thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. so grateful. have a great weekend. always so good to see you. have a great show. and welcome to the beat. i m katie phang in for ari melber. trump s legal woes moved to florida in a most recent attempt to get this classified documents case dismissed. holding a multihour hearing. trump s lawyers arguing jack smith s appointment of special counsel is uns constitutional claims a special counsel must be appointed categorized unprincipled author and contending that the attorney general s ability to appoint a special counsel with the authority of a u.s. attorney is like appointing a shadow government. the judge appeared skeptical of the argument pushing back saying, is that really a realistic risk,s when there are well-defined statutes regarding the attorney general s appointment authority ? special counsel refuting the arguments says it disregards precedent and would have a pernicious consequen
stupid. eva, what are you hearing on the campaign trail? well, i think that this is mission accomplished for governor desantis. he has all of washington talking. and he has, i think, what the base would describe as elites admonishing him. i texted an iowa pastor earlier this morning, and he said he hadn t even heard about this. if you speak to republican voters we were recently at the faith and freedom conference here in d.c. they are largely animated by anti-queer hostility. so, by doing this, it s shrewd politics. governor desantis is speaking to the portion of the electorate that he needs to win the primary. and then there s another part of this very long video. i want to play it and then afterwards show what pete buttigieg, the transportation secretary, told me about it.
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lincoln project, and joyce vance, professor at the university of alabama school of law. i take it, stewart my friend, that you agree with mr. luttig. i think he is a little optimistic, actually. there is no other conclusion to come to but that the party isn t worth saving. nobody is forcing the republican party to support donald trump. there are a lot of other people out there. they want to support donald trump because donald trump best represents what they want to be. it is not a rule of law party. it is a party that is about shifting america from a democracy to an autocracy. and that may seem alarmist, part of the challenge of how to talk about this. but that s the absolute stone-cold truth. and you know, the thing, stewart, the way that donald trump speaks, he speaks like an vel, right? he was at the faith and freedom conference over the weekend getting cheered and lauded and saying i was indicted for you.
intelligence officers who signed that letter ahead of the 2020 to election, you have to go, this was so, frankly, treasonous to do this. because it was important for the american people to know what was on that laptop, to understand what the financial ties were of somebody they were considering to vote for president of united states ahead of that election. it is election interference. but not just because one party wins and the other doesn t, because right now we see ourselves in so much danger, in so much instability. and as you said, pete, we absolutely don t know whether our president is compromised or not. and in the case as donald trump just said yesterday at the faith and freedom conference, you know? we just don t know. those countries know what he did, and they may be pulling the strings. will: we ll see what the news cycle does this week and whether or not attention will remain on the pete: that s a really good question. will: you know, there was somer if or very fervor on