caution it s. ron klain having work to the judiciary committee with joe biden when he was chairman and the business of confirming those judges. ron klein told me about is last week of working for the white house that he s their underway fulfilling every vacancy in the federal courts. they might get to a point this year where they re sitting there with no vacancies. wow! that s just an astonishing accomplishment. at a time when it is abundantly clear how very important the judiciary is to be functioning democracy. exactly. we are joined tonight by harvard law officer professor laurence tribe to consider of among other things mike pence s novel to put it kindly, novel notion about why he should testify before a grand jury. novel is one way putting it or, it s account wait to see. it thanks. alex thank you. well the breaking news of the night is that special prosecutor jeff jack smith has invoked the crime fraud exception in a motion to force one of donald trump
among other things, mike pence s novel to put it kindly novel notion about why he should not have to testify before a grand jury. novel is one way of putting it, lawrence. i can t wait to see. it thanks, alex. thank you. well the breaking news of the night is that special prosecutor jeff jack smith has invoked the crime fraud exception in a motion to force one of donald trump s lawyers to testify before a grand jury without being able to refuse to answer questions because of the attorney client privilege. the crime fraud exception can overrule the attorney client privilege. the new york times is reporting tonight federal prosecutors overseeing the investigation into former president donald j trump s handling of classified documents are seeking to pierce assertions of client attorney privilege and compel lawyers to answer more questions before a grand jury according to two people familiar with the matter, adding an aggressive new dimension to the inquiry and und
to today. we begin with 0,000-foa sixty ts foot in the sky balloon that s flying over the continentale. wa us somewhere where at this momentt this we re not exactly sure. it is a massive chinese spy balloon the size of, say,, hove three school buses.rir iout has been hovering overml our country for days. and why hasn td we our governmee told we, the people about this ,the self-proclaimed most transparent administration itras history? china says it s a weather balloon. i don t believe anyone here believe them can say it louder.l now. all right. they re saying accidentally that he s flying over america s critical military infrastructure. now it sy happening in multiple states . a lying communist spokesperson nameisd mao told us to calm dow, quote, any deliberateside speculation or hyping uperin will not help the chinese side n is gathering the facts and hopes all sides will handle this matter matter in a coolhes manner. how about we don t need lectures from the communist
matter that much anymore. it s all politically driven it seems. it matters less about the charges and more about which political party you belong too. you decide where the bias isabel put out that the evidence for example the potential indictment of donald trump over hush money at the center of the investigation a payment made by michael cohen seven years ago related to an incident 17 years ago. this week a mysterious move by manhattan grand jury who set to consider the case and possibly the indictment on an especially postponed and then canceled for now. good democrat d.a. alvin bragg not have enough evidence? bragg made it known during his campaign for d.a. he was about going after donald trump. has achieved a deputy attorney general s office, we sued the trump administration over 100 times. be hard to argue with the fact that with most important most hope hype profile case i ve seen them upfront and awol since he can do. but we ve had similar fate s out before they got c
rahses says inaccuracies and lies when it comes to the this issue, and i don t know where to the even begin to answer this question because, again, it s been lies and lies and inaccuracy, and i m just not going to yet into it are from the here. maria: coming up, wisconsin senator ron johnson on questions over biden s influence peddling that will not go away. plus, former acting attorney general matt whitaker and constitutional law professor alan dershowitz on the efforts to take down donald rump there. whatever the case. then the disinformation campaign goes on. independent journalist matt taibbi on how the fbi and other government agencies helped keep biden s inconvenient truths out of the media. then the it has been three years since president obama told us exactly what he wanted after leaving office. i used to say, you know what, if i could make an arrangement where i had a stand-in, a frontman or frontwoman and hay had an earpiece in and i was just in my basement in m