we will watch the court, maggie vespa, thank you very much. that s going to do it for me. deadline white house starts right now. hello, everyone, it s 4:00 in new york. i m ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. just a few hours ago, attorneys for donald trump filed a brief defending their can client s place on the ballot in that critical 14th amendment case that s before the supreme court over whether his role in the january 6th insurrection bars him from running for office. oral arguments before the justices are on thursday. we are also hearing from special counsel jack smith, his prosecutors are mounting a defense of the classified documents probe in a filing to judge aileen cannon. we re going to have more on that in a little while as well. we begin with developments in the middle east where the threat of further air strikes looming across the region and a furry of diplomacy with one goal, preventing the war in gaza from widening even further. president biden and his
Search his maralago estate if trump continued to refuse to hand over classified documents. We begin tonight with the first televised hearing in fani willis criminal case against former President Trump in georgia. Im Jason Johnson in tonight for joy reid. The trial will be televised and is coming very soon. Today, we have a taste of whats to come. Fulton county Superior Court judge scott mcafee said he would allow Kenneth Chesebro to sever his case from Sidney Powell. Chesebro and powell are among the 19 defendants in the georgia racketeering case. They have both asked for speedy trials. Chesebro is accused of being the, quote, architect of the Trump Elector scheme while Sidney Powell is facing a slew of charges that include an effort to improperly access Voting Machines in rural coffee county, georgia. The defendant said their cases were different and they wanted to be tried separately. Prosecutors response, that aint the way this works. So weve heard a lot from both defendants about t
Selection in trumps Hush Money Case has taken a dramatic turn. The lead starts right now the shocking actions that lead to, to jurors suddenly dismissed and unusual occurrence. What this might mean for Opening Statements which the judge had thought could start part as soon as monday plus namecalling and fresh threats, House Speaker johnson was physically cornered On The House Floor, pinned Against The Wall by hardright republican in is demanding that he keeps his hands off. The rule that as of right now allows just one member of congress to force a vote to remove him as speaker the house adjourn today before anybody could make a move will tell you all about it and arrests at Columbia University protests new york city, just one day after that schools president testified before congress about antisemitism on campus. Were going to go to columbia, live welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper and we start today in our lawn justice lead with a dramatic day in the courtroom during the third day o
when you look at how can anyone look at that environment and think that s a fair venue for donald trump? well i think that s a course a problem i think that many people in the public see this case for what it is which is a political use of the legal system bragg is counting on many of these jurors if not all of them ending their analysis once they see who s behind the defence table that he is counting on the fact that there will be no presumption of innocence here because this is a juror pool that voted almost unanimously against trump when you are down to just 12 percent you are getting to a statistically difficult point to come up with a fair jury does that mean they can t be fair? no but no one is betting on acquittal in new york the question is whether you will have a couple of jurors that have that confidence to stand their ground that s if i was defence counsel it so i would be
after 10:00 despite being asked to come in at 9:15 to address those issues. he was questioned by the court in a side bar. we did not hear any of it, and judge merchan said that the questions were of such a personal nature and the juror also expressed annoyance with having to get into that much detail that he was going to seal that portion of the transcript. he will never know specifically why he was let go. at the end of that back and forth, and there were extensive side bars and back and forth while trump sat alone at the counsel table sort of looking around and occasionally watching. at the end of that, juror number four was also excused. we have seen the initial questioning of 18 more jurors this morning from that juror pool. we re also going to have to replace jurors two and four at some point before a full jury can be seated. we ve talked, sue to a couple more prospective jurors who were let go, and they talked about seeing donald trump and, you know, you walk into a room and so