including the nation meeting its new speaker from the house from the very real questions facing the real mike johnson to the saturday night live debut what you see there in a mock meeting with president biden for halloween. we have more on that and a special guest on that longtime biden chief of staff, ron clain is here and it s the first time on the program since leaving the white house and also later tonight, a report from the middle east, but our top story right now is a new procedural victory for doj prosecutor jack smith and the legal loss for defendant donald trump who got in trouble for his own recent aide turned dishing doj mark meadows. they re-gagged trump and that s a technical legal way to put it. you may have heard about this, i ll walk you through it right now. basically late sunday the federal judge overseeing that open coup case reinstated a partial gag order that bars defendant trump from attacking witnesses and others and that order had been on hold basica
Night. and this thing was unfolding in the most dramatic way. alaska s 41-year-old democratic senator held a mock meeting of his sub committee meeting osbuilding and groundings and began reading aloud the 7,000 page pentagon secret report in public. the papers proved that for 20 years we have been victims of our southeast asia policy. i was frightened to death over releasing the pentagon papers, all i could think of is my country is killing people, maiming americans, and this is terrible. so i was overcome with emotion, not patriotism, just emotion of something you love dearly that had gone astray. he continued until emotion overcame him after 1:00 this morning. keep in mind i m the only one in the committee. i asked to put all of these