The headlines saying it all, heartbreak across the state as those fires continue to rage across maui chasing thousands from their homes. no power, no internet and next to no progress in beating back the flames that have already left dozens dead. fema directorwill join me live in a minute. donald trump launching a three-pronged attack using ads, speeches, and tv interviews to go after the men and women charging him with crimes. is there a point in which those criticisms themselves break the law? and a year and a half after russia invaded ukraine, it s a scenario that almost no one would have predicted at the start. moscow now under increasing threat, its airports scrambling planes, government buildings bombed, residents raing for cover. we ll have the latest there as well. but we begin with paradise ablaze. at this hour, at least 36 people are dead as three wildfires rage
Could violate any law that he thinks is unconstitutional. so, my constitutional expertise tells me one thing, lawrence, which is that donald trump s lawyer, john lauro, should know there s only one person who can pull off five back to tv interviews and remain coherent, and that is andrew weissmann. [laughter] certainly he s not with respect to his claim about trump running a pause, first of all, most coup plotters don t like to say coup, they shroud their language and other things. and trump, as you say, he used the word pause. but when john lauro uses the word of, what he means is pausing in the counting of legitimate votes that you and i and all americans cast, those that have been ratified by the secretaries of state in every one of these state, solemn state processes, and 62 different courts have signed off on it. and where congress had set a solemn date, january 6th, to count all these votes. this wasn t like a pause. this was an attempt to throw
Trump asked for, president trump asked for at the ellipse speech was merely to pass the voting for a period of time, to allow the state legislature and even then, mr. eastman said, it was a violation of the law. so he did know that he was breaking the law. no, he didn t say that he said it was a minor violation of the law. he said that the electoral count act was not constitutional. and the only thing required under the electoral count act is a vote on january 6th. what mr. eastman said it was a violation you have to let me finish. so, neal katyal, constitutional expert, john lauro saying that donald trump could violate any law that he thinks is unconstitutional. so, my constitutional expertise tells me one thing, lawrence, which is that donald trump s lawyer, john lauro, should know there s only one person who can pull off five back to tv interviews and remain coherent, and that is andrew weissmann. [laughter]
Aides would have to scurry behind him, retrieved, and take them together. some of the documents produced to us appear to have been torn and taped together. so there s a pattern here, overtime, although it s benign spin, lack of adherence to president, responsibility, presidential, records and confidentiality of those documents. but more nefariously the affirmative attempt to hide stuff. and again, stuff is sometimes the property of united states sometimes it s evidence as alleged in this current indictment that has already been requested by the government. either way it s criminal, and that s why he s facing not just this case but potentially others involving the same who are intended core conduct. andrew weissmann, the kind of blabbered defense donald trump has offered at rallies and friendly tv interviews is to say, i had a right to have all this stuff.