launching a massive air war against him in iowa. the drama, it affected my family. you know? with my own sister, i didn t get inviting to her thanksgiving after a while. and brand-new details on new big money patrons for supreme court justice clarence thomas. when all in starts right now. good evening, from miami i am katie phang, and for kiss hayes. tonight, a development in the classified documents case against donald trump. this comes as a form of a filing from trump s coconspirator and codefendant walt nafta. today, his lawyers started to get the first hearing in the classified documents case postponed indefinitely. they filed this motion, asking federal district court judge aileen cannon to delay the hearing
attorney general if donald trump wins his second term as we reported in new york magazine. joining me a former federal prosecutor for the department of justice, and a contributing editor for new york magazine, where his new article is titled, the sequel it will be worse. trump s former justice department officials fear a second term. it is so good to have you here. you had the opportunity to talk to several senior officials from trump s justice department about what a trump term would mean for the doj. lay out the highlights of what you learn from this conversation. the biggest take away from me was that almost everybody volunteered that they were concerned the trump would effectively turn the justice department against his political enemies. trump himself has been talking about doing that in the wake of his indictment by the special counsel s office. trump did, of course attempt to use the justice department to his benefit, to help his, allies to punish his foes during the first a
where the first republican debate is sick for next month. donald trump tried and sure tactic is to delay, delay, delay while he tries to win the nomination. in the hopes of a return to the white house, where he will see the inside of the oval office, instead of a jail cell. carol cheney is the senior legal affairs reporter for politico. joyce vance is a former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama. she is now a professor of law at the university of alabama. they both join me now. joyce i want to start with you. what do you think is the likelihood that donald trump is involved in these attempts to delay the overall strategy for donald trump? it has been to delay as much as possible. right. you know katie, it seems like it is a good bet, but i wouldn t want to speculate too far here. the question really is, who benefits from delay? why did it take walt nauta to find local council? why are we only just now seeing
i didn t get invited to her thanksgiving after a while. he s got so many distractions. the constant fighting, something every day. i m not sure that he can focus on moving the country forward. we definitely need somebody that can freaking when. i think you lose out if you voted on trump. david jolly, former republican congressman of florida. tara setmayer worked as a communications director on capitol hill, now a senior adviser for the lincoln project. both join us now. david, trump is a loser. that s kind of a fairly often heard statement from a lot of us, but is this message stinking in with chris back to voters, or they just by never trumpers now, digging in their heels? i think it is the latter, based on the 30 point lead that ron don trump has overrun desantis. that translates over the primary states. what you re seeing, and you see donald trump despite all of the crazy that you heard in that
not a clean thing in his motion that the date doesn t work, because nauta lead lawyer stanley woodward is set to begin a trial for another client in washington, d.c. this week. notably, that clients is a federal jury go kwan, a former trump appointee at the state department who faces several charges in connection with his participation, and the violent insurrection on january 6th. walt nauta s lawyers argued in the motion today that the local florida council could not appear on her own because she just joined the case last week. these delays with nauta have been ongoing. in fact, nauta apparently struggled to find a local lawyer to represent him. delaying his arraignment for more than three weeks. on thursday, he finally pleaded not guilty to charges that he conspired with donald trump to obstruct and thwart the governments attempt to retrieve classified documents. the ex president illegally took from the white house.