yourself, if you won t even do anything, you know, it looks it s a bad look, if nothing else. and at a minimum, no excuse. everything in our lives, every sector of the economy has changed because of globalization, technology. if you think this is okay, why have the ethics rules been updated in years? everything should be updated as technology changes. for me the issue is transparency. if you think it s okay to do these things, put out there and let people decide. don t hide them because that makes it suspicious. the nature that we are learning late after the fact makes it suspicious whether it is or not. we have not heard from the co court justice thomas. thank you. just released july inflation report. our business team combing throughout data. that s ahead. arraignments happening in michigan. 16 fake elector facing criminal charges related to their actions
republicans. they range from a school board officials.mayor, republican most of them will be appearing in court at 8:30 this morning. we learned many of them will actually appeaa zoom. bu are all charged with eight felony counts each, and if they were convicted it would amount to decades in prison. most are saying they are vowing to fight the charges vigorously. some even claimed that the attorney general, dana nessel, who is a democrat, is wrongly targeting political opponents because she announced these charges last month. it was though after investigation into this fake electors plot the 16 trump allies showed up at the michigan state capital in december 2020, tried to storm in with fake certificates that falsely declared trump as winner of the state s electoral votes when joe biden had won the state by more than 100,000 votes. all 16 being charged with forgery, publishing a counterfeit record. notably, these are the first
his own image and narrative. i m not sure in that moment he could fast forward two years to think this was going to be a critical piece of evidence in a first ever case where a former president has been criminally indicted by the department of justice. he clearly is not in that mind space. he s arguing a different kind of case than the one he s fighting. it appears to be egging him on, which is remarkable. there s something going on there. david, you make it very important point that i want our viewers to hear. that is a about the political co court. want to put up on the screen the latest cnn poll about whether or not politics played a role in the trump indictment overall. republicans, 92%. i just think we have to be able to see the reality that two
criminal, i had every right to have these documents. it s an absolute right. this is the law. reporter: but according to the national archives, the presidential records act requires that all records created by presidents be turned over to the national archives at the end of their administrations. snil scholars say the dngam se court. the reason it is so hard to make, these are personal records are not presidential records or agency records because they are classified documents on their face, they are literally creed by the agency with classified information. reporter: on the campaign trail, some republicans say trump can defend himself. i cannot defend what is alleged in this indictment come up with the president and entitled to his day in co court. norah: robert costa joins us now, both back from miami. how is this shaking up the prosocial contest? reporter: tonight, norah, my top republican sources say trump s rivals on the g.o.p. side sent some vulnerability because of
children sold into slavery to the crime, it is outrageous trigger he needs to be removed from office. we need to send a message that this is not acceptable in the united states of america. he is doing the bidding of joe biden and the globalist h here, right, so he s actually doing what they wanted to do. but it is completely undermining everything we love our country. is integral thank you for being a leader on this issue this is not just a problem that is isolated the border cities. my next guest reporter savanna hernandez is down in el paso where she spoke with a pregnant 19-year-old from ecuador to cross illegally with her par partner. well, she turned herself into immigration officials and was given a date to appear in co court. now listen closely for it