menendez. as we begin this hour, action in the face of distraction. the bluster and bombast of donald trump s new reporting shows jack smith is relying on the facts, not the fury. also this hour, departed to pardon trump or not. a new witness tests in the republican quest for the nomination. we ve pardoned a president before, but doing so again presents a further danger to democracy. we are going to ask historian, michael beschloss. and my sit down with actress eva longoria, making her flamin hot directorial debut. this is american voices. we begin this hour with donald trump and his allies, trying to deflect attention away from his decision to keep government secrets after his presidency. we ve heard these excuses before. trump is relying on the same old script, distract with baseless claims of a witch hunt, to stopped stop his political witch hunt. on his knockoff version of twitter, calling special counsel jack smith, quote deranged, saying the indictment is fake.
as you said, before, they were getting steam rolled and competing for second place. now he s not even there and they are still in this kind of submissive posture. obviously, chris christie is going to try to fill some of that gap by going after trump and, presumably, going after some of the other candidates for their truck trump sycophant see the other difficult thing is that most republican voters want trump. and so, if you have to kind of create, if not kind of turn them against him, at least try to pry apart their intense identification with him. yes. create some sort of space that makes him look weak or fragile and kind of demonstrate some sort of dominance. and it s very difficult to both demonstrate dominance without actually wanting to take metaphorical swings that someone. those words are exactly dominance and submission. it s not about policy at all. it s not about disagreeing with trump. it s about demonstrating that you are tough enough to bring
Authorities releasing joint exercises and other measures to prepare for august. and because august is when fani willis is notifying local authorities, she expects to make a decision. frank figliuzzi? yeah, county among those who say, while it s really essential, and unfortunate to have an example to look at in realtime for the atlanta law enforcement down visiting miami, calcium on those people who say miami was not the best example of the stronger security. secret service interacted consistently as they usually do, and asked for the things they usually do down there and did not get them in all cases. so, if you saw at the very end, as truck trump was exiting the building, there was an individual who ran up, for example, and could have easily been armed and taken shots at the motorcade or others things. like that, more barricades need to be thought about. look, any strong security plan is based on an assessment of