Donald trumps tax and financial documents, something that former President Trump had tried hard to prevent. Im Hallie Jackson in washington. Joined by nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, paul rosen swag Senior Fellow at r street, Melissa Murray is a Constitutional Law Professor at nyu and former law clerk to sonia sotomayor. Pete, let me start with you and this new order from the Supreme Court. What does it mean . Its a oneline order and means its the end of the road for the president s years long battle to keep his tax returns away from congress or have cyrus vance the new york prosecutor who has a grand jury looking at President Trumps personal and corporate finances. You may remember the president initially fought this in round one by saying as sitting president he was immune from any part of the criminal Justice System including grand jury subpoenas. The Supreme Court rejected that argument and, by the way, the trump justices also reject that had argument. They said, you
Bring up is that electronic monitoring is being overused. I think this is also brought up in the pie charts. African american makes up half of the folks on electronic monitoring. There is no real evidence that electronic monitoring is being used as an alternative to incarceration. If we didnt have electronic monitoring, as mr. Yuen pointed out, we werent using it a lot in San Francisco. Those same folks were being released without having to have electronic monitoring added as an additional condition for a pretrial release. With these principles in mind, i am asking the board to make three changes to the sheriffs and the probation departments policies and procedures with respect to electronic monitoring. The first is that the sheriff and a. P. D. And their private contractors should make every reasonable and simple attempt to contact our incliclients before seeking an arrest warrant if there is a technical violation. This could be reaching out to support people, a list of caseworkers, P
How prop 25 good overhaul californias mail system. Good evening. First our top story, devin fehely with the argument for and against prop 25. And the Current System of to be barcus to be exact same crime, and one can afford bail in the other cant, the person who can afford bail will languish in jail for weeks and possibly for months. Intellect people that just does not sound or feel fair. But opponents of prop 25 say we could replace that system with something that is even worse and far less there. Prop 25 would completely eliminate californias bail industry. No longer with someone accused of a crime have to pay money to get out of jail while they await trial. And opponents say it is a change that is long overdue. How are they going to find five, 10, 15,000 to bail someone out . That is part of the problem. Right now people are sitting in county jail because they cannot bail out. Reporter the passes of the county would have to create a Pretrial Services division. The job would be to as
Is confirming today that its going to be testing a mobile app for storing and exchanging the on not as a paper entity by the way but rather as a digital entity like for example. The world learned about this when this screenshot appeared on social media take a look at that right there see it you can see there from the image that this appears to be sort of a Marketing Tool to get citizens chinese citizens comfortable with the idea of using and trusting Digital Currency now its important to mention that china is stressing that this really is quote only a test but is it and if it isnt why are they so i head of the game at this point forbes right forbes one of the worlds leading business periodicals is warning the white house right now that. Up and ministration not to continue its present course of banning and attacking cryptocurrency in fact let me show you this recent headline from forbes it says quote why try should unveil a us answer to big coin to rival chinas digital one should the wh
Live from the World Headquarters of the r t america our Nations Capital this is the news with rick sanchez. Im rick sanchez and i want to welcome all of you were watching us from all over the world im quoting those of you who are watching on your mobile phones using the portable t. V. Up it may very well be that while the rest of the world especially the United States snoozes china is moving along with its plans to create the future of money and what is the future of money what is china doing that we here in america for example are not well get this is now testing a new Digital Currency so here is what we know Chinas Central Bank is confirming today that its going to be testing a mobile app for storing and exchanging the on not as a paper entity by the way but rather as a digital like for example. The world learned about this when this screenshot appeared on social media take a look at that right there see it you can see there from the image that this appears to be sort of a Marketing