the justice department, according to the president s personal lawyer. that makes a total of three batches, including at least one marked top secret that were found. though the number of biden documents is far smaller than found in donald trump s possession in mar-a-lago and in biden s case were turned over immediately rather than withheld for more than a year and only recovered by the government after a court-ordered search. republicans are still claiming there is a double standard favoring mr. biden over donald trump. president biden may not have any personal legal exposure, if it turns out his aides mishandled the documents without his knowledge, politically this is becoming a five-alarm crisis. joining me now is monica, matthew, joyce, brendan and jeff. we have a full house today. all experts in their field. monica, what do we know? you ve been reporting on this all weekend, the discovery, the president s frustrations, the growing frustrations as republicans demand a visit
as the justice department accuses the far right militia group, the oath keepers of plotting an armed rebellion to keep donald trump in power. we ll go live to the federal courthouse in washington, d.c. where testimony begins today. and liz cheney steps up again, this time speaking out against trump s recent attack on mitch mcconnell and mcconnell s wife, calling trump s remarks about elaine chao absolutely despicable and racist. we ll have the latest update on a growing scandal. that s actually one republican that s spoken out. exactly. against donald trump attacking the senate majority leader with violent rhetoric and making racist statements about his wife. i don t really not a lot of other republicans, elected republicans who have done that. i guess we can t be shocked anymore, but it is shocking. it still is shocking. it should be. that the leader of the united states senate in the republican party had a quote death wish placed on him by the former president
wealthy businessman who made his fortune largely, this is true, from selling bull s semen. someone has to do it, i guess. rachel discussed last night, charles has been accused of groping by eight women, eight, including a conservative republican state senator who says he reached up her address at a republican event in 2019. some might consider those disqualifying, but not of course donald j. trump. declaing herbster innocent of any wrong doing. those attentions have gotten a great deal of attention and rightly so. what you don t know about charles herbster is his events on january 6th. the day of the attack on the capitol, charles herbster was in washington, d.c. with president trump s inner circle. he was in the vip section at trump s rally where the president urged everyone to march on the capitol. herbster sent to campaign staffers back home in nebraska, including this photo. he was very excited to be seated up in the second row at the rally right behind election conspirac
the presidency into a dictatorship, after his friend and ally sean hannity gave him repeated chances to deny it. we will play it all in a moment. judge for yourself. president biden telling donors off camera, he is not sure he would be running for re-election if donald trump weren t. but retracts that when reporters ask him about it later. would you be running for president if trump wasn t running? i expect so. look, he is running. i have to run. the former president responding in iowa. president biden says he is running because you are running. do you have any comment? i doubt it. i doubt that. they don t want me to run. everybody wants to run against biden. president biden speaking this hour as the deep partisan divide over gop demands to restrict the right to asylum at the border tanks aid to ukraine and israel in the national security supplemental budget, after senate republicans storm out of a classified briefing with secretaries of state, defense and the d
democrats. trump claiming the left will, quote, break any law, tell any lie, ruin any life. even called president biden a danger to democracy. all this as a federal judge accuses trump himself of ignoring the constitution. . jump the founders would want accountability. the court s opinion reading in part, quote, trump s four year service did not bestow on him the divine right of kings. earlier today, former january six committee member liz cheney argued trump is completely incompatible with the constitution. she s vowed to leave the gop if trump is in fact the party s nominee. you can t both be for donald trump and for the constitution. you have to choose. the republican party of today has made a choice, and they have been chosen the constitution. and so, i do think it s it presents a threat if the republicans are in the majority. joining me to discuss, msnbc contributor and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. she s a professor at the university of alabama school of l