D. C. Today the Biden Campaign lo launches the difference between communities and communities of colors. The first criminal trial of an expresident comes to a head this week. A former advisor is here. Overnight, to senators are calling for Justice Samuel alito to recuse himself from election cases. Grab your coffee and settle in. Welcome to the weekend. New this morning, federal prosecutors are asking for help as donald trump increases his attacks on the justice system. The special Councils Office is now asking the judge in the classified documents case to block trump for Making Statements that could endanger Law Enforcement investigating and prosecuting him in that case. The request comes after trump falsely claimed the Biden Administration authorized the fbi to use deadly force against him during the 2022 maralago rate. Of course, that is not true. The Justice Department of course followed the standard policy. Just one escalation this week of trumps Outrageous Campaign rhetoric. Anot
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catholic church. a leading catholic newspaper is calling on pope benedict to answer questions about his role in managing the sex abuse cases. nbc s jim maceda is in london with more. jim, what has been the response from the vatican so far? hi there, contessa. well, every day seems to bring these new revelations and the scandal now is on pope benedict s front step. before i get into vatican reaction, get this. on italian television last night, 3 of some 67 ex-pupils at a school for the deaf we ve heard about this before. this one in verona. they ve accused specific priests, including the former bishop of va rerona. he had been on a track for sainthood in the vatican and anyhow, these victims spoke much too graphically for this show, anyway, about systematic sexual abuse and beatings over three decades from the 50s to the