donald trump defies legal advice one-on-one. the former president with a live speech. he also made a big admission about the classified document at the center of the classified indictment. plus, mike pence says he cannot defend trump s conduct while nickki haley is trying to get the answer just right. and dangles a potential pardon. and the house speaker breaks a floor freeze by hard-liners, establishment replicans will run out of what to give away. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, donald trump celebrates his 77th birthday at his golf club. look at the front pages of major papers, usa today, the wall street journal, the washington post, every head line flashes in big bold face type. the indictment is the political story of the moment. trump followed his federal court appearance with a defiant speech, to his team, the politics are clear and winning. but what is also clear, mr. trump is not helping his lawyers every time he
good evening, thank you for joining us commit is trey gowdyi and it is sunday night in america. every four years they tell us this is the most important election of our lifetime. usually it is hyperbole but sometimes it is simply logical in the sense it is the next election and therefore, the most important. but i will concede. this election cycle does feelspo disproportionatelyl. consequential. at a realossr crossroads. more people arre pe questioning democracy as a system of government. americans seem less interested in working things out and more interested in duking things out. so maybe 202t.4 is the most important election of our lifetime.efin regardless, it is definitely the next one. it is ten months away. joining us now are two old friends of the show, opinionm an washington times opinion editor and democratic strategists kevin wallin. charlie, you have tollu helvepe with this month. there are prominent republicans and conservatives who claim they will not suppor
of the archivist. he had no right to retain them and maintain them and he kept them in a way at mar-a-lago that anyone who cares about national security their stomach would turn at. that s former attorney general bill barr making it clear that the classified documents case against donald trump is not a witch hunt as the former president has repeatedly claimed. we ll go through the many, many new developments tied to the indictment, and it comes as trump ice rivals for the 2024 republican nomination rally to his defense, at least for now. we ll have those comments. plus, the latest from ukraine where the country s counteroffensive is claiming some initial small victories over russian forces. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 12th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us it. ooh is going to be a busy one. we ll get right to it. our top headline, former president donald trump is scheduled to appear in a miami cou
tonight. a foreign policy stumble. the biden administration sending two senior officials to china yesterday the exact day the tin men square anniversary. we don t know to this day how many people were killed. recognizing that atrocity still forbidden in china. tom cotton says this official visit sends exactly the wrong message. biden administration officials should stop chasing after the chinese communist counterparts like love struck teenagers. it is embarrassing and pathetic. it projects weakness to china and encourages them to do things like buzz our aircraft or come within a few hundred yards of our ships and encourages them to send spy balloons all over america. john: there has been 0 direct communication between biden and xi since the u.s. shot down the china aircraft in our airspace earlier this year. jake sullivan down playing tensions. the desire on both parts to put a floor under the relationship, to manage the competition responsibly and insure competition do
about the facts of his case. then, tough talk on the debt limit deal. fighting got an important win by signing the legislation. but the real question, what at what cost to the american people? a culture of losing, that is how one of the front runners for the gop presidential nomination described his party s electoral performance. but there s no sign republicans want to change their strategy. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. all right, this hour, we begin with a sad and at this point, quite honestly, an obvious reality. republicans will do almost anything to hurt president biden s reelection chances. no surprise there. no but there are desperate, mary alice or insane their actions might be, just this week, senator chuck grassley had this to say about and unconfirmed years old allegation that joe biden accepted a bribe as vice president. watch. we aren t interested in whether or not the accusations against vice president biden are accurate or not. so, grassley just