Good evening, im jim acosta. Joining me in moments, president potential candidate vivek ramaswamy, whose name showed up in a ron desantis debate memo as the rival to attack on the stage. Hillary spawn that and more. But first, in just a few moments, in the date on the calendar will be april 2026. Thats two years, seven months from now. Thats nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election. And just a year and a half before the 2028 election. And yet, donald trump and his lawyers are suggesting that date for his trial in the federal case on his efforts to overturn the election. Its their counter to jack smiths proposal to start this january. Meantime, the former president , in his first on camera reaction to the george indictment, has a warning to his party. Disgraceful thing. And republicans cant let him get away with it. Republicans have to be tough. The republicans are great in many ways, but they dont fight as hard for this. They have to get a lot tougher. If they, dont theyre not
motivated well, let s just take that one as an example. that indictment made zero mention of the presidential records act. the most recently passed act that relates to a president, including an outgoing presidents, access to documents. the fact that this is a 49-page indictment, that one was, that was silent on that fact reveals, some acts of polarization. i don t think also the fact that they use the espionage act, one of the most un-american acts in the u.s. history that has been used to round up anti war activists. that was used to lock-up eugene victims. do you think do you think it s al-qaeda have classified documents lane arauz the ramaswamy household? no it s not, but i think there s a difference between a bad judgment and a crime. and the presidential records act expressly gives the president access whose records. but he didn t return them. they asked for the documents back, and i would ve made very different arguments.