retaining any evidence a former allies now say that trump is a threat to nationa security and, president biden kicks off his 2020 foreign setting the tone of this campaign, focusin on policy over his potential opponent then, ukrainian forces recapture a village in the southeast with this counte offensive means for the future of the war and democracy abroa as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night what good evening once again i am alicia menendez, in for stephanie ruhle. the former president s hit wit new restrictions in hi criminal trial as he prepares to fight charge that he mishandled the nation most sensitive secrets today, a federal magistrat judge issued a protective orde borrowing in trump and his c defendant walt not up fo revealing or keeping any trial evidence that also means no posts o social media and they are no for allowed to review evidence unless a lawyer or staff membe from the defense team is present. the ruling follows a request from jack smith s
welcome to a special edition of jesse waters, prime time. i m pete hegseth in onm a friday night. now, last nighpete h fridayt, di trump was removed from the primary ballot in mainmarye this wasn t a decision made by a court or even by an elected official. donald trump was unilaterallyele removed by an unelectedd secretary of state, and herows. name is shenna bellows. you only have to rememberfor that for 15 minutes. but who is shenna bellow15s? st she s not a lawyer o ar a legal expert, but she is a lifelong democrat activist who was the executive director of the aclu in maine. well, you figure that s where she learned everything she knows. learned ever always wanted to bs a big shot democrat, snapping selfies with biden and obama big old grin. she ran for senate in 20 14 against susan collins. she had the most famous person in maine, stephen king, cut ads foinr her. i ve never worked so hard or hoped so strongly fo r a change in leadership from the state of maine
battles for former president donald trump. there were two big developments last night. maine decided donald trump is constitutionally ineligible to appear on the ballot. the secretary of state citing the 14th amendment which bans from office those who engage in insurrection. on the west coast, the california secretary of state deciding to keep trump on the ballot. all this putting even more pressure on the supreme court to weigh in. we want to bring in vaughn hillyard and former rnc executive committee member jennifer horn. vaughn, start us off with maine. reporter: in the state of maine the decision of the secretary of state last night was much awaited. she had heard challenges in her role as secretary of state. this is where you get into the differences in what state law allows or puts the onus on a secretary of state to ultimately agent on. that s where the role of the maine secretary of state says it is her responsibility to determine whether a candidate is qualified to
course, put their spin on it with the associated press describing sb 14 this way,. the gop controlled legislature is pushing to make texas the latest conservative state to crack down on medical care and get this, the rights of transgender people, the rights of transgender people, that is not what this is about at all. we are talkingwh about children, children having life changing chiloperations that are irreversible. contrast this with washington state, where democrats havetorst just made it legal for doctors to perform a number of these procedures without parental consent. mastectomies, without parentaler consent and without even parental notification. enif there are, quote, compellig reasons not to notify pathe parent, imagine if this were your child. some are calling it statme are e sanctioned kidnapping. if you ask americans there are e no two sides to this debate. a new washington post poll found that an overwhelming majority of americans oppose puberty blocking hormones
of joe biden laughing at americans killed by federal. we will play that tape plus we will hear from two former fbi agent, that left america s one from your law informants and agency because of the bureaus political rot coming up right also make no mistake, justice i this country is no longer blind. this is had for this country ar the fbi has in fact been politicized and the fbi and the doj have both been weapon eyes. it is sad, but this is real and needs to be dealt with right they actively and knowingly are putting their thumb on the scal and have done it now in every major election since 2016 including 2016. that is news to the fbi directo christopher rae who was on capitol hill today. take a look at this. i hear of these claims of palletization, but i can tell you the fbi is and is going to stay independent which means follow the facts wherever they lead no matter who likes it. i can tell you that is not true. unless they can have a democrat like for biden or clinton.