welcome back to the weekend, everyone. we are beginning this hour with a late night court filing from donald trump s legal team. the filing argues that trump shouldn t be charged in the classified documents case because president biden was in charge and his case. this is true. i m going to quote from it. president biden will not be charged. president trump should not have been either. now, never mind that the special counsel made clear in his report that the two cases were wildly different. joining us now, january six investigator , also joining, former fbi general concert, andrew weizmann. he is the host of the msnbc podcast, prosecuting donald trump. greetings, everyone. you and i were on set to get there when the report broke. i do wonder if it was always inevitable that donald trump s lawyers were voting to cite this report as soon as it came out. also, talking about this specifically is a motion to compel discovery. i m curious why this becomes relevant and that ty
my compliments to the crew, that camera flying around, as you say, it s your most crowded table yet and it was brilliantly shot and i could just listen to you guys. i mean, i m not paying much attention to the presidential campaign, so i need a dose of that once a week. you need a reminder that it s going on and what s happening. and return back to the regular trump programming because that s the thing that s blotting out the sun, even on the campaign trail. defendant trump is part of the campaign, but yeah, it was great. i can t get enough of it. i won t tell our very talented camera crew that you want more of it, but we will have more of it. come on, it looked like they were having fun. i think they had fine. they didn t really have a choice. but they would be appreciative anyway. getting a lot of exercise. thank you, alex. this is one of those nights when we are very lucky to be joined by former federal prosecutor andrew weissmann glenn kirschner because we nee
the campaign, but yeah, it was great. i can t get enough of it. i want to tell our very talented camera crew that you want more of it, but we will have more of it. come on, it looked like they were having fun. i think they had fine. they don t really have a choice. but they would be appreciative anyway. getting a lot of exercise. thank you, alex. this is one of those nights when we are very lucky to be joined by former federal prosecutor andrew wise s men and because we need their expertise to discuss what would normally be a routine filing in a criminal case which special prosecutor jack smith used this afternoon to hit back hard against donald trump s criminal defense lawyers. the ten-page ruling followed by a signature page with jack smith s name at the top says that donald trump s request for an indefinite continuance for a trial date, quote, borders on frivolous. jack smith knocks down every argument the trump lawyers make for an indefinite delay. on page two,
that this guy, who was a stunt man, and was one of the huge of in the 1970s, just throws unfathomable to. me let s so wall written, it s a page turner. it s an exciting story. this is fun. if it s fun for, me hopefully it will be fun for the. raider all the demons are, here congratulations. thank you so much anderson, i appreciate. it all the demons are, here it s out tomorrow, and it is a really great read. it is a big night, here not just because of jake s, book what is the promise of the source with killing, collins all be watching. with the very best wishes from everyone here at three, 60 here is the sourc e the potential rival will join. plus, playing politics with the military. one single senator is so determined to make a point of abortion. blocking the pentagon s most senior promotions. that republican is here with me in just moments. also tonight, i have new reporting inside on donald trump s thinking regarding the special counsel january 6th probe. i am ka
with new details about donald trump s alleged mishandling of classified documents. this time, during his time as president. nbc news has no exclusively obtained a copy of ex homeland security aide miles taylor s upcoming book, in which he accounts 2018 meeting with the national security advisor john bolton. during that meeting, then white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and heard bolton s office, told him that trump just shared classified information to reporters, while discussing the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. sanders told bolton that the president had picked up documents relating to intelligence on khashoggi s death, and displayed the. them, taylor writes, but the reporters were unlikely to have been able to read the text. according to the book, bolton yeah gasped at first, but breathe a sigh of relief when sanders told him that there have been no cameras in the room. but as taylor writes, quote, we were all disturbed by the laps lapse in protocol