all? was this all just bluff? when you say was it a bluff? just to be clear, you are saying your best defense would be that he was lying about the documents. possibly and president biden signing the debt ceiling deal into law, and inca drama that had the country on the brink of default. passing this budget agreement was critical. mistakes could not have been higher. if we failed to reach an agreement on the budget, there would ve been extreme voices threatening to take america for the first time in over 247 year history, and default on our national debt. nothing, nothing would have been more irresponsible. later this hour, i m gonna speak to congressman jimmy gomez who voted no on the debt ceiling bill. all of that, plus, let s put on a show. i want you all to know that i m not a man anymore. are you saying you are a lady not a woman, either. a group of teens who had a play with an lgbtq twist on the robinhood story, canceled by their school, r
we ll explain what the ruling says. ahead, both lawmakers expelled from the tennessee statehouse for protesting gun violence have been reappointed to their seats we ll explain why this is not the end of the partisan turmoil in tennessee. and louisville police released a chilling 911 call from a woman who told the dispatcher she was the mother of the old national bank shooter. we ll play for you her frantic call and have the latest in that investigation. plus, donald trump is back in new york this morning for a different legal issue. this one with the state s attorney general we ll take you through what s happening today in that case meanwhile, there are new developments in the investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents we ll look at the reporting on a map trump may have taken with him to mar-a-lago after leaving the white house. with us this morning, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news ckatty kay.
discussed, his statement on the recording could prove damaging to him, as mr. smith s team moves forward towards concluding its investigation and turns to the question of whether to file charges. joining me now is msnbc s legal block liner jordan rubin, to talk about this. jordan, thanks for joining us. how significant is this new trump audio and the doj s classified documents probe? it s quite significant. on at least a couple of levels. on a broader and narrower level. probably, it knocks out any sort of argument that trump might have had, and it wasn t a winning argument before, he classified things with his mind. it shows trump knows that there are rules around this. and then specifically, to the extent that this particular document can be connected with something that smith s team actually has, and that can lend itself to a specific charge related to mishandling evidence. so, there s a bunch of different things that could mean, and none of them are good for trump. what we re t
the task force on reproductive access for the white house, where vice president harris, the attorney general, secretaries across the administration were there, talking about this, what they were expecting, giving people updates more importantly, talking about how much they re going to fight on this, right it does seem kind of probable that they might still want to take this to the supreme court, because they don t want to be seen as just kind of accepting the dismantling of this pill that s been available for 23 years. one of the things i think has been really fascinating is hearing an administration that doesn t have a lot of tools to do much about abortion and trying to do those things at the same time. they introduced the they took a guidance and turned ed it ina proposed rule that would have some privacy, attacks some privacy concerns they have they re trying to nibble around the edge on this issue one, they know that they feel
gun rights movement and the democratic party. exactly right when you talk to republican political strategists, especially here in d.c., they talk about how much of a misstep this was for republicans in tennessee, right you galvanized these folks you make both of these men national figures they spend days on television all across the spectrum, talking about this also, you getdays and days from the beginning, it was obvious both of these gentlemen would be back where they started, like you said a misstep for republicans in tennessee on how they handled this i think you haven t seen republicans, national republicans, saying anything about this because they want to stay out of it it wasn t a winning issue. it isn t a winning issue for them you also have vice president harris going there, right? it has created this kind of as justin pearson said, it s awakened the sleeping giant in tennessee.