President Donald Trump. Donald trump will be in the Convention Hall later today as he is officially chosen as the republican nominee. It will be his first public Am Appearance since a shooter tried to take his life on saturday. It is here where we have just been told that he will also announce his Vp Pick later today. And all of that coming against the backdrop of a sprawling investigation into trumps Assassination Attempt in pennsylvania and the Security Failures that led Up To it. But we start with an extraordinary legal victory for the former president that came down just a short time ago. Judge Aileen Cannon dismissing the Florida Classified Documents case on the grounds that the appointment of special Counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional. We have a great panel to talk to about it. Nbc News Justice and Intelligence Correspondent ken dilanian. Vaughn hillyard is in milwaukee. Also with us, andrew weissmann, former fbi General Counsel and with me here in Studio Msnbc legal corresp
person to be charged in connection with the insurrection according to one count is a former president and a current front runner for the nomination of a major political party who is already facing 74 criminal counts. who stands accused of trying to defraud the government that he led at that time. trying to obstruct the proceedings of a branch of government and trying to overturn the will of millions of voters in the swing states that determined the outcome of the electoral college. the big question now that trump has been booked and fingerprinted, what s next in this case? which is really unlike any other in american history. here is what team trump has planned according to the new york times. his lawyers used the arraignment to hint at one of his central defense strategies, a request to delay a second pending federal trial for months if not years. delaying the proceedings as much as possible is widely expected to be part of mr. trump s legal strategy given that he could ef
take these cuts off the table. remember i said it no, i m serious. remember what i said, i said so you re not going to cut it, huh? no, i said okay, we ve got a deal. i sure hope that s true. president joe biden hits the road following a strong state of the union address keeping republicans in the spotlight for proposed cuts to social security and medicare. plus speaker kevin mccarthy spent parts of biden s speech trying to calm down rowdy members of his own party. we ll show you what he had to say about their outbursts. and house republicans got to air their grievances against twitter. we ll have the big moments from yesterday s contentious oversight hearing. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president joe biden is continuing his populous push following his state of the union address taking his message to the swing state of wisconsin yesterday. the president spoke t
david, i wanted to read you this quote from a former u.s. attorney, john fishhook, jr. quoted in the wall street journal. a claim that his sfeech was protected by first amendment and acted in good faith, the two arguments could be at odds with each other. if you say, i m a liar, and the first amendment lets me do that, that undercuts your good faith defense. talk about how this all playing out, david. i think they re using stale talking points in pushing this first amendment defense. they had this you had in case he was charged with conspiracy, but he wasn t. thee using the old talking points where they really don t apply. speech in service of a crime is not protected speech. we prosecutor a lot of people in this office who engage in criminal speech. there was a woman recently who we convicted of soliciting a hit map to try to kill her husband.
Expect him to push back against some of these claims that jordan and republicans are making. so let s talk about the intrarepublican party strife right now. we have the scenes of the sfeech of the night where kevin mccarthy is trying to shush republicans heckling the president knowing it s not looking good on television. we ve even got, of course, rick scott s plans at the center of debate. we know a lot of republicans oppose those in the moment. it seems like right now even though they re in power in the house, things are kind of a mess. well, i look at it this way in a sense that you have divided government, and republican voters put these investigations for oversight, and you also have everybody else on inflation, on issues which democrats say impact the american people far more than twitter files, hunter biden, the weaponization committee for instance. so there s this internal struggle on the investigations, the oversight and democrats who