anymore. they can investigate all they want. there was nothing that i saw that was wrong happening there. made up, set up, a political scheme. we will get to all of that. then there is the major subpoena showdown in d.c. trump squaring off saying executive privilege should block access to his records. but that is privilege meant for a sitting president. the white house already arguing it doesn t apply to trump. the president has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not wanted for the first set of documents provided to us by the national archives. this will be an on going process. this is just the first set of documents. four of trumps associates are set to testify next week. only two are cooperating. steve bannon is hiding behind references to executive privilege. joining me now is alex thompson and an msnbc contributor, and joel, a contributor and co-host of a podcast. thank you for spending part of your saturday with me. how do you think this execu
won t last. the rain will travel eastwards through the day and it will turn increasingly humid. details coming up. good morning. it s tuesday, 27thjune. president putin has made his first public comments since the mutiny by the wagner mercenary group ended, saying any attempt to stir up turmoil in russia was doomed to fail . during a tv address, mr putin said the leaders of the uprising would be brought tojustice, but regular wagnerfighters could join the russian army, return to theirfamilies or go to belarus. graham satchell reports. vladimir putin has not been seen since saturday, but late last night he called a meeting of his security chiefs. in an address to the nation he thanked the russian people for standing up to what he called treachery. translation: it was the patriotism l of our citizens, the consolidation l of the whole of russian society, that played the decisive role in these events. this support helped us overcome the most difficult challenges that our motherl
pittsburgh pirates in an 8-1 win over the dodgers. today he got his first start at third base. the news continues. cnn prime time with michael smerconish starts now. thank you. he was once a politician but it wasn t until he pumped up the volume on talk tv that this provocateur defined today s era of politics. i m michael smerconish in new york. [ crowd chanting ] for nearly three decades, that was the chant heard over the course you have more than 4,000 episodes. controversial, unapologetically brash, rowdy words used in the headlines covering the news of jerry springer s passing. my favorite from the bbc. era era defining. he truly ushered in an era of television that no one in the world had ever seen before and i argue set the stage for today s political landscape. springer was 79. his family says he died peacefully today. at his home in suburban chicago after a brief illness. reports are that he had cancer. the son of holocaust refugees, he became a global sensati
china. erin? will ripley thank you very much for that amazing report. thank you for joining us. anderson is now. one for the history books tonight. former vice president mike pence testified today before the federal grand jury investigating the former president s actions surrounding the january 6th riot and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. i m john berman in for anderson. just pause and listen to that again. a former vice president just testified in an investigation about whether a president, his running mate illegally tried to overturn an election. so much has happened the last few years, it s easy to get numb to the mind-bending historical explosions taking place. it s the first time in modern history a vice president has been compelled to testify about the president he served beside. to add to that, he might run against trump in 2024. it s also the first time that this vice president has testified under oath about the day where rioters were seen yelling hang mi
we should be wondering why it was so fast. i mean, look, most times and charles can agree or disagree with me. as a former prosecutor, when you get a verdict this fast, it s usually a verdict of guilty. this jury has salt through multiple weeks of testimony. this trial started with jury selection january 23rd, i want to say. it s been going more than 61 witnesses presented by the prosecutor. we heard from experts witnesses, we had cell phone evidence, blood spatter evidence. at the end of the day, i think what really moved the needle for the jury was the rebuttal closing from the prosecution. when the prosecutor got up and said, alex murdaugh kicked the person he loved the most, and it wasn t his wife. it wasn t his son. it was himself. and in order to preserve his lifestyle, his addiction, his financial fraud, he picked himself. and if that s what the jury heard last before they went into the jury room, i would not be surprised to see if the verdict is guilty. ellison ba