friday s request from the trump team was is submitted secretly in a sealed proceeding and it s unclear how long it will take to unfold. but cnn legal commentator ely honig doubts it will be successful. here he is. i think it s very much of a long shot. i think donald trump has a steep, rocky, uphill climb, legally. he s invoking executive privilege, meaning, i had conversations when i was president with one of my key advisers, my vice president, that needs to remain secret, but he s got two big problems. one, dronald trump is now a former president. while it s not impossible for a former president to invoke executive privilege, the courts have said it s much more difficult for a former president to invoke executive privilege than a sitting president. that s number one. the other problem donald trump has is, this is a criminal grand jury subpoena. and usually, courts are going to honor criminal grand jury subpoenas, and typically, with some exceptions, executive privilege does not pre
to take share away from fox news. obviously, they know. it s pretty clear that report murdaugh is done with donald trump, at least for now. they want to take advantage of that situation and gain more viewers and take market share from fox. it s all about money. ronald trump s, aspirations for the presidency, the people around him are all in it for themselves. kelsey, quickly, before we have to go, on this point, do you think fox news viewers hearing something like this, from someone like steve bannon, because i feel like they don t know about the money part of it, right? i feel like they are such cultists that they re watching fox news like, they want to get their addiction kind of satisfied. do you think something like steve bannon saying something about this like fox news can contribute to its demise? it depends. people decided to become fox news viewers, they re not seeing those comments or steve bannon at cpac. fox news, vaccination is not covering cpac. steve bannon could say
advil targets pain at the source of inflammation. when pain comes for you, come back fast with advil liqui-gels. in trump world, matt gaetz maga now since we re making attorney s attorneys. the newest report from the washington post confirmed just that. special counsel jack smith is focusing on trump s former lawyers, including rudy giuliani, for his involvement in the fake electors scheme and what he did in the days around january six. that is according to people who have appeared before that grand jury. the post also reports that investigators are looking into the classified documents taken to mar-a-lago, and they ve sought information on the accents of boris epstein and went to four testimony from another trump lawyer, edward corcoran, saying evidence trump used the 30s legal services in furtherance of a crime.
fracturing of right-wing media. we re seeing silos. those steve bannon loyalists have made their way over to news next. they have made their way over to oan and whatever the next fringe of the fringe of the fringe right-wing network is. i don t think it s going to impact fox news. we certainly have learned this week that they are all hypocrites. at a minimum. so, carlos, she is now in the fray for the ron desantis run i will. thank both of you. lucy, you ve entered into the fray. we have things going with whether ron ron desantis it s going or not. gotta make a bet. get a cuban coffee and he s got at least as big an ego us on ultra. my thanks to the saturday morning power panel, lucy caldwell, former congressman, carlos curbelo. thank you so much. and as the race for 2024 kicks off, special counsel jack smith sets his sights on trump s lawyers, like rudy giuliani. are we closer to a trump indictment with this move?
already spoke. and it will culminate with president trump or former president trump s address later today. but remember what we heard from ronald reagan. here is just a taste of what the conservative party now stands for today. we had to spend four or five days asking the chinese spy balloon what its pronouns were before we were willing to shoot it down! i will look at directly tell zelenskyy, better leave your hands off of our sons and daughters, because they are not dying over there! joining us now is my saturday morning power political panel, lucy caldwell, political strategist and former campaign manager for joe walsh s 2020 presidential run. and former republican carlos curbelo, who is also an msnbc political analyst. thank you so much for being here on set this morning. it s a pleasure to have you. lucy, thanks for being here for the first time. carlos, you are already welcome. carlos, i want to start with. you considering how poorly mauve got back, trump backed