Involvement seems particularly notable. According to the indictment, he played a key role in what appears to be a Pressure Campaign from trump and his co defendant, Valet Walt Nauta and maralago property manager carlos de oliveira, to delete Security Footage from the club after it was subpoenaed by prosecutors. And now, it sure seems like employee 4 could be talking, it turns out, he is an i. T. Worker for maralago named yuscil taveras. According to one new report, taveras himself received a Target Letter from the department of justice after trump was first indicted in florida. But taveras himself has not yet been indicted, and to be clear, as of now, we do not know if taveras is formally cooperating with jack smiths office. That said, as the Washington Post reports, quote, taveras offered information implicating all three defendants in an alleged conspiracy to cover up evidence. And we also know that following trumps indictment, taveras switched lawyers. He was previously represented
Good evening from washington. I am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. Donald trump could end up behind bars next year for conspiracy to obstruct justice. And if he does, it may very well be because of a new testimony by someone identified by the justice department, only as Trump Employee 4. Now that we have had all weekend to digest the new Superseding Indictment for donald trump from doj special counsel jack smith and the classified documents case, employee number fours involvement seems particularly notable. According to the indictment, he played a key role in what appears to be a Pressure Campaign from trump and his co defendant, Valet Walt Nauta and maralago property manager carlos de oliveira, to delete Security Footage from the club after it was subpoenaed by prosecutors. And now, it sure seems like employee 4 could be talking, it turns out, he is an i. T. Worker for maralago named yuscil taveras. According to one new report, taveras himself received a Target Letter from the departm
arguments used by donald trump to fend off the cases popping up cross the country challenging his place in the 2024 ballot. it is an existential threat to the one thing that donald trump sees as the way out of all his legal problems, winning the presidency. a brand-new brief to the supreme court alongside other prominent lawyers like george conway, michael luttig calls for the justices to take the 14th amendment very literally. they say, quote, because section 3 emerged from the hallowed ground of the civil war, this court must accord section 3 its fair meaning, not a narrow construction. mr. trump incited and therefore engaged in an armed insurrection against the constitution s express and foundational mandates that require the peaceful transfer of executive power to a newly elected president. in doing so mr. trump disqualified himself under section 3. regarding trump s argument the so-called insurrectionist ban can only be applied after a candidate is elected, luttig and
house floor for trying to stop the law. and the host of the hottest party in washington, funny man, roy wood junior, offers a preview of tonight s white house correspondents dinner. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. i can say when i ran for president four years ago i said i would battle for the soul of america. and we still. our question we are facing is weather in the years ahead we will have more freedom or less freedom. more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answer to be, and i think you do to. this is not a time to be complacent. that s why i m running for reelection. and that video, announcing his 2024 reelection campaign, president biden echoed the rationale for his candidacy that he made exactly four years ago, then, as images of charlottesville played out, he said he was in the race because it was a battle for the soul of america. today, with violent images from the january six insurrection in the background, biden called on the nation to resis
i spoke with members of the business round table, of the big business guys, asked why i m so pro labor, you save them money. what you do lasts and through the american rescue plan, we re funding work force development programs, including 128 million here in wisconsin, so american workers prepared to compete in the economy we re building. this is a blue collar, blueprint to rebuild america. and we re also doing something that for years, people just talked about. we re going to buy american for everything we build. last night, i announced we re proposing new standards to require all construction materials be made in america. american lumber, american glass, american dry wall, american fiberoptics. american roads, bridges, highways, made with american products. my first two years in office, we ve created 800,000 manufacturing jobs. where? i mean, it sincerely. jobs you can live on. where is it written american can t lead the world of manufacturing? i didn t see it written anywhe