Federal candidates. Thats all. Not to do what the majority actually did by officially giving congress the Sole Authority to enforce the insurrection clause. Theres no basis for that in the constitution quote, the Majority Attempts to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office. Were going to explain what this means in plain language and what it means for the Supreme Courts next big trump case, immunity. Because that decision could have bearing on the other cases were watching on which we also have news. Joining us now, msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin, nbc news senior Legal Correspondent, Laura Jarrett and slate Senior Writer, Mark Joseph Stern. Everybody welcome. Laura, this case, you know, you read the opinion, the Majority Opinion and the you see the headline, everyone agrees this is not political at all, and you read the dissent, and other Amy Coney Barrett, threat liberals on the court, it reads like a dissent. Not a concurrence
Mara gay. White house editor for politico, sam stein. You saw him on way too early. And the founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes. It is a great group. Thank you for being with us this morning. Well begin the week with the latest on those new charges against former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case. Today, a newly introduced third defendant, the Property Manager at former president s florida home, is scheduled to be arraigned in miami Federal Court. Carlos de oliveira was named in a Superseding Indictment last week and charged in four counts, including conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements to the fbi. According to prosecutors, trump directed both de oliveira and his valet, walt nauta, to destroy Security Camera footage last year from the Room Monitoring where boxes of classified documents were being stored at maralago. That alleged order came just days after the fbi issued a subpoena for that same footage. Its unclear
at contra costa college. start today at contracosta.edu the plan would have made donald trump the presumptive nominee for the gop. tonight, on laura coates live. news, sorry. good now? great. news today has been stunning. that republican national committee was considering, i mean, seriously considering a resolution that would declare donald trump the presumptive nominee. and just like that, after we ve only heard from, remember, it s only been two states. we do have 50, and territories of course. in essence, that would be in iowa, new hampshire would get to decide who is nominee. leaving everybody else, even those who plotted to vote, totally out of luck. the whole thing blew up in their faces. trump ally and rnc committee member david rossi withdrawing the resolution tonight. but here s the thing. a source tells cnn the trump campaign had initially backed the idea. and the former president himself was, well, on board. not surprisingly. all of us often, he changed his
will tomorrow s primary be her last stand? trump s political and legal fortunes collide in dramatic fashion. we re waiting to hear whether the judge in the e. jean carroll s case, whether he ll move testimony to tomorrow, primary day in new hampshire. the former president may very well face a choice, the courtroom or the campaign trail. the most serious, most damaging attack yet on a u.s. military base that leaves multiple soldiers seriously wounded. could this be the strike that forces the u.s. to escalate the fight against iranian-backed militants and escalate it to a whole new level? we we ginn with trump versus haley, a heavyweight fight with extraordinarily high stakes, a fight not unlike david and goliath. here is the good news for nikki haley, she has more momentum and money than just 24 hours ago. her campaign said today she raised $500,000 from grassroots donors online after ron desantis announced he was dropping out yesterday afternn, and she can now aim her f
stand. trump s time is limited and the judge wanted him to stick to the script he and haba agreed to and for the most part they did. let s go through the three questions haba asked him whil he was on the stand. first they asked trump do you standby your testimony in the deposition, the deposition he gave in this case. he replied 100% yes. then she asked did you deny the allegation because ms. carroll made an accusation. trump responded that s exactly right, yes, i did. she said something that i considered a false accusation, totally false. but then judge kaplan cut in. he wanted them to stick to the plan. he cut trump off saying everything he said after, yes, i did, is stricken. because remember they re not litigating here what is true and what is false in terms of what happened in that department store. that was litigated last summer. here haba s final question was did you ever instruct anyone to hurt ms. carroll in your statements. trump, said, no, i just wanted to defend m