4:00 in new york with the skies above us are hazy from those canadian wildfires. we are all under air quality warnings. we re going to get to that story later in the broadcast. but we begin with what is shaping up to be a white knuckle day for the disgraced twice impeached now indicted legally liable for sex abuse ex-president thank foss fast-moving developments in special counsel jack smith s investigations, plural, into donald trump. today, a federal jury in miami is back in action hearing witness testimony as part of the special counsel s investigation into whether the ex-president mishandled classified documents. or obstructed government efforts to retrieve those documents after leaving office. and it was not just any witness, it was one of trump s closest aides. a former trump spokesman who have as super pac. saying that prosecutors weres partially interested in taylor budowich, after sending boxes of material from his private home to the national archives, trump left a
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these times. we are grateful. the beat with jason johnson in for ari starts now. welcome to the beat. i m jason johnson in for ari melber. we start with breaking news. legal heat engulfing donald trump. donald trump is in some real trouble in the classified documents probe as more legal vets predict a indictment is coming, even jail time. new bombshell reporting from the new york post. mar-a-lago workers moving a mar-a-lago box one day before the doj came for the documents and allegedly carried out a dress rehearsal for moving sensitive paper even before his subpoena. this showing calculated moves by the trump team undercuts trump s claim he didn t think he was doing anything wrong. he told sean hannity he declassified the documents with his mind. i did declassify, yes. is there a process? what was your process? there doesn t have to be a process, as i understand it. different people say different things, be
over. the case goes back to the fifth circuit and could go on for months or even years before we get final disposition. this all started last november when the conservative group alliance defending freedom filed a lawsuit in texas challenging the fda is original for approval of the drug that happened 23 years ago. and april 7th the texas-based us district judge then ruled in their favor revoking the fda s approval, saying it went above its authority when it approved mifepristone back in 2,000. days with the drug manufacturer and the biden administration got involved appealing to the supreme court. after tonight supreme court wrote president biden said the states could not be higher for women across america, and that his administration would continue to fight politically. press secretary adding this earlier today: it is a druggist been around for more than 20 yea years. it s been used in than 60 countries. it is it has been approved by the fda, which is an evidence-bas
coast. we have a new special report for you right now, focusing on the specific plans for the bloodless coup during the postelection period after trump lost in 2020, as president elect biden prepar to take power, few people knew then how this coup plot wa working. the new report details a comprehensive effort, much o it unseen by an unknown to the general public to overturn the votes. the idea was to do it throug politicians, not violence. and that trump would attempt t stay in power in a way tha might have worked. had enough officials gone alon with the plot. winning candidates don t nee to change results when the have a victory trump and his team had a loss. this report is new testimony from trump s campaign manage or - as the ap called the race fo biden, i think some surroundin the president looking for thes different avenues to pursue. that s when he remembered th first time the concept o having to overturn - came up. a white house aide was pushing a truly bananas plan
National security, surprise. Trumedly sharing secrets about u. S. Nuclear submarines to a Maralago Club member after he left office. Trump revealing, quote, how many Nuclear Warheads the vessels carried and how close they could get to their russian counterparts without being detected. Tr telling these secrets to an australia Billionaire Business than anthonypratt. Pratt told scores of others including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and handful ja smiths team has already interviewed pratt as part of their vestation, making pratt, quote, among more than 80 people whom prosecutors have identified as possible witnesses to testify against trump. This bombshell was not included in the trump indict, which suggests jack smith has a lot more evidence than whats been made public so far. Smith is likely to use trumps own history against him. In 2017, trump gave up highly Classified Information to the Russian Foreign minister in the oval office. Trump later twee