Its going . In the last one within the first ten minutes people had their ideas. Whats your Mark Tonight . I think well have a sense of whether what the moderators have planned tonight. One of the things was Fact Checking was going to be the purview of the participants not the moderators, and i think well get a sense of what role the moderators are going to play in the first few minutes. I think if you look back at harris and her sort of arc in the senate on the Judiciary Committee, it took her about three quarters to make bill barr, Jeff Sessions and Brett Kavanaugh squirm. I would give her about five minutes to see what approach shes taking and what strategy she plans to deploy. Trump wont be the story. I know he likes to always be the story, but trump will be trump. I think ill be interested to see what abc and the Moderators Approach is tonight and what Vice President harris approach is tonight. You make a great point in reminding everyone even though news viewers may have been wat
people in the world. we don t use them. we re going to use our smartest and our best. we re not using political hacks anymore. that s the people that do these deals. they re political hacks. we want experts our finest people. we don t want people that are b-level, c-level, d-level. we have to get our absolute best trump hired all the best people, now many of those same people, his former attorney general, defense secretary, national security adviser, and others say he endangered national security. also tonight, new reporting seems to answer the question as to why it took so long for the justice department to begin an investigation into trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election. plus, republicans loyalty pledge they re basically asking all of the presidential candidates to support trump if he s nominated again, and probably pardon him, too. i m jason johnson in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with justice delayed. today, of course, is juneteenth. marking the day i
what a change it made so fast. i feel like anything is possible after accomplishing what i ve done with golo. thank you so much for letting us into your homes. we are so grateful. the beat with katie phang in for ari melber starts now. always good to see and thanks to you for everything. for the rest of you, welcome to the beat. i m in for ari melber. we start tonight with breaking news trump reportedly caught on tape. damaging new evidence in the trump classified documents criminal investigation. cnn is reporting prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former president donald trump acknowledges that he held on to a classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. the recording indicating trump understood that he had retained classified materials after leaving the white house. the report adds on the recording trump s comments suggest he would like to share the information but he s aware of limitations on his abili
indictment of donald trump on thursday donald trump became the first former commander in chief in history to face a criminal indictment. that s after a grand jury in new york voted to indict the former president as part of manhattan district attorney s alvin bragg s investigation into a hush money payment made into adult film star stormy daniels back in 2016 now that indictment is currently sealed, and that means we and a whole lot of people do not know the specific charges or charge that have been levied against donald trump we do know bragg has been focused on a felony charge of falsifying business records which carries a maximum prison sentence of four years donald trump denies any wrongdoing, denies having an affair with stormy daniels, and he is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law that trial has not yet occurred. bragg s investigation is one of many against the ex-president. back in 2018 cohen, trump s former lawyer and fixer, was ntenced t
donte wright is free this morning. these stories and more right here on cnn news central. we are expecting a big but not an unexpected announcement from president joe biden and straight to the arlette seanez who has been watching this and we know that last week you are expecting news that we expect him to announce that he is going to become the presidential elect. well, sara, president biden spent the weekend at camp david to go over the final details regarding the details and staffing for a campaign. the president s advisers have been working towards launching this campaign tomorrow and doing so in a video . also tomorrow, the president is going to be speaking at the building trade yun yon unions t and that is a key group that helped to elect him in 2020. and we are learning that the democratic sources are telling us that he is expected to name julie chavez rodriguez as the campaign member. she is one of the most senior advisers here at the white house and director of th