our calendars. yes ought to use a pencil, not a pen. it s monday, august 14th, it s a little less than two months from right now, and that is the day that judge aileen cannon has set for the trial of donald j. trump in the case having to do with classified documents, the legally and dangerously illegally and dangerously kept by him at a mar-a-lago. relatively speaking, that s soon, perhaps surprising given judge cannon s history of rulings considering to be favor to believe the disgraced ex-president who apointed her. but things get murky. the date august 14th is subject to delay, maybe delay after delay. in addition to what one would normally expect, illegal tactics, on one side to drag things out, there is another complicating factor, and that is complexities having to do with the classified material itself and something called the classified information procedures act. as we said, we re using pencils at this point, not pens. our experts will explain all of it in greater
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. there s brand new reporting that drives home the fact that donald trump is his own worst enemy when it comes to his many, many, many legal problems and when it comes to the indictment and the classified documents investigation turning him from a disgraced twice impeached once indicted ex-president. in that case he has no one to blame but himself. the washington post reports late last year team trump hit a fork in a road, a point in which trump could have chosen an option that very well may have avoided an indictment in the documents case. from that new reporting, quote, one of trump s new attorneys proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. the former president s team could try to arrange a settlement with the justice department. the attorney, chris kise, wanted to quietly approach justice to see if he could negotiate a settlement that could preclude charges hoping the department would want an exit ramp to avoid prosecuting a former pre
beyond the facts and the law like the seeming political nature of a subpoena or pursuing a particular line of inquiry, then i do think that that s a serious inquiry worthy of consideration. and in on the other side of the part of your investigation that delved into the willard hotel, one of the most colorful antic dotes or realms carol leonnig and her colleagues take us inside of was a determination at one point not to pursue an investigation into the willard. can you just remind our viewers the importance of what happened at the willard to your investigation? absolutely. the willard was sort of a war room on january 6th where there were a lot of lawyers that were working on pressuring state officials, reaching out to members of congress that were orchestrating this plot. we actually did subpoena hotel records from the willard. we wanted to know who paid for the rooms of that war room and
meadows. the president referred to it, referred to the document, talked a little bit about what was in it and was very clear it had not been declassified because he says to his aide we should move on because i want to show it to you. whether the doj has that, they don t say that in the indictment. and similarly with the document referred to in another paragraph or two of the indictment where it s alleged mr. trump showed another piece of classified information involving maps the leader of his pack, political action committee, it s unclear whether doj has that document. and those would be things that would need to have happened, antic dotes from the auto biographers or leader of the pack are less proof to bring a case like that. but they might have it, we just don t know right now. glenn, thanks to you and thanks to all your reporting from miami. and looks like you re no longer
breaking news the white house announced president trump plans to make a white house speech and visit the u.s. mexican border on thursday. all of this is a partial government shutdown despite funding for that wall. now in the 17th day with no end in sight. let s ask our experts all about this. what do you expect from the president s speech tomorrow night and his visit to the border on thursday? the speech first. i think it falls into one of two buckets. he announces a national state of emergency. option two, he cobbles together some mix of antic dotes, some of these half true and not true stats about the crisis on the