. we have breaking news tonight as i just mentioned. if your calender was marked for this coming monday when president trump was set to hold a press conference he was promised would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that fulton county indictment, if that was a date reserved on your ical, i m sorry to inform you it has been called off. trump says tonight his legal team is instead putting the overwhelming evidence in formal legal filings. he adds, therefore the news conference is no longer
jack smith s investigation as a way to stop his charges from ever reaching the courtroom. joining me now is former united states senator, claire mccaskill. claire, thank you for being here. we put that josh hawley sound in there just for you, but i would like you to respond to the notion that donald trump is being indicted because he s pushing back against a globalist cabal. doesn t hold any water for you, claire? well well, it s stupid. these guys are all lawyers. three of them went to ivy league, i think three of them went to harvard. i mean, harvard has to be so embarrassed at this point. this is alice in wonderland stuff, alex. when the impeachment happens after the president tried to mastermind a conspiracy to hold on to power, to foment the big lie about the election, to push for an insurrection, they all said, ted cruz said it
trump s team is arguing tonight that the federal 2020 election case brought by special counsel jack smith should go to trial in april of 2026. that is a whopping two years, seven months, and 16 days from now. it notably comes well after the point in which trump could be back in office, and able to pardon himself, or just make this case disappear altogether. his legal team s justification for this date is it is classically trumpy. remember, if you will, when president trump first took office and had to prove to everyone that he had disentangled himself from his business interests, and he stood next to this giant pile of folders. there they are. and claimed that they contain the evidence he unsigned everything over to his sons. now, trump refused to let anyone actually look at the contents of those folders, but, hey it was a lot of paper, it was a lot of folders.
actually look at the contents of those folders, but, hey, it was a lot of paper, it was a lot of folders. and today the argument from his defense team felt a bit like that. in their formal, formal legal filing the defense included this graph showing the height in feet of all the evidence jack smith will turn over to the defense and comparing that height to the statue of liberty and the washington monument. you ll see the discovery evidence is a lot taller than both the statue of liberty and the washington monument. trump s counsel compared getting through all that evidence of having to read the entirety of tolstoy s war and peace 70 times from now until december. and they do have a point, it is quite a bit of reading. that said, we have no idea how much of the evidence provided