Joe weekend. It it was another fast moving newsweek. Here are some of the conversations you might have missed. The first line of Jack Smiths 165page filing the Defendant Donaldel Donald trump he is immuned from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 president ial election because he claims it entailed official conduct. Not so. And he goes onto explain why. The special council making case and piercing the supreme Court Decision and we are looking at Jack Smiths Election interference case. A Judge unsealed the filing in response to the supreme Court Ruling on president ial immunity. Smith argues trump was not acting as President Of The United States when he sought to overturn his 2020 election law. So though his multiple conspiracies began after Election Day in 2020, the defendant laid the groundwork for the crimes well before then. Smith goes onto write that same day in an implicit acknowledgment he had no lawful way to prevail he sidelined the Campaign Staff responsib
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Um yes, desperately. Also i want to call the police but maybe youre the police. Yeah. Just incredible. Thank you, my friend. Well done. Well done. And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Tonight we are going to be joined live this hour by the person who is fast becoming one of the most familiar faces and voices of the new administration, jen psaki, white house spokesperson is going to be our guest tonight. Even though were only one week into the administration, i can show you this many pictures of her conducting different White House Press briefings because we have daily White House Press briefings again. She does these every day. Under the Trump Administration, they started out bad until they disappeared entirely. They seemed not to be able to handle talking to the press every day and bring questions. But immediately day one, President Biden brought back the briefings and jen psaki is the spokesperson. They started reversing things that were broken by the previous presiden
Every day and bring questions. But immediately day one, President Biden brought back the briefings and jen psaki is the spokesperson. They started reversing things that were broken by the previous president as they set to restore some of the basic things that had gone by the wayside over the years like daily briefings. As they set taught pass ambitious policies and programs that biden campaigned on, that democrats in congress campaigned on, it is sort of awkward but i think unavoidable to realize that one crucial thing that going to make the lifeordeath difference as to whether or not the new administration and new congress are actually able to get stuff done is a thing that we only have because of Richard Nixon being such a terrible president. And specifically because of something that Richard Nixon did right before he resigned. And it seemed like nothing much at the time. It got not that much attention at the time, but it very well may now determine if the biden presidency and the De
part of the republican party. and he will continue to do that. reporter: and joining us now is washington post national political reporter isaac ards. thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the piece that you co-authored entitled trump plots aggressive midterm strategy seen in gop as double-edged sword. so could you mean by the double edged swords. in the primary, what we heard was trump s first general election rally. in the primaries he was the envy of all. his endorsement, his backing, every candidate wanted that and what you started to see almost immediately after those candidates won the primary was, taking trump off the top of their website, like dr. oz did. and starting to try to put some distance between themselves and trump. because while he is the number one thing for primary voters, the republican base, with the general election electorate, it is a little bit of a different story. and so what strategists are trying to figure out, republican s