Good morning, it is saturday, march 9th. Im jose diazbalart in this morning. Welcome to msnbcs Special Coverage Of Decision 2024. Super tuesday was four days ago and The General Election is in full swing. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, joe biden and donald trump will face off again in november. Both are making a second bid for the term in the white house. President biden was endorsed this morning boy the three largest Political Action committees representing asian americans, black and latino communities. Trump is also trying to consolidate his support within his party. This week, he received endorsements from key republican holdouts including Mitch Mcconnell who threw his support behind the former president just moments after nikki haley dropped out on wednesday. President biden made pointed remarks about trump during his state of the Union Address on thursday night and he continued his criticism in a Campaign Stop in pennsylvania last night. Folks, our freedoms really are on th
Concerned that evidence sought by his former fixer, michael cohen, and half A Billion Dollar lawsuit, could incriminate the former president. Michael cohen goes on the record, live, a little later. And must see tv. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joins us live to make the case for Televising The Trump trials. All of this and more is coming up. And a good saturday morning to you all, im katie phang. We begin this hour with new developments in one of the several cases against the twice impeached, now thrice and dated, one term disgraced ex president. Overnight, the department of justice, seeking to have a federal judge impose a Protective Order on criminal defendant, donald trump. In Special Counsel jack smiths 2020 election case. The doj is concerned, rightfully, in my opinion, that trump will share sensitive and confidential information. And its likes to trumps own inflammatory social media posts in which trump appears to vow revenge. Its important to note that on thursday during trumps
they re trying to show you there s a clash between law and a very certain candidate, because the week has now begun, and these judge us unanimously ruling a president could be tried for an election and the states try to bar that same candidate for similar conduct. so what is the distinction here? well, trump lost this appeal yesterday because he s not above the law. he is below the doj and jack smith when it comes to his own conduct and being accountable for it and even if he also, as a matter of job history, once oversaw the federal government including the doj as president. so that case is back on track unless the supreme court weighs in. the case is about rather random states and local judges can simply decide and announce that trump committed insurrection before he even goes on trial. in other words, is it constitutional and fair to ban candidates and basically decide elections that way? i ll tell you right now, most legal experts do not see precedent for colorado to beat
legal strategy from donald trump s defense and classified documents case. his attorneys are asking the judge for a lengthy delay of his trial. judge cannon who will oversee the case from federal court in fort pierce, florida, had originally said in august trial date, and special counsel jack smith asked for december. late last night, trump s lawyers submitted a 12 page filing, requesting the trial be delayed until after the presidential election. the filing says that trump is, quote currently the likely republican party nominee. this undertaking requires a tremendous amount of time and energy, and that effort will continue until the election on november 5th, 2024. trump s team also implied that the case was political, calling it, quote, a prosecution advanced by the administration of a sitting president against his chief political rival, himself, a leading candidate for the presidency. but for facts s sake, the prosecution is not being advanced by joe biden or his administrat
for the presidency. but for facts s sake, the prosecution is not being advanced by joe biden or his administration. so far we ve gotten no response from judge cannon or the justice department. meanwhile, today, a georgia judge selected two new grand juries. they are likely to be tasked with deciding when to bring election interference charges against trump. fulton county d. a., fani willis, her investigation has been underway for over two years. these new jurors will be the latest panel to examine evidence in that case. remember, this all started back in a regular grand jury for district attorney fani willis was presenting witnesses who were willing to come in without being subpoenaed. there were lots of witnesses who were resisting those kinds of voluntary appearances. and she empaneled a special grand jury with the subpoena power. now, she is going to be heading back to a regular grand jury, that being the grand jury with the power to indict. the new grand juries will b