More on the battle for alabama. New reaction today as former basketball star Charles Barkley said roy moore should have been out before the Sexual Misconduct allegations. Are there enough votes to make the tax plan pass and could their own plan hurt the gop in the long run . Well have those details next. New word out of the white house. From chief of staff john kelly, pushing back on a report that he wants ivanka trump and Jared Kushner out by the end of the year. Kelly telling the New York Times last night, honestly, there was never a time i contemplated getting rid of jared and ivanka. Jared kushners shrinking profile since he came on board and recent developments in the russia investigation. Kushners once sprawling profile that came with walkin privileges has been diminished under chief of staff john kelly and notably receded from public view. President trump went on twitter to lash out, resignation resulted in dueling claims to the bureaus temporary leadership. White house correspo
but john, do you agree with former attorney general bill barr about the two trump defenses that his team has been floating? i don t think that it is quite that simple. i think that mr. parlatore and john lara made good tries. i think those defenses pass the good faith threshold for an honest lawyer and i think that they are going to be legitimate motions dismissed before the court. but i ve been on tv a number of occasions and talking about this, but now i have to pinch myself to believe this is true. the former president of the united states is going to be arraigned for i know they didn t charge in the insurrection, but what involved here an attempted coup, something we all saw on television. and it is just you know, if i took this plot to hollywood with
trump and his lawyers can run down the clock and put this in jeopardy of happening after the election, at which time, if he s elected president, he can shut this down. this is what s at stake here. he said he wants to be essentially a presidential dictator if he comes back. he and his people have said that. so if this is not in some way sanctioned, the things he did on january 6th that are in this indictment, that would be all of us as americans saying, it s okay, what he did on january 6th was fine, he can do it again and so could a later president. donald trump s attorney, john lara was on the today show with savannah guthrie. i saw it. he brought up president john kennedy supposedly doing the same thing with fake electors. here is the exchange. there is something wrong with sending fake electors, trying to go beyond and around the laws.
trump attorney alina hab ba had to say about whether or not trump knew he was telling the truth. take a listen. the thing about a criminal level indictment and charge is you have to prove the intent, the mental state of the president at the time, which everybody that knows donald trump and has read his truth, he still believes the election was stolen and he has good cause to believe so. carol, is his mental state the issue here? well, the mental state of any criminal defendant is at issue. but to elaborate on andrew s point, a lot has to do with exactly what defenses the judge took and is going to allow at the trial and what her jury instructions are going to be. when you talk about intent, there s a lot of precedent for an instruction that goes to the jury that says intent can be intentional disregard of the truth. if there was ever an example of
conspiracy, to defraud the united states, to obstruct an official proceeding and to impede the people s right to vote. ever since the news broke, the former president, his allies and attorneys have been working furiously to smear jack smith and the department while minimizing or outright dismissing the charges even while simultaneously using them to raise money. among the arguments, that trump s provebly false claims were protected by free speech. here is his attorney john lara with savannah guthrie today. it s the first time a sitting president is attacking a political opponent on first amendment grounds and basically making it criminal to state your position and i ve got to give you a little time out on that one. we ve never seen it before. the indictment specifically says the president has a first amendment right to speech, even has a first amendment right to lie, says it right here. this indictment is criminalizing