acknowledging he took those documents and claiming he had every right to take them. under the presidential records act, which is civil, not criminal, i had every right to have these documents. in other words, whatever documents a president decides to take with him, he has the right to do so. it s an absolute right. this is the law. independent legal experts say that s not true. it could hurt him at a trial. is he betting on an election victory for republicans and getting the case dropped? i will speak to former top cia attorney jeff smith about the legal strategy. are more republican politicians, including some rivals, now willing to criticize donald trump s handling of national secrets? the handling of classified materials is a very serious matter. i had a chance to review the indictment over the weekend. this indictment contains serious charges. i can t defend what is alleged. the former president has a right to his day in court. i know he pled not guilty. i will
We need to. This is not what we want, not what were looking for. We dont want escalation. Is we dont want a second or third front develop. We dont want to see our forces or our personnel come under fire, but if that happens, were ready for it. Secretary of state Antony Blinken making it clear, the United States will respond to any provocation from iran connected to the israelhamas war. It comes as Israels Defense Forces are expanding air strikes in gaza. Well get the latest with a live report from israel straight ahead. Plus, new reporting on how President Biden and other u. S. Officials helped delay the Ground Invasion of the territory. Also ahead, well dig into the republicanled dysfunction on capitol hill. There are now several candidates hoping to become House Speaker after jim jordans failed bid. And well get you expert legal analysis on Donald Trumps violation of the gag order in his Civil Fraud Trial, as well as another new guilty plea deal from one of his codefendants in the ge
as it relates to 2022-fc, count 1, terrorism causen a death, the sentence is the defendant shall serve life without the possibility of parole, credit for eight days served. counts 2 through 5, homicide, first degree, premedicated murder, the court s sense is the defendant shall serve the rest of his life without the possibility of parole, credit for eight days served. on counts 6 through 12, assault with intent to murder, on each of the occupants, defendant is septembered to 18 years and 9 months to 80 years, with the michigan department of corrections, credit for eight days served. on counts 13 through 24, those being felony phi arm, the defendant is septembered to two years on each of those counts, with credit for 30 days served. counts 1 through 12 are concurrent to each other. counts 13 through 24 are concurrent to each other. count 1 is consect tiff to 2, 2 to 14, 3 to 15, count 4 is consecutive to count 16. 5 is consecutive to 17. 6 is consecutive to 18, 7 is consecutiv
good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m josé diaz-balart. we begin in new york city where tensions are flaring inside the courtroom as former president donald trump has taken the stand in the $250 million civil trial that threatens his sprawling business empire. the case centered around accusations that trump along with his two adult sons inflated various trump assets to get more favorable rates from banks and insurers. trump and his children have denied any wrongdoing, and while trump just took the stand about an hour ago, the judge already accused the former president of treating this appearance like a political rally. the judge has urged trump s lawyers a number of times to control their client. let s go right to nbc s vaughn hillyard outside the courthouse. vaughn. reporter: good morning, jose. donald trump just leaving here the courtroom for a morning break after a contentious first 90 minutes of donald trump on the stand and under oath, facing questions from the
Election tuesday even though the columbus suburbs in surrounding world areas have been to1 republicans. The latest monopole shows 44 support for balderson and 43 for oconnor with 11 undecided, three days to go. Mike pence campaigned for balderson earlier this week. We have someone who has stood even in his role in the state house, strong with this president , strongly with the president s agenda, supported his agenda, the people of ohio voted for every step of the way. Reporter this morning the president tweeted we are going to ohio to campaign for the big Congressional Special Election tuesday. Early voting is on. Troy is strong crime, the border and loves our military, veterans Second Amendment. His opponent is a up at of nancy pelosi, high taxes, we can expect fired up remarks from mister trump who went off in wilkesbarre at another rally calling out the media for not
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