Effective, and it is not safe. Thank you very much. That is all in on the thursday night. Alex wagner tonight starts right now. Good evening, alex. Thanks to athome for joining me this hour. This evening, weve got some fairly shocking news. President trump is asking the court to schedule one of his federal criminal trials before the november election, specifically, trump is requesting that maralago classify its documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal Election Interference case from going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive
B is august. He has made an immunity argument, the same argument that is made in d. C. One minor difference. He wasnt president. His argument is, but i took the documents while i was president. I have said, that is like a bank robber saying you know, i legally got the gun that i used to rob the bank. Right. I was a customer of the bank when they went in and took the money. Everything is just such an irrelevancy. But hes got judge cannon and so the question is whether judge cannon will sit on that, whether she will grant it, or if she denies it and says but its not a frivolous argument, meaning all of these delays of appeal that we have seen in the d. C. Case, don trump is going to try that, of course. Same road. Back to the Supreme Court. Its much harder factual argument. But, thats not the issue. Just remember, we were all sitting here going, hes arguing that he can order s. E. A. L. Team six to kill a political important opponent and were going as absolutely laughable laughable. A no
Classified documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal Election Interference case from going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive news, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear trumps argument, that those criminal trials in the d. C. Case should be thrown out because a president ial immunity. But the court did not schedule oral arguments on that case to start until the week of april 20 seconds. Because of that delay, even if the Supreme Court decides this case incredibly quickly, this Election Interference case most likely could no
Candidate South Carolina governor and un ambassador nikki haley. She is speaking live, right now for the very First Time Since you dropped out of the race and march, she Just Announced that she will be voting for Presumptive Republican president ial nominee donald trump in november. As soon as jeff zeleny joins me now lives in studio. Jeff, did we expect this or is this a surprise . Jake had somewhat of a surprise. She did not mention Donald Trumps name at all in his speech that she just finished giving, but it came up in the questionandanswer session at a think tank, the hudson institute, which she now is leading here. She was asked and near the end of that q a, who would she vote for . Her speech was very critical of joe biden and his policies again, she did not mention donald trump by name until she was asked who her ballot would be four as of voter i put my priorities on a president whos going to have the backs of our allies and hold our enemies to account who would secure the bord
Treated to a show. Experts say the solar storm is no threat to humans. As for the dazzling displays there is still a small chance you might be able to see them tonight. Your best odds for viewing is to get far away from the city lights. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joins me in just a few minutes to talk about the Biden Administrations approach to israel. Plus, she is documenting it, telling me the story without words. One of the Trump Trial Sketch Artist will join me to tell me what she is seeing and thinking as history plays out before her in this hour starting right now. T now. A very good day, welcome, everyone. We are on the brink of history in less than 24 hours. Michael cohen will take the stand in a manhattan courthouse. Transformer fixer is expected to testify how he fronted a big payment to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about the alleged affair with trump ahead of the election. Im kind of looking forward to it. You can be finished with something unless you start it. If th