involving the doj s investigation of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the trump team has one more hour now to officially weigh in on unsealing the documents before a judge hears the case this afternoon. the doj is opposing their release. various media organizations including cnn are requesting that they be unsealed. also happening this morning, the trump organization s former chief financial officer allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. the new york times reports that justice department has subpoenaed white house records in its investigation into january 6th. that s separate from the mar-a-lago search. and in georgia, rudy giuliani appeared before an atlanta-area grand jury for roughly six hours as the target, a target of the probe into efforts to subvert the election there. we want to circle back, though, to the case of the documents obtained at mar-a-lago. short time ago i spoke with donald trump s former impeachment lawyer davi
prosecutors two of whom served under republican froms, this in the atlantic, after several hearings by the committee, doubt as to who is responsible has been resolved. trump was behind the massive criminal conspiracy behind the proceeding and to defraud the united states of a fair election outcome. trump was not just a willing beneficiary of a complex plot of which others played most of the primary roles, while in office he himself was the principal actor in nearly all of its phases personally involved in elements and aware of and involved of the worst features including the violence on capitol hill mp most remarkably, he did so after vehement objects even by his sink fantic and loyal hand picked team. this was trump s project all along. add to this that more than 800 insurrectionists face charges for their role in trump s project and one big question looms over the country right now when it comes to january 6th. what will the justice department do about the person who is beh
dr. anthony fauci says he plans to retire. i anticipate i will be in this job at the end of the first term of president biden. keeps going long, 2022 home run derby champion. sunrise, sun burn, sun set repeat moon light, all night crashing in the sea. steve: good morning, rhode island, they have those lovely beaches there, i can t tell if that s somebody in the water or a buoy as we look towards the sunrise. right now it s 71 degrees. going for a daytime high of 88. the relative humidity is a killer right now 91% as the northeast braces on this july 19th, a tuesday, 2022, it s going to start getting really hot up here in the northeast. ainsley: when you are on a beach like that in a bathing suit, you don t care. steve: you are dressed for the weather and today it s hot. dress appropriately. ainsley: brian, what do you think steve got a sun set. brian: land locked yesterday watching some weird building with a light on top of it. that was barack obama s vi
doing important things always does. melanie, i hope you weren t up all night following these twists and turns. getting this bill out of the senate, they ran into some head winds and rocks along the shore in the name of senator kyrsten sinema. how did it play out? as chuck schumer put it, it was a bump on the road. there was some drama before this bill got to the finish line. senator kyrsten sinema was concerned about the 15% corporate minimum tax, impacting small businesses. so she joined in on a republican amendment to address that issue. but it also included an extension of the state and local tax deduction. schumer was told some democrats would not vote for the final bill if those changes were in there. so behind the scenes, democrats were scrambling to come one a solution to prevent this deal from falling apart. they came up with letting sinema support that amendment and added in a different way to pay for the changes. that is the reality of a 50-50 senate. they needed
refused to talk about his role when loftily subpoenaed, he awaits sentencing. cnn s katelyn polantz was in the courtroom and joins us now. walk us through what happened in court today and how bannon reacted when the verdict was read? well, john, as steve bannon moved around the courthouse today, on the grounds in the courtroom, he appeared to be very much himself. he was smiling throughout the day, right before the verdict came down, when the jury came back in, he was waiting, on his phone, what appeared to be looking at social media, thanking his lawyers, patting them on the back. but then when the jury came in to deliver their verdict, they came in about two and a half hours after they started. when they came in, steve bannon didn t show a lot of emotion. he smirked a little bit. he nodded, as the judge thanked the jury. but ultimately, he wasn t really that reactive in court. and the jury had bought what the prosecution was arguing. that this was like a parking ticket, t