When . Weeks and still has not ruled. Nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. Where do things stand after todays arguments . Reporter judge Aileen Cannon said she would rule promptly on these two motions to dismiss and seemed skeptical this afternoon of the argument about the president ial records act. Remember, what donald trump is saying under the president ial records act he could deem any record in the white house whether classified document about Nuclear Secrets or identity of the cia officer, foreign asset, he could deem that a personal record, take it home and store it in his bathroom. Special counsel jack smith says than an absurd argument and eastern the judge said i dont see how that gets dismissal of the indictment. That one. Another argument, motion to dismiss on the grounds the Espionage Act is unconstitutionally vague. Argued that this morning. A long shot. A law used hundreds of times to prosecute people who have taken home or leaked classified docu
Eyes that magic number to officially secure his nomination. All as they trade verbal fire like never before. Plus, a massive week ahead in georgia. A judge set to rule any day on whether fani willis will stay in charge of trumps sprawling election case. Also ahead, back in court, new jersey Senator Bob Menendez expected to be arraigned again on new charges this morning. Later, a new doj investigation into that midair scare on an Alaska Airlines flight. What it could mean for that airline and boeing. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Its good to be with you. Its 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin this morning with the intensifying and newly combative race for the white house. President Biden Planning a big Campaign Swing this week fresh off his state of the Union Address. With tomorrows primaries in georgia, both he and the president in that state over the weekend trading verbal jabs and sharing two vastly different visions for america. Two nights ago we a
early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. this isn t a question of vindication. it is not a question, as i stated before, about revenge this is a my position is that, at the end of the day, donald trump needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds if, in fact, that s the way that the facts play out that was donald trump s former fixer after wrapping up his testimony to a manhattan grand jury by the way, former fixer who went to jail, actually got convicted and went to jail for being part of this scheme that donald trump is now being investigated for. michael cohen spent two days on the stand answering questions about the hush money given to stormy daniels, the porn star. now, we re learning that she is talking to prosecutors also ahead, we ll dig into the new reporting out of georgia on another phone call the former president made to an election official there in the aftermath of the 2020 election. it s like the end of the hunt
great. so i think there is a big difference here. it is hard to imagine that alvin bragg, the d.a. in manhattan, would be engaging in these kind of very public steps of having let me stop you right there for skeptics that are watching, i m so dpglad you started with that the end of the day, alvin bragg, he s a politician, he s a d.a. he has to get elected. let me ask you the question this way, can you conceive of a reason why an elected d.a. would go through all of these steps and not indict donald trump at the end of the day exactly i don t see him doing this and not indicting. because the expectations in the media and, you know, for sort of
fool. william la jeunesse with the news now to set us up for this in l.a. he says good news not just for this felon but many others, harris. some already in prison. others just being charged. elected d.a. two years ago george gascon favored short sentences, no bail and no death penalty and no gun or gang enhancements. those are the charges prosecutors use to obtain a plea bargain or long prison time for violent felons which brings us to louise hernandez. he faced life with no parole until gascon agreed to reduce his sentence by dropping those enhancements. in gratitude hernandez says in that jail interview basically on a taped line that he will tattoo gascon s name on his face. real good. we have a new d.a. in l.a. i got court on the 14th, fool.