When . Weeks and still has not ruled. Nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. Where do things stand after todays arguments . Reporter judge Aileen Cannon said she would rule promptly on these two motions to dismiss and seemed skeptical this afternoon of the argument about the president ial records act. Remember, what donald trump is saying under the president ial records act he could deem any record in the white house whether classified document about Nuclear Secrets or identity of the cia officer, foreign asset, he could deem that a personal record, take it home and store it in his bathroom. Special counsel jack smith says than an absurd argument and eastern the judge said i dont see how that gets dismissal of the indictment. That one. Another argument, motion to dismiss on the grounds the Espionage Act is unconstitutionally vague. Argued that this morning. A long shot. A law used hundreds of times to prosecute people who have taken home or leaked classified docu
Hes cocky for a nineteen year old. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta. There is a new deadline in the new back and forth of the indictment of president trump. The federal judge overseeing trumps Election Fraud case has responded to a court filing from special counsel jack smith that came in last night. Smith wants a protective order after trump posted this social media message late last night. It says, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team in terms of what they publicly discuss about the sensitive evidence in the case. And the judge has now given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. Monday to respond. Minutes ago, the judge denied a request from the Trump Lawyers to push back mondays deadline. Smith had called it an unnecessary delay. Joining us now to talk about this, jim schultz, a former Trump White House lawyer. Thanks very much for joining us. We appreciate it. Lets start with what the judge is saying. There is now a
Historical case, how long they will drag this out, and how it all plays into trumps legal strategy of delay. And, the kick the can congress, once again, they bought more time to avoid a Government Shutdown. And once again, a Republican House speaker is feeling the heat from his own conference. Congresswoman becca of the House Budget Committee joins me live, to bring us inside the chaos. Im jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. We begin this busy saturday evening, with Breaking News. Our eyes are on michigan, missouri, and idaho, where republicans in those states are Holding President ial caucuses today. Nbc news projects that donald trump won the most delegates of michigans Nominating Convention. All together, between the convention and michigans primary on tuesday, donald trump won 51 delegates, and nikki haley won four. Nbc also Projects Trump won the Missouri Republican caucus, picking up 54 delegates. Trump is expected to sweep idaho as well. We could get those results with
book. a ten secret document the special counsel argues the president showed four people in the room. a writer, publisher and two of his white house aides. these are bad, sick people. that was your cue, you know, against you. started talking about oh, we re going to try to no, they were trying to do that before you even were sworn in. that s right. with millie, i ll show you an example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t that amazing, a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. look. it was him. they presented me this. this is off the record, but they presented me this. this was him. this was the defense department and him. we looked at him. this was him. this wasn t done by me. this was him. all sort of stuff. pages. let s see here. yeah. isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know. except it is highly confidential, secret. this is secret information. look at this. attack. hillary would print that out all the time. she send it to
to start this hour, let s brea down all of the news and how i view the trump indictment. sources familiar with th matter tell nbc news that trum faces around 30 charges of documented fraud connected to hush mone payments that he allegedly mad to cover up fast affairs in th run up to the 2016 election. two sources tell the associate press that it includes at leas one felony offense, and th exact charges at this moment against the ex president are still unknown. because the indictment remains sealed nbc news has now joined coalition of news organization urging that the indictment t be unsealed, citin overwhelming public interest ahead of trump s scheduled arraignment next tuesday that group is also requestin that cameras be allowed inside the courtroom during tuesday s proceedings. according to the new york times, trump and his aides were caugh off guard by the timing of the grand jury indictment which wa made public thursday afternoon thinking that any action was perhaps still