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Today's show begins as Donald Trump, the former president and current GOP front-runner for 2024, prepares to leave New Jersey, board his private jet, and make his way to a federal courthouse just steps away from where democracy was under siege during the January 6th, 2021 insurrection. Trump will be arraigned later today for allegedly orchestrating a plot to overturn the free and fair election he lost in 2020.
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The special counsel charges Donald Trump with conspiring to shatter the American experiment. The 45-page indictment narrates a plot to stay in power after losing an election. And it does so with some new evidence, including real-time notes from then Vice President Mike Pence.
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First: The grand jury investigating Donald Trump meets again and the nation is on pins and needles. If/when is a formal indictment coming?
Plus: A new national poll shows the current and former presidents running even, indicating Trump's indictments haven't tanked his chances of winning again.
And: A former Hunter Biden business partner tells Congress that the future president's son put his father on speakerphone 20 times. Democrats say it was all part of an illusion. Republicans see it as a Joe Biden lie.
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First: As Team Trump asks donors to help foot his enormous legal bills, his Mar-a-Lago co-conspirator accused of trying to destroy evidence for the boss sees the inside of a federal court.
Plus: The latest polls indicate Republican voters continue to fall in line behind the former president, as Ron DeSantis' reasons for running appear to fall flat.
And: President Joe Biden acknowledges his seventh grandchild for the first time and hopes the matter becomes private.
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First: New evidence and charges against Donald Trump as he faces more accounts of obstructing justice in the documents case. An indictment in the January 6th probe could be imminent.
Plus: Florida governor Ron DeSantis fights to stay in second place while picking fights with black republicans over slavery.
And: House republicans make moves toward impeaching Joe Biden. Is this an impeachment in search of a crime?
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First: Special counsel Jack Smith hits Donald Trump with three new charges connected to his effort to allegedly conceal classified documents. The superseding indictment outs 60 pages of meat against the former president.
Plus: How many indictments is too many? Some Republicans rushed to Donald Trump's defense. Others, including some inside the Trump orbit, worry criminal charges will eat away at his general election chances.
And: Tonight, all Iowa's a stage. Can anyone deliver a breakout performance?
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A secret meeting between Donald Trump's lawyers and special counsel Jack Smith's office sets off alarms across the political and legal world. There was a question of whether something like this would happen after the former president received the target letter informing him that he was very likely to be indicted related to the 2020 election and his behavior leading up to January 6th.
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As today's show begins, Hunter Biden's plea deal seemed to be crumbling. The Trump-appointed judge said she had concerns with two agreements that prosecutors and defense had come up with. Evan Perez reports live from the courtroom.
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First: Today President Biden unveils his plan to make sure America never forgets what happened to Emmett Till, signing a proclamation establishing a new national monument that will honor Till and his mother.
Plus: Will Kevin McCarthy go down the impeachment rabbit hole? The Speaker says he's following the facts and will indeed pursue impeachment if that's what it takes to get to the truth.
And: Two CNN stories expand what we know about Jack Smith's evidence against Donald Trump and the special counsel's attempt to answer a question everybody wants answered. What was Donald Trump thinking?
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First: Israel forges ahead with a plan to kill off checks and balances and it's met with angry protests, threats of a crippling nationwide strike and a warning from thousands of reservists that they won't show up for duty.
Plus: Two new polls show the Republican field splitting into Donald Trump and everyone else. But voters send a message to the frontrunner: show up on the debate stage.
And: Your commute, your mail, your TV, all of it imperiled by strikes. So is Biden's re-election campaign.
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