in his report on the biden classified documents investigation. now, while hur ultimately decided not to charge biden for mishandling the classified documents going back decades, the bigger news was what his team uncovered about the president s mental faculties or lack thereof. the 345 page document is the must-read tell-all of the day. complete with gems like this. he, the president, did not remember when he was vice president. forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended, if it was 2013 when did i stop being vice president? and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began. in 2009 still vice president? he did not remember even within several years when his son bo died. and his memory appeared hazy when describing the afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. now, there is simply no way to explain this. you know the white house is worried about the report when biden s attorneys felt the need to dispute the findings about
they re not gonna do him like. that it looks pretty and wrinkles. i m going to tell you, a close-up, there may have been lent. there is no crushing. hats off to you. it looks great. it looks great, he sounds great. have a good show. thank you. the breaking news of the night is that the very first significant filing in the case of the united states of america versus donald j trump and not a, the criminal defense lawyers case lied and there has been much suspense surrounding the first filings in that case. much of that spent has centered on judge aileen mercedes cannon, who was appointed by defendants trump to the federal court after joining the republican investigation. the society that grooms right-wing republican lawyers to become federal judges. judge cannon s ruling on the current dispute before her, which is when to set a trial date in the case, might tell us whether she is going to be as blindly devoted to donald trump s defense as she was when donald trump s cri
president s legal strategy becomes clear, delay, delay, delay. his lawyers make the case in the judge and documents case, we re keeping them honest. also, senator tommy tuberville, last night on cnn, he said white nationalist, to me, is an american. now, he s doing damage control will still blocking promotions of military officers in a battle over abortion. and live reporting tonight from new england, where some of the worst flooding there in decades is still far from over. good evening, thanks for joining us. tonight, we know what has long been suspected, the former president is trying to run out the clock in the documents case. and it s not just us saying it, he and his legal team did. a court filing, which arrived just before midnight last night, spells it out. in it, attorneys for the former president and his co defendant walt nauta asked judge aileen cannon not only to set aside her august trial date, but also to, quote, postpone any consideration of a new trial date. so
71 felony counts in two jurisdictions, in new york and in south florida, to say nothing of a grand jury in fulton county, georgia, that may indict trump as early as next week, also a federal grand jury in d.c. investigating trump s role in the january 6th insurrection. in this case, the documents case, trump s attorneys are asking for trump to get special treatment, to be treated unlike every other american, to take into consideration trump s status as the frontrunner for the republican presidential nomination. the lawyers write that trump is, quote, currently the likely republican party nominee. this undertaking requires a tremendous amount of time and energy and that effort will continue until the election on november 5th, 2024. quote, mr. nauta s job requires him to accompany trump on most campaign trips around the country. the schedule makes trial preparation with both defendants challenging. whether judge cannon buys into this idea that the ex-president and walt nauta ar
scuttle the remaining 48 state primaries. it s a bid by republican elites to kneecap the republican voters that exist throughout the whole country and that they will need in november all to try to stop any potential long primary by nikki haley waged against trump. maga allies were floating an rnc resolution to declare trump basically the nominee to put a thumb on the scale before the rest of the votes come in. there s only been one primary. they ve backed down from that in public. new reporting says the rnc s call was well received by trump aides. now one of the top ranking house republicans is pushing basically the same discredited message as the rnc did but this time trying to corner trump endorsements in the house by arguing that it is all owed. the national party s purpose and their requirement is to empower the party s voters, whether it s democrat or republican in this country, right, any kind of party, to empower the voters to choose nominees. if they fail to do that,