of the archivist. he had no right to retain them and maintain them and he kept them in a way at mar-a-lago that anyone who cares about national security their stomach would turn at. that s former attorney general bill barr making it clear that the classified documents case against donald trump is not a witch hunt as the former president has repeatedly claimed. we ll go through the many, many new developments tied to the indictment, and it comes as trump ice rivals for the 2024 republican nomination rally to his defense, at least for now. we ll have those comments. plus, the latest from ukraine where the country s counteroffensive is claiming some initial small victories over russian forces. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 12th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us it. ooh is going to be a busy one. we ll get right to it. our top headline, former president donald trump is scheduled to appear in a miami cou
from his seat. what does that mean? that means there s an election in the area where he resides over. it s been four years since he held that position as prime minister when he led the tories. it was the best result. he left the job as prime minister in 2022. it follows the exact same scamscan dal he s dealing with right now, partygate. a host of parties an scandals that happened during that covid period, that two-year period. he steps down, he says, for now as the investigation continues, but it seems there s some sort of tenured note by the committee response fshl this report, meaning it has probably asked him to step down an perhaps him saying he s going to go before he s being pushed, but this saga is clearly not over. no. it certainly wouldn t rule out a comeback of boris johnson at some point. the question is who wore it
cannon doesn t rule his way. going back to the bullet points, there s one major one that doesn t happen at the front end. it doesn t deal with pretrial motions, but later at the end of the case, if trump is convicted, the defense always makes what s called a rule 29 motion. it s a motion that the jury got it wrong, pay tenltsly wrong, completely wrong, and take the case away from them and enter a case of acquittal. that s up to the judge and it s nonreviewable. there is a way i m not saying this is judge cannon but i m saying there is a way a judge can inject himself or herself in a criminal case at the very end with a judgment of acquittal, which is unreview about. there are no comebacks and the case is over. msnbc s legal analyst danny cevallos. thank you so very, very much. still ahead on way too early , we re going to have
that there may be a problem with one or more of the jurors. short time ago the defense team arrived here at the federal court here in alexandria, virginia. one of the first pieces of business is what s called a rule 29 motion. that is their effort to get some or all of the charges dismissed before the case goes to the jury. this is kind of proforma, standard. usually don t go anywhere. the defense team feels they have good grounds to have some of the charges dismissed. specifically on the issue of bank fraud and these loans that paul manafort took in 2016 from the federal savings bank. specifically that the ceo of that bank wanted the loans to go through because he was trying to obtain a job within the trump administration. and in the newly-released court documents we have this email from paul manafort to the president s son-in-law, jared kushner from november of 2016. it states manafort is recommending the ceo of this bank for a senior position such