the-out legal proceeding to follow. house judiciary chairman jim jordan on trump getting shackled by the manhattan d.a., former u.s. attorney and director of u.s. intelligence john ratcliffe on why the indictment was dropped just four months before the first gop primary debate for election 2024, less than a year away from the iowa caucus. and house administration if committee chairman bryan steil on alvin bragg s pushback of republicans. then, the ten other lawsuits waiting for donald trump after this. president trump s response from one of his lawyers is here. then the two tiers of justice as hunter biden s art is showcased alongside some of the most renowned artists in new york this week as bank records expose the trail of cash from china to biden family accounts. the new york post smy ran ca divine and government accountability institute president peter schweizer on biden family influence peddling in plain sight. then, is it a kerr application of duty or just incompetenc
reporters moments ago. right now, the speaker of the house is that does not do benefits for anybody out here. so, the sooner we all come together, just keep a calm head i know you guys get excited. i don t think if you watch me that i get excited so i want to go through all this? no. but i think, at the end of the day, it s better to go through this now so we can be successful for this term. you failed three times. how do you possibly pull this off? backing out? you guys ask me the same question a lot. i will let you know when that happens. at the beginning there, you heard kevin mccarthy that the clerk of the house, cheryl johnson, is now in charge of the house of representatives, and he isn t. that is tonight s last, the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. tonight, the cracks in the republican party on full display on capitol hill, and still no speaker. something that hasn t happened in 100 years. all of today s drama from the house fl
thanks very much for joining us. what is trump s response? i think he s shocked and disappointed in the state of our country, as he said, he s always put america first. i think that is the best policy, and i agree with everything that jim jordan said. i m really proud of what jim s doing, and i agree with him. and i think, you know, president trump s doing same thing and using his voice which is the loudest voice right now for the republican party to the show the outrage and the shock and disappointment. we can t have politics with these corrupt a.g.s and [inaudible] it can t happen anymore. maria: so let me get your take on other ten lawsuits that you are defending president trump on. i know that you re not the criminal attorney the here, that s someone else, but you ve got ten other lawsuits that you re working on. what are hay? they? yes, i have several lawsuits. but he s not the defendant on many of them. you know, we have letitia james, that s probably the most prominent o
director of national intelligence, also a former prosecutor himself, john ratcliffe is with us. john, thank thanks very much for weighing in here. i want to show this nancy pelosi tweet because what we ve been hearing this morning is all about the equal application of justice, and nancy pelosi tweeted that the president will have his chance to prove that he is innocent. she says no one is above the law, everyone has right to a trial to prove innocence. actually, she got slammed for this because that s not way our system works. our system is, in fact, innocent until proven guilty. john. well, maria, we saw four years ago. nancy pelosi s not the first one to apply this standard to donald trump. the first one to do it was the trump-hating lawyers like andrew weissmann and trump-hating federal agents like peter strzok that were part of the mueller
lifted. it s all right here, right now on sunday morning futures. maria: and we begin this sunday morning with the indictment of president trump as a manhattan grand jury over claims of hush money payments made to stormy daniels seven years ago, in 2016. the 45th president is expected to surrender to the law enforcement without handcuffs this upcoming tuesday afternoon when he will be arraigned many lower manhattan many a courtroom at 2:15 p.m. eastern. to face reportedly more than 30 counts of fraud. it s the first time in the nation s 246-year history that a sitting or former president has been indicted. it comes as trump is seeking to retake the white house in 2024 with the first gop primary debate just four months ago, this august.