Thank you for being here. Good day. Can i say good day. Absolutely tell us about the Prime Minister who is he. Scott morrison is a conservative politician. At times he is far more wellknown for being an economic conservative, being hawkish about Border Security. He is a christian. But he has gone out of his way to make sure his faith isnt part of his politics. We are having a debate in australia at the moment about religious freedom legislation after the passage of samesex marriage. And he is really trying to to find a path thats not about his faith and about making sure his faith is paramount. Instead he tries to make sure that the rules of the road are simple, that regardless what have faith you have you cant be discriminated for well having that view in public. How much what has been the focus of his first year in office . Well it was turbulent time. He had been the treasurer in the the liberal party came in power in australia in 2013. We had a tumultuous time of leadership changes.
Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
An impact. But like i said earlier, it will take a lot of Digital Media literacy that we dont have. Brian, its great to see you. Thanks for joining the show tonight. Thanks. That is our show for this evening. Its time for last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, alex. And we have a democratic nominee, joe biden has officially made it. So were going to be covering only of that and also a lot of defended trump coverage to get to. It is a big night. The General Election is on. Have a good show, lawrence. It is. Thanks, alex. Thank you. Well, its not a good day for the Trump Fanatics on the republican controlled house Judiciary Committee. It was not a great day for their star witness. Republican former u. S. Attorney robert hur was appointed to his u. S. Attorney by donald trump, conducted the investigation of joe bidens possession of classified material after joe biden left the vice presidency. That investigation found joe biden did not commit any crimes at
His fans. Quote, love is all that matters. Faithful and forever. Harmon was 74 years thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now so who exactly is trump employee number five and y in the world, should you care . Thats how you tonight on Laura Coates Live thats where i you know, reading these indictments sometimes requires a kind of a key code between the redactions and unnamed people. I mean, you really need a glossary. Do you not well, tonight one person has made a little bit easier by stepping into the spotlight he is the mystery man referred to as trump employee number five in jack smiths classified documents give me an indictment. Who worked behind the scenes at maralago for two decades. And now he is speaking out for the first time in a cnn exclusive. Now, let me catch Everybody Up For A Second On who this brian butler is. Hes already given testimony to federal investigators and tonight, he told Kaitlan Collins that back in june of 2022, so he helped trum
Good evening. Im kaitlan collins, the source this coming to you live tonight from South Florida where i just spoke exclusively with one of the central witnesses and one of the biggest cases, criminal cases i should note in american history, the Trump Classified documents case. Until now, he has been known to the world as trump employee five as a mara lago valais in special counsel, jack smiths Superseding Indictment. Hes referenced six times in it. He has never spoken out publicly until now. It always got brought up about biden and other people that did the same thing. And then there was one time he said were all dirty, we all move boxes that is just one of the explosive things that brian butler told me about what one of trumps codefendants told him. He worked for donald trump for two decades since he was just 19 years old. Now at age 41 with his identity revealed, comes that incredible story. Youre about. Thats a here butlers take on how he says he unwittingly participated in the movi