during a holiday in portugal 16 years ago. madeleine vanished from a portuguese holiday home 16 years ago on the 3rd of may, 2007. a week later portuguese police said they believed madeleine had been abducted but was still alive and in portugal. at the end of may 2007 police issued a description of a man seen on the night of madeleine s disappearance possibly carrying a child. byjuly 2008 portuguese police say they have submitted their final report on the case. weeks later authorities shelve their investigation. in 2022, a german man is declared an official suspect by portuguese prosecutors. joining me live now arejim gamble, a former police officer who helped with the madeleine mccann investigation, and jon silverman, a professor of media and criminal justice at university of bedfordshire and former bbc home affairs correspondent. thank you forjoining me. first, what exactly are we looking at? it s been many years now since we had any kind of fresh investigation. why is
hu. if you know you know. thank you for jojoining me t to. i i ll see youou next satuturda 8:00 a.m. smerconish is up next. there s an election coming, but you ll never hear jack smith say so. the supreme court is about to have more influence on the outcome of a presidential election than at any time since is the 2000 decision in bush verv. gore. jack smith asked the court to bypass the appellate level and make a decision about whether donald trump is entitled to immunity. and separately, this week they agreed to hear a challenge to a law used to prosecute hundreds of january 6th defendants for obstructing or impeding an official proceedingsing, which could impact smith s prosecution against trump on those charges. here s what s interesting to me. nowhere in the government s petition is there any specific reference to the 2024 presidential election, but that s clear ly what is driving smith s request. in making his case, here s what he told the court. quote, this case prese
going through a difficult period in 2018, i started to review journals, i realized i was doing two things. i was simultaneously trying to out-run something, and i was brief, and then looking for something. that was trying to find my identity. that s what the books about. that happens over six continents, deeply internal journey, in many external visible physical places. i hope you check it out. we will, this is my coffee, everybody, enabling anybody wants to to come in my office and borough it. they can t keep it, bring it back. by more. that s exactly they should. luke russert, it s a pleasure to see you, thank you so much. best of luck with the book, that s gonna do it for me, everyone, on this edition of alex witt reports, my father s my dear friends she continues our coverage right now. ues ou and good afternoon, i m lindsey reiser in for yasmin vossoughian, new numbers just in from the border on this crucial first weekend since title 42 ended. amid fears of an
and suspicious network of companies used to enrich the biden family by more than $10 million. this comes as the g.o.p. presses the fbi for a document that supposedly details a whistleblower s claim that then vice president biden sold his influence for money a document that no one has seen as of yet. the fbi, however, is now responding correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. good evening, bret. we know right now that republicans are calling this judgment day for president biden and his family using bank records. they say they are taking their investigation all the way to the oval office. this committee is investigating president biden and his family s shady business deals that capitalize on joe biden s public office and risked our country s national security. house oversight committee chairman james comer went page by page through new evidence that he says shows the biden family and associates made more than $10 m
andrew weissmann joins us to. he would have been great on that stage. it is not his normal form, but, it needed a courtroom approach. a more persei s, targeted question, then many of the questions we got. so, we will try to see, and we might have some suggestions. i would like to see andrew weissmann versus trump, but i would like to see it in a courtroom. that is another matter, for another day. i will be watching, lawrence. i think cnn did the best they could, it using conventional tools, and we kind of knew ahead of time that conventional tools don t work. i only hope that they are, honestly, privately, i m not asking them to admit any mistakes, publicly, but just privately, watch the game film, try to figure out what you did right, because you did two things right, and try to do time. trump is coming back to cnn. he has found a new home, he will be back. let s just hope that cnn is watching the game, film trying to figure out how to do it better. here s to fingers c