Us this afternoon for a small sliver of it. Jessica, thanks for being with us this week. Stay would see an end because the lead with jake tapper starts right now i heated hearing today for a different criminal cases involving donald trump, who lead starts right now the hush money coverup trial is quiet today, but another case is turning into a Shouting Match. Attorneys Attorneys Trading Barbs in that federal classified documents case in florida. As trumps codefendants, walt nauta accused his prosecutors of selectively and vindictively charging him with a crime plus new video showing the very moment that five young israeli women were kidnapped by the terrorists of from us. The footage is horrifying and graphic why their families wanted this video released. Now and uh, judges ruling today on the Iconic Graceland Mansion did something im im trying to scam their way into buying the property once owned by elvis welcome to the lean on jake tapper. Were going to start today with our Law And Justice lead just as Donald Trumps hush money coverup trial, it seems to be nearing its conclusion. A very new chapter started ive started today in the federal classified documents case against the former president , us district judge Aileen Cannon, a trump appointee, held two hearings in the case today on two separate attempts to throw out the charges altogether. The first focused on trumps valet, a guy named walt nauta. Walt nauta is claiming vindictive prosecution and that devolved into a Shouting Match and it ended with no ruling from judge cannon. The second matter involves trump and multiple other codefendants trying to get the case thrown out on technical issues. That is just wrapping up right now. In fort pierce, florida. These were the first hearing since judge cannon seem to indefinitely delay the start of the trial had been scheduled to start this week. This also comes as newly unsealed filings reveal that a separate judge, if federal judge here in washington, dc, previously found there was quotes, sufficient evidence but since the trump committed crimes in the classified documents case, and also as these images were made public, seeming to show nauta allegedly moving boxes at maralago before a trump attorney was supposed to go through the boxes and look for classified materials sought by the subpoena cnns evan perez is outside the courthouse in fort pierce, florida for us right now, evan, start with this hearing in the afternoon, which involve trump and the other codefendants trying to get their case thrown out on some technical issues. Tell us what happened well, jake, over the course of about three hours, you heard some skepticism from judge Aileen Cannon on the arguments that all of the defendants are making that there was not enough specifics and theres some technical reasons why the charges in this case should be dismissed she did, however, seem sympathetic to the idea that was being raised by the defense that these charges are so are so complex that a jury might have trouble understanding the differences between the different charges that the defendants are being charged with. One of the things that she did not do. However, today, jake was set a new trial date every time we come to one of these hearings down here we are hoping that we might hear an update from that that did not comment as you pointed out, she did not rule from the bench where we heard a lot of discussions here that sort of dealt into the minutiae of this case. One of the arguments the fence was making was that if you remember, there was a discussion to delete Surveillance Video from maralago, what the defense is arguing in court today was that just having that discussion is not illegal. That just talking about it was not itself a crime, of course, thats not something that the prosecution concedes. And again, the judge did not rule from the bench today, jake, im in the hearing earlier today involving what walt nauta trumps valet that devolved into a Shouting Match. Tell us more about that yeah. There were accusations. There were definitely some raised voices. The judge, even telling a prosecutors to calm down because things got really heated. Stand woodward, who represents walt nauta heatings, making the allegation. And this was brought up in court today that prosecutors essentially, were essentially trying to to extort him, trying to get him to pressure his client to cooperate with the investigation. He said that they raise the fact that he had been recommended for a judgeship and he said the implication was that this was an effort to try to get his clients to cooperate. Of course prosecutors, david harb back stood up there and said this was pure fantasy on the part of the defense and pointed out that stan would were didnt raise this this claim until way after these charges had been raised. So in the end, again, the judge did not rule on the motion there that nauta is making that he was selectively and vindictively prosecuted jake. Alright. Evan perez in fort pierce, florida. Thanks so much. Lets talk about all this with former federal prosecutor, Unclosed Khardori and criminal Defense Attorney, brady harden. Ago. She thanks so much for being here. What do you make how these hearings played out today . Is it pretty much what you expected life definitely dont expect people to be shouting federal court, particularly in case of this sort of consequence. So that was a little unfortunate, depending on how that came about. I think they allegation that precipitated it, which have been described as the suggestion that there was some effort to dissuade nauta from from cooperating or to entice him by some favoritism on the judge ship. Its been around for a couple of years. Its been in the here are a couple of years. Its never made a whole lot of sense to me as particularly credible or potent attack on the charges. So i think it was a bit of a distraction and for better or worse, it seems of angered the prosecutors. So brandy, explain this to me. So trumps valet and codefendants, walt nauta, he says hes being vindictively and selectively prosecuted. What does that mean . And how do you prove it so the first thing is that it means that you think that theres a particular bias as it relates to the prosecutors bringing these charges, that its not just based on the evidence, but theres some ulterior motive thats going on its not something thats very easy to prove. And i think you know, whats behind charging decision if the government thinks that they have probable cause, theyre gonna be able to bring the charges. Although i do think the Defense Attorney had to have a good faith basis to bring them. Im not so concerned about how long it took the allegations to come about. If you review a case and you see that theres evidence that you believe shows that theres some kind of bias, then you bring the motion. It is something thats again quite difficult to prove, so im not sure how that will pay it out, but i think its proper to bring it if you have a good faith basis to bring it up because this is the first hearing since judge cannon seemed to basically indefinitely delay the start of the trial was supposed to start this week. Some legal experts have criticized her slow pace in the case. They say shes playing into trumps hands and delay tactics. Others say shes just knew and she hasnt handled the case of this magnitude before. What do you think . You know, this is not the first time you and i have encountered this very specific question actually you know, with each and every ruling i understand, it gets a little harder for people to hold the line on this. I still love the view. I dont think its sort of a malice or an intention, intentional effort to run interference for trump. This is a complicated case. Shes an experienced, i think temperamentally, i think maybe she needs to adjust a little bit. Its not a good idea for her to take swipes at the prosecutors the way she has been doing in writing. And from the bench from time to time, it diminishes her. So she seems to be undertaking a very steep learning curve. And im not sure she will get to where she needs to so standby both you because i want to introduce some another topic here. One of the documents unsealed yesterday, outlined how the fbi had been authorized to search trumps maralago property when they did that search, a number of republicans unceasing one particular part of that authorization. The Policy Statement on the use of deadly force, it states part of the quote, Law Enforcement officers of the Department Of Justice may use deadly force only when necessary. That is when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject of such force poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person, unquote. Now some Trump Supporters went to toe social media and quickly started spreading claims that this shows that when this was authorized, trumps life was at risk during this fbi search republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene from georgia, went even further Writing Quote Trump in team was cooperating the entire time with the fbi was Deadly Force Authorized against biden for his docks. Were they going to shoot Secret Service . Then President Trump melanias and baron to unquote. And donald trump responded to what Marjorie Taylor greene had told him apparently, saying on truth, social, his social media site wow, i just came out of the biden witch hunt trial in manhattan, the ice box. And we show them reports that crooked joe bidens doj and theyre illegal and unconstitutional rate of maralago authorized the fbi to use deadly lethal force. Now, we know for sure that joe biden is a serious threat. To democracy, unquote. Now, the scene, in fact, checkers got to work and they looked and found that the instructions use during this maralago search are in fact standard language taken straight from the Justice Departments manual, basically, a copy and paste the fbi responded to these allegations saying, quote, the fbi followed standard protocol in this search, as we do for all Search Warrants, which includes a standard Policy Statement limiting the use of deadly force. No one ordered additional steps to be taken. And there was no departure from the norm in this matter, unquote let me ask you and then brandy, do you think i understand this it was standard language, but this isnt a standard search. This is a former president was this a mistake . On the part of Attorney General garland or the fbi director right. To say, you know what, lets not put that in. This. Obviously, if there are extenuating circumstances, people can respond, but like this is so fraught and so sensitive. Maybe we should go Above And Beyond and not even include that. What do you make that argument . Yeah. I mean, look Justice Department has been very one tried to hit very closely to sort of treating trump like any other defendant. I think thats an important proposition and i think its one that it makes sense for them to try to hold onto, but just to take a step back, right. As you know, he did get a lot of process before this search. Oh, sure. He was not cooperating with the fbi, which is the basis of the indictment. Half of the indictment, this entire case would have not existed if he had just handed the boxes back. All right. So what Marjorie Taylor greene said is false. And also the Secret Service did coordinate with the fbi and advance of the search to ensure that it would proceed in a more orderly fashion. So he did get processed that other people do not get where any what do you think . I think its very important that he be treated like every other client. Thats being prosecuted. And i think all of the time i see Search Warrants right. Where youre charged, not necessarily in a fraud case, where if the police think that there is a danger to themselves that theyre going to be authorized to use deadly force. Now, that does not take the next step and say they can use it again, i think this is a Policy Statement. I think its an opportunity for people to seize on words. This is standard language that any officer, if they believe that theres a threat to their own safety, that deadly force can be used. I would hope that they would not use deadly force thats certainly how i feel about it, but it seems like its standard and Search Warrants if the officers run into a situation where they think deadly force is necessary, that they be authorized to do so. Also, i think Marjorie Taylor greenes and correct me if im wrong, Marjorie Taylor greenes question about whether they had the same language when they did the search of President Bidens property its apples and oranges because President Biden was cooperating. Thats correct. And i think under the circumstances, you just dont know what youre going to run into. Again. From my perspective, there should have been no reason to be using deadly force here. But at the same time, if somebody were to run into a situation where someone at that property was armed, they needed to have the opportunity to respond in like fashion. Alright. Ill go is kadoorie and brandy heart and thanks to both you for being here. I appreciate it. Weve got some Breaking News in our longevity. Hunter bidens trial on tax charges has been delayed until september. Lets get straight to cnns marshall cohen. Marshall, why is it being delayed till September Jacob was basically a calendar crunch. Hunter biden is facing two separate trials that were supposed to be backtoback in june, starting in delaware, just two weeks from now and then followed in los angeles with a tax case, though there was a hearing that just wrapped up in la where the judge said that he is going to to delay that trial so that one, the tax case, it wont be in june. Its going to be in december. But the gun case is still full speed ahead. So just to zoom out and remind everybody how we got here, special counsel, david weiss, who started in the Justice Department is the trump appointed us attorney in delaware hes accused hunter biden of it. Illegal purchase and possession of a gun because he was allegedly addicted to drugs while he bought the gun. Thats in violation of federal law. Then in the tax case as hes accused of failing to pay his taxes failing to file his taxes, and evading taxes. Hes pleaded not guilty to both of these cases. But this is a huge relief for hunter and his team. They were saying it was almost impossible to do backtoback. So now theyll have one in june 1 in september, and it turning back to that gun case that you talked about, marshall, theres new information you have about the evidence that theyre going to use against under yeah, when the past few days special counsel, his team have revealed in Court Filings who theyre going to call us witnesses and what evidence theyre going to use. They said that they are planning to call a Hunter Bidens exwife and his former for romantic partner, who was also the widow of his brother, halley biden, and the mother of one of his children. So people that were very close and intimate with hunter biden so they can tell the jury directly about his struggles with addiction, which according to the prosecutors, lined up exactly with when he bought that gun. Theres also of course the infamous hunter biden laptop that people who have followed this saga are very familiar with. The prosecutor said that they have verified some of the texts and emails on that laptop and theyre going to use it in the upcoming gun case. Jake marshall cohen, thanks so much right now in dc, nikki haleys making her first Public Comments since she ended her 2020 four president ial campaign in march. Im going to talk about the state of the race with the governor who was one of her biggest supporters, plus the powerful tornado tore through parts of iowa. We showed it to you right here on the lead yesterday. Cnn is back on ground with the deadly aftermath. 24 hours later, stick with us deliveries happened order that pretty sure. 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