Effective, and it is not safe. Thank you very much. That is all in on the thursday night. Alex wagner tonight starts right now. Good evening, alex. Thanks to athome for joining me this hour. This evening, weve got some fairly shocking news. President trump is asking the court to schedule one of his federal criminal trials before the november election, specifically, trump is requesting that maralago classify its documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal Election Interference case from going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive
Celebrating the milestone with the four and oh. In other news, another player has made her mark on the history of she is playing her final home game right now. It just became the alltime leading scorer for both men and Womens College basketball. She is celebrating her achievements today. She is already declared herself for the Wnba Draft Next month. In moments, congresswoman, Pramila Joppa joins me. Were going to talk about the push for a ceasefire in gaza and the impact on the president ial campaign, and later on the redefined role of the first lady. The president s wife has more power behind the scenes that most people might think. Hi everyone, good to see you once again. Im jasmine this again, joining you live from msnbc World Headquarters in for alex wet. Weve got a lot going on this hour. Were going to start with the Breaking News that were hearing from the Supreme Court in the last 30 minutes or so. Learning the Supreme Court is saying there will be released tomorrow. One of them
Appellate court. By merely deciding to do this, though, the court has essentially upended the attempt to hold donald trump accountable for his actions to subvert democracy. In fact, the court may have ended that attempt entirely. This decision is also certain to reshape the 2024 president ial race, and it will likely play a Determinative Role in its outcome. As much as the significance of this ruling is already apparent, the full consequences here hinge on the timing. In it the Supreme Court said it would hear Oral Arguments in the case the week of april 22 nd. Now, april 22nd is not close to today, and well get into exactly why exactly the court didnt choose a date a lot sooner than that, but april 22nd also on its face sort of seems pretty far from the november election. Its not. Because when you start crunching the numbers and looking at how a trial could actually time out after the Supreme Court makes its decision here, the window in which trump could face trial, the window of that
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
Classified documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal Election Interference case from going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive news, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear trumps argument, that those criminal trials in the d. C. Case should be thrown out because a president ial immunity. But the court did not schedule oral arguments on that case to start until the week of april 20 seconds. Because of that delay, even if the Supreme Court decides this case incredibly quickly, this Election Interference case most likely could no