it was dismissed in less than six months. practically actually laughed out of court. now the ruling by u.s. district judge donald middlebrooks ordering trump and his attorney to cover the legal costs of the defendants in that suit is one for the ages. it is a stinging rebuke of donald trump the man and of donald trump s lies and his tried and true now legal strategy of jamming and gumming up the courts with lawsuits. it starts off like this, quote, this case never should have been brought. its inadequacy there is that word again as a legal claim was evident from the start. no reasonable lawyer would have filed it. the judge then makes it crystal clear that the ex-president himself bears responsibility for the suit. he goes on, quote, trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. he is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following
he doesn t think they re doing anything wrong. now with challenges to some of her testimony, republicans are dismissing her testimony. a partisan witch hunt. i ll talk to committee member zoe lofgren, and danny cevallos about the legal jeopardy mr. trump may now be in. plus, after roe. i don t think it could get more confusing. abortion restrictions are being challenged. the trigger law is an extreme law. i ll talk to hhs secretary xavier becerra. democrats growing doubt about president biden. democrats have a very deep bench. it s time to allow a new generation to emerge and new talent. why more democrats, mostly off the record, are saying the president shouldn t run for re-election. joining me now are former homeland security secretary jeh johnson. nbc news capitol hill correspondent. the american enterprise institute. and marriana sotomayor of the washington post. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. from nbc news in washington, the longest
to interpol even. 24 years later, a woman uncovers a little white lie. he said that he was actually 43. i was like, so what else have you lied to me about? was he a monster? was he romeo? you just don t know. and those are the best stories, aren t they? now, we hear his version of the story. you re the only person on the planet who knows the truth. it is, in its own strange way, a dissertation on love. love, intoxicating, impetuous, foolish. love that lives, like a fugitive. a long secret tunnel of regret. there s a reason that the story of romeo and juliet, has held up over centuries. or maybe, could you tell me? maybe it wasn t love at all. maybe it was something else altogether. oh diana, why did you take that ride? why did you, why did you put your life in his hands? how did it all go so terribly wrong? it began, the way myths sometimes do. with a whispered story. which started right about here. at traveled, mouth to, ear, to mouth among the camps and cabs
That we had a witness who had very pertinent information who was in danger, who had already received a great deal pressure to say certain things and not say other thing, all of which she had told us about. an investigation undergoing great scrutiny that would be unlikely to keep that information confidential for very long. and the combination of those things led to the decision to put cassidy hutchinson on in a hearing earlier than anticipated by herself. we always knew she d be important. one of the oldest investigative tools is if witness a doesn t talk to you then you talk to other people who were close to witness a about the things that witness a knows and the things that witness a did and here mark meadows wouldn t talk to us so we talked to mark meadows deputy and she was with him all the time as sarah matthews said