Its all of that and we need it. Yeah. Head Start Program for the Coa Coastal Habitat in florida. Jeff, thanks for hanging in there. You worked your shoulder and bicep muscles by holding up that device. I did. I was diving this morning, urgent care, but at least i get to spend some time with you. Id so glad, too, and weve done a little bit of work on our biceps, too. Im not injured for diving. Im glad youre not. I cant wait to hear that story. I hope the best for your friend that was there. Thanks for inspiring me to do that story. Youre so sweet. Thank you. You inspire us all the time. Thank you. All right. Hello again, everyone. Thanks for joining me. We begin with a new deadline for Donald Trumps lawyers after the historic indictment against him on 2020 election interference. Now the trump team has until monday, 5 00 p. M. Eastern, to respond to a request for a protective record by Special Counsel jack smith. In a court filing last night, Special Counsel jack smith soug from sharing
Sea, so much closer to home than russia could possibly have wanted. You referred to a russian fighter intercepting what was a russian drone. They submitted that in strict accordance with international law. That comes a matter of hours after Ukrainian Drones have targeted two key vessels. Just this morning, a russian oil cargo ship which was struck by a Ukrainian Drone in the black sea quite some distance off the coast and near a key naval port. There are suggestions that an oil depot was hit on the eastern side of the crimean peninsula. This is a Building Number of incidents occurring in the black sea, an area which russia must have felt was entirely impregnable just two weeks ago. Sochi is a russian holiday resort, and all of those are at risk of war. A dramatic change here where ukraine is projecting its power. It may be a bid to show some element of Military Success given how slow the counteroffensive appears to be at the moment. It certainly must make the kremlin utterly perplexed
that president biden retained and disclosed classified materials from his time as vice president. the justice department declined to bring charges in part because, quote, at trial mr. biden would likely present himself to a jury as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with an important memory. president biden addressed those remarks in a rare primetime press conference. president biden: i am a well-meaning elderly man, i know what i m doing. i am the president, i put this country back on its feet. neil: dan heninger and kyle peterson, what do you make of this report? at least the decision not to prosecute and the reasons for it? dan:this is an exercise in prosecutorial discretion, that trump was indicted primarily for lying or misleading the fbi and instructing others to. that is a crime. whether keeping classified documents is a crime, or one that has been prosecuted, is a different question. that is included in the indictment of
let s get right to it. we begin with the actually unprecedented collation of politics that america is facing in 2024, whether we like it or not, whether we re tired or not, which i get. but the nation has never actually put a former president on trial. several prosecutors are working on that for a task, even as donald trump s civil fraud trial stretches through december of 2023. and in 2024, as you probably heard, if you d watch the news, defended trump faces several criminal trials in different districts while running for president again. procutor jack smith separately, the stolen intelligence documents case in florida. the atlanta dea pushing ahead of convictions 2023. and then you ve got over 90 felonies changed. that is not normal, even if it has been normalized. the first trial initially slated from march, well those schedules can change facing more serious warnings from people who know about this, from actual legal experts. discussing a very real possibility t