so, you know you know what? what matters is, what is andre weizmann and neil cattle think about it they will tell us that whe they join us tonight very good, thank you, lawrence thanks very much. thank. yo the breaking news of the nigh is that federal criminal defendant donald j trump testified in his own defense tonight on fox we will show you that testimon in a moment. it includes statements that ca and will be held against him i court. the defense donald trump offered tonight which, onc again, maybe more of a confession then a defense come one day after his last secretary of defense said that donald trump cannot be trusted with government secrets ever again and it comes one day after donald trump s las senate confirmed attorne general said this. this was a case that wa
prison for life, which is th penalty in the state of texas. joy reid, thank you ver much for joining us tonight on this travel day when you could not quite cover your hou earlier tonight, it is so good we got to see you at this hour thank you my friend, much appreciated. thank you you can watch joy reid s interview with vice presiden kamala harris tomorrow night on the readout at seven pm eastern right here on msnbc. and coming up, on a day when secretary of state anthony blinken achieve something of a diplomatic breakthrough with china. donald trump on fox tonigh could not answer a singl foreign policy question, not one. that s next. tech: when you have auto glass damage. choose safelite. we can come to you and replace your windshield. grandkid: here you go! tech: wow, thank you! customer and grandkids: bye! tech: bye! don t wait, schedule now. singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. moderate to severe eczema
in terms of a client who is no capable of being controlled, s you know, he s his own worst enemy, since the point of, you know, what you re doing righ now and showing these clips an having us comment on it. so they knew what they wer getting into on the presidential records act, i will say it s not what the law says in black and white, the law is absolutely clear the only possible way for trum to use this is to say, okay, well maybe it s clear out in space but that s not what thought at the time. meaning, i thought that the la allows me to keep. it will first of all, that s inconsistent with what he just did on fox news, which was h was separating out the persona from government documents, he been saying all his personal and was he doing any separation? all the documents are like his golf shirt second, in order to make tha defense, somebody has to tak the stand, presumably him. that s going to be the bes possible thing for jack smit is donald trump taking a stand
partisan, institutional caution, and clashes over how muc evidence was sufficient to investigate the actions of trump and those around him all contributed to this slow pace. attorney general garland and the deputy attorney general, lisa monaco, chartered a cautious course aimed at restoring public trust in th department while som prosecutors below them chafed, feeling top officials were shining away from looking at evidence of potential crimes b trump and those close to him the post found the reporting has interesting, colorful, dramatic behind th scenes moments, but it does no show any willful active attemp to protect donald trump agains the evidence mounting agains him. prosecutorial caution is not unusual in a justice departmen that took five years, yes, fiv years to investigate the killing of eric garner by a ne york city police officer using a chokehold. a killing that was recorded on
out. there was a subpoena that came after that, after you starte giving stuff back. and you lied to the doj, you had nauta moving documents that s why you got raided. i understand it happens to lot of individuals when they mov down to florida, they start to get confused it wouldn t be me one day, i m sure but no, this is not a defense. he has clearly walked himsel into a bunch of damaging admissions, jack smith has gotta be recording all of that and they are just laughing and popping popcorn because he did nothing to help his case okay, well he did repeatedl tonight claim that the presidential records act mad it legal for him to take any document that he wanted, anything when he left the whit house. and yesterday, donald trump last attorney genera demolished that defense. absolutely. the legal theory by which he gets to take battle plans an sensitive national securit information as his persona papers is absurd it s just as wacky as the lega