as vladimir putin announced a major escalation in the war in ukraine. this all happening overnight calling up reservists and threatening a possible nuclear response as he suffers major setbacks on the battlefield, and in the geopolitical landscape. plus, the latest in the trump documents case as it goes before the special master, the former president s attorneys refuse to back up their claim that trump declassified the documents before taking them to his club in florida. we ll have the reaction from the judge and it is quite telling. also, the attorney general of new york is set to make a major aa nounsa-of- announce. we ll discuss what that announcement might be. and new developments in the story of the migrants flown to martha s vineyard with some sent to the massachusetts island now filing a class action lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. we ll have all of the details on that. with us, host of way too early, jonathan lemire. and former aide of the geo
nine tax-related charges. the feds alleging he failed to pay his taxes while spending millions on an extravagant lifestyle. a preview of monday s big case for former president donald trump, where he is set to take the stand as his defense team s final witness in his $250 million civil fraud trial. also breaking overseas, a rocket attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad. what we re learning about who is behind it. in gaza, massive explosions as israel says it hit at least 450 hamas targets in the last 24 hours. it comes as hamas says it has launched a barrage of missiles against tel aviv. and the state of texas now threatening doctors after a landmark court ruling granted a woman an emergency abortion. we ll hear from the woman at the center of that case. we begin this hour with new legalroubles for hunter biden. a california grand jury has indicted president biden s son on nine charges including three felonies. th charges against him include failure to file and pay taxe
election laws and steal the presidential election, the republican participants are remaining absolutely silent about their participation in the plot. so let me offer a possible defense from the silent side. a member, whether it be a house member or donald trump, says that he doesn t think any of this is illegal. i thought it was within mike pence s power to do this. and i firmly believed that the election results were fraudulent. i don t have any proof of that. i just believed it because all my friends voted for donald trump. you meet the insanity defense? is that where you re describing? i didn t know that that was the insanity defense. i thought it was an ignorance defense. ignorance of the facts i suppose is one kind of excuse. but not knowing that donald trump lost the election, that is ignorance of the law. and that doesn t count. you have to be monumentally
so donald trump remaining absolutely silent in the face of these revelations this week, the detailed descriptions of the criminal plot to violate election laws, steal the presidential election. the republican participants in the house of representatives remaining absolutely silent about their participation in the plot. so let me offer a possible defense from the silent side. a member, whether it be a house member or donald trump, says look, i didn t think any of this was illegal. i thought it was within mike pence s power to do this, and i firmly believed that the election results were fraudulent. i don t have any proof of that. i just believed it because all my friends voted for donald trump. you mean the insanity defense? is that what you re describing? i didn t know that was the insanity defense. i thought it was the ignorance defense, yes. well, you know, ignorance of facts i suppose is one kind of excuse. i didn t know that donald trump
accusation showed. and i don t know what even the defense is in this case because what they said is so obviously false. and dominion has been damaged in a very big way by these accusations. so the damages, if this case goes to a jury and if the jury rules for the plaintiffs, the plaintiff, there could be billions of dollars in judgment. no question. look, we ve seen some odd defenses when it comes to these things what could the defense be, ignorance defense, could it be siloed off from information? an echo chamber, what could it be? what the three defendants tried at this stage of the case was sort of a first amendment defense, which is, you know, this was an area of public dispute. we should be allowed to speak freely. the problem with that is, you know, there are limits to that, especially when it specifically