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as donald trump makes a third bid for the white house and is the the first votes are to be cast in iowa in just under two weeks. trump s lawyers say the 234-year unbroken tradition of not prosecuting the presidents for official acts, despite calls to do so from across the political spectrum, provides powerl evidence. no president prior toth donald trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. had his attorneys point to the likelihood of mushrooming prosecutions. and future cycles. the ex-the president snlt prolsing retribution. his al lies aren t the ones plotting to end the independence of the justice department. the most audacious argument, one yesterday. on this program donald trump cannot be tri a criminal court for role in the january 6th insurrectn because heas acquitted by the senate during his second impeachment the new york times reports both legal perts have disdegreed with that position. not least because the federal charges he s facing are not ana ....
refusal to testify before the january 6th select committee and his failure to turn over documents. let s begin this morning outside the u.s. district court in washington, d.c. cnn political correspondent sara murray is there. how is all of this expected to play out today? reporter: well, you know, look, steve bannon is here in court, we expect this could take a couple of hours. what we know is that steve bannon is trying to get out of any kind of jail time. he was convicted on two counts for refusing to show up for a subpoena to testify before congress and refusing to hand over documents. the government has asked that he spend six months behind bars and they said he should pay a $200,000 fine. now, bannon s team has said, look, at the most he should get probation, he listened to his attorneys advice and if you are going to put him behind bars it should be house arrest only. they are also saying bannon plans to appeal his conviction and they re saying that any punishm ....
normal world, she would be the lead guest for the first half hour of the show. it s a very big deal having the un ambassador here, but we also have a ron kaine we may have heard of, white house chief of staff. and the man of the hour, the day, the week and possibly some weeks to come, geoffrey berman is going to lead us off. murders, right nays in. guest is one of those. nights it s one of those, nights have a great show lawrence. thank you alex thank you. it was just about two years and two months ago on a monday night that i will never forget, after a weekend and i will never forget, when rachel maddow and i were here marveling and i mean just marveling at a weekend of breaking news like we had never seen before involving the united states department of justice, attorney general william barr tried to fire the manhattan district attorney geoffrey berman and this is the part that was so stunning. geoffrey berman fought back in a way that we did not know is even ....
, right next guest. is one of those nights. it s one of those, nights have a great show lawrence. thank you alex thank you. it was just about two years and two months ago on a monday night that i will never forget, after a weekend and i will never forget, when rachel maddow and i were here marveling and i mean just marveling at a weekend of breaking news like we had never seen before involving the united states department of justice, attorney general william barr tried to fire the manhattan district attorney geoffrey berman and this is the part that was so stunning. geoffrey berman fought back in a way that we did not know is even possible. just when you think you can t be shocked, the friday night attempted firing of the u.s. attorney general the southern district of new york was starting and then geoffrey berman come back, you can t fire me was even more stunning, and ultimately jeffrey berman s in that hour you described it just kind of indescribably importa ....
i ll speak to kentucky governor. welcome to the viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with exclusive new reporting. multiple sources are telling cnn the top watchdog over department of homeland security learned about missing u.s. secret service text messages months earlier than previously known. let s get to ryan nobles. what are you learning about the missing texts? reporter: the timeline outlined by the inspector general of the department of homeland security just doesn t match up with exactly how it played out. that according to reporting. according to the reporters learned is that he was notified as early as may of 2021, a couple months after the text mebsz ands were deleted and did not inform members of the january 6 select committee and the other oversight committees. this raises serious questions about the timeline of events and when he took action to try to retrieve the mess ....