Jack Smith Won’t Back Down
What A Day
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🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Special Counsel Jack Smith is on a roll this week. On Monday, he asked an Atlanta-based appeals court to revive his federal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. A day later, he filed a revised indictment against Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The revisions were in response to the Supreme Court's decision earlier this year giving Trump and all future presidents broad immunity from prosecution for their official acts as president. But much of the indictment is the same as the original. Norm Eisen, who served as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's Democratic majority during Trump's two impeachment proceedings, helps break down where things now stand with Trump's criminal cases.
And in headlines: The Supreme Court dealt another blow to President Joe Biden's efforts to ease the burden of federal student loan debt, Israel carried out its largest raids in the occupied West Bank in at least two decades, and the 2024 Paralympics are underway in Paris!
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, August 29th. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Priyanka Ara Bindi. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Juanita Tolliver and this is what a day. |
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| 0:25.0 | I need it in a Voss bottle right now. |
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| 0:28.0 | Not Voss, like the club. |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, Skodis rejects the Biden administration's save student loan |
| 0:34.8 | plan, plus the 2024 Paralympic Games are underway in Paris. But first, earlier |
| 0:39.8 | this week Special Counsel Jack Smith issued a revised indictment against former President |
| 0:44.4 | Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. |
| 0:48.8 | Not much has changed. |
| 0:50.3 | Trump still faces the same four felony charges tied to his actions on and leading up to the January 6th insurrection. |
| 0:56.6 | But in Smith's revised indictment, he's stripped out the parts that would almost certainly fall under Trump's official acts as president, like his interactions |
| 1:04.5 | with the Justice Department. |
| 1:06.1 | As for the rest, Smith seems ready to argue that the bulk of Trump's actions should actually |
| 1:10.5 | be interpreted as those of a private citizen running for office. |
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