i believe it is. it remains to be seen if it will hurt him at all politically. he is still the front runner for the republican presidential primary. and trump s campaign is not slowing down at all. today he is on a stump in the south making his first speeches since the indictment in georgia and north carolina. i am simone sanders townsend and i have something to say about it all. what kind of democracy are weak? are we a mature democracy, capable of enforcing its rules and laws? or an immature democracy choosing chaos over the competition. questions after this week s historic federal indictment of former president donald trump. and if you didn t get a chance to read that damning 44-page document, or 45, i highly encourage you to do it. it is all right, because we have got you suffered. on thursday we learned the former president was indicted by the justice department and its investigation of mishandling of classified documents. and yesterday when the indictment was unse
you are asking for the opportunity to leave the new at least have the wherewithal and the confidence and the integrity to say i m going to tell it like it is. because i would hope again, i recognized but i m saying. people are probably chuckling and say that is not how washington d.c. works. well that s how it should actually work. don t call me baby girl. you call yourself a bigger. hey, i can say baby girl. [laughs] but you can t? i would say you are right. you are right though. that is how it should work and so we see some evidence i will believe it when i see it, how about that? i will believe it when i see it. i keep hearing people saying things are changing and things are backing weight, but we will see. in terms of coming up we will have more evidence of it. sure. all right baby girl. amen. [laughs] i you get a pass. i was going to say you sound like oprah, in the red dress and everything, i will see you tomorrow. this is don lemon tonight and we ve got a l
people that he was talking to. and this just goes to show how deep in probing he went. the fact that he has the sex messages and that there remains to be evidence that we haven t even seen at this point. related to what these folks have told the special counsel. all right, sadie gurman, anthony coley, paul butler, stick around, y all aren t going anywhere, we have a lot to discuss later on. including what to expect on tuesday in court in miami. and this lawyer situation. and then whether judge aileen cannon remember her? will remain the judge in trump s case. we have got that and much much more on donald trump s federal indictment ahead. but up next, we are talking about the other significant story this week. the major and i would say surprising victory for voting rights at the supreme court. one of the plaintiffs in the case joins me next to talk about what it all could mean. but first our bestie is here. my colleague richard lui with all the top news stories. hey, simone, good to
agents in the position of deciding whether to store their own data. but their circumstances were comes at people need to look at it like today. olivia, they should know better. look at at the sex messages as if it was a different agency, but with peter strzok, who played such a big role in this. people screamed out peter strzok and the text messages. and then we have another agency in the government and text messages could play a big role. with all the sudden, they are gone. i have a couple of thoughts on. this first, we talk a lot about accountability. i really think there needs to be accountability for a federal agency here. if we let them off the hook on this one, then i think that all bets are off. i think we are what is accountability with this one? that is a great question. i think this accountability of the leadership level. first and foremost. you are putting the onus on these agents to backup their text. but also, i ve gotta say, if you re a secret service agent and
a political consultant, a true believer political consultant, or campaign manager. ginni thomas, though, is clearly communicating a lead legal strategy, political strategy with the chief of staff of the white house, executive branch official, communicating with the spouse of a judicial brown s official. and then the sex messages, we also see discussion of the legislative blanche. trump relationships in this mission stretching across the entire u.s. government. justice clarence thomas is already ruled on the case involving the january 6th attack on the capitol. he was the only justice to publicly dissent when the person supreme court ruled donald trump had to turn over documents to the january six committee. given the extent of his wife s involvement in the january 6th insurrection, justice thomas should have accused himself. the law says he should ve recused himself. specifically, federal law