Joe weekend. It it was another fast moving newsweek. Here are some of the conversations you might have missed. The first line of Jack Smiths 165page filing the Defendant Donaldel Donald trump he is immuned from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 president ial election because he claims it entailed official conduct. Not so. And he goes onto explain why. The special council making case and piercing the supreme Court Decision and we are looking at Jack Smiths Election interference case. A Judge unsealed the filing in response to the supreme Court Ruling on president ial immunity. Smith argues trump was not acting as President Of The United States when he sought to overturn his 2020 election law. So though his multiple conspiracies began after Election Day in 2020, the defendant laid the groundwork for the crimes well before then. Smith goes onto write that same day in an implicit acknowledgment he had no lawful way to prevail he sidelined the Campaign Staff responsib
And Briefing Materials on topics including ukraine, iran and the u. K. All of this at the center of a Special Counsel investigation. Lets get right to cnn senior justice correspondent, evan perez, who is following all of this. Evan, what more can you tell us about these classified documents that were found . Not always a good thing whenela saturday. Not always when you fix a statement that was provided a day earlier. What the white house is now confronting, they have had to explain multiple times in the past week about the finding of these classified documents. And a lot of it, frankly, theyve known about the documents since at least december, that there were additional documents they chose not to disclose it. What we know is there was an additional five pages of classified documents, that they were found in the president s home in williamington. Thats in addition to one document they had disclosed just yesterday. And the issue for the white house is that now were talking about around
have a weird line, but i am in new york, so we are on set on different studio, so far yet so close. or the other way around. i will get you a signed copy very soon, i appreciated have a great rest of your night. tonight on the mehdi hasan show, marjorie taylor greene is calling for a national voyage between red and blue states. i will explain why that is a very dangerous recipe for violence and mike pence wants you to see him as the 2024 alternative to trump, but news flash mike, you are still doing trump s bidding if he refused to testify about january the 6th. plus, florida republican education has been so big, so much bigger than banning critical race theory. i thought rhonda sentence was for freedom? we need to talk about divorce. specifically, marjorie taylor greene and divorce. not her divorce, i don t care about her private life, in fact i wish you were a private citizen so i didn t have to talk about her at all. the problem, if she is a very public figure. a b
dangerous recipe for violence and mike pence wants you to see him as the 2024 alternative to trump, but news flash mike, you are still doing trump s bidding if he refused to testify about january the 6th. plus, florida republican education has been so big, so much bigger than banning critical race theory. i thought rhonda sentence was for freedom? we need to talk about divorce. specifically, marjorie taylor greene and divorce. not her divorce, i don t care about her private life, in fact i wish you were a private citizen so i didn t have to talk about her at all. the problem, if she is a very public figure. a bombastic member of congress, an influential gop member of the house, who this week called for a quote, unquote national divorce. a literal dissolution of the union, severing the country and get to frankenstein patch s of so-called red states and blue states. we are done with the united states of america, she said. we are done. she did not muse about the notion, she didn
manhattan as early as next week. this is according to five senior officials familiar with the preparations and in the worlds of unprecedented, this would be the absolute definition of it. a former president has never been criminally indicted before, never. so local law enforcement agencies are running the possible scenarios, going through potential security plans, gaming out the variables, according to the same officials, who also stress that this is a just in case no charges have been filed and nbc news cannot report that any decision has yet been made that we know of more on what this means in a moment because it could get pretty complicated we also have new reporting from the washington post that could have a significant bearing on the special counsel investigation into january 6th the post has reviewed a copy of a report called project 2020. a study trump s team paid for but never released to investigate the election results in six key states that he lost according