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joining us to break this down, andrew weissman, an nbc news contributor. what are the top lines of the ruling, the 57-page ruling that has a lot of information in it. good morning, josé. it sure does. this is an unsigned ruling by a three-judge panel of two, appointed by democrats and one appointed by a republican. a unanimous ruling that rejected trump s arguments about why he should be immune as acts of a president. and quoted from an 1882 supreme court decision that says all officers from the government from the highest to the lowest are creatures of the law and bound to obey it. and the judges added it would be a striking paradox that the president with the duty to take care the laws be faithfully executed is the sole officer of defying those laws with impunity. the opinion makes clear other presidents assumed they could be prosecuted, and therefore ford pardoned nixon for the watergate crimes after leaving office, and this is the first time a court has ever rend ....
even though it is donald trump, who has not provided a single shred of evidence proving that they re not, proving that he declassified any of the records that he kept at mar-a-lago for up to 18 months. now to the other front, the special master process itself. just a couple hours ago, lawyers for the justice department squared off with donald trump s legal team for their first public hearing before judge raymond dearie. he was appointed special master to review the documents seized in the search of donald trump s residence last month. during this hearing, dearie, who was donald trump s pick, his hand-selected suggestion to be the special master, told donald trump s lawyers to put up or shut up on claims that trump declassified the records. here s how politico describes the hearing. quote, judge raymond dearie pushed trump s lawyers repeatedly for refusing to back up the former president s claim that he declassified the highly sensitive national security-related records ....
How important this process is, to getting confirmation, as we saw what happened in 1986. More importantly, i think he took head on a lot of the critics and criticism of decisions that hes made and votes hes cast. And i thought in particular, with cory booker becoming historic, you saw the first sho for the 2020 democratic nomination for president. Lets just put that on the table. Certainly, thats part of the drama and theater of what he chose to do. But i also found it somewhat ironic that just in january of 2016, in legislation that he cosponsored with mr. Sessions, that celebrated those who walked from walked the selma mile, if you will, that he referred to him as it was a great honor to work with him and that he appreciated his commitment to civil rights. And yet now sees him as he referred to him as a danger
with danger to our country, as hes been quoted to say. The politics is not lost here. I think everyone in this town understands that. And to have this staged the way it was wit ....
A stunning announcement from north korea tonight when it comes to nuclear and missile tests. It comes weeks before the facetoface meeting before kim jongun and President Trump. Martha raddatz standing by. Also breaking tonight the faa ordering immediate emergency inspections of hundreds of boeing 737s after the deadly midair explosions. Tonight what theyre looking for. The Deadly Police ambush. Two Sheriff Deputies gunned down. The gunman walking into a restaurant and opening fire. On this day of National Walk outs. The school shooting. The gunman walked into the school just as students were preparing for their demonstration. James comeys memos now made public. What we never knew and tonight which side does it help . The video of prince in his
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That is a line that donald trump has said time and time. again, this idea that people are sneaking onto the jury and i will tell you, john speaking to both sides, the prosecution and the defense, there is a concern about that. but again, no one is being caught in this moment that is not a factual statement. i do want to say one thing about the johnson comments that you mentioned because i think this flew under the radar on a radar on friday when there were so much news donald trump, i actually asked him when i was at mar-a-lago, what he would do if johnson moved forward with a ukraine aid package, he essentially said that they were talking about it, that there might be a way to do it as a loan, but i m pointing that out because this was really the first time that he didn t adamantly say no foreign aid to ukraine. he said they were trying to work through that. as we reported over the weekend, we have heard from multiple sources that johnson was advised that he should be briefing trump o ....