what? i don t think people say this again. i don t think people either know it or forgot it. one more time. trump kept a volume of hitler s speeches on his night stand in his triplex at trump tower. ever explain why he did that? he said it was a gift and he never read it but it came up in his divorce with his wife. he never denied having the book, he just said he never read it. who gave it to him? that s a good question. i don t know. i can t remember who gave it to him. this is the same president who took out newspaper ads in the new york times in the 1980s exploiting racial kdivisions during the central park jogger case. harassing the alleged attackers even after they were proven innocent. they knew the value he could gain by putting himself in the midst of racial division and a racially heated event. what vow have now is in keeping with who he has been for decades. this isn t a strategy. this is who donald trump is. and america chose to elect
procedural posture of the case is entirely usual. because what happened was the prosecutors brought by criminal complaint the sort of five most readily provable offenses that they had based on the evidence that was sworn out by an fbi agent and what will happen now is i predict they will go into the grand jury, will begin presenting every witness and piece of evidence at light speed and return an indictment that will include at least these five counts and maybe more before the preliminary hearing which is normally held within ten days of arrest. that will allow the government to avoid doing an evidentiary hearing at the preliminary hearing. instead, they will simply present the indictment, which by law establishes probable cause because the grand jury has voted it out and then the only question will be the continued detention of sayic. my goodness. all right, i want to turn back to pittsburgh. there s a lot of talk about a
yet he really is setting up the national news media as his foil at times more than even the democratic party. it makes for a charged political environment just days before the midterm election with the president in fighting mode even amid these national tragedies and violence. tim, some people are auki is this is not just politic, it s a signal. does he know what he s doing, when people say, oh, when he calls himself a nationalist, he s just talking about patrio tism. we know that s not the case. dog whistles are silent. this is a fire alarm. there s nothing quiet. it s not new. trump has been engaging in this kind of activity for decades. this is a man who kept a volume of hitler s speeches in his night table
first amendment speech. but legally, what can we really do? prosecutors are obligated to bring difficult cases. test cases. i think we have to not be afraid of the first amendment protections which we all love and embrace. we have to bring test cases like if somebody s riding around in a van with a rifle target over the face of a presidential candidate or a former president, i maintain as a prosecutor that could be charged as communicate ago threat. i would bring that case if i were still a prosecutor. let the defense mount a first amendment offense and let the judges sort it out. because we live in dangerous, dangerous times. if we don t attack it, both on the corporate front and the law enforcement front, then we re going to have more of this because we have not a commander in chief but an inciter in chief. there s one more story that fits into this larger and devastating picture. on wednesday of last week, a gunman tried to enter a
latest on the victims. stephanie, i m standing here in front of the hospital here where four of those victims were initially taken. you know, stephanie, this whole fluent is just aching for good news. yesterday, officials said one of those police officers, of the two here at this hospital, would be released yesterday. as of today, we haven t heard of that. we re hoping that he might come out in the next coming days. but those four victims, one of them is a 74-year-old, and that s going to be very, very difficult for that recuperating. he sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen. so for a man of that age, it s going to take a really long time. we spoke to the head of trauma there. he said that s the most complicated case of the four of them. but i ve also been going around, stephanie, in talking to family and friends of these victims. the 11 people who died. and it s really just such a poignant picture of a really