guy who runs that so i m probably not going to go to that debate if he doesn t show up for the first two debates people are going go why isn t he is he afraid? ainsley: republicans feel sorry for him. feel like he is the only one going to stand up against the injustice that is hang. two tiered justice system. so i think a lot of republicans are supporting him now. if he doesn t show up people might take offense to that. brian: noteworthy how president biden decided to leave afghanistan. one of the biggest travesties in american military history. we mark that. the president ignored that, believe it or not, he did not ignore the anniversary of the passing of the inflation reduction act. which he came out and said by the way it s mislabeled. i never should have called it that. just like we sat on these chairs on the couch and talked about this. what does this have to do with inflation. it was time for them to mark the
after the russia collusion situation, which i think brit hume called it won the biggest travesties in the history of journalism or something to that effect in a way only he could put it you would think there would be a hunger to get back on the right track and cover this in a more forthcoming way. thank you very much, good to see you both on a friday afternoon. we ll see you soon collaborate weekend. appreciated. martha: a mixed ruling from a judge and former president trumps 2020 election election case about special counsel jack smith s request to have a protective order on the former president limited what he can and cannot say about this case, justice correspondent david spunt david spunt covering a story for us this afternoon, has all the details from washington. this ruling just came down from federal judge tanya chutkan
showing off a pentagon document outlining a potential plan of attack on iran and admitting, as president, i could have declassified it but now i can t. we did absolutely nothing wrong. reporter: back on the campaign trail, trump accusing president biden of weaponizing the justice department. this vicious persecution is a travesties of justice. the 49 page indictment charges the former president stored classified documents throughout his club and stacks of boxes in a ballroom spilling on the floor in a storage room, even in a bathroom. the indictment accusing trump of suggesting his attorney falsely represent to the fbi and the grand jury that trump did not have documents called for by the grand jury subpoena. and that his attorney hide or destroy the documents. at one point prosecutors say trump asked his attorney, wouldn t it be better if we just told them we don t have anything here? trump s once loyal attorney general bill barr calling the conduct described egregious
cases he lost. so there is a he basically goes through the michael sussmann case, which was one of the travesties as a former prosecutor, mine that case was beyond weak. there were so many glaring faults. i m reading through his relitigating that and nowhere does he point out the holes in the case. there was a reason that was an acquittal. it wasn t for political reasons. this was not proved. there s nothing in the report that goes through here are my failings, here s what i did wrong, here s where the jury concluded. to your point it reads like oh, look here s why he was so guilty even though we have a unanimous jury verdict, remember it has to be unanimous to acquit, all 12 people said, no. did not exist. that is poor form to try and use the report to say i was really justified. you had your day, you were supposed to prove your case beyond a reasonable doubt.
200 million we do not know the true cost of that investigation. he would say there s evidence president trump broke the law. he is also suing jim jordan as the chairman of the committee for there are those who say the very idea of holding this committee of mr. jordan and the committee coming to new york is in fact political against bragg. both you say against those types of charges? it s not. when i d.a. weapon isis and makes an office political there is oversight required. we are just trying to bring two lights the double standard of justice and the travesties that are happening on a daily basis. this is not political at all for me. i ve been calling alvin bragg out since his infamous day one memo on your show up multiple times. as soon as he issued the day one memo, almost immediately. eric: expended day one memo at reduced felonies and misdemeanors and like shoplifting for example did not even prosecutors under certain