unprecedented now, for the first time in american history, a former president convicted for his criminal behavior while still serving as presumptive republican nominee for president. donald trump calls the verdict rigged and himself, quote, a political prisoner. newsbreak, he is not in prison. maga outrage, trump allies including the house speaker and several potential vice presidential candidates are blasting the verdict and unleashing dangerous rhetoric against the justice system and our democracy itself. but no one is above the law. president biden warns the attacks are reckless and irresponsible while trying to keep his campaign focused on issues important to voters. we will talk about it all, the prosecution and the politics with congresswoman maxine waters of california and politics nation host, the reverend al sharpton. nbc analysts and prosecutor. i m jonathan kay part, this is the saturday show. historic victory for american justice, accountability and the rule of la
an injustice senior justice correspondent ivan perez. he s covering the hearing for us in fort pierce, florida, just north of palm beach oven, you were inside the court today. how to judge cannon handle today s important hearing? well, if this was a very unusual hearing in the first place, and judge cannon had some very sharp questions for the government, for the prosecution she questioned the prosecutor s about what specific actions the attorney general, merrick garland oversaw actions that were taken by jack smith special counsel. she wanted to know, for instance, whether the attorney general, specifically and personally approved the indictment. this indictment against donald trump and a couple of other of people who worked for him. here in fort pierce and she also questioned trump s attorneys when trump s attorneys, emil bove beauvais said that he believed that jack smith was essentially a shadow government. the argument that they were making here today, wolf, was that j
actions the attorney general merrick garland oversaw actions that were taken by jack smith, the special counsel. she wanted to know, for instance, whether the attorney general, specifically on personally approved the indictment. this indictment against donald trump and a couple of other people who worked for him here in fort pierce. and she also questioned trump s attorneys when trump s attorneys emil bove beauvais, said that he believed that jack smith was essentially a shadow government the argument that they were making here today will, was that jack smith was illegally appointed by the attorney general because he came from outside the government. he s not someone who has been approved by the senate. this is a long-shot request, but it is one that the judge for some reason decided needed to be heard, needed to have have an entire hearing. and she also allowed outside parties are groups that had nothing to do with this case, to actually spend a couple of hours making argume
condemning the same comments and rants, increasing the art odds prosecutors ask for prison time and that odds that judge merchan would send him to prison for a period of time. i don t want to say more likely than not but this is not helping him. let me have you read more tea leaves, judge merchan put cfo allen weisselberg behind bars despite him being a first- time offender and in the 70s, does that signal anything to you about the trump potential sentence? it does, it suggests to me the prosecutors are prepared to ask for prison time. i don t think it is entirely an accident the prosecutors secured two different prison terms for weisselberg. if they wanted to see prison time for trump, one argument they could make, perfectly fair and in my mind, resident argument, wesley
in. you have to swipe income iew hae to sign the log. it doesn t matter if you re an analyst working on a case or if you re john brennan, the former director of the cia. you have to swipe in. there are logs out there and there is evidence out there, some of that s classified, but they are able to get a hold of it. if chairman nunes get a hold of the information he could start finding out. h sean: i m running out of time, what should nunes be doing and which of the attorney general be doing? m i think the attorney generalw needs to have a grand jury that s what needs to happen. as of this investigation. you can find out who did this. let s number one, number two for the and chairman of the intelligence committee, he needs to get the background data, what he saw in those reports shocked him obviously. not just because it named w president trump potential he and his associates but also the nature of the dissemination itself. that unmasking can well be a crime.