good morning. it is sunday, july 2nd. i am michael steele filling in for my good friend ali velshi. donald trump s third presidential campaign is unlike any other presidential campaign in american history. as that twice indicted, twice impeached former president waits to see what other legal troubles might be coming his way over the next few months, he s used his campaign rallies to air out his grievances, and rather than focus his efforts on his legal defense and actually trying to find a lawyer who is going to represent him, he s chosen to litigate his case on the campaign trail instead. yesterday, trump made a stop in pickens, south carolina, a small sleepy town near the blue ridge mountains that has a population of about 3000. he was supposedly there to campaign, but mainly, he was there to complain. a former president spent roughly 90 minutes on stage, spewing out disinformation about his legal predicament, and vowing to take revenge against those he considers his poli
china. president biden is facing ongoing questions about why he allowed his son hunter to attend a state dinner last week as more information is coming out about other investigations. critics say the decision was poor. the president s defenders disagree. jackie is live from the north along with details tonight. when we have questions about the ongoing federal probe into the president s son, officials redirect us to the white house counsel s office or the doj, saying they can t talk about it. when it comes to the decision to bring hunter to official events and presidential spaces, the answer is we are not going to engage on this. the former spokesperson believes hunter biden asked to attend the dinner days after accepting a plea deal with prosecutors in an ongoing investigation. his son wanted to come, so his son is going to come to the dinner. is the love for his son greater than the love for his country? that is what it looks like. the leader of the free world is a r
hosted by alex witt will start at 5:00 a.m. eastern. that is going to do it for me. deadline white house begins right now. hi there, everyone. happy friday. it s 4:00 in new york. donald trump s once loyal attorney general bill barr recently said that the classified documents probe was the most threatening to trump, and brand new reporting in the new york times reveals why that may be the case. new york times out with some blockbuster new reporting that shows that special counsel jack smith is leaving no stone unturned in his pursuit of answers to questions about trump s conduct. namely, whether he sought to obstruct efforts by the government to get back classified documents. some of which contained incredibly sensitive national security secrets. from that new times story, quote, federal prosecutors investigating former president trump s handling of classified documents have obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for him at mar-a-lago. it
Leah Millis/ReutersThe Department of Justice and several other federal law enforcement agencies declared in a declassified report Monday that the 2022 midterm elections were not affected by foreign interference. “We—the Department of Justice, including the FBI, and Department of Homeland Security, including the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and CISA—have no evidence that any foreign government affiliated actor materially affected the security or integrity of any election infrastructure in
of federal surveillance tactics doing racial justice protests in 2020 could have contributed to this failure. quote, homeland security s office of intelligence and analysis mistakes during racial justice demonstrations in 2020, during which the agency was criticized for over collecting intelligence on american citizens, it resulted in a pendulum swing after which analysts wear than hesitant to report an open source intelligence, they were seeing in the lead up to january 6th. what is your take on that? talk to us more about that piece. well, that s what we heard, as the reasoning for, it they were just very very cautious. i think the expression, pendulum swing, this is a pretty extreme pendulum swing when you have all of this information coming in from open sources, you have tipsters reaching out to the fbi and others with some very concerning information about what s happening.