immune from prosecution for things that happened while he was in office, and secondly, whether he essentially is barred from being tried in this case because of double jeopardy, because he was obviously impeached by the congress, but he was not convicted. that is one of the central questions that jack smith and his team is now asking. the filing says in part of that principle, is that a zenith here, whereas here a grand jury has accused a former president of committing federal crimes to subvert the peaceful transfer of power to his lawfully elected successor. nothing could be more vital to our democracy than a president who abuses the electoral system to remain in office, is held accountable for criminal conduct. jake, this is obviously now the goal here is to try to expedite this. they re asking for the court to do this, to get the briefs going by december 18th. the goal is to try to get this going before that march trial date comes near. evan, special counsel jack smi
steve, there is nothing better than seeing you on election night. give us an update. yes. a lot still going on. and let s start in mississippi. and the governor s race in mississippi. 2 now two-thirds of the vote in. republican incumbent tate reeves leading brandon presley by 11 points. two key points i think as you look at these numbers. number one is we ve been waiting all night for the largest county in the state that s hines county where the state capitol of jackson is, it s a core overwhelming democratic county. they just started reporting the polls. we re open later there because there were issues of ballot viability. it s 86 to basically 13 for presley. this is a big vote producing county. that s certainly an opportunity for presley to gain and for reeves to fall. in the rest of the state we ve been looking to see if there s a pattern because reeves won this race in 2019 by 5 points. we ve kind of been using that as a bench mark as results come in. is presley running
Six men appeared in the Marble Hall magistrate's court on Monday after they were allegedly found transferring illicit cigarettes worth more than R12m from a gas tanker to two cargo trucks.
They had affirmed as to be true ,that they verified it. what is going on inside the fbi ? how deep is this political bias within the fbi? we know sean directory became dc director in 2017 under histo watch, the fbi briefed the senate intel committee in march of 2018 that said that selldown had integrity, even though they knew knew it was tainted. russia taintn disinformation. under his watch, the fbi obtained by biden s laptop inn december 2013 and did nothing with it under his watch. according to whistleblowers,f 2t they developed the scheme in august of 2020 to downplay the drug information to deepion. sixed the investigation under his watch in that same month, they provided an unsolicited briefing g to to senator grassley and myself. it was a nothing briefing iefing i knew was a setup, and it was a setup because nine months to thehey leaked it washington post to smear me
And order in this country. what we found out there in waukesha wisconsin shouldn t have happened. gillian, i want to mention a name. jackson sparks. say his name. jackson sparks. he was the sixed victim in wisconsin there when he was ran over by a man who intentionally wanted to kill, who was out on a $1,000 bond or bail at the time. it is reprehensible, lawmakers in both parties need to look in the mirror and look at themselves and say why aren t they doing more to actually help citizens to remain safe. the first tenant in our society is the safety and security of our citizens and lawmakers have failed citizens in both parties.