news on special counsel jack smith s criminal investigation into donald trump s alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office. you think of that investigation i want to bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you ll likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago and of the 100-plus classified documents the fbi found on the premises that day. tonight s news centers on a time about two months before that, june 2nd and why the events of that day may be key to john smith s case. tonight the washington post describes the events that took place on that day as being of importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we ve previously known may 11th of last year trump s attorneys received a subpoena. then we know june 3rd an attorney from the department of justice and three fbi agents met with trump s lawyers at mar-a-lago to collect those documents from trump s team. now, we also already knew a
according to a rent poll of new hampshire voters donald trump leads ron desantis in the granite stays, 39% to 18%. the governor that i mentioned to you, governor chris sununu has 17% of that projected vote if the election were to happen today. and he, of course, has to still get in if that s the plan. the new york times is reporting desantis told donors yesterday there are only three credible candidates for the 2024 race, president biden, former president trump, and him. but he and biden are the only ones who can feasibly win the general election. that s desantis talking. the republican field, as i said, is getting wider by the day. we expect to hear 2024 intentions from a number of big hitters. former vice president mike pence, south carolina senator tim scott is set to announce on monday. virginia governor glenn youngkin put out an interesting campaign ad that seems to reach to a broad national audience. and here is more. we can usher in a new era of american values. pr
where renewed fighting is threatening a fragile three day ceasefire. the united nations has warned that 250,000 sudanese people could be heading for the country s borders to escape the fighting. lines of buses and other vehicles continue to leave the capital khartoum, despite the extremely high price of tickets and of fuel. un officials say they re in contact with both sides of the military conflict to try to sustain the ceasefire after fighting was reported in some areas overnight. 0ur correspondent tom bateman sent this report from neighbouring egypt. and a warning, you may find some of the content in his report graphic and distressing from the outset. nowhere is safe, even when the guns are supposed to have stopped. this is a hospital in the city of 0mdurman, after local reports a projectile hit the roof. the staff here reported three wounded, all taken to another hospital. we are against the war because the worst affected are innocent civilians, says this eyewitness. a
hello. i m sumi somaskanda. more on those stories in the show, but we start with events in montana where republicans in the state s house of representatives have voted to bar transgender lawmaker democratic representative zooey zephyr from the house floor. it s republicans response to zephyr s plea for her colleagues last week to reject a bill that would ban gender affirming care for minors. she said if they vote yes, she hopes they will see blood on their hands. she has already been blocked from speaking on the house floor. now, she cannot even go onto the house floor for the rest of the legislative session, she can only vote remotely. the bill she worked to stop has been sent to the governor s desk and he s indicated he ll sign it. here s montana s republican speaker of the house saying why he thinks banning zephyr is the right call. if you re not going to operate within the house rules like all other 90 nine, remedy that and come back and play within the rules, everybod
nbc news reporting desantis has encountered spirited push back from governors and officials who believe that their states have done just as much, if not more, to advance a conservative agenda. the example that sticks out to me christy nolan bullying him on the idea this 12-week abortion ban in florida did not go far enough. of course you saw them rolling out their 9-week abortion ban. if the bulk of the next year is ron desantis and donald trump and a host of other republicans trying to out-trump each other for a lack of a better term, how does that change the contours going into a general election, if that is most of what voters have been exposed to? well, that s only a benefit to my old colleagues in the white house who are trying to get current president joe biden re-elected because a lot of these positions are extreme, extreme in the country.