tonight did white house chief of staff mark meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a presidential pardon related to january 6? he did seek that pardon, yes, ma am. whatever trump did in his effort to overturn the election and take classified documents home with him, there s a good chance mark meadows was privy to it. now he could be playing a pivotal role in the special counsel investigation. major developments in the shooting death of a.j. owens. the suspect who police say fired through the front door, killing the florida mother of four, has been arrested. for first time, we are seeing the heartbreaking aftermath as video shows a.j. seeking help for his dying mom. we begin with big developments in the special counsel investigation into donald trump s mishandling of classified documents. new reporting tonight indicates that federal prosecutors formally told trump s lawyers last week that trump is a target of the criminal investigation, accordi
because we have to be somewhere else. she s saying, when you re in the justice system, that comes first. i m guessing picking up his dry cleaning is not on the president s agenda at all. but i take your point. i m just david, the judge also warned, this is interesting, that she would be watching carefully for anything that might affect the jury pool or poison that jury pool and this is something that she said about comments that might come from the president or his legal it team. yeah. so this is now i just think we re going to be in a series of weekly warnings to donald trump and his team how he has to behave within guidelines here. we ve seen this already about certain concerns about words that could be deemed threatening or perceived that way on his social media, and here, it seems as it comes to the trial date, if you re going to go outside
hampshire. if new hampshire moves iowa could move. nothing is set in stone yet. the e. jean carroll civil trial coincides with the iowa caucuses in january and then when you advance up until march, now we have this new date and what is so consequential here is that donald trump is entering into this early period turning the year, starting to build momentum, let s say, let s say he does well in iowa, does well in new hampshire, a lot of previous cycles you would say he s wrapped it up and it s done. i can imagine candidates hanging on longer than they would, donors being willing, who were opposed to donald trump and supporting some of his opponents, to put more money in because they know this trial is pending and so i can imagine this will prolong, potentially, even if donald trump is building up a head of steam, the trial date could prolong this nomination. such an important point. when we say super tuesday, we re
notable, but it wasn t something that was going to change or alter the way she was approaching for approaching her decision for a trial date. she said there were a lot of competing interests here, including, of course, the interest rates of the defendant, the former president, to get a fair trial, but she said that the political calendar could not be necessarily more important than the public interest. the public interest for a speedy trial was something she said was going to take precedence over his own political campaign. one of the things she compared it to is having a sports figure or somebody who works who plays for like a major league sports team, being charged and being and going on trial, she said it would be inappropriate for the court to take into account the fact that that person has games to play. she compared it to that kind of situation and said that former
the bounds of what we re setting here of how a defendant should exist that could alter when we need to start this trial to you don t sully a potential jury. what s different about this than other cases is the fact that she has to have heightened concerns for first amendment rights for the president because he s going to be campaigning and that intersection between the political calendar, campaigning and public statements he is going to make during that period are all relevant to her. the finest oversight. yes. the finest of fine lines. as i mentioned, this is legal, but it is very much smack dab in the middle of a political campaign. a lot more on this breaking news ahead and how seismic of the impact this new court date could actually have on the 2024 race. we re going to give you more details about the specifics of the calendar.