congressman cheney is standing up to donald trump for the sake of the institutional vitality and, indeed, survival of the republican party itself. i think here was the beginning of something much larger than being one of 435 members of the house, one of 535 members of congress. the language was remarkable. and to have celebrate sated herself elevated herself to this point where not just people in her own party, but people in the democratic party listen to her, consider her a leader howard: this is a total flip prosecute cays that days that many dismissed her as a warmonger in the hold of her father, the former vice president. and liberals were happy to remind us of liz s past record. the president is operating outside the bounds of the constitution. he thinks he s above the law, and if the republicans, conservatives don t stand up and night against it, as i said, we re going to lose fundamental values and freedoms. howard: talking there about barack obama, and m
patel, an msnbc medical contributor. maura, what s the latest? what do we know? reporter: according to the first lady s communication director, she confirmed the first lady tested positive via pcr test. she developed mild symptoms yesterday evening, monday evening despite testing negative on monday morning, during one of her covid testing cadences that the president and first lady do. when she started feeling the symptoms, she tested negative on an antigen test but then positive via pcr test. she s on vacation with the president and some family members. we know hunter and his wife have been here in south carolina. the first lady will stay here until she receives two negative covid tests. we haven t gotten updates on her symptoms this morning. we know she s been prescribed a round of paxlovid just like we saw the president had been when he initially tested positive. the first lady is 71 years old. we ll obviously be in touch with her office as the days go on to make sure we
search warrant. they found what they were looking for. end of story, what i you did was wrong. there s the, well, i killed him, but i didn t. i stabbed him but i didn t shoot hill. when woke twitter and the new york times are your only sources of news, police state politics seems perfectly normal. trump is bad, find a reason to arrest him. that s how they think. howard: now, a judge has ruled he s inclined to release parts of the affidavit used to justify the mar-a-lago search warrant, and several news organizations urged in their filings, and giving the doj a week to redact can certain information. they got the documents they went in for, i see no reason not to release affidavit. this program will not waste one second of your time playing the trump game of pretend thing that donald trump wants the affidavit made public. howard: joining us now to analyze the coverage, will cain, cohost of fox & friends
why we think this search warrant affidavit should be unsealed, jose. yesterday s filing by the justice department was actually quite revelatory in terms of the scope of this investigation in arguing to keep this affidavit sealed, the justice department said this is a grand jury investigation. it s an ongoing criminal investigation and there s stuff in this affidavit that would compromise a criminal investigation. it said there were identities of multiple witnesses. multiple people have been interviewed and are providing information in this criminal investigation. jose, it answered the question, is this matter simply about the government trying to get classified documents back and that s the end of it. manifestly the justice department is saying absolutely not, this is an ongoing, very serious criminal investigation. by the way, jose, they said even if the judge decides to unseal the affidavit on thursday, the justice department will then ask to redact, to blackout significant porti
about the scheme? perhaps. as you sewed, this whole other criminal investigation that appears not to be related to the special counsel, that s my next reporting target. what is that investigation about. amimi rocha? i thought really? i think there is first of all i think we can be sure it s redacted for good reason. people might not understand the government get to decide whether to redact something. they generally have to ask the judge for permission and explain why. it was probably obvious to the judge because it s dealing with won going investigations, probably. but i think that s important to note that this isn t just a plot to drive us crazy. it s redacted for good reason. second, you know, i think the fact that we now know that flynn met with not just the special