arguments used by donald trump to fend off the cases popping up cross the country challenging his place in the 2024 ballot. it is an existential threat to the one thing that donald trump sees as the way out of all his legal problems, winning the presidency. a brand-new brief to the supreme court alongside other prominent lawyers like george conway, michael luttig calls for the justices to take the 14th amendment very literally. they say, quote, because section 3 emerged from the hallowed ground of the civil war, this court must accord section 3 its fair meaning, not a narrow construction. mr. trump incited and therefore engaged in an armed insurrection against the constitution s express and foundational mandates that require the peaceful transfer of executive power to a newly elected president. in doing so mr. trump disqualified himself under section 3. regarding trump s argument the so-called insurrectionist ban can only be applied after a candidate is elected, luttig and
three dead illegal immigrants and a federal government timeline that kills the white house narrative. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the white house is standing by the controversial statement it released over the weekend that appears to support henry cuellar s allegation that texas is to blame for the drowning deaths of three illegals, a mom and two children last friday. the white house statement claims texas officials blocked border patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance by shutting down part of a public park. the white house press secretary here. what governor abbott is doing is a political stunt and all it is doing is not making communities safer, for certain and also demonizing and dehumanizing people. i was asked about the three migrants that died that drowned recently. and so it is unfortunate that we re seeing that. harris: the texas attorney general hit back. they should definitely set the record straight. they clearly m
our top story tonight is a brand new filing by special counsel jack smith. you can see it right here in this paperwork. you can see what they re talking about which is evidence, what lawyers call discovery material. this kind of filing reminds donald trump and his evolving team of lawyers they re on a collision course with jack smith s aggressive office, barreling towards a trial slated to start in august. that could be delight, but only by rulings. it s not a timeline that donald trump s team controls. so they re headed towards that. this filing that we just got outlines the new evidence that donald trump s team will get. that includes interviews of defendant trump conduct bid non-government entities obtained by the special counsel s office. the key word here is interviews, plural, because even in this sparse word we got new information. it means smith has at least one more recording of trump beyond the one we knew about, the one that made news, that was also featured in the
again i m stephanie ruhle. alongside my partner ali velshi, covering our breaking coverage of this historic friday as the government has unsealed and estimating devastating 37 count and i meant against former president donald j trump. also the leading tender for the presidential nomination for the republicans. he s accused of mishandling documents and blocking efforts to get them back for mar-a-lago. the charges against him included violating the espionage act, improperly retaining national defense information. within the indictment, photos of what the government says are boxes containing classified material. onstage at mar-a-lago, in the ballroom, stacked to the ceiling in a bathroom. let s take a look at that. there s a toilet or. they re in a bathroom, classified government documents, piled up inside a storage room and spilling out across the floor in another room. today, for the very first time, we heard from the special counsel himself, who has spent some six months
wrote 20, 7 to 15 minutes to get off the plane. we should remind people, air travel, safe but that is a scary accident. it really is safe. i feel like it is safe. just that one was scary. you know, what it was. happy new year. happy new year. well, we have 307 days to go until election day. can you believe it? the ballot battle is warming up. tonight i m more coates live. well fasten your feet both everyone, buckle up as they say, this is going to be an election like you have never seen an hour history. i know we say that a lot about this all being a wild wild west, and we are barreling down the road towards a collision between politics and the quartz. donald trump and what may be the least surprising development ever, today asking a main court to overturn secretary of state decision to remove him from the ballot there, the primary ballot that is because of his role in the insurrection at the united states capitol the seat of our democracy on january 6th. now th