Thank you for your coverage, my friend. You bet. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Former President Donald Trump, former President Donald Trump got some marching orders today. The judge overseeing Special Counsel jack smiths case into trumps attempt to overturn the 2020 election, judge Tanya Chutkan, today she laid out some new rules for the former president , as far as the next phase of this criminal indictment. When mr. Trump want to go over sensitive evidence, like Witness Emails or Audio Recordings in his testimony, he is not allowed to bring anything into the room with him that could be used to copy that sensitive material. Like a smartphone, if trump is reviewing this material on his own. Or, alternatively, trump can take his phone with him but his Defense Counsel has to babysit him to make sure he does not copy anything onto his phone. And if the defendant takes notes, regarding sensitive materials, the Defense Council must inspect those notes. It is sort of like t
and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so, special counsel jack smith has ten business days left if he wants to beat fulton county district attorney fani willis to an indictment. we have talked a little bit about that. dea willis has indicated that at some point between july 31st and august 15th she may bring charges against donald trump for his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in georgia. and mr. smith, whose federal indictment could over lap significantly with da willis s state indictment, well he likely wants his federal case to go first. at least one of the two grand juries and that da willis has empanel down in fulton county has already started its work as of this week. and either one of those grand juries could be asked to indict trump. but while we are waiting for a potential charging decisions here, it turns out that we should still be keeping our eyes on florida, and not just mar-a-lago. the new york times is reporting tonight that p
finally the votes. you can find that in bookstores not line right now. that is all in on tuesday night, all in starts right. now the body doubles are happening before any of the trials actually begun, which is the staggering part about all of this it s the ice beneath the water line. in terms of what this means for all the people that interact with it. this is happening to all of them. it s what it means to be holding up democracy in this day and age. you have to be prepared for a late night cell phone calls, threatening your family. thank you my friend. and thank you for joining us this hour. the matchup of the years set. it s a rematch of 2020. it s the same teams. it s the red team, versus the other red team. that is right. kansas city chiefs are set it s super bowl 58. okay. all right. if you thought that was a wind up to the lightly battle between president biden and donald trump in 2024. it is also that to. and that is because, bear with me here, a segment of ri
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. happy friday, everybody. i m christine romans. we begin at the far north end of the texas panhandle. tornado on the ground. national weather service confirming a tornado strike in perr perryton texas. the fire chief confirming at least three deaths and damage to at least 200 homes. there were collapsed lungs, head injuries and broken bones. cleanup is already under way. congressman ronny jackson is asking people in the area to help any way they can. want to bring in derek van dam in the cnn weather center. this was just one of seven tornados reported thursday along with nearly 200 storms. are we looking at anything like this for today? up fortunately we have another active day ahead of us. the tornados in texas absolutely devastating to see. let s focus on the more immediate threat, what is happening now. we have severe thunderstorm watches stretching from texas through louisiana and the gulf coast. there
in february, of 2021, joe biden had been president for less than a month. the united states senate was still in the middle of impeaching the previous president for stoking insurrection. the house impeachment managers, all of them democrats, were making the case that even though trump was no longer president, he had to be impeached because otherwise future presidents would be free to commit any crime or misdemeanor as long as they did so right before leaving office. to rebut that, trump s lawyers offered this counter argument. if my colleague on this side of the chamber actually think that president trump committed a criminal offense, and let s understand, a high crime is a felony and misdemeanor is a misdemeanor. the words haven t changed that much overtime. after he s out of office, you go and arrest him. so there is no opportunity where the president of the united states can run rampant in january at the end of his term and just go away scot-free. the department of just