Democratic leader to say Donald Trump is a threat. Did he lose the 2020 election . Tim im focused on the future. That is a damning non answer. You have a really good choice of who will honor that democracy and who will honor Donald Trump. Vances refusal to admit that trump lost. You would have seen him try to put a gloss of respectability as trump appears increasingly unhinged. That strategy to normalize the weird and Extreme Trump vance platform. That strategy fell apart. There was a lot of bad Data Points there. Today it feels like the News Gods watched last Months Debate and saw Jd Vances appalling answer and decided to highlight the whole issue. They unsealed a partially redacted filing from Special Council Jack Smith. Why he believes it is very much prosecutable. Smith lays out another new narrative of the case and that all 165 pages of that is what reporters and legal analysts have been pouring over all day today. Stuff like conversations with Touch And Vice president Mike Pence
Is the appropriate sentence. Today former mams Police Officer zerk Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1 2 years in prison for the Nurd R Murder Last May of george floyd. Hes been the prison since april when a jury found him guilty of several charges all for him holding his knee on George Floyds neck until mr. Floyd was deemed up conscious and he died on a minneapolis Street Corner. He was going to receive a theoretical maximum sentence but the theoretical maximum associated with any particularly crime is put up against statebased snepsing guidelines. Considering the fact that mr. Chauvin had no criminal history, the Minnesota State guidelines for a sneps in this case actually recommended a sort of presumptive sentence of about 12 1 2 years. Judges can depart from those Sentencing Guidelines and in particularly they can depart upward if there are aggravating faeblgts that make the crime worse than that source of base level offense. The judge in this case had ruled that there were four di
Of Fulton County fani willis, a judge rules she can stay on the case if she removes her lead prosecutor nathan wade. The judge adds that the romantic relationship between willis and wade has the appearance of impropriety and that she should not have given a speech accusing critics of racism. We will have the trump teams response and our legal experts on just how this could impact the prosecution. The president makes his first comments about Chuck Schumers controversial speech about Prime Minister netanyahu as hamas offers a new ceasefire and hostage release deal while israel proposes a Military Plan to invade rafah. This as some emergency food, some, arrives by ship for starving palestinians. Its not yet on shore. A live report from moscow on putins socalled election and a new g7 warning to iran not to send Ballistic Missiles to russia. President bidens Top National Security Spokesman John Kirby will join me next. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A Major Developmen
President s lawyers arguing it should be dropped. His Witness Presence Weigh on judge cannon . Tiktok turmoil. The potential ban on the wildly popular app now one step closer to a possible u. S. Ban amid concerns the chinese owner creates a National Security risk. I will talk to two democratic lawmakers who voted on opposite sides of the issue. Hell on earth. Haiti throw into chaos by armed gangs. I will talk to the leader of a Veterans Group trying to rescue trapped americans. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Donald trump is inside a florida courtroom today as his lawyers are arguing to dismiss the entire maralago classified documents case, arguing the files were personal and that he is allowed to keep them. Special counsel jack smith saying the papers clearly the papers that are clearly marked classified are indisputably president ial, not personal. Todays hearing is happening before a judge before judge Aileen Cannon who has a track record so far of favoring tru
School education. All you need is a calendar and a healthy skepticism about washington, and so while the lawyers were going through some of the understandable details, i thought you hit on the head in your journalistic coverage of it which was we can see what the court is doing. We can see where theyre headed. Right. I mean, i feel like all that we need to know is, and all we need to trust is that we can see it with our own eyes and what we can hear with our own ears and i needed a calculator to do it, but you can add up the days that remain and it could take up until july 1st what they think and theres not a day left based on what Tanya Chutkan said and shocking, but not surprising that the American People will have to be their own jurors once again. And the Supreme Court issues a ruling that says no one is above being put on trial while eliminating the very trial then that is a stress test for their credibility. Well be talking about it more, but i did want to mention that on the han