border measure, blasted by trump. new york governor kathy hochul joins me live, to talk about what that means for the migrant crisis in her state. and, about the special election to replace disgraced ex congressman george santos. and, dynamic duo. my conversation with the actors who betrayed dr. martin luther king junior and malcolm x, in a new series that gives fresh insight into the civil rights icons, and their lives. i am jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. we begin tonight with the tale of two candidates and the court system. president biden was dealt both a legal win, and a political blow by the special counsel s classified documents investigation. special counsel robert hur, a republican, declined to file charges against biden, but accused him of memory lapses and, quote, willful willfully disclosing government secrets. top democrats have slammed special counsel hers report, especially his description of biden as a, quote, elderly man with a poor memory. vi
and the case and expose them to threats. in a legal filing split on thursday, smith said cannon applied the wrong legal standard when she ordered the unsealing of documents and she needed to reconsider to prevent manifest injustice, endangering witnesses by revealing their identities. well, late last night, after reading that motion, canyon road smith needs to hand over documents anyway, and again, but today. we have several correspondents and analysts in place covering today s new developments for you. joining me now we have katie phang, an attorney and host of the proceeding show, the katie phang show here on msnbc. and investigator for the january 6th. katie, bring us up to speed on what this dispute between cannon and smith is all about. there are certain parts of the discovery process to happen in a criminal case and during the discovery process, there is and change of information. in fact mar-a-lago, because it s a classified documents case, it s governed by somet
it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. right now, president biden fights back. how dare he raise that? it wasn t any of their damn business. the president forcefully responding to the accusations of memory loss in the special counsel report that found no criminal charges were warranted for his handling of classified documents. new reporting today on why the memory details were included in the report. at the supreme court, the justices gear up to potentially hear another case involving former president donald trump. on capitol hill tonight, the senate is due to consider the stripped down bill providing aid to israel and ukraine, but its future is still uncertain, even without the bipartisan border provisions. overseas, israel steps up its assault on the city of rafah in southern gaza. president biden says the response in gaza has been, quote, over the top. we begin this morning with president biden s response to a report on his handling of c
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 clearlyt. politically motivated. gratuitous. kamala harris rushing to thef defense of her boss after he got called a doddering man ns made a swiss cheese by the special counsel. the white house doing some serious damage controlmadeo after the president melted down in front of the entire natiof s so o they sent out spokesman ian sams and, of course, binder the case is closed. the facts and evidence refut refute the theories that are floated that they explored the publice theori. it s smart. and i think that they can see what s going on. you know, i think that they can see and understand you when people are gratuitous and make comments that they shouldn t have. i m not sure how many. you know, folks in this room have read all 400 pages of the specia0 pagel counses l l says
will start with paula reid. let me air the bite from kamala harris really quickly. the comments made by the 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. we will start with paula reid , how is the white house responding to the report today beyond what we heard from vice president harris? what do we know about the interview between president biden and special counsel hur s team. reporter: damage control, spokesperson answered question for the white house press corps. the one shepherding the press through the investigation and knows that well. he fielded questions including a lot of questions about the timing of this interview with the president. was he distracted ? the way the white house is spinning this, no, we did not want to delay it or put up roadblocks, we wanted to give special counsel everything they needed. there