with people who didn t have clearance. . how critical could that piece of evidence be in this case? plus, russian president vladimir putin speaks. the defiant president trying to project strength after the weekend rebellion, forcing new questions about his power. we re going to have a live report from moscow coming up as well. we begin, though, at the supreme court, where we expect more decisions to be released at any moment. we re watching for decisions on highly consequential issues. the court often waits to release the most controversial decisions until the end of a term. and we re getting right down to the wire here, folks. if we get one of those major decisions, we re going to bring you that and the very latest right away there. we re also monitoring some dramatic new developments in the trump classified documents investigation. an audio recording has surfaced in which the former president appears to discuss classified documents with people who did not have security
Back. Overnight weve seen the president evolve his thinking to now advocate for the Death Penalty and, regardless, both of these statements are somewhat inappropriate and unprecedented just in terms of what a president traditionally would say, which is to restrain from offering this sort of commentary. It is in keep with the kind of public persona that donald trump has cultivated over many, many years in public life of trying to show himself to be strong and tough and have this steely resolve. But hes not a commentator anymore. Hes the president of the United States. So theres a different standard, and his words carry a different weight. Theres an obliviousness to the fact that he sits atop the federal government. A federal government whose Justice System he described yesterday as a Laughing Stock and a joke. Well, the comment to first it just shows his total lack of rigor in making any
pronouncements. This is someone who revels in his unpreparedness. Its an improvisational act. Theres
Agricultural product again. They are starting to go with the beef and all the different things, pork. Very big on pork if you look an see. They are starting very heavy to buy our ag again. They should want to make a deal. The question is do we want to make a deal. If usmca end of nafta. You know how i feel about nafta. Worst trade deal ever made. Although i also happen to think World Trade Organization was not one of the greats. Not one of the greats. That was the creation of china, which went like a rocket ship from the day they signed. It was terrible. But, we are going to find out. Thats going to be a very interesting question. With nannies and chuck and all of these people focusing on the witchhunt because they cant beat us at the ballot. They cant beat us at the
ballot. And they are not going to win the president ial. We are having great polls. We have internal polls, ohio, iowa, pennsylvania is looking good. North carolina. We just won two races that a lot of people thought we we
republicans in concord, new hampshire, about two hours from now and folks are starting to enter behind me. in conversations with the folks that are here, you are hear, defenses that have been propagated by donald trump. this is for donald trump as much of a political spin effort, it is one that is going to be troubling for his defense team because over the course of the last year now, donald trump has provided a cadre of excuses or explanations for why he had possession of the documents and made the case that he was in the right to have the documents. take a listen to teddy mcneil, one of his supporters who is here this afternoon. are you concerned about the classified documents? the president has the right to do whatever he wants. he declassified everything and it is his choice. reporter: i think it is important, that anecdote is important to be paired with the data that in our new nbc news poll showed that 45% of
powerful woman in government not have said thanks, guys, the seven of you, i hear you, they said they are going to release the transcript let s see what it says and then he wouldn t already be on the road to impeachment. juan: what happened with mueller? dana: nothing. juan: bill barr comes out and says no obstruction, no collusion. he steers the whole narrative and conversation in the country as a spin effort to protect donald trump. jesse: there wasn t any spin. juan: oh yeah there is evidence, they decided not to indict on the basis of the evidence or the contacts between the russians or they left open obstruction to the justice department because of a policy memo that said you can t indict a sitting president. katie: that s not true. juan: that s different. jesse: that s not true. juan: that s why speaking to dana here. nancy pelosi said bill barr and the justice department say no, you don t have to release this. don t go forward. we have questions about what th