Given that and the fact that navarro was actually a presidential aide as opposed to bannon. so he had more of an argument, i guess in terms of executive privilege. is there really any path for bannon here? well, there is, but i wouldn t say it s a great path obviously, filing a petition for certiorari, trying to get the supreme court interested. is a far cry from having them except the case and deal with it on the merits. it s even harder when you re talking about a stay. so if there s a hope of an emergency motion to the supreme court, which there may well be that it s going to actually undo this ruling today. i think that s unlikely. you might get to the merits in the supreme court eventually, there s some weird little issues about executive privilege terms of who how you actually know that you re supposed to use it. it s supposed to invoke that privilege a lot of nuance stuff there, but i just don t think that this is the case. it s going to make it i think it s going to probably die out with the court of appeals let s talk about something having to do with former president donald trump, new york police are trying to revoke donald trump s gun license. now that
Means did not earn it and this sort of backlash to that which i believe going to deirdre s point is what a lot of them consider as a regulation they have to do it, they feel it s mandatory that they do this. it s a response to that, among other things, because one of the other trends that we re seeing is the increased attempts at unionization in a lot of these big companies. think about apple, starbucks, amazon, for example, all of these companies that these tech companies in particular that are now starting to see more worker activity and organizing. so there s all of this is a response to a lot of opportunities that democrats have found a way to take advantage of to kind of mobilize their base. you know, brendan buck who was an aide to paul ryan and john boehner and has been extremely critical of donald trump was talking in the last hour about how he thinks the democrats missed an opportunity. they stayed quiet for too long.
Too much truth. i m just kidding. we still have some issues, i believe we lost his feet. i want to thank bill kristol for joining us but we will get that fixed. coming up, we will explain exactly why we have ron howard on tonight and why this is back in the news. i am here was someone very, very special. the first lady, mrs. michelle obama. hi, everyone. mr. president, i have a very important question for you. hi, i am so yeah. and i am abby. honestly, how could you not stick around for that? one howard by the end of the hour. the other big story, steve bannon will become the second trump white house aide going to prison. my breakdown is next.
Takeaways from what you saw unfold there and honestly, some of the most dramatic moments may have come outside the courtroom in a clash between a hunter biden s wife and former trump aide. what have you learned casey. good morning to you. it was pretty remarkable throughout the day to watch these proceedings unfold. hunter biden, obviously in the defendant seat. first lady jill biden, just a few rows behind him in the pews along with everybody else in that packed courtroom, i think both sides see a path to victory here and they were trying to spell that out for the jury in their opening statements, you just read a few key quotes there that sort of explain how the prosecutors think they can get to a conviction and the defense thinks that they may be able to so enough reasonable doubt to avoid hunter biden. getting a criminal record and possibly even going to prison one of the more gripping moments was the
Look at this. it has been 25 years since los vegas has hit a daily cold low temperature 25 years, they have had so many more records for heat than they have for cold. and that is because the summer season is hotter in vegas a 5.6 degree fever since 19 in 70, they have nearly 40 more warm days in summer kesey really striking when you put it that way, at least a rafah. thanks very much for that. coming up next here, drama at hunter biden s gun trial, his wife going off on a former trump aide plus the fight in the senate over contraception the assignment with audie cornish, listen wherever you get your podcasts. i brought in a juror max protein with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy.
Buying the firearm they also used hunters own words against him playing several passages from the audio book for his 2021 memoir if i could find some new treatments, some new approach, some new lifeline i thought i could still call my way back out during the nearly four years of active addiction that preceded this trip to california, which included a half dozen rehab attempts that s what i told myself after each failure. all right. turned me down from wilmington, delaware is alex thompson, national political reporter for axios. alex, good morning to you. thanks so much for being with us i actually want to dig into something that happened outside the courtroom yesterday in this reporting from nbc, where hunter biden s wife reportedly confronted a trump former trump aide, who has now become a very much an antagonist of the hunters biden s family. this is garrett ziglar, melissa
Confrontation that played out at the courthouse yesterday between melissa cohen, biden, who is hunter biden s wife, and a man named garrett ziglar, who is a former trump aide. so hunter biden s wife confronts garrett ziegler outside the trial. she points her finger at him and says, you have no right to be here you nazi pos. obviously using the profane version of that ziglar, then was interviewed, told nbc news, it sad, i ve been sitting here the whole time having approached anyone for the record, i m not a nazi. i m a believer in the us constitution. i haven t said one thing to them. now, this is a guy, garrett sigler, who after trump leaves the white house, has really made a career out of assembling information and disseminating it about hunter biden. they blame him for many of the most salacious and nasty things that came out into the open from the hunter biden laptop and everything else. but i was i was pretty surprised to see that his wife it really underscores just how tense this all is. there s a story, i believe it s in political recently
Trial that i attended, judge merchan actually excluded the access hollywood tape from entering evidence, the prosecutors could read the contents of the tape, but they couldn t play it because hearing it in the defendant s own voice can be so powerful and judge merchan thought prejudicial. on the other hand, given the subject matter of hunter biden s memoir, hearing his own voice describe him in the throes of addiction. as ken mentioned, there are four jurors here who cited having loved one who is struggled with addiction. that s a full third of this euro. they may be more sympathetic to hunter biden and what he was going through during the time period leading up to his purchase of the gun at issue here because they have heard in his voice how deeply he was struggling with his drug addiction at the time. speaking of loved ones, yesterday there was this tense exchange between hunter biden s wife, melissa and garrett ziegler who s a former trump white house aide who worked on trade policy at the time. he was also part of an effort to expose hunter biden s laptop. ken, what happened?
These are bases for disbarment, in my opinion. these lies and brought before the bar association in new york and d.c. and california, have seen that kind of language right there, but they don t care. they are desperate. they may have a candidate who was just sentenced to four years in prison when they have their national convention. and there are a lot of members of congress who are saying, i m going to lose my job because we have a guy who may be in custody when the election is over, whether or not he wins. with 45 seconds on the political framing of it, why do you think bannon and others are trying to say, we ve never done this before, but our new thing is responding to this with retribution? that spin, as i called it, i think it s a documented lie. why do they need to sell it that way in your view politically? because they ve always put out the retribution narrative. so, this now levels up why the
He s identified as a white house aide, a trump guy, he has his podcast, sure. but as i mentioned, steve bannon is a convicted felon slated to go to federal prison. so, you can bet that he s going to say whatever he can say to go after these types of prosecutors. speaker mike johnson is trying to legislate or plan based on this grievance. jim jordan said they want to make d.a. bragg testify before congress. conservatives say autonomous. they are usually the ones say there should be no federal intervention. trump would rather talk about this hypothetical payback than his own verdict this week and his own looming sentencing. mr. bannon, even more explicit, because he may have even more to lose and more of a rush. he s actually already been sentenced to federal prison. he s just appealing that right now, saying prosecutors are the ones that should go to jail. and trump, in interviews, is finding that rhetorical ground, where he s not exactly saying