. greg: t thank you. oh, it was for everybody. happy wednesday, everyone. so too big surprises. o donald trump has won enoughs delegates to become the gop s presumptive nominee and joe biden is still alive. politico is reporting that biden s advance team is full of, quote, turmoil and toxicity, using the same phrase to describepresiden the president s underwear. onderwearh, i know who writes filth. you do. filth?i know. scientists are reportedly close to resurrecting the extinct mas wooly mammoth after a stem cell breakthrough. bthey were able to do this by harvesting cells from the mammoth s distant cousin. it s not fair to pachyderms.ogiz i know that would apologize to the wooly mammoth. hong kong s newest superhero is an animated called . after speaking of animated turds. not we didn t even writen a punchline. a spring breaker admitted to cocaine use in an interview on fox and friends and her friends and family weretraged outraged that she appeared on fox and friends
tapper: in 2009, south carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rock star. his reputation as a budget-slashing deficit hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person. the search for sanford threw his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of lies that coined the phrase to hike the appalachian trail. but it also revealed something deeper how even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of a human being. and counterintuitively, when the world was crashing down around him, baring it all might have been the savviest political move of mark sanford s career. it s monday night. do you know where your governor is? that s what the citizens of south carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor? a mystery tonight in south carolina. the state s governor, mark sanford, disappeared for days. governor alert: the search for mark sanford.
tapper: in 2009, south carolina governor mark sanford was a republican rock star. his reputation as a budget-slashing deficit hawk family man had the gop betting on him to beat obama in 2012 until he became a missing person. the search for sanford threw his office into chaos and turned up a secret love affair and a bizarre set of lies that coined the phrase to hike the appalachian trail. but it also revealed something deeper how even the most tightly controlled political persona can mask the messy, imperfect reality of a human being. and counterintuitively, when the world was crashing down around him, baring it all might have been the savviest political move of mark sanford s career. it s monday night. do you know where your governor is? that s what the citizens of south carolina are wondering where in the world is our governor? a mystery tonight in south carolina. the state s governor, mark sanford, disappeared for days. governor alert: the search for mark sanford.
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. donald trump is now seeking to delay his federal election interference trial until april of 2026. no, not next april 26, april 2026. that is almost three years from now. 17 months after the 2024 election. it is when his legal team proposed this evening in a court filing to the judge handling the case. they say, quote, must have adequate time to defend himself, citing the governments 11 and a half million pages of evidence, they said if the pages were stacked on top of one another, the result would be a tower taller than the statue of liberty and the washington monument. remember, jack smith has asked for jury selection to start in december, with a trial beginning on january 2nd of 2024. meanwhile the former president has been speaking out against his four separate indictments. today he told fox business, he wants his party to do a better job of defending him. it is just a continuation of silencing, they want to silence. you if y
imagine how terrifying donald trump, how terrified he has to be for him to follow the advice of his lawyers. that s how terrified donald trump is tonight. for the first time. the breaking not surprising news of the night is that donald trump was forced to announce that he will not be having a special press event on monday to, as he put it, refute the 13 criminal charges against him delivered by a georgia grand jury on monday. in a written statement tonight, donald trump said rather than releasing the report on the rigged and stolen georgia 2020 presidential election on monday my lawyers would prefer putting this, i believe, irrefutable and overwhelming evidence of election fraud and irregularities informal legal filings as we fight to dismiss this disgraceful indictment, therefore, the news conference is no longer necessary, exclamation point. that statement is, of course a lie. there is no report. donald trump has no. report on trump s lawyers will not be putting irrefutable