it s an issue that had never really been seriously considered and decided one way or the other. before the justice department was confronted with it urgently during the nixon administration. thanks to this sort of odd a series of things happening all at once in the early 70s, the vice president spiro ag new going to prison, the president, richard nixon, being removed by office against his will by impeachment. thanks to those things coming together all at once in a big felonious mess because the american people in our infinite wisdom that it be a good idea to elect guys that cry me to the white house twice, thanks to that mess around nixon and add new the justice department in the early 70s bumbled our way into putting down, on paper, that it was policy of the justice department to not ever bring criminal charges against a sitting president of the united states. and that s an important sort of, a landmark moment for the nixon years right? it s never a good sign when your presi
the desantis dogma as he misquotes a bible gets underway on this monday night. good evening i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. we have breaking news tonight the may offer new clues as to why the justice department moved so swiftly with a search and seizure that turned up 11 sets of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the new york times reports the government has managed to retrieve hundreds of classified documents from the former president since he left office almost exactly 19 months ago. the times writes quote, the initial batch of documents which eve by the national archives from former president donald trump in january included more than 150 marked as classified. multiple people briefed on the matter said. in total, the government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from mr. trump since he left office, the people said, a first batch of documents returned in january, another set provided by mr. trump s aides to the justice department in
we don t understand exactly what happened, but i think that they should have gone in and secured that are you saying that your brother went inside when he first arrived at the school and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? right. they did not retreat, and so the shooter was down. they were in there that entire time. a bit of hindsight where i m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. there is no excuse for that. but, again, i wasn t there the, but i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry. hey, when there s an active shooter, the rules change. neil: five days after the shooting, still questions as to could a number of them have been prevented. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. for the next two hours, we re going to be exploring exactly what happened in texas and the mixed signals we re getting out of that school and what happened in t
of nbc news thank you for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow happy to have you here. through a nod series of events surrounding the profoundly profoundly criminal presidency of richard nixon, and the really, really, really criminal vice presidency of nixon s vice president spiro ag new through an odd confluence of events surrounding those, two national leaders, in the early 1970s the u.s. justice department bumbled its way into stating for itself, putting into writing, a new rule. this is a rule that wasn t in the constitution, in any way.
further dissected and the investigation continues, we will learn more and, hopefully, neil, learn some lessons from this so that something like this cannot be repeated in texas the or elsewhere. back to you. neil: casey stegall, thank you very much for that. meanwhile, in washington an odd confluence of events that shows the parties might be coming together to address guns in the country, the violence in the country that would be to each s liking. but finding that common ground and getting the time to act on it especially now as the memorial day recess commences, well, that s anyone s guess. chad pergram on the phone with us right now on what they re thinking about. what are we hearing, chad? reporter: well, neil, this is the first time in years there s been such an animated discussion on gun violence right after a mass shooting. democratic connecticut senator chris murphy was newtown s congressman and a senator-elect when a gunman shot up sandy hook