with a judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, jesse watters, and she needs a stepladder to high five a keebler elf, dana perino, the five!a a major standoff at the bordernr is underway right now, texas trading barbs with the federalla government, over literal barbs, and democrats now on joe biden to seize texas troops to sort it all out. governor greg abbott pledging to wrap the board with more razor wire as the supreme court gave biden the go-ahead to remove it. avid argues it s his statespr icright to employ the prickly barriers, where he accused him of violating his oath. speak of the biden administration has realldminy ty abdicated its responsibility to secure the border and enforce the laws, texas very simply is c securing the border. and so we put up the razor wiree you are talking about, build, and put up all of these barricades that actually have denied illegal entry, and as you pointed out, they are our triples across the border. texas has a right as a state to stop c
it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. time for the last word. my friend jonathan capehart, in for lawrence tonight. good evening, john. good evening, ali. thank you very much have a good evening. thank you. last night on this program, a large breaking news that special counsel jack smith and his team had handed over the first batch of evidence in the classified documents case. today, we, along with donald trump and his legal team are getting a better idea of what that evidence actually is. according to the filing of special counsel smith and his prosecutors, that evidence includes quote, interviews of defendant trump conducted by non government entities recorded with his consent and obtained by the special counsel s office during the investigation of this case, including the july 21st, 2021 reported interview defending trump providing to a publisher and writer quoted in part in the indictment. now, we cannot say for sure whether that line refers to more priv
tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. time for the last word. my friend jonathan capehart, in for lawrence tonight. good evening, john. good evening, ali. thank you very much have a good evening. thank you. last night on this program, a large breaking news that special counsel jack smith and his team had handed over the first batch of evidence in the classified documents case. today, we, along with donald trump and his legal team are getting a better idea of what that evidence actually is. according to the filing of special counsel smith and his prosecutors, that evidence includes quote, interviews of defendant trump conducted by non government entities recorded with his consent and obtained by the special counsel s office during the investigation of this case, including the july 21st, 2021 reported interview defending trump providing to a publisher and writer quoted in part in the indictment. now, we cannot say for sure whether that line refers to more privately recor
republicans take grievance pollacks to the house floor censuring democrat adam schiff for his role in donald trump s first impeachment. and that comes as there s drama within the house gop with two of its more outspoken members at odds over how and when to impeach president biden. and also ahead the latest on the search for the missing submersible deep in the atlantic ocean as experts suspect the five people inside may have just a few hours of oxygen left. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the classified documents case against the former president donald trump is moving forward with yet another key development. a court filing issued yesterday reveals that special counsel jack smith has turned over his office s first set of discovery to trump s defense team. this includes materials supporting the prosecution s case against trump for allegedly mishandling the documents after le
it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves