we will watch the court, maggie vespa, thank you very much. that s going to do it for me. deadline white house starts right now. hello, everyone, it s 4:00 in new york. i m ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. just a few hours ago, attorneys for donald trump filed a brief defending their can client s place on the ballot in that critical 14th amendment case that s before the supreme court over whether his role in the january 6th insurrection bars him from running for office. oral arguments before the justices are on thursday. we are also hearing from special counsel jack smith, his prosecutors are mounting a defense of the classified documents probe in a filing to judge aileen cannon. we re going to have more on that in a little while as well. we begin with developments in the middle east where the threat of further air strikes looming across the region and a furry of diplomacy with one goal, preventing the war in gaza from widening even further. president biden and his
testify in georgia tomorrow. also tonight, vote remembers going to the polls in two states with liz cheney s political career on the line in wyoming and lisa murkowski facing a challenge for her senate seat in alaska and get this, sarah palin is trying to become relevant again. get that skit ready, snl. i m tiffany cross in for joy reid. we begin with a familiar place, maybe even a happy place, because donald trump is once again at the center of controversy. this time over classified top secret documents that led to the mar-a-lago raid. now the judge who approved a search warrant will hear arguments thursday over whether to unseal the search warrant affidavit. the doj has asked a judge to keep it sealed while trump wants it released. meanwhile, republicans and pro-jump extremists continue to slam the fbi and justice department over their search and now there s another talking point floating in the ether saying what trump actually did it was no big deal. i think mar-a-lago
absolutely accurate by this country s history. peter, i m curious through your counterterrorism lens, i m watching this play out as an american, but i do wonder what message is this sending on a global stage to our allies and enemies alike as they see how incompetent this man was and how careless he was with national secrets? i m curious, you know, are people breathing a sigh of relief that he s not in office, or do people look at this as some sort of permanent character flaw in american political leadership? well, i think you re getting two big thoughts across the capitals of the various nations, the first for our allies. there s i think likely stunned that this level of information that he took out of the white house, that he was keeping in his personal residence, and, again, keep in mind the intelligence collection that the united states engages in, we get an extraordinary volume of intelligence from our allies and from other friendly nations. we rely on that to keep america safe.
The Atlantic
January 12, 2021
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For the past four years, Donald Trump has been playing two roles: one as president, and the other as the rallying point for a coalition of theocrats, internet fantasists, white supremacists, and various other authoritarians who are in no way committed to peaceful transitions of power. Wednesday’s insurrection at the United States Capitol made Trump’s latter role all too clear.
Before he incited the deadly attack, Trump still might have had a future in politics. Even after losing his reelection bid, Trump had been well positioned to launch his own media brand, maintain his spell over other Republicans, and make life hard for his Democratic successor, Joe Biden. But Trump’s role in the violent insurrection which was intended to overturn the 2020 election and literally drove members of Congress into hiding could and should turn him into an outcast. He’s been banned from Twitter. Many Republicans are distancing