They are honing in on how to remind people of what it was like during donald trump s years. While kamala harris is focused on prosecuting the case against her opponent for the voters donald trump the convicted criminal spend his day fighting his many court battles. This afternoon in the york criminal hush money case the judge decided to postpone donald trump s sentencing until tuesday, november 26. Three weeks after the presidential election. Explaining his decision the judge wrote the public s confidence in the integrity of our judicial system demands a sentencing hearing that is entirely focused on the verdict of the jury and the weighing of aggravating and mitigating factors free from distraction or distortion. The members of this jury served diligently on this case and their verdict must be respected and addressed in a manner that is not diluted by the enormity of the upcoming presidential election. And set of goals appeals court a little over a block away from the state court wher
Pass a specific decided for ive been appointed by numerous Justice Departments to investigate cases and prosecute them if necessary, where there might be a conflict of interests, Molar Being also another recent one elie, i just want you to explain to our viewers when i started reporting from the White House many years ago, there were independent counsel now there are Special Counsels. Whats the difference . Exactly right. So we had a law on the books of federal law from 1978 to 1999, creating the position of independent counsel. And we had a good number of them. The most famous or infamous one of those was Ken Starr in 1999, that law lapsed. It had a legislative sunset that was such backlash over the Clinton Impeachment that congress just said, lets let it die in its place in 1999, arose the current set of Special Counsel regulations. Under those regulations, weve seen robert muller, Jack Smith, robert hurr, david weiss, as kara noted, who has prosecuting Hunter Biden right now. And th
Inflation. Believe with Jake Tapper starts for now a judge told trumps lawyers today, quote, this court is not concerned with the electoral schedule on the lead starts right now a dramatic day in court as Donald Trump tries to get the federal Election Interference Case against him thrown out, coming up the Stern Rebuke from the judge and how this case is still moving forward with the election only 61 days away, plus another different Election Interference Case. This one about this year, with russia in the middle Justice Department says rightwing Social Media figures were used by the kremlin trying to influence youre votes. Where these influencers dupes, where they useful idiots, or are they victims as they claim and new, details about the tragedy at a High School in georgia, authorities find disturbing writings by the suspected gunman about other School Shootings welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper and we start with a big day in our Law And Justice Lead Today with a heated hearing in D
The department on their findings . You heard the ag a moment ago saying that the Justice Department stands ready to provide resources and support in the days ahead. What is been going on for the past four years . Its obviously intentional. In these couple months leading up to the election they want to put people on notice to not intimidate, harass, all of the above anyone who is part of an election or watching these polls and the like. This is a Task Force they put together some time it appeared im not entirely surprised. It is certainly part for the course for this Department Of Justice to do something like this. Again, im much more interested in what is happening with iran with respect to the United States and how they are trying to actively undermine our election in 2024 and hurt Donald Trump and wondering why the administration has not taken more serious action on the front. John when you think about the days ahead, lets remember in two days voters in North Carolina start casting e
To do that, let s begin with mike isaac, tech correspondent for the new york times, who s in san francisco. We didn t quite know a lot from the very beginning. We understood that durov was detained, and it was pretty clandestine in the beginning. Then later, the french prosecutors let out a few different reasons. According to a sort of brief statement, it was facilitating child pornography, human trafficking, drug trafficking, a sort of vague reference to encryption issues on the app. So it was kind of a laundry list of issues. More broadly, mike, were you surprised that this happened in france? so, this is. . . One of the fascinating aspects of this case is, you know, it s a big deal in any sort of country at this point, i believe, to really take under arrest the ceo of a major tech company, especially one used by almost a billion people, that telegram is. I think the distinction that s important here is that the arrest was made not under eu sort of broader laws, but specifically unde