Get a free line of unlimited intro for a year when you buy one unlimited line. Visit xfinitymobile. Com today to learn more. Today, the former Special Counselor who investigated President Bidens mishandling of documents, a man by the name of robert hur, was grilled on capitol hill. The former counsel has already declined to charge President Biden with anything, concluding that nothing he did was worthy of prosecution. But that did not stop republicans in congress from making a four hour circus out of mr. Hurs testimony today. That is because todays hearing wasnt actually a matter of law. It was about scoring political points. The reality here is that the only reason joe biden accidentally taking some classified documents when he left office, the only reason that matters at all is because donald trump willfully, purposefully, took classified documents with him when he left office and then tried to obstruct justice to cover it all up. These two cases are not the same. But dont just take
Atlanta, and its sparking speculation that another indictment could be coming very soon for the former president. And also ahead well look at a special election today in the state of ohio that could change the rules for amending that states constitution and how it could impact Abortion Rights there. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, august 8th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. Well get right to the news, and it was another fast moving night on the legal front yesterday in the newest federal case against donald trump. Judge Tanya Chutkan has summoned both sides to appear for a hearing no later than this friday, after they were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of a protective order requested by special counsel jack smith. Just before 5 00 p. M. Yesterday trumps lawyers filed a response pushing back at smiths motion to bar trump from sharing sensitive evidence on social media. They argued this and ill quote, in a trial amount Firs
Time and time again. They wont let it go. Anyway, its a good night for people who like democracy and representative democracy. Thank you, my friend. And thank you for joining us at home for this hour of television. Maybe its a university commencement, you get the idea and then there are speeches from our most recent former president. Before i show you his speech today, i have to warn you it is vulgar, but we are going to play it uncensored for reasons we will outline after we play you this sound. So prepare yourself. Im sorry, i wont be able to go to iowa today. I wont be able to go to New Hampshire today because im sitting in a courtroom on bullshit because his Attorney General charged me with something. Terrible. That was the former president of the United States, President Donald Trump in New Hampshire today calling the multiple criminal indictments against him, very serious charges, that was trump characterizing those indictments as b. S. Now im not bringing this up because trump w
Retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. All those materials could be relevant. Its fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. I think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the Appeals Court to get timely compliance. But clearly the evidence here that is important to jack smith in the investigators. So im sure well see pieces of that during the trial. Thats right. Twitter, elon musk, resisted, and the company was fined 350,000 bucks for delaying the execution of that Search Warrant. Were also still learning more on the previously secret memo laying out a plan and a roadmap for the fake electors scheme that was to overturn the 2020 election. Theres a lot in this memo, and i think with the memo really does here is contextualize all the events we have been getting, from the january six subcommittee, and from this indictmen
Request to limit what the former president can say about the case against him. Now accusing federal prosecutors of trying to restrict trumps First Amendment rights. Do they have a case on this at all . Trumps former white house lawyer ty cobb will be with me. Plus, a deadly strike. Russia ramping up attacks on civilian targets. We are learning tonight of a russian plot to assassinate the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. And an alarming scene as a massive brawl breaks out between a black man and a group of white voters in montgomery, alabama. And tonight police are vowing to make arrests. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, team trumps response. The former president s legal team just now responding to a request from the Special Counsel that came after trump posted if you go after me, im coming after you. All caps. Trumps team arguing that his ability to share information in the January 6th Case is covered by the First Amendment. They say in a trial