u.s. supreme court spiraling into controversy overturning long precedent and rolling back rights, some are turning to state courts. why strong constitutions can save the every day rights being eroded by a lob sided u.s. supreme court. this and more on another hour of velshi starting now. good morning it s sunday june 9th. president biden is wrapping up his trip to france today where he spent much of the week recognizing d day. this morning he will be at a cemetery near paris and he and the first lady will fly back home. but in a few days he will head back to italy. biden s upcoming trips to europe are valuable opportunities for him to highlight the importance of america s role in the world stage. he s cast his opponent as a strong man who will usher in an era of corruption in america and support such things abroad. trump s first term also saw the country shift toward a more isolationist stance which raised concerns among our partners that america might abandon its alliances
department of justice there was no voter fraud. he was told by his top soldier general milley there was no voter fraud. he was told way every arm and his own staff. to your point, that s one of the three conspiracies smith lays out. there s another one of the three where he says the conspiracy was to delay the certification. and when you look at that, right, they did it. they delayed the certification. he set out to delay it. they did delay it. and tantalizingly near the end of the indictment, they have a narrative he was continuing on with that after the violence on the evening of the 6th. and all three counts when you read all these three laws together, what you re really hearing is the pattern of, i m going the lie about what is happening and who s doing it, right? because we also have the fact
when i was a prosecutor for over a decade, i never sent a target letter out without an indictment. the defense will try to shape that indictment. to narrow it. and ias you mentioned, try the delay it. and it is customary for the defense to take this opportunity, generally they always take this opportunity and it does present a small amount of delay. i would say an indictment is coming very, very soon even if it doesn t happen today. so what would be the benefit of delaying? we can speculate about the politics of it and a potential debate in the next few weeks. from a legal perspective, what would be the benefit of a delayed indictment? well, a few things. first of all, one benefit is just that it pushes the prosecution back a few weeks. it gives the defense more time to prepare. in this conversation, they may learn some things about the
and they are saying delay it, it should not be delayed in my estimation at all, and then they are say, well, if you don t delay it, then everything that comes out at trial, everything that we re given for trial, will go to the public. and that kind of threat sort of opening up that is gray nail, a threat that the judge should be aware of. why would trump s lawyers be doing that? because by threatening that, threatening exposure of classified information at a jury public trial, they are saying, you know, what they are really saying is if you don t drop these charges, we re going to make this public. and you government don t want that. there are a lot of ways around this and the judge shouldn t listen to that kind of threat. let me ask you about a different investigation, the unanimous decision of the georgia supreme court dismissing trump s bid to shut down the fulton county election interference probe. legal long shot from the start
said delay it, delay it, delay it i m not about to lose this election and after i lose this election nobody cares about what stormy daniels says the other thing is why does the federal government immuniz david pack are you donie parker to pu david cohen away why do they amass all this evidence when you see that alvin brag made good use of it. he made all the back before he indicted this case one of the things we re going to talk about with our legal guests when we come back as this question of how to mak these falsified s records, allegedly falsified business records into a felony. what the district attorney alvin bragg laid out today was a number of crimes that he sai were either, were committed in conjunction, essentially, with those records. none of those crimes are being charged. though they re not charging th national inquirer company with falsifying their busines records. they re not charging anybody newly, with federal campaign finance charges. they re not charging anybody w