Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
Good evening, and welcome to politicsnation. And youre looking at live pictures from selma, alabama, where Vice President Kamala Harris and other dignitaries, including myself, are crossing the bridge to commemorate the 59th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday, with just two days till Super Tuesday, election 2024 is very much on our mind. And joining me now is congressman steven horsford, democrat of nevada, and chair of the congressional black caucus. Congressman, mister chairman, its been nearly 60 years since john lewis and Josi At Williams and some 600 others first marched across that bridge, the Edmund Tennis Bridge you and i just marched across with the Vice President. And yet we still find ourselves contending with conservative forces, seeking to curtail Ballot Access for minority voters, or students. And in the case of alabama, dilute the power of the black vote. What are your thoughts, as the cbc chair, as we walked across that historic bridge, 59 years later, and still fighting for
The assistant u.s. attorney for the doj s civil rights division, kristin clark, said that people held in jails and prisons should not have to surrender their constitutional freedoms at the jailhouse door. addressing conditions of confinement in our country requires focus on the conditions that exist inside our jails. detention or incarceration in jail should not include exposure to unconstitutional living conditions that places lives in jeopardy or risk of serious harm from assaults. jail facilities must provide constitutional and humane conditions in which all people can live safely while they go through the criminal process. thompson was held in the psychiatric wing of the fulton county jail, because according to his attorney he suffered from mental health illness. it was after thompson s death that the kodoj said that eviden
What did the sheriff do? he opened the jailhouse door and let juan sanchez go. he went out and he gunned down kate steinle. if president obama had been enforcing federal law and these city officials following federal law, kate would be alive today. you know, there is a statute on the books, a federal statute that says if you shield, conceal, or harbor an undocumented worker, you are guilty of a felony punishable by five years. and if that person, like juan sanchez, goes out and kill somebody, the city official can end up upon conviction behind bars for life. it s about time, perhaps, that the department of justice under a new administration, starts criminally prosecuting these city officials who are defying federal law and people are losing their lives because of it. jon: but it s not just san francisco, and maybe we can put up the map once again.
Islamic state, and and guys like he are they re radicalizing a lot of these people. the connection, i m not positive about it, but it s definitely what s confounding is that amri, and there s his picture, he was the subject of a terrorism probe by the germans on, quote, suspicion of preparing a serious act of violence subversion. now, that should be enough. but the germans said, well, we identity, he doesn t have a passport, so we ll just let him go they didn t have the right paperwork from tunisia to prove he was tunisian. he s got a criminal record in tunisia, in italy. they just couldn t get him a passport to deport him gregg: you don t just open the jailhouse door and say, well, have a good day. yeah, we don t have anything good on you they allowed him to stay because they couldn t prove who he was. six different aliases. this guy s a criminal gregg