book club. you will not want to miss angie thomas, author of the critically acclaimed the hate you give, is here. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning, it is saturday july the 15th, i am ali velshi. the fugitive look so bright for donald trump. at the moment he is facing a total of 71 felony counts stemming from a number of criminal charges related to the two cases for which he has been indicted so far. the manhattan district attorney s hush money payments probe. special counsel jack smith s federal case involving the mishandling of classified documents. trump and his team have noticeably been struggling to find a defense in the latter case. at times they have offered contradictory excuses to explain why trump illegally retained government records and seemingly obstructed federal authorities from retrieving them for many months if convicted, in that case alone, he could face years-long prison
election, but jared kushner, unlike a lot of other people, jared kushner was central to the operation. he is reportedly told investigators that he was under the impression that donald trump felt that he had won the election. is that relevant? is jared kushner s impression relevant or distract smith need evidence? smith both. jack smith definitely needs evidence, but this can certainly serve as a piece to it. look, jared kushner wasn t donald trump s inner circle during the time leading up to january 6th and in the time after, and so in that, whatever conversations that were had as our pointed out, or other evidence that can go to whether or not donald trump actually knew that he lost the election or was really under some sort of from delusion would be important. i think it is also important to note that jared kushner himself has reportedly said that he
there should be safeguards to ensure that he does not game the system, especially during a critical election. cially during it bears repeating that trump is a leading contender in the 2024 presidential race, and he s been using his campaign speeches to rail against the prosecutors working on the cases against him. six months before the primaries official began, trump remains the outright front runner for the gop nomination. police nearly 30 points ahead of his closest rival ron desantis in the latest poll from the economist and yougov. he also has many allies in congress who have already been working for months to discredit the very institutions that are trying to hold donald trump to account. the bottom line is that trump remains politically powerful even though he is not in office. it s a complicated and unprecedented situation for the american legal system, and it could still get a lot more complicated because we are facing the very real possibility that a presidential front runner
opportunity to return to the white house in regain control of the executive branch, including the power to pardon himself. trump s legal team is seeking to indefinitely postpone the federal criminal trial in the classified documents case, citing trump s 2024 presidential campaign and possible matchup against president biden as reasons for the trial should be delayed. he is also asking the georgia supreme court to shut down distributor knee fani willis s investigation into whether trump and his allies tried to overturn the 2020 election. in fact, in a filing yesterday in that case trump s legal team writes that allowing the georgia investigator to continue would cost quote, reputational harm to the petitioner as he seeks his party s nomination for the presidency of the united states via a flagrant disregard for in violation of his fundamental constitutional rights, end quote. i spoke last night with the
named donald trump, there would be no indictment. that s a fact. i ve said it to you in times. i saw andrew mccarthy echoed that. there would not be a case if this wasn t donald trump. so that is where you know we re really gone amuck here. you select the person that you don t like, donald trump and you try to find a crime. so it is mind boggling to my that we re here, we are here. it s just not going to hold up. so these charges that they re cobbling together to try to make felonies out of won t survive a chapel hill challenge. tucker: joe tacopina, the president s attorney. we ll be here tomorrow for reaction. joining us now, the author of a best seller, get trump and deals with every legal issue the president is facing, harvard law professor, alan dershowitz is with us and the author of the trial of the century , gregg