vape cartridges of cannabis oil in her luggage. since then, family members, friends and coaches have all made impassioned pleas for griner s release. this includes griner s wife, cherelle who is pressing the u. s. government to do more to free her. earlier this week, president biden and vice president harris spoke with cherelle assuring her that they are working to get griner home. president biden also read cherelle a letter he wrote to the basketball star. this comes just days after griner wrote a letter to president biden imploring him not to forget her or any of the other detainees held in russian captivity. griner s expected to appear in court on july 14th for the third of our trial. so what legal options does he have looking forward? a russian lawyer said she may seek up an appeal or even clemency once the verdict is delivered. there are also reports that crime in or could be part of a russian s a prisoner swap. perhaps an exchange for victor bout a notorious russian arm
justice. plus, joe biden s primetime punch. the president tonight will use a national address to warn republicans are actively working in his view to undermine american democracy. and sarah palin loses in her alaska comeback attempt. a democrat won the special house election. so did advocates of what is called rank choice vote. a first for us, though. a court showdown next hour over the fbi s search of donald trump s mar-a-lago. the justice department says it did everything by the book and that its investigation should continue full speed ahead. team trump, though, is objecting and asking a judge to name a special master. that s an independent third party to review the materials taken from the former president s hotel, home and office. the hearing is before a trump-appointed judge who is already on record leaning in favor of a special master. team trump last night responded to a detailed government filing asserting that trump had no standing to ask for a special master and as
Welcome to prime time weekend, lets get right to the weeks top stories. With less than two weeks to go before he makes history by becoming the first expresident of these United States to ever stand trial on criminal charges, donald trump is turning to a tactic straight out of a mobsters playbook. The expresident , going after the daughter of the new york judge, judge merchan, who is overseeing the criminal hush money case. In typical trump fashion, his attacks have been filled with foaming at the mouth rage and bluster, and conspiracy theories with a dash of disinformation for good measure. The expresident accusing the judges daughter of sharing a photo of donald trump behind bars on social media. Court officials quickly knocked that down, but trump hasnt stopped going after the judges daughter. He has posted about her at least four times since tuesday morning. Trumps attacks began one day after judge merchan imposed a gag order on donald trump, prohibiting him from lashing out against
Order to provide ukraine with a loan of about 50 billion dollars, that is, it is not about the 3 billion dollars agreed today in the eu, not about the 300 billion that ukraine says, but about a loan of 50 billion dollars. Lets hear what burbok had to say. On at the european level, we have a common position regarding revenues from russian assets, they must be used for. Defense of ukraine. Moreover, the americans have come forward with a proposal to expand it, and we are now studying it from a legal point of view. Germanys position is that we will not take the big step of confiscating all assets, because we think that would expose it to critical danger, many other things. Now the us treasury secretary, janet yehlan, is wondering if she can convince allies to go ahead and hand over ukraine has more funds from these assets. Yes, julia, it is the use of russian assets for the benefit of ukraine that is the main topic that yelen plans to discuss with his g7 partners. The group of seven finan
i was like, should i ask her about mike johnson learning on the job with a cr bill that gets shut down by five minutes of it coming out. you had to kind of appreciate the hubris and go, no, the last guy couldn t do it, but i ll be the one that is that the fundamental problem, is that the republicans have not address the ideological divides within their party? so you can rotate the speaker out as much as you want, the next guy comes in, he may have a lot of bluster, but once he s in that position and has to actually put forward a bill, they realize that they still have that extreme maga wing in the party that s going to shoot it down. the democrats are probably not going to go along with it. you really haven t solve this fundamental problem. the fundamental problem and or just understanding fundamental math. yeah, exactly. that s the reason. it s great to see you, as always, my friend, great show, enjoy the rest of your evening. good evening to you, welcome to