Week s top stories. three weeks now after former president donald trump was indicted on charges of illegally retaining national security records and obstructing the governments efforts to get them back, the new york times is reporting that federal grand jury in miami is still investigating aspects of the case. that is according to people near the matter. sources saying that in recent days the grand jury has issued a new batch of subpoenas to a handful of people connected to the probe. the paper points out that prosecutors often continue investigating strands of a criminal case even after charges have been brought. sometimes those efforts can go nowhere. but post indictment investigations can result in additional charges against people who have already been accused of crimes in the case. the investigation also can be used to bring charges against new defendants. former president trump has pleaded not guilty to the 37 counts he currently faces in that case. we know now the identity of
You are going to do is lie to the fbi he would think. lying to a grand jury? trying to cover up for donald trump. when he is actually doing something that is illegal and mishandling classified documents. it was a surprise to me that her name came out. of course the near post attached or to a lobbying from the lobbies for china and they cause a national security threat. especially if donald trump is passing information on to her. i m sure that is a link that is being explored by the special counsel and this ongoing probe. one that is still growing. one that, despite the charges already being levied against tom, that miami grandeur has issued more subpoenas. you are white susan lyles is a key figure in trump s orbit. someone who has taken a lot of credit for how well he has done in the state of florida. also the professionalism if you will that the 2024 version of
Is always the case. here is just a glimpse, a brief glimpse, of the recklessness that donald trump has shown with war plans. jonathan lemire. or reverend al, this is just when the tape recorder is on. we have no idea. all of the days, weeks, months when he had some of america s most classified secrets. nuclear secrets. secrets about america s weaknesses. secrets about our war plans to attack. secrets on all of these things. we only know this because he let someone recorded conversation that he had. we learned injustice brief glimpse of this second that we have on tape, that he is showing classified documents to
Referred to as the potent minority. that is where this new nbc polling makes it very clear just what that support for donald trump could look like in a general election. i had conversations with mandela barnes who nearly lost his senate race last year to ron johnson, a close ally of donald trump. i talk to tim ryan who lost by a decent margin in ohio senate race to trump ally j.d. vance. there are realities in these battleground states that in 2020, don trump turned out a record number of votes on behalf of republican nominees in each of the battleground states. more than any republican nominee ever. that is where these conversations are heading. if you look at some of these new numbers from nbc polling, this is where that begins to open up, that conversation. let s get to those numbers right now. despite facing federal charges, the new polling shows that donald trump is expanding his lead in the 2024 republican primary. in the latest nbc news survey, trump is the top choice of the
The case, moore versus harper based out of north carolina centered on a radical theory known as the independent state legislature theory. it would ve given state legislatures virtually unchecked power over federal elections based on an extreme interpretation of the constitution s election laws. in a 6 to 3 ruling, the supreme court rejected that anti democratic theory with chief justice john roberts and justices brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett siding with the liberals. in his opinion, the chief justice writes the elections clause does not insulate state legislatures from the ordinary exercise of the state judicial review. adding that the legislatures, recognized, are the mere creatures of the state constitutions and cannot be greater than their creators. john eastman, a legal adviser to donald trump embraced this