If people are held to what they are said prior to being in this house, if Majority Party gets to decide who sits on what committees, i hope you keep that standard because we have a long list to work within your own. Paul thursdays near partyline vote came a day after House Republicans overwhelmingly chose cheney in her leadership post after she came on fire from some numbers for voting to impeach president trump. Lets bring in our panel. Deputy editorial page editor, dan henninger, Colonists Can Strassel and kyle peterson. Why did liz cheney her leadership post even after members were saying her fate was sealed. The boat wasnt even close in the end. Kim i think its because were hogans came to understand this was a symbolic vote in a way, it would send a terrible message if they were to vote her out because it would suggest they were purging her from the party were disagreeing with donald trump. The reality is, theres a lot more going on here, a lot of frustration among the ranks over t
Alleged coconspirators in that indictment. Charles burnham, defense attorney for coconspirator number 2 from the recent indictment. This is a person who has been confirmed and identified as john eastman, the lawyer, who advised donald trump, who spoke at the January 6th Rally there next to rudy giuliani, and was a key architect of much of what the president and his aides were trying to push heading into the january 6th certification. Charles, first of all, thank you very much for making the time and joining me tonight. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. We put aside some time for this. I want to start with a couple of quick things and then get into the case. But first and foremost, donald trump lost the 2020 election. You accept that fact . Well, look. There is a large portion of the country that has issues with the 2020 election. There are still discussion about things that went on. A large portion of the country believes in goats or horoscopes. Im asking do you accept the results o
welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we re tracking several pieces of news in this coming criminal trial of donald trump. his allies advise delay, this key tack we hear about in dealing with the indictment. we know jack smith, however, guaranteed a speedy trial. my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter, consistent with the public interest and the rights of the accused. there are some complexities with the case, but the federal judge is making news with a fast time line, ruling that trump s espionage trial will now be set to begin august 14th. that s just eight weeks from now, and trump s run for office is ongoing. it puts the trial on a collision course with the first republican presidential debate the following week. it will be held in a small florida courthouse, and this plan is putting even more pressure on trump to get in gear. he has seen several lawyers depart his defense team. he was recently adding new ones as of last week. now, to be ready for a trial
nine soldiers killed in kentucky, two black hawk helicopters crashed in a residential area during a nighttime training mission. the deadliest loss for our military in a single incident since 13 troops were killed by a suicide bomber in kabul in 2021. what we are learning about the moments before the crash and what witnesses say they saw and heard. martha raddatz with late reporting. in russia tonight a u.s. journalist charged with espionage, the first time since the cold war. the kremlin claiming he was caught red-handed, the wall street journal reporter originally from new jersey facing decades behind bars if convicted to pleading not guilty in court. the wall street journal saying he is innocent, the white house saying the charges are the chilling 911 call audio released from inside that nashville school. a teacher in a closet in the art room with students calling for help. you can hear the children in the background, how the brave teachers protected their students. t
resolve quickly. i think you will find there is nothing there. i have no regrets. i m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. exact will i what we re doing. there is no there there. harris: critics reacting with this. this just in. china and ukraine have no regrets about their access to biden s documents, either. another pointing out the president s totally different reaction to trump s document scandal. the washington post reporting quote, a justice official asked specifically that biden s legal team secure the materials from the penn biden center and refrain from further reviewing them or other relevant documents that might be stored at different locations. did they do that? white house correspondent jacque heinrich live from the north lawn. that s an important question. harris, the president is being investigated for whether or not he took classification laws seriously. the expression of no regrets is giving a lot of fodder to his biggest critics.