Inside with Jen Psaki starts now. Okay. We spend a lot of time on this show grabbing the threat of a second trump term, and we do that because it is extremely important to understand what could be coming and what the stakes are. But i know that at times, that can all feel kind of dark. And really depressing. Are we all just trudging through the Mud Of Politics together with no End Or Light insight . But i have to say, lately i havent felt that way at all. Not because trump has gone away. But because there is just this kind of new energy in the air. And i feel more excited about politics right now that i have in a very long time. We are going to spend some time tonight talking about all the reasons to be excited right now with some of the people who are just as excited as i am. Were going to talk to minnesota governor tim walz, who is being mentioned as a possible Running Mate. Were going to talk to senator brian shots who endorsed the Vice President with a picture of himself climbing u
documents case. details from pennsylvania, he is the victim of cost control. and trump versus grievances, chuck smith is moving forward to the january 6th in 2020 investigation. it could result and a criminal indictment. what you can expect one of trump s legal fronts this week. plus, president biden has more good economic news to highlight. even as congressional republicans keep talking about impeding with pressure coming from donald trump. based on what? we will unpack that strategy. let s get started, we have a lot of business. we are looking at a consequential week ahead for donald trump and for democracy in america. on tuesday, a federal grand jury in washington d.c. will meet for a potential third criminal indictment against trump. of course, efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election this comes just days after the special counsel s office tacked on three additional charges. we are looking for espionage obstruction who died but in the documents case. special
4:00 in new york with the skies above us are hazy from those canadian wildfires. we are all under air quality warnings. we re going to get to that story later in the broadcast. but we begin with what is shaping up to be a white knuckle day for the disgraced twice impeached now indicted legally liable for sex abuse ex-president thank foss fast-moving developments in special counsel jack smith s investigations, plural, into donald trump. today, a federal jury in miami is back in action hearing witness testimony as part of the special counsel s investigation into whether the ex-president mishandled classified documents. or obstructed government efforts to retrieve those documents after leaving office. and it was not just any witness, it was one of trump s closest aides. a former trump spokesman who have as super pac. saying that prosecutors weres partially interested in taylor budowich, after sending boxes of material from his private home to the national archives, trump left a
the lead starts right now. tensions continue to escalate in the middle east, new details and images just coming in as cnn learns of a new terrorist attack and tell aviv as israel strikes after a barrage of rockets hit along its borders, plus supreme court justice clarence thomas tries to explain after a bombshell report revealed his many family trips on a god in a private jet, all paid for by a billionaire republican mega donor. and thomas never disclosed almost any of it, plus vice president kamala harris dispatched to tennessee one day after state house republicans expelled two democrats. two black men who were protesting on the floor, but they did not expel the other democrat on the floor with them white woman. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we have some breaking tragic news from israel. you re looking at live pictures from tele viv after one person was killed and six wounded from a quote terror attack in a popular thoroughfare. in the city. israel says all of the v
trip ahead for you just one lawmaker who joined protesters demanding meaningful gun legislation at the state capital kept her seat yesterday. representative gloria johnson, a white woman, slammed the expulsion of her colleagues justin jones and justin pearson, two of the state s youngest black lawmakers, saying she was the only one to be spared was quote, pretty clear. outrage over the pair s removal is being felt across the country, coupled with the concern of the dangerous precedent this is sending. and a short time ago, tennessee s black caucus whose chairman called the decision an assault on democracy that quote, smacks of overt racism spoke out. it looked like a jim crow era trial, where we saw two black men fighting for their careers, fighting for their reputations. the world is watching tennessee, and yet again, they re watching it for the wrong reasons. quite frankly, i m kpexhausted. what are we going to do now is it going to be business as usual, it happened t