Ill break down the legal developments with former fbi senior official Chuck Rosenberg and talk to one of the republicans challenging trump for the nomination, former texas congressman will hurd. Donald trump is running to stay out of prison. Plus, impeachment trial balloon. As Hunter Bidens Plea Deal Unravels in court, House Republicans threaten to impeach President Biden. If they do not provide the information we need, then we would go to an Impeachment Inquiry. This is impeachment theater. Setting up a potential impeachment investigation, coinciding with the threat of a Government Shutdown all in the fall. Ill talk to Biden Campaign national cochair senator chris coons of delaware. And is age just a number . Senator Mitch Mcconnell freezes midsentence in a news conference, putting a spotlight once again on the advancing age of many of our nations leaders. The president calling to check on me . How old is too old to serve . Joining me for insight and analysis are Leigh Ann Caldwell of
joins me live to discuss the new strategy. and, rebellion, speaker kevin mccarthy s far-right flank isn t happy, and that has messed things up in the house. could a government shutdown be in our future? i am jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. it has been a rough week for twice impeached, and twice indicted former president donald trump. you re seeing a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917. it wasn t meant for this. and act for a crime so heinous that only the death penalty would do. it s one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put forward in an american court of law. the espionage act has been used to go after traitors and spies, it has nothing to do with a former president legally keeping his own documents. okay, let s be clear. the classified documents, legally did not belong to trump. which is why on tuesday donald trump had to surrender at a miami federal court to face 37 counts of mishandling cl
spy balloon making its way across the continental united states, then the diplomatic fallout trailing behind. it we re going to go right to beijing for the latest. plus, if republicans find use their house majority to target democrats and the biden administration with bogus, politically motivated investigation, they re going to have to get through veteran trump impeachment manager, stacey plaskett, first. she was just named the top democrat on a key panel created by the newly empowered house republicans. i ll talk to her later in the show. and in the wake of tyre nichols killing in memphis, another push for real reform. my congress fell just short of making history with the george floyd justice and policing act, and why you shouldn t believe the reason you re hearing from so many republicans who want to sound reasonable, but who will not support that bill. then, the crucial advancement separating post roe america from pre roe america s medication abortion. the abortion pill.
trump personally is want required to appear for civil trials in this case. on january 15th it s another civil trial that just happens to coincide with the day of the iowa caucuses. that civil trial is involving writer e. jean carroll. it s an additional defamation case against him. on january 29th, a week before the contest in nevada, yet another civil trial begins. this one is a federal class action suit that accuses trump and the trump organization of duping vulnerable investors into buying into a pyramid scheme. three weeks after super tuesday when a dozen states vote, on march 25th, the criminal case is supposed to kick off in new york where trump is charged with falsifying business records to cover up an affair shortly before the 2016 election. and then two months before the republican convention begins, on may 20th, the special counsel s criminal trial into trump s handling of classified documents is scheduled to begin.
team. stating, quote, then materials also include information pertaining to ongoing investigations, the disclosure of which could compromise those investigations and identify uncharged individuals. ongoing investigations, those two words are stark reminder that the mar-a-lago documents case is just one of two federal criminal cases being investigated by special counsel jack smith. the other is into trump s actions on january six, and then his role in trying to overturn the 2020 election. but waste, wait, there is more. all eyes remain fixed on fani willis, continuing to signal that action in her investigation into the 2020 election interference is coming soon, and trump s 2020 court calendar is filling up the trial in e. jean carroll south kent defamation suit against trump is set to begin on january 15th. on january 29th, a federal class action lawsuit against