Theres a lot happening all the time. The days sometimes feel like weeks in the weeks feel like years. The stakes feel impossibly high. Because they are. Tonight we will do our best to make sense of this moment that we are living through together with two very smart and sensible people. Democratic senators elizabeth Warren And Jon ossoff will be here at this table, and i cant wait to talk with both of them. First, i want to get you up to speed about where we are right now. Starting with the fact that for the second time in about two months, authorities are investigating what the fbis calling an appear in Assassination Attempt. Here is what we have been able to piece together. Yesterday afternoon, secret Service Agent at the floor to Golf Club spotted a subject armed with what he perceived to be a rifle on the public side of the golf course perimeter fence. Less than 400 yards away from trump and where he was playing golf. Phone records show the same guy had been waiting there for about
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a major dam destroyed in ukraine. there are mass evacuations and plenty of blame as russia and ukraine point fingers at the oh. trouble for trump as one lane of the special counsel investigation nears its end. jack smith attended a meeting with the legal team and a bizarre plot twist. cnn learned it led to a flood of suspicion from prosecutors. and chris christie makes his 2024 entrance. the former governor is also a trump friend turned trump critic who sees himself as the best republican hope of derailing the former the president s comeback bid. we begin with a major development in ukraine. a major dam was destroyed overnight. the collapse of the dam on the river prompting evacuations and fears of large-scale devastation. new video shows the surging waters leading to massive flooding and fears now of a potential environmental di disaster. you can see water creepin
testify in an investigation into a hush money scheme involving stormy daniels. that s believed to be a precursor to an indictment. potential defendants are required to be notified and invited to appear before a grand jury weigh anything charges. it charged, trump would become the first former president to be indicted. but would it slow his current presidential quest? i say not a chance, at least not based opt this case alone. any charges here would stem from the $130,000 in payments made to daniels during the 2016 campaign. apparently she had been ready to share her story with the national inquirer. but the tabloid s publisher was a trump friend who instead h helped broker a deal with the lawyer. i long thought it was the weakness of the trump investigations. first the events of january 6th. the mishandling of documents, the election interference including the so-called perfect phone call to secretary of state and fourth, this, the stormy daniels hush money. merrick garland a
form vice president mike pence has to sit for the counsel. a federal judge in washington, d.c. most of pence s argument to avoid testifying. the speech and debate clause shielded him in his role as president of the senate. we re going to explain what the judge said about alleged illegality on the part of donald trump and what it means for pence in a moment. also, what the judge conceded to pence s team. we also have breaking news on the trump hush money case. we re going to explain that so don t go anywhere. joining me now, laura jarrett. from west palm beach near mar-a-lago, and former chief attorney also here in new york, garrett haake for the reporting. all right, laura. i m going to begin with you. let s talk about what you ve learned about former vice president mike pence. what did the judge say about why he is compelling him and ordering him to testify? the headline is that pence will have to testify in front of the special counsel grand jury there in washington, d.
including kevin mccarthy s new problems. by the end of the hour we re going to turn to culture and the artist ransom. i want to begin this hour with you with one of our special reports about law and justice and fairness. it involves a dilemma many warned about, that the end of the trump presidency would not be the end of trump s impact or damage. especially been the ways he tried to corrupt the government and alter the traditions and norms at times have been guardrails for the united states. everything changed for president biden because he s now facing this new special counsel probe from the doj. unlike president obama. because the attorney general appointed a dedicated prosecutor to probe how classified documents ended up in his office and home and not just any prosecutor. we ll come back to that. this week s news is an unusual decision he made two months ago when he appointed a special prosecutor for trump s classified documents. in certain extraordinary cases it is in t