Much. Much. Theres a lot going on tonight. Weve got another Immunity Claim from donald trump. A key witness in the maralago documents case is now speaking out on camera. All the while the general election is full steam ahead. Just another normal monday in 2024. Luckily for us, congressman adam schiff is standing by right here in the studio and dan goldman is going to join us later on. I want to start tonight with a bit of a riddle for all of you. A true social post about jimmy kimmel meeting with gary and autocrat Victor Ormonde in the last ditch effort to delay the start of his terminal child. Tell us about donald trump. These seem like examples of unhinged and strange behavior. It is. Its also the actions of someone attempting to project strength in order to cover up weakness. All the actions of a wannabe dictator. Lets start with the news from earlier today. Donald trump is trying to delay the start of his criminal trial in new york until after the Supreme Court rules on the scope o
Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
Hi there. Thank you for being with us. We begin with some Breaking News from the brazilian city of belem, where leaders of eight South American countries which share the amazon have been meeting fora landmark summit. At the end of the talks they issued a joint declaration saying they have now established a new alliance aimed at preventing the amazon from reaching a point of no return. But leaders appear to have stopped short of pledging an end to deforestation by 2030, as brazils president lula, who is hosting the event, had hoped. Our South America Correspondent Katy Watson reports from para, which is the state with the highest Deforestation Rate in the country. Virgin forest still exists here in the amazon, but every day the illegal loggers get closer. From up high, you can see the damage done, the large patches of land totally cleared. This part of brazil has the highest rate of deforestation in the country. Underjair bolsonaro, Illegal Logging soared. President Lula Da Silva has pr
Reached the number of delegates to secure the nomination. It happened on the very same night that President Joe Biden clinched the democratic nomination which means the stakes are set us before. As donald trump will be on the ballot, the 2024 election will not be defined by Big Policy Debates or disagreements between the two candidates and parties of which there are many, but rather by a very basic question whether or not we want our democracy to continue as we know it. Because donald trump has made it clear in public speeches and announcements he will take a Wrecking Ball to the rule of law, he will pardon the january 6th insurrectionists. And he will serve in his own words, this is a quote, a dictator on day one. Voters who go to the polls in a few months have to answer the question whether the 248year democratic experiment sees its birthday . That choice has been laid out in stark detail, voices not just on the left or center, but also the far right. Remember this, from liz cheney.
Case. Hes facing in the peach state he and more than a dozen. 41 counts have been thrown out the judge saying that prosecutors committed a quote, fatal mistake in filing the charges he ordered be dropped. And one of the dismiss charges involves defendants interactions with georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who you remember received this infamous phone call from trump in 2021 well, i want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 loads, which is one more that we have because we won the state todays decision is a small victory as the former president still faces at plus criminal charges amid four separate indictments at the state and federal level. Lets discuss with cnn chief Legal Correspondent paula reid paula explain why some of these charges were dismissed and what this means for the broader case. Well, here the judge is saying, look, its not that you didnt make sufficient allegations in terms of the conduct. He said, look, theres an abundance of alleged criminal conduc