So no doubt his words hit home as ignacious argues that bidens advanced age is a huge liability. Hes will says his running mate and her unpopularity is a big liability for democrats president ial hopes in 2024. He argues that this means that she needs to go. That combination seems to me to be potentially dangerous for the democrats in fending off what would be a disaster, a revenge presidency by donald trump. Quite a startling oped that some of us saw last night. Ari fleischer joins us. Lee carter is here and leslie marshall, all weighin on what this means for bidens potential candidacy. First, new reaction from the white house to speaker mccarthys announcement that he will launch an Impeachment Inquiry in to President Biden. Certainly not going to speculate on what has been a baseless inquiry that the House Republicans cant even really defend themselves. And that many House Republicans have said they couldnt support their own votes. So we bring in the chair of the house ways and means
hey, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york. the question of when donald trump s rhetoric crosses the line was a subject of a bit of a lips as pivotal court hearing. prosecutors and attorneys met in front of a three-judge panel in the u.s. court of appeal for a d.c. circuit for oral arguments. the substance was the validity of a gag order imposed on the ex-president that limits what donald trump can say in public about prosecutors, witnesses, and court staff. the heart of arguments, how do you balance the first amendment rights of a defendant who was also a former president and front runner with the need to protect prosecutors, witnesses, and prevent the railing of the justice system? trump s attorney was grilled by the judges for more than an hour, judges pushed back, that they had no right to step in with a gag order. essentially what they are finding is we have a past pattern when the defendant speaks on this subject, threats follow. now he s making similar statements again
cheering on the red sox soon. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. never do you see a federal court hearing involving donald trump, but today we heard every single word. the lead starts right now. challenging the order. the former president pushing back on federal judge who put limits on what trump can say and where he can say it. ahead, take you inside the courtroom and why today s hearing mattered so much. plus, anger in israel. the heated exchanges with families of hostages kidnapped by hamas. and protesting boss moves. hundreds of employees at tech giant openai threatening to quick over firing of their founder and face of the company. welcome to the lead everyone. i m in for jake tapper. we start with a remarkable day in one of donald trump s four criminal cases. federal courts do not allow live cameras, but today we got to hear live audio in the federal election subversion case. the former president facing charges that include conspiring to overt
the courthouse. lisa rubin, catherine christian and caroline polisi. thank you all for being with us. in the meantime, ken, what can we expect from this hearing and remind us of the parameters of the current gag order. reporter: it prohibits former president trump from criticizing the prosecutor, special counsel jack smith and members of his team, court personnel and witnesses or potential witnesses in the case. it does not prohibit him from criticizing the justice department or the biden administration or saying that this entire prosecution is corrupt. but what the judge concludes is when former president trump makes specific attacks on individuals on social media, it s often the case that those individuals are then harassed and targeted by trump followers. that happened in the case of the judge herself, who was the target of a death threat after former president trump criticized her. so former president trump s lawyers are saying this is a violation of his first amendment
in his seat. thank you for your team. i hope you are enjoying your vacation. we will see you back next week. if you want more of me, just tune into msnbc where i am right here as a legal analyst. inside with jen psaki begins right now. with jen psaki begins right now. it s been three weeks since hamas terrorist unleashed their devastating in deadly attack on israel. three weeks since over 200 people were kidnapped. many of them women and children. three weeks of humanitarian crisis spiraling out of control for the people of gaza. and now the israeli defense forces confirmed that they had expanded their ground operation over the last couple of days. new video released by the idf shown here shows ground forces on the move inside of gaza. and over the past few hours, we have continued to hear explosions, and see smoke rising over the skyline. the israelis have specifically not called this the official ground invasion, but regardless of what they are naming it, nbc news reporters