And mississippi the former chair of the historic january Six Committee about the second indictment of donald trump. A second or a velshi begins right now. Good morning, and Sunday August the 6th, im ali velshi. Donald trumps legal team has until five pm tomorrow to respond to the governments request for a protective order before it agrees to turn over evidence in the Election Interference Case. The ruling came after a series of motions filed on saturday afternoon and quick succession. Trumps team asked to push the deadline back by three days and to hold a hearing on the matter, which is a sign of how the former president s attorneys are going to try to slow things down, much like the president s past attorneys have done in various other legal matters. Special counsels legal team quickly argued against it, calling that motion unnecessary. Ultimately, judge tanya, the judge appointed to oversee the Election Interference Case denied the trump teams motion for a delay. Her order came less
Historical case, how long they will drag this out, and how it all plays into trumps legal strategy of delay. And, the kick the can congress, once again, they bought more time to avoid a Government Shutdown. And once again, a Republican House speaker is feeling the heat from his own conference. Congresswoman becca of the House Budget Committee joins me live, to bring us inside the chaos. Im jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. We begin this busy saturday evening, with Breaking News. Our eyes are on michigan, missouri, and idaho, where republicans in those states are Holding President ial caucuses today. Nbc news projects that donald trump won the most delegates of michigans Nominating Convention. All together, between the convention and michigans primary on tuesday, donald trump won 51 delegates, and nikki haley won four. Nbc also Projects Trump won the Missouri Republican caucus, picking up 54 delegates. Trump is expected to sweep idaho as well. We could get those results with
Tonights laid, campaign crunch time. A handful of caucuses and primaries this weekend will be among the lost opportunities to change the president ial picture ahead of super tuesday. Former President Trump is campaigning in virginia tonight as a divided Republican Party holds a Caucus Convention and michigan. Caucus is also being held in missouri and idaho. Meanwhile, tomorrows primary and the District Of Columbia could offer nikki haley one of her a few opportunities to win a contest outright. Main while, President Biden is preparing for his state of the union address, thursday, we are hell have an opportunity to speak directly to the American People about his accomplishments, including the Recovering Economy with Stock Markets at alltime highs. And possible progress in the middle east. They administration has begun airdrops of humanitarian aid into gaza and stays far discussions are underway. A well received speech could help reverse a different popularity that has the president lock
investigating the attack on the u.s. capitol. her remarks from the reagan library coming up live here on c-span at 9:00 p.m. eastern. until then, some of the january 6 hearings from earlier this month that focused on efforts to commit convince vice president pence to reject the vote count. the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority regulation 10, the chair announces the committee s approval to release the deposition material represented during today s hearing. good afternoon. this is almost no idea more un-american than the notion that any one person can choose the american president, no idea more un-american i agree with that, which is unusual because former vice president and former vice president mike pence and i do not agree on much. these are his words spoken a few months
describing how president trump used the lies he told to raise millions of dollars from the american people. these fundraising schemes were also part of the effort to disseminate the false claims of election fraud. without objection i am the senior investigative counsel at the house select committee to investigate the general six attack on the united states capitol. between election day and january six, the trump campaign sent millions up fundraising emails to trump supporters, sometimes as many as 25 a day. the emails claimed, quote, the left wing mob was undermining the election. it urged supporters to step up, to protect the integrity of the election, and encourage them to, quote, fight back. as the select committee has demonstrated, the trump campaign knew that these voter fraud claims were false. yet, they continue to borrow small dollar donors with emails, encouraging them to donate to something called, the official election defense fund. the selectivity discovered