Good morning. It is saturday, may 25th. Im Charles Coleman jr. Filling in for my friend allie velshi. Weve got a lot to talk about. In the last seven days donald trump has reminded us of the many reasons why he remains a danger to the constitution and overall to democracy itself. Lets start when the former president appeared in Nra Convention in texas. During his speech that presumptive president ial nominee asked the critical quote, are we going to be considered three term or twoterm . Some can interpret that to mean just because trump continuously is delusional and believes he won the 2020 election, a possible victory this year could be considered in his eyes a third president ial term. For others, it raises concerns that trump might be floating the idea of serving more than two terms. Which is something he also slightly suggested at a couple rallies during his president ial campaign four years ago. There are a lot of things i could say about this idea. Aspirational, presumptive, eve
Resilience and redemption on the band book club. Another hour of velshi begins right now. Right now. Good morning to you, it is saturday, may the fourth. Week three has wrapped in the first criminal trial of donald trump. The Republican Partys twice impeached for four times impacted presumptive president ial nominee. He is the first former president to find himself facing a criminal trial and the possibility of spending time in jail. Even though hes in this precarious position right now he continues to be the same abrasive man he has always been, someone who thinks the rules dont apply to him. On tuesday, the judge presiding over his criminal trial, judge juan merchan, ruled trump has violated his Gag Order Nine Times so far. He ordered the former president to pay a total fine of 9000. 00 and if necessary, he would impose a cursory tory punishment. Trump could face more consequences as soon as next week. In addition to that ruling, another hearing was scheduled, was held this week rega
Was also the current president ial nominee facing trial for one of his crimes. He is accused of falsifying Business Records to cover up a payment made to an Adult Film Actress he is alleged to have an affair. To prevent her from going public with the damaging story. Prosecutors allege that his actions were in service of voters in the final days of the campaign. The former president was named as an unindicted coconspirator in two cases related to a multistate effort to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election. 200 miles away another one of his lawyers was arguing before the justices that the former president should be immune from criminal prosecution for anything he did while in office. Trumps attorney was forced to concede that in the teams view, immunity is so great that the president could get away with staging a Military Coup or ordering the assassination of a political opponent. If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person, and he orders the military o
election-year issue. meanwhile, the ongoing ethics scandal surrounding some of the justices could also be a major factor this fall. recent efforts to hold the justices accountable have largely stalled in congress and this week, senate republicans blocked a democratic sponsored bill that would have required the supreme court to adopt a more binding code of conduct and would have exposed the justices to greater oversight. democratic representatives alexandria ocasio-cortez and jamie raskin also announced that they plan to introduce legislation in the house that would do the same thing. but, republicans will likely prevent that from even getting a vote on the house floor and that is just the political reality right now on capitol hill. that means that the future of the supreme court might very well be another important issue that the voters will be forced to reckon with when they had to the polls in november. for more on this, i am joined by molly jong-fast, special corresponden
trump, when donald trump is in this race, and leading by double digits? we are very grateful, because i have a velshi band book club here, and the florida provides most of our material because it s a bit on a book banning tear. let me ask you something, val demings, one of the things i enjoy talking to you about is that you are one of very few people who was in government, in senior positions, who was a law enforcement professional. it is going to be a campaign issue for republicans that there is a story out there that america is burning, that america is overtly violent, and that is centered around democratic jurisdictions. you, having been chief of police, what is the message that democrats need to put out their, in order to manage that attack on them? in order to manage that attack on them well, number one, ali, we are a nation of laws. look, i enforce the law for 27