joins me live to discuss the new strategy. and, rebellion, speaker kevin mccarthy s far-right flank isn t happy, and that has messed things up in the house. could a government shutdown be in our future? i am jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. it has been a rough week for twice impeached, and twice indicted former president donald trump. you re seeing a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917. it wasn t meant for this. and act for a crime so heinous that only the death penalty would do. it s one of the most outrageous and vicious legal theories ever put forward in an american court of law. the espionage act has been used to go after traitors and spies, it has nothing to do with a former president legally keeping his own documents. okay, let s be clear. the classified documents, legally did not belong to trump. which is why on tuesday donald trump had to surrender at a miami federal court to face 37 counts of mishandling cl
guidebook that is currently number 10 on the american library list of most banned books. velshi starts now. it s saturday june, 16th ali velshi former president and donald trump is alleged to have absconded with top secret classified documents belonging to the united states government. his defenders are debasing themselves and their preclinical party to defend their dear donald, but first things first, trump did not mishandled with documents. mishandling is careless, a mistake perhaps, not having state secrets at your golf club. not taking u.s. battle plans from the white house, keeping them in violation of the law and the subsequent corridor, and then waving them around in a meeting with a writer and a publisher, neither of whom have security clearances or the need to know any of that information. but perhaps most damning is trump s public defense against the indictments. the fact is he is not really denying the key points, the fact has alleged in the 37 accounts. tr
united states, the congress, the president, and american people focusing on the serious problems we have, both at home, and abroad. and i was absolutely convinced then, as i am now, that if we had had this series, and indictment, a trial, a conviction, and anything else that transpired after that, that the attention of the president, congress, and american people would have been diverted from the problems that we have to solve. and that was the principal reason for my granting of the pardon. gerald ford said he parted richard nixon to spare the country from the embarrassment a distraction of a possible indictment, a trial, a conviction. he also spared an unrepentant ex president from justice. and now is donald trump faces felony charges, his sense of invincibility points to the idea of presidential impunity, planted with ford s pardon of nixon half a century ago. joining me now is the
you re on bill c, donald trump s campaign calendar is about to collide with his legal calendar. we ll have the latest on the twice impeached, twice indicted ex presidents suppressing legal entanglement. plus, the stroke of opinion september 1974 led to one unrepentant ex president off the hook but it might have also helped set the stage for a dangerous behavior of another unrepentant ex president. my friend is here to talk about why black ownership is media s so we re, and why representation matters, not just on screen, but in ownership, as well. then, today s featured offer in the velshi banned book club says the sex education that includes a same-sex couple is, quote, institutional homophobia. so she did something about it. she wrote this book is gay. a funny informative crucial