Welcome to the beat, everyone. We are beginning with a big show. We just have former Supreme Court Justice Stephen breyer joining us tonight. He recently retired, you may recall, and crated the vacancy for his former clerk. He is here tonight. And the coauthor of the art of the deal, tony swarts, returns with insight on Donald Trumps life as a defendant and a warning for any possible second term our top story is the latest in the legal problems that are swirling around trump considering right now he begins this week facing new testimony in the criminal trials a ruling on those gag order violations alleged by the d. A. Fallout from new indictments of 18 allies for Election Crimes in the states. Outrage over his own Supreme Court lawyers claims about this license to kill and the oral arguments which we got at the end of last week. The problems are breaking through in many different ways. In fact here is one way to put it. The collision of so many cases within a five day span underscores
That was House Minority leader nancy pelosi on friday running down a list of laws she believes may have been broken when donald trump jr. , Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort met with russians after an email offer of information from the russian government designed to damage Hillary Clintons campaign. Of all those Trump Campaign officials who could be in legal jeopardy because of that meeting only Jared Kushner is currently a white house official with a high level security cleernls of the and he now is under increased scrutiny for obtaining that clearance without notifying the fbi of all of his foreign contacts. In fact, kushner changed the disclosure form detailing his contacts with foreign officials three times. According to reporting from yahoos ills acough kushners original application filed on january 18th mentioned no meetings with Foreign Government officials. A mistake his lawyer pend on a staff member who supposedly hit the send button before the form was complete. When he finall
story. not bernie, but most of the mainstream media really didn t get that. and now that everyone is caught up and realized it, oh, yeah, he definitely has this strong appeal, do you think there s anything that could break trump voters from him? there s a recent piece out in which a trump voter says well, i guess if he killed someone in cold blood, i d change my mind. i mean, really well, he can shoot a gun down fifth avenue, right. yeah. yeah. and get away with it. yeah. and all of a sudden we ve got a crouch grabber for a president. yeah. this is the darkest political moment in american history. who is going to argue that? and i m wondering too because one of the things about that period in the 80s was there was sorted of a certain dallas and dynasty culture, the love of sbreb rit. and this is donald trump also in your interview talking about his book sales, because the art of the deal had come out which tony swarts actually wrote but he took credit for. this is donal