caution it s. ron klain having work to the judiciary committee with joe biden when he was chairman and the business of confirming those judges. ron klein told me about is last week of working for the white house that he s their underway fulfilling every vacancy in the federal courts. they might get to a point this year where they re sitting there with no vacancies. wow! that s just an astonishing accomplishment. at a time when it is abundantly clear how very important the judiciary is to be functioning democracy. exactly. we are joined tonight by harvard law officer professor laurence tribe to consider of among other things mike pence s novel to put it kindly, novel notion about why he should testify before a grand jury. novel is one way putting it or, it s account wait to see. it thanks. alex thank you. well the breaking news of the night is that special prosecutor jeff jack smith has invoked the crime fraud exception in a motion to force one of donald trump
among other things, mike pence s novel to put it kindly novel notion about why he should not have to testify before a grand jury. novel is one way of putting it, lawrence. i can t wait to see. it thanks, alex. thank you. well the breaking news of the night is that special prosecutor jeff jack smith has invoked the crime fraud exception in a motion to force one of donald trump s lawyers to testify before a grand jury without being able to refuse to answer questions because of the attorney client privilege. the crime fraud exception can overrule the attorney client privilege. the new york times is reporting tonight federal prosecutors overseeing the investigation into former president donald j trump s handling of classified documents are seeking to pierce assertions of client attorney privilege and compel lawyers to answer more questions before a grand jury according to two people familiar with the matter, adding an aggressive new dimension to the inquiry and und
it s the top of the hour. i m boris sanchez with jessica dean in washington, d.c. we have new video just into cnn, and we should warn you it is graphic and disturbing. so if you need to, it may be best to turn away now. it shows dozens of casualties near a hospital in gaza. we re seeing at least a dozen bloodied bodies strewn across the ground near an ambulance. the escalating humanitarian crisis in gaza, a main focus as america s top diplomat returns to the middle east. the secretary of state antony blinken today pressing israel for a pause in the fighting with hamas as the war now enters its fifth week and international condemnation grows. we need to do more to protect palestinian civilians. we have been clear that as israel conducts this campaign to defeat hamas, how it does so matters. it matters because it s the right and lawful thing to do. it matters because failure to do so plays into the hands of hamas, and other terror groups. now while blinken was speaking, the
because she s my favorite an sor an anchor on cnn news central. she has to sue you. the problem in this matter is it s not clear who has sitting. the supreme court grappled with this in oral argument. a bunch of states sued the bilden admbiden administration, but the loan service providers didn t. they could make this going away saying the wrong party is suing here. missouri is suing saying there are loan servicers in our state are wronged here. but they re not in it, it s state doing it on their behalf. the justices could decide to do their case. if there is standing there s a separation of powers argument. there s a straightforward congressional statute that says in the time of a national emergency, the secretary of education has the authority to amend loan spending or student loan programs, right, so the question was, president trump declared covid an emergency, and then president biden years later
i think we all know was never a member of the legislative branch, what trump said to him in twisting his arm in the white house. when i last looked is not part of the capital. what did trump say two and then, in the lead up to january 6th to try to pressure him into a kind of bloodless coup, and then perhaps what 86. so this is a crazy argument i think it s one that is being augmented by another equally crazy separation of powers argument. i don t think that the chief judge of the district court down there, merrill howell will buy it for a moment. d.c. circuit is not gonna buy it and these delay efforts are not taking very much time anymore because it s so obvious that they are simply delay efforts. it s a raven political move. it s foolish. it s not gonna help him even i