than what hillary clinton did when she was secretary of state, using private email for official business? well you d think after the campaign attacking hillary clinton, all that staff, all of trump s staff would have known they shouldn t use unofficial devices for official business, it s just not the way you re supposed to do because there s supposed to be a record of that administration. this is a law, john, with not really a lot of teeth. it s expected that people at that level of government will comply with the general legal standards they ve set up. i think post-trump, in some stage, congress is going to put teeth on this because of what we ve seen happen. so maggie, the most surprising bit of news today may have been the federal judge allowing the civil case against the former president for january 6th to go forward. she wrote in her opinion, the president s january 6th rally speech can reasonably be viewed
york times, also cnn contributor john dean, former nixon white house counsel and john, white house records act was enacted because of water gate which you know a little about it happen taking national security documents to his private residence, what is your view? it s a good question, a lot of the circumstances, we don t know yet exactly what he was doing with them, how they got there. did he direct that they be taken? are they a lump of documents that he just put in a box and said let s look at these later? we don t have enough facts, but he has a lot of leeway in what he can classify and declassify himself. he could say on the way out the door, i declassified all these things so i could have them. that might hold up. certainly might hold up in a criminal case. in a civil case, it might not do so well, believe it or not.
plaintiffs in three civil suits, which include members of congress, and police officers who were at the capitol on the day of the insurrection, that they may be able to seek information from the former president about his role in the attack. now, these lawsuits allege that the former president conspired with others like his former attorney, rudy giuliani, his son, donald trump jr. and extremist groups like the oathkeepers and proud boys to sew doubts about the 2020 election which culminated in the violence at the capitol. trump s lawyers tried to argue that he when he was speaking at the rally, acting in his official capacity and should have immunity but the judge rejected that and said he does not have protections under immunity or first amendment, and john, that is incredibly significant, because he may now have to sit for a deposition. paula reid, a lot there, thank you so much. perspective now from cnn political analyst maggie, washington correspondent for new
he s wrong, and it distracts from the real news that you covered earlier this hour, about the real crimes and sins of the trump era, for example, the classified documents. they just want to talk about hillary clinton instead. so all the headlines for the past week have been about hillary clinton allegedly spying, and now it s all fallen apart. so what has fox done? they ve moved on. they basically haven t talked about hillary at all. she did say in a speech yesterday that this would come close to actual malice. basically she was putting these right wing outlets on notice, saying you re coming close to libelling me. i don t think she s actually going to sue, john, but it s notable she s saying that because even in 2022, hillary clinton is still the right-wing s boogey woman. they treat her as this terrifying presence. they claim she s going to run for president in 2024. they just can t get enough of hillary. brian stelter, thank you very much. up next, a look at the new cnn original
thank you so much for beeing wih us. were you surprised to hear president biden say point blank that vladimir putin made up his mind to invade. i was isurprised to hear it o objectively that he must have some evidence, john, and listening to your conversation, it really struck me that what we re seeing you remember i told you last week, there would be a lot of preparatory moves, the military calls that a synchronization matrix, following one thing after another that will lead to d-day, if you call d-day the day the attack starts, we re in d minus one or d minus two now, we ve seen indicators of that all week, i go back to when president biden refused to delay talking to mr. putin on tuesday and wanted to do it on i think sunday instead. that tells me he had some information that things were