The history of lahaina which i honestly didnt know until reading about it in the wake of his destruction is fascinating and its lost just absolutely devastating. Yes it will have more on that later tonight. Thank you as always for the coverage. Thanks to you at home for joining us tonight. We have new developments in the multiple criminal trials in the former president donald trump. Todays coconspirators in the maralago case, of the walt nauta and all of carlos tlr, they appeared in a florida courtroom to brought and to the new charges brought about them by jack smith. Trumps lawyer was also there representing his interest in this case. The nude event fan in here, a property manager Carlos De Oliveira did not enter a plea, he needs to still lock in some legal representation, with both trump and his valid walt nauta pleaded not guilty to their scheme to delete Security Footage that of maralago. A wall that classified documents case continues to move forward, so too does jack smith other
Oliveira, do not enter a plea he needs to still lock in some legal representation, with both trump and his valid walt nauta pleaded not guilty to their scheme to delete Security Footage that of maralago. A wall that classified documents case continues to move forward, so too does jack smiths other case, the one in washington d. C. Todays Special Counsel prosecutors revealed when exactly they hope the court will schedule that court. Jack smiths team told the court they want to begin the 2020 election case against trump on january 2nd. Prosecutors argued in the filing that starting the trial on a second day of the new year before any of the nominating contests would vindicate the publics strong interest in a speedy trial. Now we do not know whether the court will agree to that date and trumps legal team will almost certainly push back, but if the government heeds accords governments wishes here then wow, donald trump has a very busy dance card in the month of january. Take a look at this
Forward so too does jack smiths other case, the one in washington, d. C. Today special special prosecutors revealedsp when the hope to schedule that trial. Jack smiths team told the court they want to begin the 2020 election case against trump on january 2nd. Prosecutors argued starting the trial on the second day of the new year before any of the nominating contests would vindicate the publics strong interest in a speedy trial. Now, we do not know whether or not the court willno agree to tt date, and trumps legal team will almost certainly push back, but if the court heeds the governments wishes here, then, wow, donald trump has a very busy dance card in the month of january. Take a look at this. A Potential Criminal Trial on january 2nd and then four days later the anniversary of the capitol insurrection, january 6th. Nine days after that it is the iowa caucuses, which of course is the first contest of the 2024 republican president ial primary. And then some time around then, likely
Insightful with respect to the wall and if we have time at the end i will be happy to take some questions. Let me start with kind of what weve been spending our time on at the department the. This is the operational policy challenges of the department so the first challenge i want to discuss its counterterrorism and as joe and others now counterterrorism was the Founding Mission of the department and it continues to be the cornerstone of what we do compared to 2003 when the department was established the terrorism threat today is more challenging and more decentralized and diffuse and arguably more complex. We are more concerned about the foreign fighters who leave this country and others have traveled to another and take up to the fight and link up with a terrorist organization. They are concerned about the terrorist organizations adapted and skilled use of the internet to publicly recruit and inspire individuals. To prevent the travel of the foreign terrorist fighters the secretary r
Different way. We would not regard success by a al nusra as a satisfactory or acceptable outcome. If i was put on the spot of ranking control i would have to think quite hard about that. Both would be unacceptable to us. We have made that clear to any of your partners in the coalition who have ever been inclined to think otherwise. It includes al musra but other parties as well. We recognize the situation on the ground is not as we would like it to be. It is complex. Sometimes compromises do have to be made on the ground, tactical compromises. You know, the history of warfare is you have to make tactical compromises. The complexity, for example, is everyone. Isnt this an area where british diplomatic capability, the capacity to coordinate in a sense combined with our unlimited hard power actually cant make difference in isolation. Soft power diplomacy is where the nations main effort in trying to bring others together. Thats where our main effort ought to be focused, isnt it . Its part