we are grateful. hi katie. hi, thank you so much, and welcome to the beat. tonight, there could be a delay in donald trump s hush money trial in new york. more on that in a moment but we start with breaking news. judge cannon denying without prejudice trump s motion to dismiss counts one through 32 and is classified documents case. her ruling coming in moments ago. she said trump s arguments are better suited to be argued later on in connection with other motions. in other words, she punted the decision. it comes after trump and jack smith faced off in a federal courtroom in florida today, trump s attorneys arguing to dismiss the entire superseding indictment against him, claiming the presidential records act gives them the authority to take and claim those classified documents as his own personal property. in the motion, trump s lawyers wrote, president trump exercise virtually unreviewable authority to designate the records as personal. in court, trump lawyer todd blan
opinion and my lawyers opinion. donald trump who still wants us to believe he can legally stash america s most sensitive secrets in a mar-a-lago bathroom was back in court today, requesting that the whole criminal case be dismissed. also tonight, vice president kamala harris makes an historic visit to an abortion clinic as republicans continue to push for a national ban. and i call this one. the big push to force a chinese company to divest tiktok would allow the far right maga crowd to swoop in and gobble it up, which now seems very possible. but we begin tonight with the lone exception to donald trump s petulant attacks against the judges and prosecutors in the numerous criminal and civil trials against him. that would be one judge aileen cannon, a trump appointee, where remind you, who is overseeing the federal criminal case involving trump s mishandling of classified documents. today s hearing in a florida courtroom on two of trump s motions to try to throw out t