hi, everyone. it s 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added that he considers carroll s allegation false. that was stricken from the record immediately. that single question by his attorney is the result of a lengthy back and forth between the judge and trump s attorneys in which the judge warned trump not to relitigate the first trial in which he was found liable for sexually abusing carroll. there are no do overs. he ruled out the kind of statements trump has made outside of court. carroll s attorneys entered into evidence some of those statements in
and in some cases until today to even comment on this scandal. now, the first tactic.hi it s no big deal. this is saying that the irs wanted actually tougher charges for hunter biden. it s not unusual forl fo investigators and prosecutorsth to have disagreements beforeey they you know, as you go through these cases, how many times do they have disagreement they ha way? alonga all the time. yeah, all the time. i mean, this is the waf thy thi is part of the process. this is the way that it and it s what we wan e t. onl this is what we want. well, that s the only honest thing said that exchange.co oh, that, of course, refusesurse to acknowledge the most incredible claim of all thatjoe joe was in the room where it happened when hunter was demanding money for his family from a chinese businessman, which are all ccp approved, ofe. course. here s how they cover that. hewe have not verified it s basd on a whatsapp. we don t know the verification of that. we don t know whether
with people who didn t have clearance. . how critical could that piece of evidence be in this case? plus, russian president vladimir putin speaks. the defiant president trying to project strength after the weekend rebellion, forcing new questions about his power. we re going to have a live report from moscow coming up as well. we begin, though, at the supreme court, where we expect more decisions to be released at any moment. we re watching for decisions on highly consequential issues. the court often waits to release the most controversial decisions until the end of a term. and we re getting right down to the wire here, folks. if we get one of those major decisions, we re going to bring you that and the very latest right away there. we re also monitoring some dramatic new developments in the trump classified documents investigation. an audio recording has surfaced in which the former president appears to discuss classified documents with people who did not have security
special counsel jack smith is looking for in the classified documents probe. as with the $5 million defamation and sexual abuse judgment against donald trump, his own words are once again being used against him in a court of law. this time we re of course talking about that stunning february 2021 audio recording. donald trump bragging about a secret document with plans to attack iran at bedminster. to a writer working on a book, the discovery of that recording according to report from the wall street journal we discussed on this program last week, we know was a watershed moment that helped spur doj into pursuing a criminal case against the ex-president. days after his indictment on 37 felony counts, the ex-president claimed this. there was no document. that was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about iran and other things, and it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. i didn t have a document per se. there was nothing to declas
comment on this scandal. now, the first tactic, it s no big deal. this whistleblower s saying that the irs wanted actually tougher charges for hunter biden. it s not unusual for investigators and prosecutors to have disagreements before they, you know, as you go through these cases. how many times do they have disagreements along the way? all the time. all the time. yeah. all the time. this is part of the process. this is the way that it works. and it s what we want. laura: this is what we want. well, that s the only honest thing said in that exchange. that of course refuses to acknowledge the most incredible claim of all that joe was in the room where it happened when hunter was demanding money for his family from a chinese businessman, all ccp a provshgsd of course. here s how they covered that. the we have not verified it. it s based on a what s app, we don t know the verification on that, we don t know if huntr was exaggerating talking to someone if it