A defiant former president , donald, trump off the Campaign Trail in pennsylvania. Just a few hours, last night in iowa, at this, as he tells one interview, or even prison would not stop his campaign. If if Going Forward right you get these indictments there ends up, youve got a jury in d. C. , you get convicted and sentenced. Does that stop your campaign for president . If you are sentenced . Not at all. There is nothing in the constitution to say that it could and not at all. The former president s remarks coming as he faces mounting legal troubles from special counsel, jack smith, new charges in the classified documents case and a looming Potential Indictment for Election Interference. We will have all the latest developments in just a moment. Also this, our controversial new comments from Supreme Court justice, samuel alito, who says theres Nothing Congress can do to regulate ethics on the high court in the wake of highprofile scandals involving most prominently, himself. New infor
being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we are following breaking news this morning. charges have just been filed against hunter biden, the son of the sitting president has agreed to a plea deal for two tax misdemeanors and a separate gun possession charge that will likely be dismissed. we ll have more on the latest in just a moment, including new reaction from the white house. plus, more breaking news, save the date for the start of donald trump s federal trial. august 14th, this year, as in less than a couple of months from now for that classified documents trial to start. also ahead, the race against time to find a submersible lost in the middle of the atlantic ocean. five people set out to the wreckage of the titanic deep underwater, but according to the coast guard, there is only enough oxygen in the vehicle to last to until thursday. what we know about who is on board and the search efforts currently under way. we begin with
on bond. he is still in jail, even went before a judge today and i want to play what happened for folks. did you find that based on the charge against, if there are grounds for bond to be denied at this point. so i m going to go ahead that find that your risk to the additional felonies and flee jurisdiction. i m going to deny bond. there is no way that i am a flight risk, i showed up before the president. how exactly does harrison floyd fit into this election case, stephen? right, so harrison floyd is one of several people accused of trying to harass a fulton county election worker, ruby freeman, into falsely admitting that she committed election fraud. ruby freeman and this video of her and her daughter counting votes at state farm arena at one of the polls closed in november of 2020 is a central figure in all of this thing
and harrison floyd is the one person who is not been released on bond. he is still in jail, even went before a judge today and i want to play what happened for folks. did you find that based on the charge against, if there are grounds for bond to be denied at this point. so i m going to go ahead that find that your risk to the additional felonies and flee jurisdiction. i m going to deny bond. there is no way that i am a flight risk, i showed up before the president. how exactly does harrison floyd fit into this election case, stephen? right, so harrison floyd is one of several people accused of trying to harass a fulton county election worker, ruby freeman, into falsely admitting that she committed election fraud. ruby freeman and this video of her and her daughter counting votes at state farm arena at one of the polls closed in
joining me now to discuss is phil, robert deputy national editor of the washington post and national editor and coauthor of very stable genius and i, alone, can fix. it filled, thinks for being with us. trump has had a pretty standard response to all of these charges. attacking prosecutors, claiming that it s all political, do you think charges on election interference specifically both from the doj and in georgia will illicit the same kind of response? or will there be something different here? when you know, i fully expect that any potential charges to come either federally on the january 6th investigation, or in georgia, in that investigation into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election, that they would just illicit the same kind of response from former president, trump. this is a very familiar playbook that he has had over the years. he has faced criminal liability, including in more recent indictments where he just uses its charge against, him every