people in the world. we don t use them. we re going to use our smartest and our best. we re not using political hacks anymore. that s the people that do these deals. they re political hacks. we want experts our finest people. we don t want people that are b-level, c-level, d-level. we have to get our absolute best trump hired all the best people, now many of those same people, his former attorney general, defense secretary, national security adviser, and others say he endangered national security. also tonight, new reporting seems to answer the question as to why it took so long for the justice department to begin an investigation into trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election. plus, republicans loyalty pledge they re basically asking all of the presidential candidates to support trump if he s nominated again, and probably pardon him, too. i m jason johnson in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with justice delayed. today, of course, is juneteenth. marking the day i
federal prosecutors. the lead starts right now. breaking on cnn this minute. a meeting recorded. sources tell cnn donald trump not only knew he kept classified documents, but talked about them in a meeting captured on tape. what sources say they discussed and the significance of what was said. we have the breaking reporting right now. this hour the debt limit deal put together a growing list of house republicans and democrats coming out saying they plan to vote no. i ll speak with one of them coming up. bullet through a prayer book, a survivor who hid in a closs set. the stark new details in the trial of the tree of life mass shooting suspect. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. a new piece of evidence that undercuts donald trump s defense in the classified documents investigation. federal prosecutors obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting where the former president acknowledges he held on to a classified pentagon document about a potential attack ag
busy news night. joy reid picks up next. tonight on the reidout give me a name. white supremacists. who would you like me to condemn. proud boys, stand back and stand by. as we await a verdict in the proud boys trial, how january 6th continues to be a drag on the republican party. as their likely nominee, donald trump, continues to quite literally embrace insurrectionists. also tonight, the sorry state of the right-wing supreme court majority. and the questions their actions raise about the credibility of the court. and actor and comedian john leguizamo will be here right hire on set with me to discuss his new series, leguizamo does america. very, very excited about that. but we begin tonight still awaiting a verdict in the trial of five members of the far right extremist group the proud boys. for their role in the violent attack on the u.s. capitol on january 6th. all five including the group s former leader enrique tarrio are charged with seditious con
hungary. steve bannon who was convicted of contempt of congress as well as mypillow guy, mike lindell. this isn t dick cheney s or the cpac during the trump presidency. it s taken a new turn. trump will be speaking as his allies scored a big win in the primary last night where kari lake was projected to be the winner of the republican nomination for governor. lake who claimed there was fraud without proving a shred of evidence gives pennsylvania s doug mastriano a run for his money in being the republican party s most extreme 2022 candidates. she s an ex-tv news anchor who attacks the media and claims donald trump is the winner of the 2020 election which, he isn t. at least four of the six battleground states that determine the winner of the 2020 election. team trump now has their sights set on the wyoming primary on august 16th where trump s public enemy number one, congresswoman liz cheney is facing primary challenger because of her stance that donald trump is a threat to d
atlanta metro area, all three locations are massage parlors. a suspected shooter first entered a business called young s asian massage parlor in cherokee county, 45 minutes outside of atlanta. police say the shooter at that location spot and killed three people there at that massage parlor and injured two others. then in a different location, less than an hour later, four more people shot and killed at two additional massage parlors in atlanta. again, so this is metro atlanta, cherokee county, and atlanta proper. now, officials have not said whether they think these shootings at three places were connected, but police did note tonight that the shootings took place at three spas, three massage parlors, where the majority of the employees are asian. police say all four victims who were shot and killed at the second and third locations appeared to be asian women. now, police say they have not yet identified a suspect or a motive. but again, nbc s affiliate in atlanta is confirmi