Watching at fubo tv. Com friends are turning 30 and tbs is hosting the ultimate Friends Celebration celebrate 30 years of friends all this weekend on tbs and stream every episode on max shrugs as World War iii approaches, im Chael Smerconish in philadelphia that provocative headline caught my eye this week in the Wall Street Journal. It accompanied an essay written by walter Russell Mead is a professor of Strategy And Statecraft at the university of florida. Professor meade was shining a light on a report from the commission on the national defense strategy, which you can be excused for lack of awareness after all week hed been busy discussing the Trump And Vance comments alleging the eating of pets in ohio and counting the number of times that Kamala Harris has answered questions, as well as how often she repeats her replies and dont get me wrong. Those issues matter. But each of us has only bandwidth and while we and the campaigns are consumed with such inquiry, there are more import
Breaking tonight, there is word that New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers could be in the running for the vise presidency. Hes reportedly on the shortlist for Robert F Kennedy junior and rfk junior joins us live with answers about that in minutes. But first, dismissed. Several key charges in the election interfere his case against former President Donald Trump have been dropped and the Fulton County da pursuing the case might also be on her way out. For Senior National correspondent kevin cork is live in dc with wear the case goes from here. Reporter good evening trace. The charges dropped against the former president , notably involving what prosecutors have deemed a Pressure Campaign on georgia secretary of state. Including the infamous call in which mr trump asked him to find enough votes. Exactly 11,779 to overturn joe bidens apparent victory in the state. The judge ruled that as written, the six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but failed to allege suffic
Behavior and the stakes. It was a bracing message. He will be treated like any other defendant. Trump did not attend the hearing in washington today, and thats fine. You can have these kind of hearings among lawyers. His defense team entered this morning. We saw that, tracked that. Hearing about what, in other cases, might be a more routine matter. What are the rules of evidence before you go to trial . How can it be discussed . So this is basically the framework, ground rules, you may have heard the reference to a protective order. Now judge chutkan rejected Donald Trumps request to speak in broader general terms about some of that evidence. Hell be restricted from publicly discussing the sensitive materials. The ruling came out late today. The judge says if Defendant Trump receives sensitive materials has part of this case, meaning stuff he might not otherwise get but for being a criminal defendant, his lawyers may not allow Defendant Trump to write down any personally identifying in
So were going to do it the way we try to do it around here, which is with the facts and details first, and then well discuss them together. Todays proceeding began around 4 15 p. M. Eastern. Defendant trump was seated with his lawyers, just as he was during his last arraignment. You may recall. This is a sketch from that day in a Federal Court in florida. That was how he looked then. Todays arraignment adjourned so recently that we actually dont have those actual Court Sketches yet. We will get them and we will bring them to you on msnbc at whatever hour we get them. Lets put it like this when this year began, no former president had ever been indicted and arraigned. Tonight were reporting on Defendant Trumps third arraignment in four months. So he does know this process. Today he was digitally fingerprinted, submitted details like his birthday and Social Security number william a know that special counsel jack smith was in the courtroom because our reporters spotted him, seated roughl
What well garland do. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia, Attorney General Merrick Garland may eventually make a singular decision that determines the outcome of the 2024 election, whether the doj will continue to push for donald trump to be tried before election day in the federal case, premised on alleged Election Interference for months. Here, ive delivered commentaries focused on the timing of this particular prosecution because i think its most perilous to trump, and ive often done so with the assistance of elie honig will join me again in a moment. Heres the issue on wednesday, scotus granted cert and announced that the high court will hear Donald Trumps Immunity Defense i dont think the ultimate outcome is in dispute. I think trump loses that claim. In my opinion, its unlikely its illogical that the court will provide Blanket Immunity from criminal prosecution to an american president more important is the process, the timing of the courts Decision Garland told cnns evan pere