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
portion of an hour and a half speech today, making it clear he is spending a lot of time watching everything the committee says and does. there s no clearer example of the menacing spirit that has devoured the american left and disgraceful performance being staged by the unselect committee. the unselect s entire sham presentation is based on video that has been deceptively edited. they re taking six, eight, and nine-hour depositions and putting up five-second clips. that guy letig, whoever the hell letig is, a former judge, he was saying pence had no choice. not actually what he said at all. look, here s the thing. trump s day of having the world stop to listen to a 90-minute ranting, roving speech are over. not even fox news took his speech live. now, that didn t stop trump, who spent time denying he called mike pence a wimp. he spent time even though to make sure the record s clear on this, his special assistant said he did call pence a wimp and testified to this under
acknowledging that americans are, quote, really, really down right now after this strain of the pandemic. and as they struggle with inflation and rising interest rates. we want to welcome our viewers here this the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the first public response by former president trump to the damning evidence and testimony presented by the january 6th select committee. cnn s jessica schneider is following all the new developments in the investigation. i never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, frankly, historic. but just like bill barr and the rest of these weak people, mike, and i say it sadly, because i like them, but mike did not have the courage to act. former president trump using his platform at a conservative political conference to deny the evidence against him and blast the january 6th committee. they con p
confidence. the court, which still has decisions on a dozen argued cases yet to be announced this term. today inadvertently posted online a document related to an abortion case which was obtained by bloomberg law. a supreme court spokesperson confirmed that the document was, quote, inadvertently and briefly up loaded but noted that the ruling has not been release and would be in due course. nbc news has not independently verified the document. it is not known if it is a draft decision, the actual decision, or neither of those things. the document has since been removed from the website. well if the document did signal was that court appears set to allow emergency room doctors in the state of idaho to perform life-saving abortions which they are unable to do under that state s defensive life act. that passed in august of 2022. the law is one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country. it prohibits nearly all abortions and does not allow for exceptions for the life of the
we face a huge array of challenges and threats and they are very complex, but the single most important issue is that donald trump never be anywhere near the oval office again. we re back with congresswoman lofgren. and david jolly, two in one week, the other was judge lutig, making the same argument that wasn t front and center four years ago. yeah, we have a former president that tried to topple our democracy encouraging the use of violence to disrupt the peaceful transition of power. it is hard to talk about that in a sober way and not get excited about it, but i think liz cheney has been one thing which is consistent. that donald trump remain as threat to the united states. and to the conversation about what jack smith is