Controversies, a surging pandemic. Over 7,000 people will be at this event. No social distancing, masks are optional. There are protest sites by native american groups. They have their views, their free speech on this american holiday heading into the weekend about what it means and what they think of this president. Meanwhile, the nation struggling with of course what we have been living through for months, the reckoning, the legacy of slavery, our history, jim crow, and the symbols that accompany all of that. There has been news on that just today. But donald trump choosing to speak in front of a monument that will dig into a racial cultural war. Well obviously keep an eye on that. We have the right guests to fact check of it. We wont be showing all of it, but we have guests to give you content for the excerpts we will hear tonight. This will be the first fireworks display at the site in over a decade because of serious concerns over wild fires. Reverend al sharpton, dr. Patel and ma
The president s appearance, for one, will break his own administrations guidelines. He arrives amidst four separate controversies, a surging pandemic. Over 7,000 people will be at this event. No social distancing, masks are optional. There are protests by native american groups, for whom these very hilled are considered sacred ground. They have their views, their free speech on this american holiday heading into the weekend about what it means and what they think of this president. Meanwhile, the nation struggling with of course what we have been living through for months, the reckoning, the legacy of slavery, our history, jim crow, and the symbols that accompany all of that. There has been news on that just today. But donald trump choosing to speak in front of a monument with his advisors previewing a speech that will dig into a racial cultural war. Well obviously keep an eye on that. We have the right guests to fact check of it. We wont be showing all of it, but we have guests to giv
Most dear, the thing hes tried to keep secret for years, his tax returns. In their first decision, the high court effectively paved the way for the Manhattan District Attorney to seek and likely retain those returns. Thats because they resoundingly demolished trumps bogus claim this as president he has absolutely immunity from criminal subpoenas. As chief Justice John Roberts made clear in the majoritys decision, no citizen, not even the president , is categorically above the common duty to produce evidence when called upon in a criminal proceeding. Meanwhile in their second decision the court set forth a new standard for congressional subpoenas of the president. They said those subpoenas must be no broader than reasonably necessary to support congresss legislative objective. The ruling sent both cases back to the lower courts. That means the congress effectively gets a do over. But in new york trump has likely run out of gas. That brings us to the second thing that donald trump learne
Something very important that has now been its in the New York Times reporting in this story tonight. And he tweeted this before the announcement came that the president was commuting roger stones sentence. And howards tweet says just had a long talk with roger stone. He says he doesnt want a pardon, which implies guilt or commutation and says he thinks trump will give it to him. And then this part is in quotation marks from roger stone directly to howard fineman. He knows i was under enormous pressure to turn on him. It would have eased my situation considerably, but i didnt. Now, the only way roger stone could have turned on donald trump and eased his situation considerably would be by giving prosecutors criminal information about donald trump. There is nothing else that that can be referring to. And, so, there you have on the day that he gets this commutation from the president roger stone saying to a reporter that he had, in effect, saying to him that he had criminal information on
He knows i was under enormous pressure to turn on him. It would have eased my situation considerably, but i didnt. Now, the only way roger stone could have turned on donald trump and eased his situation considerably would be by giving prosecutors criminal information about donald trump. There is nothing else that that can be referring to. And, so, there you have on the day that he gets this commutation from the president roger stone saying to a reporter that he had, in effect, saying to him that he had criminal information on donald trump and he refused to give it to prosecutors, and therefore he deserves the commutation. This takes this case into a place where we have never been before. No. And this is this is like the case study, like the third grade case study for like how public corruption works. Like, yeah, in our republic, in our constitutional republic, the executive in our government has the ability to pardon people and that makes sense for some reasons. But there is a risk of