President Kamala Harris and second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will commemorate the victims and hostages of that devastating attack. Well bring those remarks live as soon as they get under way. We begin with the 2024 president Ial Demain now roiled by a deadly disaster in a republican nominee who is defined by his neverending penchant for lying. Heres what Vice President harris said to describe Donald Trump in a podcast last night. This guy is full of lies. I mean, i just have to be very candid with you. You know, in my career, from the time i got out of Law School through most of my career as a prosecutor, i understood that the words that i spoke and what i did with those words would be the difference between whether somebody was charged with a crime or went to prison, maybe prison for life. When i was attorney general, i was the top Law Enforcement Officer of the biggest state in the country, and i was acutely aware that the words i spoke could be the difference between whether a corporati
classified documents. the special counsel found evidence that president biden, quote, willfully retaineds classified materials found no reason to press criminal charges. drew distinction between the criminal probe of handling of documents and his findings regarding president biden. the long standing justice department priniple that you cannot indict a sitting president does not apply and would not bring charges even if joe biden were no longer president. we ll have more on that later in the program. we begin with a hearing at the nation s highest court. an historic hearing for some very big questions about the constitution. the future of our democracy and at the heart of the case, a request from voters for some accountability for an unprecedented insurrection. first up, jonathan mitchell, the attorney for donald trump, argued among other things, that january 6th was not an insurrection. it was a riot. he also argued that the president is not technically an officer of the unit
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. it is an extraordinary day and we begin with that dramatic escalation in donald trump s legal problems and the fbi searches his estate in south florida yesterday unannounced. the former president posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was quote currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news that the investigation is related to the transfer of class fy classified government documents from the white house to mar-a-lago when trump left office, in february it was reported that 15 boxes were taken improperly to the president s estate. and at the time, the department of justice was asked to investigate. a source familiar with the investigation tells nbc news that boxes of documents were seized during yesterday s fbi search. the for
wider women s summit making news about this issue. our job in the news is to make sure we report everything that we have. we have a denial there from the d.a. we have an accusation that it came from somewhere else. we don t have confirmation of where this came from, and even if the d.a. is telling what she believes is the truth, that she no one she knows did this, that doesn t mean they didn t. if you re in the d.a. s office, this stuff is coming out and you re going, okay, gear up for another big day, because this complicates matters. the testimony shows a lot. when you re covering this trial, the first headline is there is bad news for those remaining defendants holding out. we ve shown you the chart where you have key figures that face heat for the coup, in georgia and in the open jack smith case in d.c., where they re technically called unindicted coconspirators, but all that means is they could get indicted later. eastman, now face this newly revealed testimony from th
secretary today, reiteraing the talking points and being clear they have no comment and no inside information about what is going on with this investigation and this raid. i think we ll continue to hear that from white house officials. they want to stay far away from the details of this investigation, given how unprecedented it is and also how political it ultimately is likely to become. yeah, president biden also has public remarks today at a bill signing at the white house. it d be stunning if he were to weigh in on what happened yesterday in south florida. you re certainly right, this is a legal matter, but the political implications are very real. this is going to become a significant story line as we barrel it toward the midterms. we re seeing republicans levy attacks, charges of bias. democrats, of course, with a robust record to run on the midterms have to wonder what donald trump will do next. the washington post s tyler