Tapper in 2009, South Carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rock star. His reputation as a budgetslashing deficit hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person. The search for sanford threw his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of lies that coined the phrase to hike the Appalachian Trail. But it also revealed something deeper how even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of a human being. And counterintuitively, when the world was crashing down around him, baring it all might have been the savviest political move of Mark Sanfords career. Its monday night. Do you know where your governor is . Thats what the citizens of South Carolina are wondering Where In The World is our governor . A Mystery Tonight in South Carolina. The states governor, mark sanford, disappeared for days. Governor alert the search for mark sanford. In june 2009, South Caro
B is august. He has made an immunity argument, the same argument that is made in d. C. One minor difference. He wasnt president. His argument is, but i took the documents while i was president. I have said, that is like a bank robber saying you know, i legally got the gun that i used to rob the bank. Right. I was a customer of the bank when they went in and took the money. Everything is just such an irrelevancy. But hes got judge cannon and so the question is whether judge cannon will sit on that, whether she will grant it, or if she denies it and says but its not a frivolous argument, meaning all of these delays of appeal that we have seen in the d. C. Case, don trump is going to try that, of course. Same road. Back to the Supreme Court. Its much harder factual argument. But, thats not the issue. Just remember, we were all sitting here going, hes arguing that he can order s. E. A. L. Team six to kill a political important opponent and were going as absolutely laughable laughable. A no
president biden tonight is managing a high stakes military operation in the mid east, and a reelection fight here at home. national security adviser jake sullivan returning to the region while wanting additional strikes against iran-backed forces could come at anytime. on the political front, biden scored a resounding primary victory in south carolina, with 96% of the vote. we will speak with palm meadows, state congressman jim clyburn in just a moment about the first official democratic contest of the season. but as biden shifts his focus to the next primary state of a new nbc news poll out today showed biden s approval rating nationally is not a new law. and americans say they on issues like immigration and the economy. one silver lining in the numbers, he holds on to a slim lead and a hypothetical former president should be convicted of a crime. south carolina congressman jim clyburn. thank you for joining us. , before we get into politics, with the retaliatory strikes
members of the house will be getting back to work this week, but a major priority right now is wrangling with the details of a potential bill to deal with the border, and aid to ukraine. last night president biden reiterated his support for legislation that would give him the authority to shut down the border if it becomes overwhelmed. also last night, donald trump said he would rather have no border deal than a bad one. so had much support is the current legislation garnering in the congress? joining us now is nanette california, she is the chair of the congressional hispanic caucus. welcome to you congressman have you seen any text, legislative text, of this potential border security bill? not a single word. we don t know what s in the details. we only know what is reported, we only know vaguely what the white house shared, but no text at all. there s really no way to say whether it s fantastic in great, as we re hearing some people say, and we don t know how bad it
wreckage was found, and then politicians waging a culture war and the classroom, but how do parents and teachers feel? an important discussion thatyode 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. special counsel jack smith shows his hand and the government s case against defendant donald trump today. smith s latest court filing reveals evidence that he has now shared with trump s legal team. it includes information collected through subpoenas, search warrants and grand jury testimony from witnesses, who will be testifying for the prosecution. also, interviews with trump himself by non government entities that were recorded with his consent. it includes the july 2021 recorded interview quoted in the indictment. that is the one or trump was at bedminster and reportedly admitted to having classified material about an iran attack that you could no longer declassify. here s what he told fox about that very thing earlier this week