Trump Documents Case Begins Hearings, New York DA Drops Charges Against Columbia University Protesters, Supreme Court Weighs in on the Second Amendment | June 21

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Trump classified documents trial begins hearings. Manhattan DA drops charges against Columbia University protesters. Supreme Court says domestic abusers can have Second Amendment rights curtailed. Pentagon has no idea how much money it sent to China for pathogen research. Job growth massively overestimated according to new report. Relevant Links https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/us-news/biden-admin-offers-mass-amnesty-to-migrants-as-it-quietly-terminates-350000-asylum-cases-sources/ Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Brian Gotstein and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Friday June 21st.
0:07.0	Here are today's headlines. A court hearing on former president Donald Trump's handling of classified documents began on Friday.
0:27.0	Trump faces 37 felony counts related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House.
0:36.2	He's pled not guilty.
0:38.2	The former president's lawyers argued that the Justice Department prosecutor, Jack Smith, was illegally appointed and that the case
0:45.8	should be dismissed.
0:47.8	According to the Associated Press, one of Trump's attorney said on Friday that the Department
0:51.9	of Justice could effectively create a shadow
0:54.7	government by appointing its own special councils. According to NBC News
0:59.7	Trump's lawyers filed a motion saying that the Constitution does not permit the
1:04.8	attorney general to a point without Senate confirmation a private citizen and
1:09.7	like-minded political ally to wield the prosecutorial power of the United States, as such Jack Smith lacks the authority to prosecute this action.
1:22.0	Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg action.
1:23.0	Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg dismissed trespassing charges against 30 Columbia University
1:29.0	anti-Israel protesters who were arrested in late April.
1:33.0	A large group of protesters broke into Columbia's Hamilton Hall.
1:37.0	They damaged property and fought with a janitor who was in the building at the time.
1:41.0	They were eventually arrested by the NYPD.
1:45.2	According to the Washington Free Beacon,
1:47.1	the students and their supporters walked into the New York courtroom
1:50.2	wearing face masks and traditional scarves typically worn by Arabs and
1:54.3	Palestinians. A prosecutor from Bragg's office said that the students shouldn't face
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