trump s case probably doing battle with multiple federal judges and multiple counts. this week alone was the d.c. circuit cut put his screams of presidential immunity temporarily on ice reminding him for the purposes of this criminal case, former president donald trump has become citizen trump, with all the defenses of any other criminal defendant. there were the nine supreme court justices who regardless of how they ultimately rule on the 14th amendment case sure sounded like they were not enjoying getting drawn into the nonstop cyclone of chaos that is donald j. trump. those keeping score at home, it is t-minus 72 hours till trump s legal team must file their appeal to the supreme court in the presidential immunity case, an appeal that must somehow convince those nine supreme court justices to agree to hear yet another trump case. that s just the cases we spent all week talking about. we also saw the judge, trump s civil fraud trial, judge engoran days away from ruling on t
the breaking news in the law and justice lead, a damning report released and president biden s mishandling of classified document it is. the report includes photographs of documents showing them kept under his tv in his delaware home. classified documents about afghanistan barely stored, on old box surrounded by household debris. essential counsel concluded the evidence quote does not establish mr. biden s guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, therefore prosecution would be unwarranted. part of the reason for that however would be is that trial, we would like him to present himself as a sympathetic, well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory unquote. hardly a bumper sticker for a 2024 presidential campaign. the report notes president biden s memory issues stating quote he did not remember when his son beau died, which was 2015. in the last hour, president biden reacted to the outcome of this report. . special counsel acknowledged i cooperated completely. did not throw up any
politically motivmotivated. the white house slamming the special counsel report that questions biden s memory. will that work? fears in gaza. israel warns the war may escalate again with a new ground incursion. a move that puts res israel at with the u.s. moves could help make him the next chair of the rnc, a special investigation. let s go out front. good evening. i m erica hill in for erin burnett. the biden administration launching a full court press to counter the damning special counsel report about president biden s handling of classified documents. vice president kamala harris calling it politically mot motivated. as a former prosecutor, the comments that were made by that prosecutor, gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate. the way that the president s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated. gratuitous. the spokesman for white house counsel s office echoing the vice president. gratu
welcome back to the weekend, everyone. we are beginning this hour with a late night court filing from donald trump s legal team. the filing argues that trump shouldn t be charged in the classified documents case because president biden was in charge and his case. this is true. i m going to quote from it. president biden will not be charged. president trump should not have been either. now, never mind that the special counsel made clear in his report that the two cases were wildly different. joining us now, january six investigator , also joining, former fbi general concert, andrew weizmann. he is the host of the msnbc podcast, prosecuting donald trump. greetings, everyone. you and i were on set to get there when the report broke. i do wonder if it was always inevitable that donald trump s lawyers were voting to cite this report as soon as it came out. also, talking about this specifically is a motion to compel discovery. i m curious why this becomes relevant and that ty
in his report on the biden classified documents investigation. now, while hur ultimately decided not to charge biden for mishandling the classified documents going back decades, the bigger news was what his team uncovered about the president s mental faculties or lack thereof. the 345 page document is the must-read tell-all of the day. complete with gems like this. he, the president, did not remember when he was vice president. forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended, if it was 2013 when did i stop being vice president? and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began. in 2009 still vice president? he did not remember even within several years when his son bo died. and his memory appeared hazy when describing the afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. now, there is simply no way to explain this. you know the white house is worried about the report when biden s attorneys felt the need to dispute the findings about