for our next defending democracy, president biden, making that a cornerstone of his campaign as he takes on trump, whose doubling down on his calls for revenge plus exactly i d like vacations, a private jet, supreme court justice clarence thomas finally admitting that the lavish trips that were paid for by a republican megadonor the reporter who first exposed the trips is my guest. and an out front exclusive for the first time, we take you inside the unprecedented security operation. now underway to protect one of the biggest political events. let s go out front good evening. i m briana keeler in for erin burnett outfront tonight. biden takes on trump, the president defending democracy today on the world stage, while the former president was on social media attacking the american justice system, president from biden in france to commemorate the 80th anniversary of d-day. but sending a very clear message to voters at home biden didn t use trump s name, but he made it abu
i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. andrea mitchell picks up our coverage right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports family matters, the first lady shows up in court as the jury selection begins for hunter biden s trial, a trial that the prosecution says will include testimony from his late wife and laid brother s widow. the white house is pushing back on bibi netanyahu s saying that he did make the proposal. former president trump railing against his conviction and raising a ton of money and supporters since his verdict. next up, his meeting with propace officer and sentencing next month, just days before the republican convention. i m okay with it. i think at a certain point there s a breaking point. good day, everyone. jury selection has begun in wilmington, delaware, for the first criminal trial of a sitting president s son. first lady jill bide is not in the courtroom along with hunter s wife, his sister ashley and her husband, the president s son
party can call the shots on the hill for the next couple of years. right now we have a split senate right counsel the middle folks, 50 democrats, 50 republicans with the vice president able to cast that deciding vote. now, bun seat here could really change everything. the biden agenda would hang in the balance. bret: voters have been lining up at the polls throughout the day today. georgia s polls close in the next hour and pennsylvania, the hour after that. martha: but not all states count and report their votes the same way. here s where it s going to get pretty tricky and we will guide you through this tonight. georgia, pennsylvania, and wisconsin are known to be historically slow counting states. they start opening the mail-in ballots at 7:00 a.m. on election day. other states like florida and texas, they start processing those ballots that come in before election day. therefore, it will happen there probably much faster. bret: virginia is quick, too. that s why we
delay tactic. if hope at best they might get an evidencey hearing. how the boxes were organized this way. whether or not there is something of allegations of bias and improper storage. on on the merits, it doesn t absolve trump of the idea that he willfully retained the documents. he knew he had them in 2022. when he turned stuff over to the archives. he is talking with his lawyers they are telling him to turn it over. we keep finding stuff. it will not ultimately change anything. but it will quite possibly the way judge cannon handles things but it will drag things out a little more. we are at the first anniversary of the mar-a-lago case. anyone s guess whether we get to the second anniversary. bradley moss, thank you for your time tonight. have a good night. that is our show. now it is time for the last word with jonathan who is in for lawrence o donnell. good evening. i would love to know if we are going to have a classified documents case but who knows. prepare
destruction of evidence, and it doesn t absolve trump of the idea that he willfully retained the documents. he knew he had them in 2022, when he turned stuff over to the archives. they told him, hey, there s classified documents in this stuff. they knew he had them over the course of the next year, talking to his lawyers telling him, turn them over. and the fbi kept funding stuff in what you are turning over. it will ultimately not change anything, but quite possibly with the way judge cannon handles things, it could drag it out just a little bit more. just a little bit more. we are now at the first anniversary of the mar-a-lago case, the grand jury and bob dikeman came down on june 8th, 2023. anyone s guess if we get to the second anniversary. bradley moss, thank you, sir, for your time tonight. have a good night. that is our show for this evening. now, it is time for the last word , with jonathan k part. lawrence o donnell come in for jonathan. i would love to see