In 2009, South Carolina governor mark sanford was a Republican Rock Star his reputation as a Budget Slashing Deficit Hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person. The search for sanford through his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of lies that coined the phrase to hike the Appalachian Trail but it also revealed something deeper how even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of a human being and counterintuitively, when the world was crashing down around him, bearing at all might have been the savviest political move of mark sanford career its monday night. Do you know where your governor is . Thats what the citizens have. South carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor of Mystery Tonight in South Carolina . The states governor, mark sanford disappeared for days. Governor alert. The search for mark sanford in june 2009, South Carolina g
breaking news at the top of the. our united states forces announced it conducted several strikes yesterday, strikes against targets in hutu- controlled areas of yemen. united states central command says they were in self-defense and targeting unmanned vessels at multiple missiles in the red sea. this happens we captured the united states announced a weeklong campaign against iran- backed militias in the region. we want to switch to the united states senate, a package would aid for taiwan but we re here still, michael steele is not serious when he said he was running for the rnc chair. and we have thoughts about this package. it did clear a major procedural hurdle last night with 64 senators voting to advance it. but still faces a number of uphill battles before that can be a final floor vote. it also comes just days after senate republicans blocked a different aid bill. that bill had major concessions from democrats within the senate on the southern border. joining us now i
citizen trump. the idea that an american president returns to being an ordinary citizen just like everyone else after they leave office is as fundamental to the concept of america as the bill of rights. we re a nation with no king. and therefore, even the president of the united states is just a citizen. no more, nor less. and as such, they are held to the same laws and provided with the same defenses that you and i get. that is what the three-judge panel on the d.c. circuit court of appeals unanimously ruled today in its crushing legal takedown that counter to trump s stated arguments, presidents do not have complete and absolute immunity from criminal prosecution. and thus, trump must face trial for his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. in their ruling they reminded trump what the supreme court has already declared, quote, no man in this country is so high that he is above the law. no officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. all of the of
border measure, blasted by trump. new york governor kathy hochul joins me live, to talk about what that means for the migrant crisis in her state. and, about the special election to replace disgraced ex congressman george santos. and, dynamic duo. my conversation with the actors who betrayed dr. martin luther king junior and malcolm x, in a new series that gives fresh insight into the civil rights icons, and their lives. i am jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. we begin tonight with the tale of two candidates and the court system. president biden was dealt both a legal win, and a political blow by the special counsel s classified documents investigation. special counsel robert hur, a republican, declined to file charges against biden, but accused him of memory lapses and, quote, willful willfully disclosing government secrets. top democrats have slammed special counsel hers report, especially his description of biden as a, quote, elderly man with a poor memory. vi
special what we ve been working on why we ve lived through a truly historic week. and that is not a comment on politics or media, criticism or media speculation. i can tell you as a point of fact the supreme court ruling this week and the d.c. circuit court ruling this week will be taught in law schools and in books about american history for many decades to come. right now in those cases the supreme court is basically grappling with key issues involving citizen, defendant and candidate trump, which could shape not only this year s election, but legal and political boundaries in history as we know it. it s on this monumental day, judicial history. a legal case that could rock the race for the white house. donald trump is now at the center of a u.s. supreme court battle. considering whether the leading candidate for the republican presidential nomination should be banned from running again. it seemed like there were at least seven votes against colorado. he is very