Jack Smith is fighting to keep Trump's classified docs case alive

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Jack Smith takes action to protect the documents case. Plus, new revelations come to light about who saved Trump's Truth Social when it needed a cash to stay afloat. And the ladies of March Madness: the frenzy over the final four. Lisa Rubin, Catherine Christina, Mark Leibovich, Hugo Lowell, Vaugh Hillyard, Juanita Tolliver, Mark Mckinnon, Jemele Hill, and LaChina Robinson joins.

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0:00.0	Tonight Jack Smith blasts jury instructions from the judge in the classified documents
0:06.2	case and threatens to appeal if she rules against him.
0:10.0	What's next for the special counsel?
0:12.4	Then new reporting on how Trump's social media
0:15.0	company was saved by a Russian American under criminal investigation. Plus the
0:21.0	Iowa LSU game shatters the record for the most watched women's basketball game.
0:26.5	We'll talk all about the Ladies of March Madness as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday night.
0:35.0	Good evening once again, I'm Stephanie Rule and we are now
0:40.0	216 days away from the election.
0:43.0	Special counsel, Jack Smith, has basically had it
0:46.6	with Judge Aileen Cannon and the way she has handled
0:49.5	Donald Trump's classified documents case.
0:51.8	Now Smith is taking action to protect his
0:54.4	prosecution. In a new filing, Smith said Judge Cannon's legal premise was
0:59.1	quote wrong and called Trump's claim about the Presidential Records Act a fundamentally flawed premise.
1:06.0	That is the idea that Donald Trump should not be charged because he had declared the documents
1:10.8	in question personal under the Presidential Records Act.
1:14.4	Smith calls that pure fiction.
1:17.0	He also pointed out that it has been nearly six weeks since Trump moved to have the case
1:22.2	thrown out based on that defense.
1:24.5	He wants the judge to get on with it and make a ruling ASAP.
1:29.2	Smith has signaled he will appeal if he loses and of course Trump would likely do the same if he
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