privilege, i think as we talk about what these conversations could be between pat cipollone s attorneys and the doj, that grand jury, i should say, what is covered by executive privilege? just remind us here. what conversations could potentially be covered. what we know is that pat cipollone and others have claimed executive privilege to allow them basically to avoid answering questions about conver conversations, private conversations they claim they had with donald trump leading up to and including on january 6. we know with respect to the january 6 committee that pat cipollone, although he appeared before that committee, that he used executive privilege oftentimes to avoid answering specific questions. and this is going to test, quite frankly, whether that privilege holds now that we know that there is a grand jury, a criminal investigation taking place with respect to donald trump. these conversations that pat cipollone s attorneys are having with the doj presumably des
world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and i m brianna keilar with john avalon this morning. good morning? in for john berman. good morning to you. and it is the morning after election night in america where democracy was one of the things on the ballot. primary races in five states setting the stage for what will be some of the most competitive races in november. also another test of donald trump s grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding defeat for efforts to eliminate state abortion protections. it s the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade that voters have weighed in on the issue. with 78% of the vote in as of tuesday night nearly 700,000 people have cast ballots in the primary and that number dwarfs the voter turnout in the 2020 presidential primary election. and remember when ex-president trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race on election eve? well, one of the erics won, cnn projec
robson was endorsed by mike pence. cnn has not yet called that race. also in arizona, cnn is projecting that rusty bowers, the state house speaker who testified before the january 6th committee, will lose his primary to david farnsworth. bowers refused to participate in trump s efforts to throw arizona s 2020 election into doubt. and in michigan, cnn projects election denier tudor dixon has won the republican primary for governor. she will face gretchen whitmer in the fall. also in michigan, peter meijer, one of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach donald trump has been defeated by challenger john gibbs after democrats meddled in his primary. and you might recall that trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race and one of the erics has won. cnn projecting eric schmitt will defeat eric greitens, the former president president governor who resigned in disgrace. let s begin with cnn s jeff zeleny in st. louis with the very latest. jeff? reporter:
amnesty international demands fifa should pay hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate migrant workers abused during world cup preparations in qatar. as india and pakistan face blistering temperatures of 50 degrees celsius, experts warn such heatwaves are now 100 times more likely because of climate change. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news, it is newsday. it s 8:00 in the morning in singapore, and 4:30am in afghanistan, where the number of restrictions imposed on women, under taliban rule, is growing. the ministry for preventing vice and promoting virtue, has been behind a raft of new, hard line laws, and among them, ordering afghan women to wear the islamic face veil. our correspondent, secunder kermani, has been given exclusive access to a team of inspectors, from the ministry and begins our programme. meet the inspectors of the ministry of vice and virtue. with branches across the country, they are remoulding afghanistan to fit in with the taliban s
Classified documents created by members of the intelligence and military presented to the president of the United States during his term in office were purely private. And that trump himself didnt even raise this defense until more than a year after he left the white house. Decide now and give us enough time to appeal. Smiths team is pleading. After all, the president ial records act isnt even what prosecutors have charged him with violating. Its the Espionage Act. Judge Aileen Cannon has yet to respond, but as we wait, what might jack smiths team really be getting at. Former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, charles coleman, and legal correspondent, lisa rubin. This was a biting moment from jack smiths team, and it went further than any other legal filing that weve seen from anymore in regards directly to judge Aileen Cannons own decisions. And the frustration almost leaps off the page. I want to give you and our viewers context, we are dealing with a judge who has left undecided a