that president biden retained and disclosed classified materials from his time as vice president. the justice department declined to bring charges in part because, quote, at trial mr. biden would likely present himself to a jury as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with an important memory. president biden addressed those remarks in a rare primetime press conference. president biden: i am a well-meaning elderly man, i know what i m doing. i am the president, i put this country back on its feet. neil: dan heninger and kyle peterson, what do you make of this report? at least the decision not to prosecute and the reasons for it? dan:this is an exercise in prosecutorial discretion, that trump was indicted primarily for lying or misleading the fbi and instructing others to. that is a crime. whether keeping classified documents is a crime, or one that has been prosecuted, is a different question. that is included in the indictment of
chinatown and dc, and even more boxes at the universitys f pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floo rkr where he parks his corvette and which is secured by only a garageor door that. is paper thin and open. most of the timeump also. trump also said he has been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse iurthousn miami, florida, next tuesday. another quot ie i never thought it was possible that such a thing could happen to a former unite president of the ud states. i am an innocent mann innoce, hd this is indeed a dark da sy forf the united states of america. matthew whitaker is the former acting attorney generaorney gelr former president trump. he joins me now with reaction. first first of all, just your in reaction to what the formet jur president just said. this is a dark day for this nation. yeahs, harris, good to be with you. it s a really sad day for our countrd da y. i mean, if you believe ine the rule of law and if you believe in equal justice
payment of $5 million to eligible black adults. at the payment are estimated to top $100 billion and that s much more than the cds $14 billion budget. and my saying is going to be a solution to fix all the social ills that racism created, no, but i think it could provide some economic equality is a city and as a country, definitely. san francisco is one of many cities considering reparations on a state level, california is home into the first in the nation state reparations task force, under its recommendation. $1.2 million. critics say reparations could be fiscally irresponsible considering california is facing $23 billion budget deficit. proposals, caused would be absolutely enormous. also in california, community leaders are pushing for reparations by family who were forced to move so that dodger stadium could be built back in the 1950s. majority of those displaced were latino families, as for the state reparation task force report, scheduled to go to the governor
the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now manhattan grand jury voted t indict john j trump on thursda for his role in paying hus money to a porn star today is the first day of the rest of don trump s life this is a monumental, historic importance. before tonight, president in this country were - now you are seeing citize trump being treated the same way that anyone else would regardless of the active o former president he s got to be photographed fingerprinted, he s got to appear before a. judge i believe that donald right now is petrified this is one of his biggest fears. tonight he is calling the indictment, quote, political persecution. the first thing the lawye tells you when you are indicte for somebody or charged with something s shutout. he does not have a good defense, his defense will be a reliance on politics, it wil only get uglier from thi moment on. get ready, stop on your legal seatbelt, we are going forward as a country that is goi
with us tonight. that s going to do it for us for now. but now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. i m going to do something i don t think i ve ever done before. on tv. you and i have both done it in the privacy of our offices. i m going to read the pool report of this trip to ukraine which is as traumatic as pool reports get. you and i have seen a bunch of them. this one so far is better than anything i ve read in the actual newspaper accounts of the strip. how it came together. the two reporters who are traveling with the presidents all the way. really fascinating stuff. anytime in the first act of some sort of drama, you get a swearing to secrecy, then you know that you re actually dealing with something that s got excellent dramatic potential to it. i know exactly the full report you are talking to. i completely support this decision. thank you, rachel. lengths a lot. they couldn t use air force one. they couldn t to use