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The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with the mishandling of classified documents case against Donald Trump, and the judge who is set to oversee the case--U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. Also in this episode, we explore what to expect when President Biden attends a major gun control summit on Friday in Connecticut. Sen. Chris Murphy joins Joy to discuss. Finally, Joy has a big announcement about a blockbuster ReidOut special coming next week. Vice President Kamala Harris joins Joy this Tuesday at 7 pm ET to discuss the abortion landscape post-Roe, what a path to federal protections could look like, and why abortion rights will define the 2024 election, and beyond. Be sure to them for this very special edition of The ReidOut! All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on The Readout.
0:06.8	The prosecutors in my office are among the most talented and experienced in the Department
0:12.8	of Justice.
0:13.8	They have investigated this case, queuing to the highest ethical standards, and they
0:18.7	will continue to do so as this case proceeds.
0:22.1	The case Jack Smith is referring to could proceed in New Jersey, according to legal experts,
0:27.7	which could explain some of the things Trump was not charged with in the indictment
0:31.3	filed in the Southern District of Florida.
0:34.3	Also tonight, what to expect when President Biden attends a major gun control summit
0:39.1	tomorrow in Connecticut.
0:41.2	Senator Chris Murphy joins me, plus I have a big announcement about a blockbuster
0:45.9	readout special coming next week with a very special guest.
0:49.8	They really don't get much bigger.
0:51.9	I will spill the beans a little later.
0:56.4	What we begin tonight with the wild card in the mishandling of classified documents
1:00.0	case against the twice impeached twice indicted former president Donald Trump.
1:04.6	The wild card is the judge who is set to oversee the case, U.S. District Judge, Eileen
1:10.2	Cannon.
1:11.2	You may remember her as the Trump appointed judge whose past decisions on this very case
1:14.8	were not overturned, not once, but twice by the conservative 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
1:21.0	in scathing opinions.
1:23.4	She may provide Trump his best hope of yet again receiving more favorable rulings, like
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