that president biden retained and disclosed classified materials from his time as vice president. the justice department declined to bring charges in part because, quote, at trial mr. biden would likely present himself to a jury as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with an important memory. president biden addressed those remarks in a rare primetime press conference. president biden: i am a well-meaning elderly man, i know what i m doing. i am the president, i put this country back on its feet. neil: dan heninger and kyle peterson, what do you make of this report? at least the decision not to prosecute and the reasons for it? dan:this is an exercise in prosecutorial discretion, that trump was indicted primarily for lying or misleading the fbi and instructing others to. that is a crime. whether keeping classified documents is a crime, or one that has been prosecuted, is a different question. that is included in the indictment of
captions by vitac www.vitac.com today on inside politics ease, a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory, eight words that set off a five-alarm political fire inside the biden white house and sent the president himself into a fury. plus nikki haley s yolo strategy. she s trolling donald trump like never before and seems to be having some fun doing it. this year s super bowl ads won t all be about drinking beer and buying cars. new england patriots owner robert kraft s foundation is spending $7 million on a commercial to fight anti-semitism. kraft joins me live from the super bowl site in las vegas. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. when the history books are written of the 2024 election, there will be a lot of ink spilled about february 8th. that s how my colleague terrance burly described yesterday, and he is so right. the supreme court seemed likely to side with donald trump in the first election-related case to come before
dominated his final moments in madrid as he and other nato leaders wrapped up a historic and consequential summit. the president blamed high gas prices on russia s war in ukraine. and he blasted the u.s. supreme court for, quote, outrageous behavior as we give you live images outside the courthouse right now. there are still demonstrators there protesting. perhaps the biggest headline today, president biden says he now supports bypassing the fill bser rule and the 60 vote threshold in the senate to protect boabortion rights. i believe we have to codify roe v. wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure the congress votes to do that. if the filibuster gets in the way, we should provide an exception for this. the required exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with this supreme court decision. let s begin with cnn s phil mattingly in madrid. the white house has been carefully sidestepping questions about the filibuster. not anymore. what changed?
lay them out for us. that s right. two counts. one each for not appearing for his deposition and failing to a second count for failing to turn over documents that the january 6th committee demanded he turn over. but one of the interesting things that happened today, not only obviously was this was he indicted by the grand jury, but this was initially prosecutors initially asked for this to be sealed, because they felt that it was a risk of either flight or for him to tamper with other witnesses. we learned just a while ago that what happened today was he was actually arrested by the fbi, and most cases like this, the fbi allows people to self-surrender, to show up at the courthouse and surrender. in this case, peter navarro was arrested. he lives just a couple blocks away from fbi head quarters. when i talked to him earlier this week, he was really angry that when they served him his subpoena from the u.s. attorney last week, that they knocked on his door. he said they
measured n sometimes looking for narrow areas of ways that she can agree with the conservatives. so it will be interesting to see where justice jackson fits in. but boy, she comes when the justices themselves are so just just totally thrown off by the fact that a draft opinion leaked. there is so much tension within the court, and we have really seen it in some of the opinions in the last couple of weeks. really back biting opinions and finally, think about what s coming up. next term, she s going to have a quiet summer. but next term there s big voting rights cases. affirmative action, religious liberty. she s going to have to take the seat and will probably be in dissent for the near future. we ll see how she shakes up the dynamics. thank you. another headline from the president s press conference today. he says americans can blame russia s war on ukraine for record high gas prices this