i ll be back to continue our special coverage of the indictment of donald trump, joining my colleagues alicia and then the, simone sanders hand sound, and me, at eight pm eastern for more in-depth reporting. and analysis, but first, there s still two more hours of velshi on this saturday morning. coming up next, the latest on the trump indictment. what we know, what comes next, and what effect it s going to have on the 2024 election. another hour of velshi begins, right now. good morning. saturday, june 10th. i m ali velshi. for the second time in just a little over two months, the twice impeached ex president, donald trump, has been indicted. this, time by the federal government. yesterday, jack smith made his first official public appearance as special counsel to announce the historic indictment. he also underlined why it s so important that this case moves forward.
us a mixed message. i know. you lead with a towards having a limit enough, but then you tell us not to worry. i like to sensationalize at the top and then bring truth and reality i m looking at a case out of mississippi. this was a mother who called the police because the father of one of four children was behaving, in her eyes, angrily and so she asked her 11-year-old son to call the police and when the police got there, the police shot the 11 year old boy. the good news is, he is going to be okay. but lawyers are saying, we call you for a grown man and you shot an 11 year old who is under five feet tall. so, there s no way you could have mistaken that, in the attorney s eyes. so, i will be watching to see if this officer is charged, fired, any sort of discipline as this case moves forward. okay. danny? this sunday night, the series not season the series finale of
would suggest he was in a hurry might mean is he feeling political pressure from left flank. after the charges we found out another eyewitness has come forward to say that the person who was killed was actually making threats. ainsley: do you think that alvin bragg was pressured? there were so many protesters down in the subways preventing all the trains from actually moving on the tracks. i know he had sent it to the grand jury. the grand jury would have decided whether this case moves forward. obviously it s going to now. that s right. you have to wonder why he decided to brings the charges there are so many penal in new york who have to deal with these dangerous subways. and you have got homeless people and mentally ill people and violent people constantly preying on people of new york, both in their streets and on public transportation. and you have to wonder whether a grand jury, if they had had a
and that s why the judge granted our motion for an anonymous jury what i found really remarkable is that the judge went an extra step here and as you say, chris, told the jurors to hide their true names, their true identities from one another. i think that s problematic you know, jury deliberations is a sort of intensely personal interaction where jurors have to sort of fully and freely and truthfully and honestly engage in a discussion, and sometimes it can get very heated and when they re hiding their true names and identities from one another, i don t think that s healthy for the criminal justice system ken, i want to move on to the criminal hush money case what more can you tell us about what the d.a. is asking that judge to do? chris, prosecutors are asking for a protective order that would constrain trump from making public the sensitive information that his lawyers will get as that case moves forward.
two drugs used in a process called medication abortion, which accounts for over half of all abortions conducted in the united states several weeks ago . a judge in texas, though, revoked the fda approval of a purse stone and now the supreme court is mulling what happens to that decision, while this case makes its way through the courts. they have several options. one is the supreme court could decide that they re just going to take up this case , trying to decide it before the term ends in june, could also allow the case to continue working its way through the appeal system, potentially eventually ending up at the supreme court. but eventually this issue does have to be decided on the merits. and right now it is up to the justices on what will happen to this medication in the interim will remain on the market, or will they uphold that texas decision while this case moves forward. we expect at this point, the supreme court will have another update, though it s unclear if it will be a fi