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plus, donald trump and the supreme court, the former president asking justices to intervene in the decision banning him from colorado s ballot. the argument his legal team is making this morning. and we are tracking breaking news of a shooting investigation at an iowa high school. the latest from perry, iowa, in just a moment. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, i m chris jansing in for ana cabrera. the list of famous men connected to convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein just got longer as court documents that were kept hidden now go public. more than 900 pages of legal documents were unsealed in federal court, part of a 2015 civil defamation case against the late financier s convicted accomplice ghislaine maxwell accused of grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse. joining me now laura jarrett, and msnbc legal analyst and former prosecutor, kristen gibbons feden. laura, for years, there had been rumors, reports that bill clinton, donald trump, prince andrew, and others were ....
good to be back. it s great to you have here. do you remember the name brandan van grek? as i have memorable name. if not, the circumstance of which you first heard it? but if you are like me and the first time you heard the name brandon van grabbing is the first time you heard the word he is spee naj formerly associated with the presidency of donald trump. espionage as in the espionage act, not just spy movie stuff, as in u.s. law. we were only about four months in to the trump administration when the new york times was first to report that the then brand new trump administration had made a very unusual hiring decision that ultimately implicated the work of a veteran espionage prosecutor at the u.s. department of justice. it was very early on. may 2017. you think about that for a second, trump was inaugurated at the end of january. this was less than four months later in may of that year, less than four months into his presidency, we learned of the new york t ....
all a very, very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. let s do at home joining us this hour. it s great to have you here. do you remember the name brandon van grack? it s a very memorable name, so you might remember the sound of it. if not, the circumstance in which you first heard it. but if you are like me, in all likelihood, the first time you heard the name brandon van grack, it was the first time you heard the word, espionage, formerly associated with the presidency of donald trump. espionage as in the espionage act, as it not just spy movie stuff but as in u.s. law. but we are only about four months in to the u.s. trump administration in the new york times first reported that the then brand new trump administration had made a very unusual hiring decision that ultimately implicated the work of a veteran espionage prosecutor at the u.s. department of jus ....
Overstate how momentous this is. i want to read a little bit of what trump s lawyers wrote. quote, the colorado supreme court erred in how it described president trump s role in the events of january 6th. it was not insurrection. they also wrote, the proceedings in colorado were premature and violated the electors clause. how strong are those arguments? those are two of the weak ones. so first, the supreme court s never going to make a factual finding for the whole country, and even if they did, another state could take that standard and apply it, so won t do the trick of what they need. the electors clause is shades of bush v. gore, believe it or not, where they want to say the federal government can basically step in and tell state procedures whether they comply with the constitution. again, not a very likely scenario. not one that the court would coalesce around, especially the progressives. i think they ll be looking instead will the court to saying something like the 14th amendm ....
Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez says the department’s purchase of eight vehicles in 2021 using jail commissary and asset forfeiture funds followed state and county purchasing statutes despite the State Board of Accounts saying that is not the case. The SBOA found in a supplemental audit of the Sheriff’s Department for Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2021, that state procedures were not followed when . ....