That in court . That is what we will see but the evidence see but the evidence certainly appears overwhelming for what we saw in the january Six Committee and from what has been alleged in the indictment. There are tonnes of witnesses and they are all almost overwhelmingly republican, members of the trump administration, republican secretaries of state like Brad Reference Berger who of course donald trump famously told, just find me 11,780 votes. These are republicans, im sorry to even have to put it in those terms but this is what we have been reduced to, is not enough to see the Secretary Of State of georgia reported it. He is on tape saying, to this Secretary Of State who gave him money, even thought it was for close and say that there was no way he would violate his oath like that. So at some point we will be able to call ourselves out of the vicious partisanship that donald trump is injected into our country but in the meantime it is overwhelming republicans who are pointing the f
hu. if you know you know. thank you for jojoining me t to. i i ll see youou next satuturda 8:00 a.m. smerconish is up next. there s an election coming, but you ll never hear jack smith say so. the supreme court is about to have more influence on the outcome of a presidential election than at any time since is the 2000 decision in bush verv. gore. jack smith asked the court to bypass the appellate level and make a decision about whether donald trump is entitled to immunity. and separately, this week they agreed to hear a challenge to a law used to prosecute hundreds of january 6th defendants for obstructing or impeding an official proceedingsing, which could impact smith s prosecution against trump on those charges. here s what s interesting to me. nowhere in the government s petition is there any specific reference to the 2024 presidential election, but that s clear ly what is driving smith s request. in making his case, here s what he told the court. quote, this case prese
state of emergency as intense storms hammer the golden state. we can t live like this. atmospheric rivers washing out roads and bridges leaving people trapped in their mee joi management director from one of the hardest hit counties. the economy still red hot notching another strong jobs report. we ll tell you where the job gains are and why this complicates the fight to tame inflation. all the money is in the bank. i don t know what we re going to do now. reporter: a capital crisis, a stunning free fall leading to the second largest collapse of a financial institution in u.s. history. could there be a domino effect and what does this mean for those with accounts at svb? i think it was an overreaction to the destruction of property. large rocks, your only intent is to harm. police and protesters clashing over a controversial police training facility near atlanta. how things turned violent and why tensions remain high this weekend. can you feel that? it s the
i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. fighter jets have shot down an object in u.s. air space. on friday president biden gave the order to shoot down a high altitude object hovering ten m miles off the coast of alaska. last saturday fighter jets shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon in the atlantic ocean after flying across the entire country. j joining me now to discuss is retired air force lieutenant general, he was the first chief of intelligence, surveillance and he s a fighter pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours. he was the principle attack planner by operation desert storm commander of no-fly operations over iraq in the 90s. these days he s the dean of the mitchell institute for aerospace studies. general, thank you for coming back to the program. so what is norad s responsibility and the framework through which it determines a course of action? well, michael, it s good to see you again 37 it s been quite a week for the commander of north american air defen
anxiety-inducing riddled time, and these families have been watching through the public reports of the talks and how close they are been the deals have fallen apart, and then watched a couple of days ago, the process was delayed 24 hours and now finally, perhaps a point to get to embrace their loved ones, at least the families of the 13 hostages released today, and providing some hope for the families of those in gaza that a deal is possible to release them, and hamas can indeed deliver on its side of the bargain to deliver these hostages to the red cross into egypt and eventually and hopefully soon into israel. and jeremy a testament to the selflessness, because we have heard from so many of the hostage families that even though it is not their loved ones coming home, because they got a call from the israeli government yesterday telling them whether or not it is their family members, they are saying they are still so happy for the 13 families who are getting their family m