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Documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial tosk start just three mons before the president ial election. Except that request may not exactly by what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. But, yeah, doesnt sound like something donald trump plays all that often. But bear with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be ahi way to block that other federal criminal case, the specialra counsels much more serious federal Election Interference case before going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive news th...

but then while they were mulling the desperation of their circumstances in landsberg prison, they got some good news, a new lawyer who wanted to try to reopen their case. >> it's no wonder orzo the cat came over to help. i don't think this was photo bombing by a cat. i think this was encouragement by cat. get it right, maddow. come on, spit it out. spit it out. how many times you going restart this sentence? thanks to kelsey and the rest of the podcast team and most definitely orzo the producer cat, episode 3 of "ultra" was finally spat out by me. it is available now for free whereve...

okay, -- a joe biden and donald trump spent their time this week a little bit differently. one was overseas speaking forcefully about defending democracy. the other was here at home, talking about all the ways he intends to dismantle it. the co-chair of the biden- harris campaign and he is coming up first plus a working exclusive from nbc news just in the last few minutes. donald trump will sit down with a probation officer tomorrow andrew wiseman is going to tell us what to expect. also today, four it's really hostages rescued, and scores of palestinians killed in the process. w...

Notable interaction with him on the travel ban. to talk about that i want to bring in nick ackerman. now a partner at dorsey and whitney. thank you for being here. here's the central point i want to get at. is the president essentially undercutting his own department of justice when he says let's not use the watered down version, something that he signed essentially. walk us through the sort of legal impations of what the president is talking about this morning. >> this is an absolute nightmare for the department of justice lawyers. this is the last thing that they need, having their own clien...

Matters are concluded with criminal charges and then there's a public accounting and a charging document. other matters as was the case with the e-mail investigation end with no charges but some statement. others end with no statement. i don't know yet. obviously i would want to do that in close coordination with the department. >> will you make recommendations to presumably it would be the deputy attorney general or the special prosecutor if one is appointed as to whether criminal charges should be brought? >> i don't know in this case, in particular, but in general, we almost always do espec...