the charges here are of the utmost gravity. it s just one, just one trump-related case before the supreme court right now. we re going to start with cnn legal analyst kari cordero and cnn supreme court analyst joan bis biscoupic. what do you make of this request from jack smith? he wants to reiterate as strongly as possible as the justices are considering it at this very moment the importance of the case, why delay would hurt the situation, hurt the public interest. not so much hurt the government s case as hurt the public s interest. he says nothing short of democracy is at stake. he really uses the fact that we re dealing with a former president here. he wants to say why donald trump is not like any other defendant, why he needs to jump over an appellate court at this point because donald trump should have to account for his actions back in 2020. he doesn t mention 2024 s election at all. he wants to he s talking about the imperative of being able to hold him accountab
harry litman on what this means for the criminal case against trump. senator sheldon whitehouse on what it means for the rule of law. then, how do you stop gun violence from killing kids in schools? it s a horrible, horrible situation. and we re not going to fix it, criminals are going to be criminals. tonight, the maddening reality of a political party that has given up the awful truth of the cult of the ar-15. and an author describing what he calls america s slow civil war. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. donald trump cannot stop losing the courts. today yet another federal judge ruling against the ex-president, and now the man trump s angry mob wanted to hang is ordered to share what he knows under oath. this afternoon a judge with the u.s. district court for d.c. ruled that mike pence must cooperate with the subpoena from special counsel jack smith as part of smith s investigation into donald trump s attempt to overturn the 20
world war ii at the motherland statue. comparing it to his current invasion and bombings in ukraine. listen. now unfortunately, we see the ideology of naziism in the modern form once again directly threatens the security of our country. again and again, we have to repel the aggression of the collective west. martha: we have an exclusive interview with ukraine s president zelensky who just sat down with our foreign correspondent trey yingst reporting live from kyiv. hi, trey. in our exclusive interview with president zelensky, he said his country needs more advanced weapons and they need them now. russian has launched a new offensive in to ukrainian territory and zelensky wants u.s. lawmakers to understand what is at stake. there are some lawmakers in washington that say enough with aid to ukraine. what should those individuals understand about the consequences of reducing military aid to your country? i believe if we fall, he will capture maldova fast and then the bal
even though it is donald trump, who has not provided a single shred of evidence proving that they re not, proving that he declassified any of the records that he kept at mar-a-lago for up to 18 months. now to the other front, the special master process itself. just a couple hours ago, lawyers for the justice department squared off with donald trump s legal team for their first public hearing before judge raymond dearie. he was appointed special master to review the documents seized in the search of donald trump s residence last month. during this hearing, dearie, who was donald trump s pick, his hand-selected suggestion to be the special master, told donald trump s lawyers to put up or shut up on claims that trump declassified the records. here s how politico describes the hearing. quote, judge raymond dearie pushed trump s lawyers repeatedly for refusing to back up the former president s claim that he declassified the highly sensitive national security-related records discov
reportedly involved federal agents spending most of the day at mar-a-lago was related to classified information that trump took with him when he departed the white house in january of 2021. an attorney for the former guy told nbc news that trump and his team had been, quote, cooperative with fbi and doj officials every step of the way, unquote, but then added that the bureau, quote, did conduct an unannounced raid and seized paper. the new york times reports that it wasn t the first time that agents visited trump s south florida estate. quote, the search came after an earlier visit this spring to mar-a-lago by federal agents including a justice department counterintelligence official to discuss materials that mr. trump had improperly taken with him when he left the white house. mr. trump was briefly present for that earlier visit as was at least one of his lawyers according to people familiar with the situation. both the fbi and the justice department have declined to comme