welcome back to the weekend. we start the hour with possibilities for donald trump. just hours after posting a $91 million bond that does allow the defamation of e. jean carroll. he may have defamed e. jean carroll again. too listen to what he just said said. i just posted a $91 million on a fake story, totally made up story. think of it. $none million. i could say things about what it would cost normally. $91 million. based on accusations made about me about a woman, i didn t know. i knew nothing of her. she wrote a book. and when i denied it, i said, it s so crazy, it s false. i got sued for defamation. it is remarkable. lisa ruben is here. it is remarkable because donald trump is donald trump. i want to start with this $91 million, which i think is pretty interesting. andrew weisman, or friend noted in a tweet. $90 million down, $400 million to go, and the public has no idea who may have put up the money or provided a guarantee to support the bond. but one thing is
brawl at a riverfront started by a group of white men shoving a black dockworker. right now in ohio, a high stakes special election for a proposal to make it harder to change the states constitution. how that could have implications beyond the buckeye state. we begin this hour with the very latest on former president trump s legal troubles. trump s legal team and jack smith s office is locked in a battle over a protective order in the election interference case. that order is aimed at protecting the government s evidence before trial, and trump wants something much narrower. the judge over seeing the case is ordering both sides to come together for a hearing together. with us, msnbc legal analyst, lisa ruben. lisa, let s start off by defining what a protective order is in this case. a protective order, josé, is something that governs discovery in a civil or criminal case. discovery is essentially the evidence that the government would be relying on whether that is sta
hernandez with simone thompson. fresh off his interview with joe biden, our colleague jonathan capehart is here with more on the discussion from gaza. and donald trump may have done it again for everyone to see. the former white house chief of staff is at the table of the biden campaign s upcoming swing state blitz. grab your coffee and settle in. welcome to the weekend. president biden is in full campaign mode taking his message to battleground states. he will make stops in wisconsin, new hampshire, and michigan. he called out donald trump s embrace of authoritarian leaders. the president also sat down with our own jonathan capehart for an exclusive interview. we will hear what he said about trump s romance with far right prime minister of hungary,f victor orban. was that a mistake? he doesn t believe in democracy. the guys i host in nato have great respect for one another. look, when you have a president who in the midst of a carnage going on as a consequence of r
even as she gave a nugget to the trump defense team of not defining everything as sensitive materials, she took it away by making clear that anything that the government was concerned about in terms of both impairing the jury pool and also going after witnesses, would violate the order anyways. judge chutkan also warned trump s lawyers that continued inflammatory statements from their client would only increase the need for a speedy trial. also, in washington, attorney general merrick garland called a surprise press conference to announce the appointment of a special counsel in the hunter biden probe. tuesday of this week, mr. weiss advised me that, in his judgment, his investigation had reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a special counsel. and he asked to be so appointed. upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, i have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint him as special counse
other. with the basic principles of the republic on the line. a name more famous for decades and decades than nikki haley, in republican circles, came out swinging directly at the presumptive republican nominee, donald trump, early this morning. in a post liz cheney saying this, quote, the gop has chosen. they will nominate a man who attempted to overturn an election and seize power. we we have eight months to save our republic, and ensure that donald trump is never anywhere near the oval office again. then liz cheney sent people to this video originally released in may. watch. donald trump is the only president in american history who has refused to guarantee the peaceful transfer of power. joe biden he lost the election and knew it. he betrayed millions of americans by telling them the election was stolen. we will stop the steal he ignored the rulings of dozens of courts. rather than accept his defeat, he mobilized a mob to come to washington and march on th