i've thrown through d.c. several times and helicopters rules were different we were lower altitude flying from checkpoint to checkpoint. even that you got to be externally careful. with a cessna citation that comply so high typically their flight instruments. their dead with the person on the other end of the radio tells you to work follow an established flight plan that is extremely accurate and fairly normal, frankly. for what it did to reverse course to completely change its direction flight towards d.c. was very unusual. that is what because the response. for a plane that could fly almost mock one which is very fast that is the reason they had to respond so quickly and cause the sonic boom order to respond to the aircraft they could go in excess of 5 miles an hour. they did not have much time to respond. jon: the sonic boom rattled windows and rattled nerves over the greater d.c. area. it also bothered some pets we have a little snippet of what happened to one dog what happened. respect there is a securit

but in d.c., the prevailing case in d.c. have to bring the case where the obstructive actions are occurring, not where the investigation is. so that would be florida. so it's a very complicated issue. now, i'm going to give you one more piece of data, which is that there is a pending supreme court case that was argued just a couple of months ago, but there's no decision on it. that case is dealing with what happens when the government gets it wrong. you bring the case in a district. the jury says you brought it in the wrong district, and that case is about whether that ends the case entirely. the government got it wrong, and they can't retry somebody, and it's unclear what the supreme court is going to do with that case. given that uncertainty, if you're the justice department, wouldn't you pick the more sure location where you know you have venues. you may not really want florida, but since that's a safe bet that all of the charges can be brought there, i think that would counsel a prudent prosecutor to go forward in florid

under their new law, d.c. elections -- d.c. law makes elections more susceptible to to foreign influence. so this is beyond unacceptable. american elections should be for american citizens. what i think is interesting, i watched that entire hearing. i know, i'm a nerd. [laughter] but it's my work. and not a single democrat on either of the committees asked a question, challenged any of the facts that were presented as problematic that had been presented by the chairman and by the republican members of the committee. all they did, all they did was complain, first of all, that there was even being a hearing to talk about this even though congress has the oversight responsibility for the district of columbia. and all they talked about was how trying to identify, make them clean the voter roles once a year. the new bill will require the district of columbia to clean its voter rolls once a year. it will eliminate same-day registration. it will undo the provisions about allowing citizens to vote in d.c. elections and other common sen

the d.c. jail here. and the room is not descripght it looks like half of our grammar schools growing up with cinderblocks and plain walls heavy door and you go in that room plastic chairs -- and everything about it is ordinary. and nothing about what is happened to these defendants is ordinary.. and i sit before you with gratitude because as you said congressman gaetz being a force multiplier i'm talking about what happened on january 6th as porpghtly what's happened since then wouldn't be more porpght and i salute you for that. but if it were -- the mistreatments of these j6 defendants -- that they're targeted they're lied about in the press. the prosecutors leak on them all things you all recognize from your own work. and yet that would and should be a tragedy. but it's coupled with a travesty of the select committee that benny thompson and liz cheney convene and spent 21 million to go through systemically and cause damage to the system not the individuals. the system that we rely on so much

but if you were to go to d.c. and bring that obstruction case, the law in d.c. is a bit of an outlier. and there is a 1975 case that suggests that you can only bring the case where the obstructive act occurred, meaning, unless they occurred in d.c., you would have to bring it in florida. and so, you could imagine here that the department of justice wants to be super careful. and they want to make sure the venue is correct and they don't bring it in d.c., only later to have a transferred. obviously, this could have huge ramifications. we all have experienced what this case looked like when a judge in florida, aileen cannon, had the case, and how much that really disrupted the rule of law and she had to -- reverse not once but twice by the court of appeals there. so, bringing the case in florida could be a real benefit to donald trump. but it may be something that the department of justice feels is legally and ethically warranted. >> andrew weissmann, thank you very much for starting off our discussions tonight. we really appreciate it. >> welcome. >> and when we

d.c.'lly elected legislature. while it is true that congress has the constitutional authority to legislate on local d.c. matters, it is false that congress has a constitutional obligation to do so. it is a choice, d.c. resident, a majority of -- residents, a majority of whom are black and brown, are capable of governing themselves. democracy is, according to the directionary, and i'm quoting, a government in which the supreme court is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation, usually involving periodically free elections, end quote. d.c.'s lack of representation -- voting representation in congress and congress' authority over d.c. are the an thight sis of democracy. the legislative history and merits of d.c.'s comprehensive policing and justice reform act of 2022, which is the subject of h.j.res. 42, should be irrelevant since there is never justification for congress nullifying legislation enacted by d.c. but i would like to brie

there's no question about that for people in d.c. but has an explanation and we shouldn't always go to the nefarious one. it's part of what the apparatus looks like now. you just simply don't know from the ground what's happening up above and that's why they scramble. >> i know you're right. let me go back to mary. i think your shot may have frozen up there. if you could finish your thought. you were saying that judging by what you're seeing on the -- on a flight tracker program, it may be something as simple as this plane went down in the mountains of virginia. >> yeah. that's right. and it looks like the at was steady. it stayed above 30,000 feet. i didn't descend and very much. the air speed, very little, but not much. it looks like it was headed for new york. it was supposed to land there and go to florida and turned and at that point became unresponsive. over the years we have covered many of these where something happens to the pilot. usually it's a rapid decompression in the plane, scrambling the aircraft usually happens when

congress overturned the d.c. never took effect and it never will and yet, lauren boebert, who let me remind you, is in congress, did not seem to know that, because during a hearing, she grilled one of the local d.c. lawmakers who crafted the bill and seemed to think that the bill she voted to overturn was actually now law in the city of d.c >> in november of 2022, you led the charge to reform d.c.'s crime laws, is that correct? >> i chaired the committee that that proposal came from. >> you led this charge, yes sir. and these charges -- these changes are now law here in d.c., correct? >> do you mean the revised criminal code? >> yes >> no, those are not the law >> those are not the law did -- >> you overturned them >> the revised criminal code was rejected by the house. >> excuse me mr. chairman, i'm talking to mr. allen >> seth: "excuse me mr. chairman, stop correcting me while i'm already being corrected by a different person. [ laughter ] i don't like being corrected by a bunch of people at once, it reminds me

., it's unclear if it violated d.c.led it and then ultimately it is unclear what the exact sequence of events that led to it crashing. but it did ultimately crash and we are told that that is not because of the jets themselves. they did not shoot it down. so obviously we still need to wait for more information, jim. >> absolutely. and forgive me if i'm pushing into areas where you have to speculate beyond where we have the facts at this point. let's go julia. she joins us. if the plane only made it as far as staten, virginia, that relative area of virginia, i know as a virginian who grew up in this area and went to college out in that neck of the woods, that plane was starting to get closer to washington, d.c., but was still a good couple of hours away. and so if -- if it went down there, there must have been some concern on the part of defense officials as to what the plane was doing or how it was flying, what is your sense of this as we're hearing about this now? obviously the sonic boom startled everybody in the wash

we also knew our nation's second highest court signed off on that ruling, the d.c. circuit. and we also knew about the dress rehearsals you mentioned a moment ago, the boxes being moved here and there. there's so much more, alex. and i know we're talking about this indictment potentially coming this week, and that's because the evidence so far looks overwhelming of donald trump's guilt. >> and i -- i hear what you're saying about the overwhelming evidence we have thus far. i would assume that things like pool drainage would further buttress an obstruction case if that's indeed what jack smith is pursuing, but if we could could we discuss mark meadows for a minute, because this fellow has been like the white rabbit in alice in wonderland. if he has testified in front of a federal grand jury presumably he would be testifying about things he'd be trying to shield using the claim of executive privilege, right? is that a fair assessment of what kind of goods he was giving up behind the scenes? >> all those claims went to the supreme court. they rejected it 8-1, so he now has to t

that's why you hear about events canceled in the greater washington, d.c. area. d.c. is at 224.thing over 150 is considered the air is bad. 200 to 300, that's record breaking. that's happening in philadelphia. harrisburg is at 341. bethlehem, pennsylvania, yesterday was the first city in the northeast or mid-atlantic to finish a 24-hour period in the horrendous category. that's where we are sitting. when is this going to clear? here are the clouds in northern new england. this is a change in air mass. that's why it's better today in syracuse. we need to shift this through. here is the forecast. this is 6:00 p.m. tonight, still smoky in new york. you can see the plume of smoke that's coming down over lake erie. that will sit from philly to d.c. tomorrow morning, it's not going to look better. maybe the air quality is slightly improved. friday evening we start to notice it pushing out of pennsylvania, new jersey, new york city gets dramatically improved. d.c., i think you will wait until saturday morning to noticeably have an improved air mass. there's smoke out there, but it won'

zoos closed in d.c., and new york. d.c.re park's suspending outdoor recreation. >> there will be no track practice, outdoor sporting events, any of that through friday. >> schools in d.c. and some suburbs, cancelling outdoors recess. a few school districts in the northeast closing schools entirely. flight declares at newark and philadelphia today, and even a brief ground stop at new york's laguardia this morning. the advise from local authorities, wear a mask if you have to go out. >> if you don't have to be outside, then don't be outside. >> reporter: at greatest risk, those with respiratory problems, as well as senior citizens, childrens and those who are pregnant. even if you're healthy. >> this is like smoking, and so i cumulative exposure is going to put people at risk, even at baseline. >> the more we breathe in, the more junk in our lungs, and the more it's going to affect us over time. >> reporter: over the next 48 hours, the smoke is forecast to continue spreading south. compared to yesterday, new york city today s

the other one is in washington, d.c. as part of that classified documents probe into the former president. that grand jury has heard testimony from multiple witnesses in recent weeks, i'm told, and also is going to hear from another witness tomorrow. all of this investigative action had been centered in washington, d.c. so a big question tonight, why now in florida? in a moment you will hear from a former federal prosecutor who says she views this as a really big deal. but first let's get to the very latest on these developments in these latest stories from cnn's paula reid. paula, obviously when it comes to what's happening here with mark meadows, that's significant. we knew he had been subpoenaed. we knew they tried to fight it. but now he has gone and testified. what else have we learned? >> reporter: that's exactly right, kaitlan. he's not just a witness. he is the witness in both special counsel investigations potentially because when it comes to january 6th he was at the center of everything. the house select commi

aides figuring out, well, look, we could indict in d.c. but then we'll face a motion to dismiss, maybe far better to not have to deal with that, indict in florida. we have the facts, we feel confident about them. we really don't care about what jury we get because, look, the jury for the government would probably be better in d.c. than it would be in florida. although, i'm not entirely sure. this is a generally large district. you can get all kinds of folks in that jury pool. but if the government feels strongly enough about a case, i think barb will tell you, they don't care where they bring it. they'll bring it. >> we know his explanations and justifications for having classified documents have changed quite a bit including the idea he just declassified them just by thinking about them. it also seems his defense is trotting out a strategy of prosecutorial misconduct noting this is a charge brought by the department of justice that was under neath the president of the united states, joe biden, who is donald trump's top rival for the white

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nobody heard from him the navy, marines, the joint chief of staff, the d.c. capitol police, none of it. he was just missing. there are people who know what he was saying, what he was thinking, and what he was doing during that time. one of those people wasn't doubted lee his former chief of staff, mark meadows. >> yeah, when you outlined the number of scenarios where mark meadows played a pivotal role, or was central in the discussions, it becomes clear that any cooperation from mr. meadows is at trump's legal peril. i guess i wonder if you think that is a reason why you are seeing what you are seeing in congress? because it increasingly looks like as the special counsel's probe, the walls of the special counsel investigation grow closer and closer to donald trump, the efforts by his republican allies and congress seem more clearly designed to offer a lifeline to president trump by undermining the investigations themselves. i have to call everybody's attention to the fact that jim jordan who is the chair of the judiciary committee, today, wrote a letter to a.

this is arguably a ray of hope for the trump team that had hoped between d.c. even in florida that his lawyers will try to conduct this entire probe and the entire investigation in d.c. so they could get favorable rulings on the executive privilege challenges and then move the case to florida. i am told that will be one of the first challenges that will be launched here. >> paula, thank you. s paula was speaking we are confirming one other part of this. there are seven counts in this indictment which is coming out of south florida. so ryan, take this, what she's saying about all of the work, all of the testimony and everything that was done in front of a grand jury in washington. does it all get handed to florida and then in a week they're able to return this with seven counts? >> what does all of this mean? >> 100%, all of the information could be transferred over to florida and then read in for the florida jury which has been sitting now for a few weeks so that may have happened way back when and then they had maybe additional witnesses and just a few apparen

i flew into d.c. this morning.ant to show a picture i took out of the window of my airplane as we approached the nation's capital, as well. we'll put that up in a moment. here the pilots referred to it as we flew into the city and said reduced visibility as a result of that smoke coming from canada. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray joins me now. we'll get you that picture momentarily when we have it. first question is, how extensive in this -- is this smoke, and when you describe that, i want to get a sense of how long it's going to be here. let's start with the scope first. >> yeah. this is huge, jim. we've seen these fires burning out of control for the last several weeks or more across canada. this is something that's going to settle in for quite some time. we could see this off and on throughout the entire summer. i want to shed light on the color, though. you show those pictures, and it's the orange color. why does the smoke not look gray? it has everything to do with the sun. the sun contains all the colors of

in washington, d.c.y's first code purple air quality advisory, signifying very unhealthy air. the white house forced to postpone a pride event on the south lawn that some 2,000 people were set to attend. health officials warning continued exposure to the particulates in the air is especially harmful to young children. in the source of the smoke, the wildfires burning in canada. hundreds of them still out of control in multiple parts of the country. the u.s. has sent assets and more than 600 firefighters to canada so far. david, newark's governor said they'll be sending forest rangers to canada, joining firefighters from other border states like new hampshire and maine and while new york city's air quality is clearly improved, it is still registering in the top five worst major cities in the entire world. >> david: that's incredible. let's get right to senior meteorologist who is timing this out for us tonight. hi, rob. >> hi, david. it will be widespread for several more days. as for yesterday, when you

i can do the math that means 94.6% fd d.c.idents voted against him. >> in terms of where you press charges if you do press charges what does it matter about where the alleged crime occurred? >> this is a concept called venue. it means when prosecutors charge a case federally you have to charge it in a federal district where at least some part of the crime occurred. sometimes as potentially here that's multiple districts. you're supposed to pick the district where the most conduct occurred but sometimes you don't for various reasons including potential strategic reasons. two important things, you have to prove that you charged it in the right place. if you go to trial and the jury finds nothing related to that crime happened here, they have to find not guilty. the other thing is before trial the defendant can make a motion to move to a different venue. so hypothetically if this case gets charged in washington, d.c. donald trump may well go right to court and say move this to florida. >> one last question on mark meadows, the fo

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. >> reporter: washington, d.c., today had some of the most polluted air in the world. d.c.nd for seniors to minimize their time outside. at the washington monument, livia paikos, visiting from massachusetts, was masked. >> it is, like, way foggier than it would be on a normal day. >> reporter: but you still wanted to make the trip today? >> yes, we want to see the monuments because this is our last full day here, so. >> reporter: nearly a third of the population of americans feeling at least some impact. in chicago, city officials urged people to limit driving and they open some air-conditioned sellers. >> it smells like a camp fire. >> reporter: said that the air smelled like barbecue pit as it blanketed pittsburgh. coaches canceled swim practice near st. louis. >> they can get into some pretty rigorous activity so we did not want to expose them to the air quality that time. >> reporter: in the south, he is the big issue as more than 43 million are under an excessive heat warning. janet shamlian is in houston. >> reporter: for construction workers like these and so many ot

now i wish the elites in washington, d.c.e a page out of the iowa playbook but instead they have ignored what works and it continued to plunge this nation into the abyss. our country is going in the wrong direction. we can see at and we can feel it. our southern border has collapsed. the mexican drug cartels have more control over what goes on at the border than her own united states government. millions of illegal aliens have poured into this country including criminal aliens and even individuals on the terrorist watch list. massive amounts of fentanyl that the cartels are bringing in has killed tens of thousands of our fellow americans. look at the economy. the biden administration is doing all they can to make it harder for the average family to make ends meet and to attain and maintain a middle-class lifestyle. the bill for the massive borrowing spending and debt and record printing of money by the fed that's falling on the american people. our dollar has lost almost 20% of its value in the last four years. look at energy

a d.c.grand jury has subpoenaed former trump advisor, steve bannon, in the investigation into january 6th. and d.c. news reports, the subpoena was sent out in may, requesting documents and testimony from donald trump's former chief white house strategist and longtime ally. given what we know about bannon's actions and his proximity to trump, both before and after the 2020 election, the special counsel will likely have quite a few questions, here's steve bannon, just a few days before voters went to the polls the. >> what trump's gonna do, he's gonna get victory. he's gonna declare victory. that doesn't mean he's a winner. he just gonna say is the winner. >> pressure and. the special counsel may also bring up a phone call mr. bannon made to president trump in late december, urging trump to take action on a certain upcoming calendar date. quote, people are gonna go what the f is going on here, we're gonna bury biden on january 6th. fe bury him. the special counsel may want details about what h

in washington, d.c. the city's first code purple air quality advisory signifying very unhealthy air. >> when they told me it was code purple i thought it was getting better so we're not even used to this language to deal with this type of air quality. >> rob on the national mall. >> yesterday was bad. today even worse here in d.c. smoke shrouding our nation's capital. at the other end of the mall, standing 550 feet tall, washington monument, can't even see it. >> the white house forced to postpone a pride event on the south lawn that some 2,000 people were set to attend and the nationals calling off tonight's baseball game. in newark, new jersey, the largest school district cancelling classes. health officials warning continuing exposure to particulates in the air is especially harmful to young children. >> because they breathe more air relative to their size and are more active than most adults. >> parents now told to watch for signs like chest pain, shortness of breath and wheezing, and the source of t

think of it this way the only reason washington, d.c. exists is because it is the home of our federal government. the feds only owned 27% of the land in dc which is lower than all the states i just mentioned they want to take more of our land and make it harder on the ever diminishing spaces thatr they leave. you would almost have to conclude they are targeting us for some reason and we know that they are. they are targeting us for our natural resources, those god-given assets that provide the foundation forre the nationl prosperity and wealth and independence of our middle-class. the rich farm ground, the goal is to restrict the ability to use any of these. they want to restrict the ability to grow food, produce oil and gas and mining for coal and other minerals and we need to start calling this for what itts is. these are evil policies. [applause] these folks that think that they know better are purposely making it more difficult for us to use our resources to raise our families, to protect our culture and our way of life by blocking a

but really the only true connection to d.c.at these records belong to the federal government which is of course based in washington, d.c. so eventually prosecutors realize that most of the conduct happened down here at mar-a-lago so they had to bring the case down here in florida. that poses challenges for prosecutors. there's a chance that trump's lawyers are going to want to relitigate the privilege questions before the trump-appointed judge who will oversee the case. >> while prosecutors now face a potentially less friendly jury pool in florida as paula just noted, this has also caused problems for trump, because now he has to find lawyers who have passed the bar in florida. >> once you get someone to do that, they can then make a motion called prohock, for this case only, to admit the other person. what you do in a case like this, you will hire someone called local council. someone who just knows the turf there, who can speak to the jury in the type of language that they're used to hearing. so it will be really interesting

the d.c. mayor has been no nonsense with her advice. said people do not need to be outside for longer than they think they need to and they should try to stay indoors. if they do go outside, wear an n95 mask. this is particularly important for the vulnerable groups, older childre -- older adults, children. carl: you can even smell it. i could smell it this morning in my apartment. how long are these conditions expected to last? >> it is a real burning smell. it is like a campfire smell. in terms of how long it will last, it will get worse before it gets better because the fires in canada have been blazing for about six weeks. there are new fires in quebec and the smoke is traveling southward. it is expecting to get worse over the weekend but the forecast is it will get better next week especially when we are expecting some rain in new york and here but we do not know if the rain will be strong enough to suppress the smoke. carl: we heard about all these events being canceled, baseball games being rescheduled, the white house pride month

now, the other option is d.c. the argument would be, well, he took the documents from d.c., right? that would be sort of the scene of the crime but the counterargument to that is, yes, but if the facts are and kaitlan would know this, if he took the documents out of there and sent them down to mar-a-lago before noon on january 20th while still president that's not going to be a crime. it doesn't become a crime until he loses the power of the presidency and then he illegally has nose documents and if that's the case then the whole crime happened in florida, not in d.c. and you can't charge it in d.c. >> also the question, a big question is not just the taking, it's the keeping of the documents and the obstruction factor in that so the other question i have about it, though, a lot of the aides who have gone and testified have come to washington to testify before that grand jury including the body man in the white house or his valet in the white house, he's now trump's body man. he has gone and testified, we know, and he said he didn't move any boxes then when he went back and it was

fighter jets scramble to chase a small plane in d.c. we've got a report. >>> new tensions. a chinese warship cuts off a u.s. navy ship marking the second military provocation in a week. china's stern warning for the west. >>> under investigation. migrants flown on a private jet and dropped off in california. why officials say florida is behind it. >>> good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. breaking overnight, we have new details released after a frightening incident in the skies. u.s. fighter jets scrambled to intercept a small plane flying in restricted airspace over d.c. before it crashed in virginia. the jets caused a sonic boom heard across the region. nicole d'antonio is in washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, anne-marie. we are now learning more about the timeline of this investigation. today we know ntsb investigators will be at the crash site to begin their work, and as for that loud boom that could be heard and felt across this region, it left many wondering what happened. a loud sonic boom shattered the sunday afternoon

. >> and we head down to nationals park in washington d.c. for the annual congressional baseball game between republicans and democrats. the history of the game dates back to 1909 and benefits local charts and this comes to us courtesy of fox sports. . . >> in a tradition that dates back to 1909, the congressional baseball game brings democrats and republicans together on the baseball field. tonight, these congressional rivals set aside their differences and take it outside in a head-to-head matchup on the imonday here in the nation's capital -- on the diamond here in the nation's capital. alongside chad, i'm john waltman. welcome to washington, d.c., where these two rivals go head-to-head tonight, chad. they do it for bragging rights but they also do it in the name of charity for some worthwhile causes. >> john, last year they raised $1.7 million for children and family charities around washington, d.c. 23,000 fans expected here at nats park. john: one of the things we're watching on the republican side, brent steube from florida, who a coup

team was in d.c., the grand jury was in d.c. it looked like they were going to charge in d.c. you're right, there's an enormous difference in the jury pools here. d.c., donald trump got 5%, outover 5% of the vote in 2020, meaning about 95% of the people who would have been in that jury pool in d.c. voted against him. of course trump won florida in 2020. most of the southern counties where this is going to draw its jury pool from he won at least had 0%. so -- 40%. so you're looking at a very different jury pool. people say jurors are instructed, selected, vetted out and told don't bring your political views into the courtroom -- nonsense. jurors are human beings, and especially in -- not saying it's impossible that somebody who likes trump votes to convict him or vice-versa, but man, oh man, do you want to be in front of a jury that doesn't like the guy? i give doj credit here. they did the right thing legally because they definitely have proper venue down in florida where markle is. it's actually -- mar-a-lago is. it's not clear

we'll track that overnight, down towards d.c.ke up friday morning, air quality is still going to be pretty bad from philadelphia to d.c. but by the time we get to friday afternoon, we start to blow a lot of this out to sea, not perfect, but by the time we get to saturday morning, just hit and miss areas of smoke, nothing as thick as what we're seeing. so we'll give everyone pretty much the all clear by the saturday afternoon, jose. but right now, d.c., about 24 to 36 hours of what you see. >> so, like you know, george was saying, it looks like it is clearing up a little bit, but you still should be cautious if you're out in the streets. >> yeah, we have set the bar so high now that many areas -- many areas we set the record -- >> less horrendous. >> for the worst air quality measured in the last two takes. it would be the worst if it wasn't for the previous two days that we have ever recorded in 24 years. >> so, like, face masks. people are complaining about i have a sore throat, et cetera. >> it is important to note, all the doc

it's not clear they have venue in d.c. they could have tried d.c.better jury pool, but they did the the right thing. they went with florida. >> i have a different take. it was for expediency. they the to hurry up and get to trial. they know in d.c. it would be more time off the clock as he tried to move it. let's deal with social media together. let's put that up. i thought this might be the occasion when you would rise above partisan leanings, but you didn't fail to disappoint. ask yourself, where would you be if you did the same as trump with those documents? why do you wish to diminish the country? i'm going to cut you some slack. i didn't know it would be personal and directed toward me. so thank you very much. to the individual who sent me that social media, i say this. what are you joking? i digested the indictment of donald trump. i offered my comments as to the seriousness of it. and i wondered aloud, why would he have taken the stuff and why didn't he just give it back. you also heard me criticize the republican candidates who are trying to

- the d.c.ty judges and the d.c. jury pool is like 93% democrat and like 99% trump deranged. so i expect these charges in d.c. >> jesse: so, if it goes to d.c., right now we are in june, 2023. you got a republican primary just starting to heat up. what is the timetable for a trial in the middle of a republican primary, possibly a general election? >> well, that's the issue. this is clearly election interference by joe biden. clearly -- this is clearly election interference. isn't it funny that the day that joe biden gets caught taking $10 million from burisma, biden's attorney general merrick garland green lights this indictment of his leading presidential rival. i mean, the timing is just -- it's just, you know, it's just coincidental, right? here is what happens. trump could try to move to dismiss the indictment. the sufficiency of the indictment early on because there's not a legal basis for the indictment. the presidential records act, not the espionage act applies. you know, i doubt a unipa

a sonic boom shaking the d.c. two f-16 fighter jets were scrambled when the private plane approached restricted d.c. airspace late yesterday. the pilot unresponsive. the plane eventually crashing west of charlottesville as you can see in this exclusive video from wrc tv. tom costello is in washington. can you walk us through what happened and what we know about those four people that were on board? >> an absolute tragedy. the owner of the family says he lost his daughter, his granddaughter, a nanny on board and a pilot. we believe a veteran pilot with a lot of commercial hours. this caused an awful lot of craziness yesterday afternoon in d.c. as these fighter jets were scrambled. we all heard a sonic boom in d.c. that literally shook homes as they fighter jets scrambled to actually try to catch up with this runaway plane. scrambled from joint base andrews near washington sunday, two f-16 fighter jets racing to intercept a private cessna citation jet approaching restricted d.c. airspace. the air force pilots radioe

but one thing in d.c.you can see rosalyn, virginia -- roslyn, virginia, from the camera. you could not see it all day long. those buildings were completely invisible. things are getting better. it is part of the mixing process in the afternoon, and in the morning hours all of that smoke, all those particles all kind of settle down to the ground. a lot of red, lot of yellow, lots of orange. and our people up in quebec, ontario, they've been breathing there for a while. it finally just blew down the northeast part of north america over the past couple of days. look at philadelphia, though. that was 999. philadelphia officially you are 431. not one match in one studio. this is a lot of smoke over a wide area. i can get away from that smoke. you can't get away from 400 parts per million. so here's where this smoke is now. notice the orange, that's the worst. push it into motion until tomorrow afternoon, and things are going to slide a little bit farther to the south. but d.c., you're still right in that area.

it would be advantageous for the team to be in d.c. for the venue and proceedings. >> to be clear, we don't know anything at this point other than who has come in and out of the courthouse. and it could be the case that there are two different work streams going on here. there's a lot of activity that seemed to have happened at march will go after those subpoenas were issued. there could be a different set of concerns related to individuals who might have been involved in moving documents and things like that. it could be a whole set of charges related to staff and other people not necessarily donald trump. that could be proper in the venue of the southern district of florida while still having something going on in d.c. we don't know yet. but as ken said, it would make more sense and perhaps be more advantageous to the department of justice to want to try this in d.c., where they are likely to get a more favorable jury pool where they are likely to be a jury pool composed of a lot of trump supporters, but we just don't know. i would c

then dueling rallies and washington, d.c. come is pro-choice and antitrust activists marked the first anniversary of the supreme court's dobbs decision to overturn roe v. wade. vice president pence led the anti-choice activists. vice pres. pence: because of your work and because of your prayers, the supreme court of the united states sent roe v. wade to the ash history of -- ash heap of history where belongs. amy: we will get an update a year after dobbs. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. russia's military has withdrawn troops and tanks from the streets of moscow after the head of the wagner mercenary group called off a short-lived armed mutiny he launched on friday. wagner fighters stopped their advance on the outskirts of moscow late saturday after officials reached a deal that guaranteed their safety. they also withdrew from the southern russian city of rostov, which they had seized, and returned to their bases. as part of the deal, wagner

d.c. dangerous thick smoke from canadian wildfires is moving south. major cities in the u.s. are elevating their alert as air quality is getting worse. plus, new russian aggression on the battlefield. the significant losses for ukraine as ukrainian forces try to breach enemy lines. ♪ welcome to "the load." i'm jake tapper, and we'll start today with our law and justice lead. donald trump is gathering with his top aides reaching out to allies on capitol hill ahead of possible criminal charges, criminal charges, being filed against him. sources say the justice department recently told trump's legal team that the former president is a target in the federal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents after he left office and, of course, possible obstruction of justice charges related to those documents. the lead prosecutor in the case john harbaugh, there he is seen at the federal courthouse in miami where a grand jury has heard witness testimony just this woke. cnn has

the federal grand jury in d.c. a sort of break they've been on and this was to start and again in the mar-a-lago documents case and i don't know that mean in terms of the overall trajectory of the case. there is a lot of speculation but we will not know about what is happening before the grand jury until the grand jury speaks. also another federal grand jury 's meeting in florida on something related to trump although we do not know what. new york times reports tonight that federal prosecutors there are expected to question a a witness before that photograph federal granted early this week. and then we don't know what is going on before that jury until the grand jury speaks. which is almost always only with an indictment. if they're going to speak at all. right on time bloomberg news reports tonight that trump is looking to add new lawyers to his already large legal team. specifically looking for lawyers with federal trial experience. which if nothing else means they are planning ahead for a potential federal trial

that coupled with the fact that the d.c. grand jury, as far as we know, has not met in about a month. and we've not seen any evidence that it's meeting this week. despite some signals that it may or was going to, we're not seeing evidence of that. for whatever reason jack smith decided it's more prudent for legal reasons to file, most or all of this case, assuming he's going to file it, all the signs are pointing to that in the southern district of florida. now, that comes with risks, obviously. there are a lot more trump supporters who live in dade county than the district of columbia. it's distributed by geography, more democrats in south florida, as you go north, it gets more conservative. but lots of lawyers i've been talking to all day who work in florida have been mentioning that to me. the jury pool might be more favorable in southern florida. and there are legal reasons to believe that important folks from jack smith's investigation have been spending time down in florida. >> what about what a d.c. judge said about t

two f-16s from the d.c.base while the president was playing golf sunday. another two from the atlantic city air national guard base from egg harbor new jersey an additional two f-16 deployed from mcintyre base in south carolina, the sonic boom that shook the windows and it scared d.c. residents shortly after 3:00 p.m. eastern could be heard as far as maryland, as the d.c. national guard to try to intercept the cessna whose pilot was under responsive. the intercept took place 20 miles northeast of ronald reagan international airport, the citation took off from tennessee and was en route to long island, new york, when it abruptly did a 180-degree turn in new york and began flying back down the east coast. the pilots tried to get the cessna pilots attention unsuccessfully for 30 minutes before it went down in southwest virginia. flares were fired to get the pilots attention, he was unresponsive. norad that says it did not bring down the plane which appears to have run out of fuel in the end. on board the flight

d.c. is going to be bad today. it's reality with fires like this becoming more common we have to get used to this. >> the actual science of this is at one point new york city's air quality was the worst in the world, i believe that was at some point yesterday. >> yes. >> and then today, late last night, second worst in the world. it's not good. we'll follow this. we have former u.s. senator and now an msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill on set with us here in new york. how are you doing? >> i'm fine, breathing in terrible smoke but other than that fine. >>> also with us roger share of the presidency at vanderbilt university. jon meacham is with us this morning. nbc news has learned former president trump's attorneys have been told that trump is a target of the justice department's investigation into the former president's handling of classified documents after leaving the white house. prosecutors told trump's attorneys about their client being a target in the probe during their meetin

and if those indictments will be in d.c. or in florida. i think all of them will be in d.c. at the end of the day, if there are others, like walt knew the, who's trump's eight and the like, the essence of what andrew says is right, donald trump fragrantly violated the law, even according to the latest revelations, months ago, it was bill barr, lawrence, who said this case isn't obvious clear present threat to donald trump because it looks criminal. and every revelation since, from the swimming pool today, to the dress rehearsals for the documents last week that were moved around, to the tate about the classified information that came out last week, every single thing furthers the narrative that donald trump committed these crimes, and then obstructed that investigation into it afterwards. so, like always, i agree with andrew. >> andrew, why this week? why do you expect indictments this week? >> i think that's based on a number of things. but if you think about what we saw in the manhattan case, we were looking to see that defense lawyers were given an opportunity to be heard

mar-a-lago until that point we knew of two grand juries hearing evidence in this case, one in washington, d.c., the other in miami, where now the former president says he has been summoned to appear before a judge next tuesday presumably for his arraignment. again, the justice department not telling their side of the story tonight with this indictment still under seal the information we are getting largely coming from donald trump, his attorneys, and his political allies who have been preparing the ground for this moment for sometime suggesting the former president would be charged and would be charged unfairly that is the message the former president gave to his supporters in the video statement he posted on true social a short time ago. let's listen. >> so i just want to tell you i'm an innocent man i did nothing wrong. and we'll fight this out just like we've been fighting for seven years. it would be wonderful if we could devote our full-time to making america great again and that's exactly what we did but now, again, our country is in decline we're a failing nation and this is what they