“A disgraceful diversion”

“A man without a country”

Deadline: White House - “He is not a well person”

Nicolle Wallace is joined by Neal Katyal, Pete Strzok, Lisa Rubin, Ruth Richardson, Mara Gay, Rep. Jason Crow, Sarah Longwell, Miles Taylor, Michael Steele, Daniel Ziblatt, and Steven Levitsky.

“He is not a well person”

Hi there everyone is 4 o'clock in New York kicking screaming clawing dragging

whining Donald Trump and his legal team back at doing what they do today, seeking to delay, delay, delay,

justice. Today's effort at that in the federal criminal case brought by Special Counsel

Jack Smith for illegally hoarding classified documents at his private club at

Marlago with the disgraced ex president watching on in person,

Defense attorneys sought to convince US District Judge

Ailing Cannon to dismiss some or all of the charges against Trump.

The first, a motion that would wipe away those first 32 counts on the theory that the

main statute used against Trump is, quote, unconstitutionally vague.

The second, even more audacious, a motion

that would dismiss the indictment entirely

on the grounds that the Presidential Records Act

They say somehow, he straight faces, that Trump,

state secrets, into personal records which would

exclude them from the actual requirements. Here is the disgraced ex

president in his very own words last night. I took him very legally and I wasn't hiding him. We had boxes on the front of the

and a lot of those boxes had clothing and a lot of we're moving out okay

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0:00.0	Hi there everyone is 4 o'clock in New York kicking screaming clawing dragging
0:12.1	whining Donald Trump and his legal team back at doing what they do today, seeking to delay, delay, delay,
0:18.0	justice. Today's effort at that in the federal criminal case brought by Special Counsel
0:24.7	Jack Smith for illegally hoarding classified documents at his private club at
0:28.8	Marlago with the disgraced ex president watching on in person,
0:32.6	so he had no obligation to do so.
0:34.8	Defense attorneys sought to convince US District Judge
0:37.6	Ailing Cannon to dismiss some or all of the charges against Trump.
0:41.5	And they did so through various avenues.
0:44.2	The first, a motion that would wipe away those first 32 counts on the theory that the
0:49.0	main statute used against Trump is, quote, unconstitutionally vague.
0:54.2	The second, even more audacious, a motion
0:57.2	that would dismiss the indictment entirely
0:59.1	on the grounds that the Presidential Records Act
1:01.3	completely bars prosecution.
1:03.7	They say somehow, he straight faces, that Trump,
1:07.2	the snap of a finger had the power
1:09.0	to transform presidential records,
1:10.9	state secrets, into personal records which would
1:13.9	exclude them from the actual requirements. Here is the disgraced ex
1:17.1	president in his very own words last night. I took him very legally and I wasn't hiding him. We had boxes on the front of the
1:27.4	and a lot of those boxes had clothing and a lot of we're moving out okay
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“He is not a well person”

Deadline: White House

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