and emmy nominated journalist caroline modarressy tehrani. in washington, new house speaker kevin mccarthy is about to preside over his first order of business. the new republican led congress will sit in the next hour to vote on the rules package. now that might sound a bit in the weeds but it is the nearest thing to a formal contract, setting out everything the speaker gave away last week, as he fought to secure the support of those on the hard right. it includes a rule change that will meanjust one member can bring a motion to throw him out. there are also concerns among more moderate republicans that mccarthy has agreed to a budget deal that could result in a cut to defence spending. this has a proposed billions of dollars cut to defence, which i think is a horrible idea. when you have aggressive russia and ukraine, you ve got a growing threat of china in the pacific i m going to visit taiwan in a couple of weeks, how will i look our allies in the eyes and say, i nee
Joining me today. Ill see you back here next saturday at eight Easter Smerconish starts right now a republican and an independent walk into a libertarian establishment. Youre going to have to wait for the punchline. I, Michael Smerconish in philadelphia. Thank you for joining me. This Memorial Day Weekend in an unusual move tonight, former president donald thatll trump will address the Libertarian National convention in washington, dc and independent rfk junior spoke there on friday after having flirted with running as a libertarian earlier in the cycle this morning, the Drudge Report leading with his appearance saying rfk jr. Slams trump locked down standing o from libertarians. He spent a lot of his hourlong speech criticizing both president s trump and biden President Trump said that he was going to run america like a business. He closed down 3. 3 million businesses with no due process, no just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment with a lockdowns, the mask mandates the
Therell be gone in a Flash Designer Sales at up to 70 or so of guilt. Com today today on Inside Politics, falling in line. Nikki haley makes official what was long assumed that chill pick trump over biden after a lets Just Campaign that included racist and sexist sexist taunts, even an attack on her husband while he was serving his country overseas the question now, well her voters follow her lead. Plus, he did it again. The New York Times reports that Justice Samuel alito flew a flag used by stop the steal still supporters. And some christian nationalists above his second home. A Top Democrats says, alito is quote, speaking pretty clearly about his political one while ties. And were standing by for a rare white house News Conference. President biden will take questions later this hour after meeting with the president of kenya, will bring it to you live im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and Inside Politics 77 days ago, nikki haley ended her campaign without endorsing donald tr
Sarah, its the first thing i thought of because were covering trump gavel to gavel keep in mind, we just heard a Sandoval Hearing in Donald Trumps case. Theres two things that this is directly impactful to Donald Trumps case. First prior bad acts evidence coming into the courtroom. The second, the Appellate Courts finding that Harvey Weinstein basically could not testify because so much was going to be allowed in on crossexamination the same type of argument would apply to donald trump at the Sandoval Hearing. Thats where prosecutors are told by the judge what can come in if donald trump were to testify, they opened up the gates. The judge to the E Jean Carroll case, to the new York State Attorney general, Civil Fraud Case because of that, donald trump will have a similar argument that hes hamstrung. He couldnt possibly testify because of everything thats going to come in on crossexamination. Its directly related to the Appellate Division decision that we just heard today. Did not see
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