get hurt. we begin tonight with a simple rule of legal professionals. in most cases whenever possible, keep your clients off tv and avoid letting them do interviews, which usually do more harm than good. unfortunately, donald trump s lawyers are needy, attention craving client could only hold out for so long, so last night on one of his favorite shows in an interview with his friend, sean hannity, he seemed to make a losing argument even worse. in his latest throw spaghetti at the wall defense or is it throw ketchup at the wall? trump made this outrageous claim about his magical powers to declassify documents. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision, so when you send it, it s decla
washington today, and many same republican politicians who are running up that hill still came out to kiss his ring. plus, the pain that alex jones inflicted on the families of the sandy hook massacre victims as he stands trial for defamation. and dr. anthony fauci will be my guest on white house plans to get the monkeypox outbreak under control. not a sentence i thought i d ever say. good evening, everyone, jason johnson in tonight for joy reid. we begin the reidout with signs that the justice department is widening its investigation into january 6th and the efforts to overturn the election. in an exclusive interview today with nbc s lester holt, attorney general merrick garland said that the department s investigation is moving at an unprecedented speed, and he refuses to rule out prosecuting the twice-impeached former president for his actions. you said in no uncertain terms the other day that no one is above the law. yeah. that said, the indictment of a former
pete: biden s war on appliances gets push back as a new lawsuit is trying to keep the government s hands off. rachel s dish washer and washing machine. plus, would your teenage or drop their smart phone for a flip phone? comedian jerry seinfeld thinks so gifting his youngest son one at graduation. final hour of fox & friends weekend starts right now. pete: there s no lake next to denver. this is not denver. we re horrible on geography. pete: will claims to be geography and so does rick. nerd battles of geography. it s important and we should know more about it. rick: i believe map quest will be back on here. pete: the mclemore boys are here and they ll be with us at the end. rachel: potatoes and sausage and pickles. pete: these are frito lays with my men toe cheese and hot dogs and jalapeño. rick: not going to eat it? pete: you don t like pimento cheese? rachel: no, i love it. it s my favorite. pete: summer is here and they have their cook book gatter and grill. check
polling wise is he although not officially entering the race, leaps and bounds ahead of some of the other potential people he is running against except for former president trump who he trails in the polls according to the latest cbs news polls about 30 points right now. with regards to president trump, he is the main contender at the moment. ron desantis is trailing him. from president trump s perspective, how much of a threat will he see him as being and will president trump change his strategy at all? when it comes to changing the strategy, that is yet to be seen, former president trump has been consistent over the past six or so years. when it comes to taking a look at how much of a threat he might be seeing ron desantis, that is the question. i have been looking at his socials over the last two hours and there have been posts regarding ron desantis, mainly some other comments, he has
can change, that the president is in a very weak position right now. president biden. polling-wise on his acuity, his ability to do the job, the economy is a big one and given what we re seeing going on at the border itself. that s another story. that is unchanged by what we re seeing in this courtroom today. sean, thank you very much. always good to have you with us. so we re pleased be joined by leo terrell and geraldo rivera. geraldo, what do you think? well, i think it was a compromise verdict. they allowed donald trump to convict himself out of his own mouth. it was the access hollywood tape i submit. that plus that lame deposition in which he confused marla maples with his with e. jean