let s bring in our leadoff panel for this friday night. franco ordonez, white house correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers, covering immigration and foreign affairs. the new york times katie benner, pulitzer prize-winning reporter who covers the justice department. and yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for news hour on pbs. thanks to all of you for being with us. katie, let me start with you. we have that reporting tonight about some movement on that issue of reunifying parents with children, at least some of them. you cover the justice department, the legal end of this. it sounded like there was still plenty of confusion when that executive order was issued the other day by the president about what that was actually going to allow in terms of reunification. how clear is that now? absolutely. so as you say, this was another self-inflicted wound by the trump administration not thinking through clearly enough a directive before issuing it. so we saw a lot of confusion
Politically, i wish we had been dealing with this question two years ago rather than right before as we enter this election year. we ll see what the supreme court decides. karen and ana i m a florida voter. if he tries that, he ll end up in court and he ll end up losing just like he s lost to the drag queens. he s lost to mickey mouse. and just one more pathetic, lame, last-minute attempt by ron desantis to ingratiate to trump voter because his campaign and he himself has turned out to be such a flawed and failed candidate. all right. thank you so much. i knew it would be a great conversation. really enjoyed having you on. in the meantime, this wednesday a make or break night for republican presidential hopefuls five days before the iowa caucus. the cnn presidential debate live from iowa wednesday at 9:00 p.m.
Dollars in trump defense over the last several years. the volume is considerable. there will be duplication, there will also be, by necessity, a number of materials within that 11.6 million pages that are already public, but i don t want to diminish the size of the discovery here. it dwarves anything i saw in private practice as a lawyer, katy. it will be interesting just to consider what donald trump might be hearing as he listens to audio recordings of witness interviews, especially if among those witnesses are some of the people he sees as his closest allies, like rudy giuliani, for example, lisa rubin, thank you very much for coming. thank you. the supreme court blocks a $6 billion opioid settlement, what it means for one of the richest families in america. first up, though, at least a thousand people are still missing on maui. the latest from the island. mau. the lastte from the island ather. she knew that i always want to know more
Recordings of witness interviews. the sheer volume prompted judge to look at trump s attorney and joke that she can only imagine what this will mean for his proposed trial date. what she should not joke about is what she would tolerate, though, regarding the rules of the court saying that the more the parties make statements that could influence potential jurors, the faster, she says, this case will go to trial. joining me now, msnbc legal analyst, lisa rubin who s at the d.c. courthouse for us and was inside for the hearing. so, lisa, what stood out to you? reporter: there are a lot of things that stood out to me, katy, not the least of which the most famous person in the courtroom today obviously was not former president donald trump but harry dunn and it struck me that a number of people you and i could walk by on the street and not recognize were in charge of helping a judge decide what president trump can see, what he can talk about and what is the most
Have limited how responsible the prominent sackler family would be for the damage caused by opioids made by purdue pharma, the company it controlled. the government challenged that agreement, and now the court will hear that argument out. a massive settlement for purdue pharma is on hold this morning. after the supreme court temporarily blocked the deal that would protect members of the sackler family from more opioid-related lawsuits. purdue pharma made oxycontin and a lot of money for the sackler family. the drug brought in an estimate $35 billion for the company. using aggressive marketing tactics, millions of americans became adicked to the opioid. cheryl lost her two sons cory and sean. i ve lost my children. i ve lost two of my children. that is a life sentence in itself. reporter: such deaths led to an avalanche of lawsuits against the company and its owners. the crisis dramatized on hulu s
Ask for this if he really had nothing and is just going to hand over a charge to merrick garland? i don t see any indication. he says we expect to be proceeding to trial. i think mr. weiss has been clear that he expects to seek an indictment, the district of columbia or california. that does not mean, notwithstanding him saying that we have reached an impasse and we think the court needs to, you know, we re preparing to go to trial, and we need to go to a different court, that doesn t mean they could not still reach an agreement. plenty of criminal cases, high profile cases do reach agreements on the eve of trial or at any other time before trial, even when the parties have said there s an impasse. mary mccord, thank you very much. and coming up, what a judge in d.c. just warned donald trump about how his words can speed up the election interference trial date. plus, what the supreme court is doing to the $6 billion
Myself is there s anything other than tax charges they re considering. the gun possession charge recently got hit hard in the federal circuit court. in the appellate court, something unconstitutional, it s hard to see how that potential case moves forward. with respect to taxes, with respect to this ongoing investigation and everything that congress raises, it raises two points, one, have any of the documents, it doesn t matter what congressional leaders or representatives say when it comes to the court of law, with respect to their perspectives on whatever they review, but have there been any sort of things that have come out in the last couple of weeks that have given the u.s. attorneys office in delaware pause from an investigative standpoint. not sure. i don t have the answer to that. we ve seen no overt steps, people being questioned. people being brought before the fbi. we ve seen nothing in the last year that there s been anything going on tied to an ongoing investigation. cou
Who have lost hundreds and they just want it over. reporter: purdue pharma is confident in the legality of the plan and it is optimistic the supreme court will uphold the current agreement. the court will hear oral arguments in the case in december and it could issue a ruling next year. now back to you. ain thompson, thank you. come up next, why joe manchin is skipping the white house celebration of a bill he helped write and what he might be doing instead. t letting me r. so, we switched to verizon business internet. they have business grade internet, nationwide. (vo) make the switch. it s your business. it s your verizon.
Know, ag garland has been clear all along, even before this appointment that mr. weiss had independent authority to bring the charges, seek the charges that he wants to seek, and that the department of justice would provide him with all resources necessary. this is memorializing this. this is the first time mr. weiss asked for it, according to public records, and mr. weiss s own statements, and the ag is now committed to the independence, again, of mr. weiss s investigation and to providing him with whatever resources he needs to continue his investigation. what about the issue of venue that tom raised? well, it s a real issue, and it s, in fact, the entire reason that mr. weiss has today gone into court, and moved not only to vacate the briefing schedule that the judge there had ordered to, you know, with respect to the plea agreement that fell apart a few weeks ago, but also moved to actually dismiss that case, saying we don t have venue
dope sick. purdue pharma filed for bankruptcy in to 19 under the terms of the bankruptcy, members of the sackler family will be shielded for future lawsuits in exchange for $6 billion that could be used to settle opioid related claims. but the justice department said the sacklers should not be able to use legal protections designed tor debtors illegal suppress and the solicitor general warning it would leave in place a road map for wealthy corporations and individuals to misuse the bankruptcy system. what is the issue the supreme court wants to look at? the supreme court wants to look at whether people who doan file for bankruptcy like the sacklers but have some connection to a bankruptcy should get the benefit of a release. the bankruptcy court has done that here for the sacklers and the supreme court is deciding whether that violates the law. reporter: but for many of the families involved, there is say human toll to further delay. i know hundreds of families