Thanks for having me. That is all in on this thursday night. Good evening, alex. Amazing, were talking about the word contraception as something thats being litigated in the United States of america. Were going to have more on that later on our show as well. Thank you, my friend. And thank you for joining me this hour. Today we got the news that Donald Trumps one criminal case, the one criminal case that was likely to go to trial before the november election, may be delayed. Manhattan District Attorney alvin brags Hush Money Case was set to go to trial on march 25th, less than two weeks from today, but now that date is in question. Now, trumps legal strategy in all of his cases has been to push them off as long as possible, preferably until the month of nevuary. But todays delay is not coming from trump, or at least not directly. Today d. A. Braggs office consented to a 30day delay in the start of trial, but not because d. A. Bragg needs another month. Theres a new trove of records tha
ex-president very clear publicly known efforts and plot to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. a series of court battles over the last few weeks have largely gone in special counsel jack smith s favor, resulted if a whole slew of new trump officials and allies now being ordered to testify. some big names, none of them bigger than the one, vice president mike pence, news broke on tuesday that a federal judge had ordered him to answer questions under oath regarding conversations that may involve illegality on donald trump s part. here s what mike pence told nbc news about all of that this morning. i ll be in washington, d.c., later the week. i ll be meeting with my counsel that week and we ll determine the best way forward. again, i have nothing to hide. i believe we did our duty under the constitution on january 6th. nothing to hide, but that response begs the question, if that s the case, and frankly the fact that he wrote the book about it, why hasn t he testified
the twice impeached disgraced ex-president to overturn his election defeat. it s a glaring and unavoidable fact that mike pence one of the key stories of january 6th and the person that the entire plotry lied on doing what trump wanted him to do. he never testified about what happened to him or what made his whole family and the secret service detail run or what happened to the country for that matter under oath. today we have news of a potential break through on that front specifically. a federal judge ordered mike pence to testify before the federal grand jury under oath. that grand jury is investigating the january 6th insurrection and donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. judge boseberg rejected donald trump s and mike pence s efforts to block a subpoena. trump s lawyers asked the judge s predecessor to limit pence s testimony claiming certain issues were off limits because of executive privilege that protects communications between the president and some
by a wide margin in 2020 are about to swing dramatically against him and his party. a week from today, new york of all places, could have a republican governor . athn 2last time there was election in new work, biden won the state by twenty three points. whahat we re seeing is what political scientists refer t. as a realignmen and there s no mystery as to why it s happening. democrats failedively. conclusi no group in american historyorsj has done a worseob job running this country than the neo liberals currently in charge. they re viciouootbal, they e intolerant, and they are utterly corrupt. but abov liberalchare all, theye incompetent in less than two years. it is not a overn overstatement to say they have run this country into the ground, wrecking our economy. decirt, e, creating our militarytate and opening the borders of the united states to more than five million lawbreakers. the destruction they have wrought is so profound it s hard to describe. so of course
welcome to the lead. i m dana bash in for jake tapper. we begin with our politics lead. donald trump today invoked his fifth amendment right in a deposition with a new york attorney general who is investigating the trump organization s finances. this deposition lasting more than five hours. in a lengthy statement, the former president claims he had no choice, saying he s the target of an unfounded politically motivated witch hunt. this from the man who once asked if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth? this is one of at least seven criminal, sifcivil, and congressional investigations trump is facing. that includes the probe that led to the fbi search at his mar-a-lago home on monday. that was died to the doj s investigation into the handling of classified documents cnn s sara murray has more on today s derailed deposition against the backdrop of the extraordinary legal jeopardy trump faces. what s your message to your supporters? as donald trump s legal woes