Indictment. Special counsel jack smith requested a protective order after trump posted on social media, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team in terms of what they can publicly discuss about that sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Former Vice President mike pence, who is now challenging his former boss for the republican president ial nomination, testified in the special counsel investigation of the case, and he may again get called as a witness if trump goes to trial. I have no plans to testify, but, look, well always well always comply with the law. But, look, i want to tell you i i dont know what the path of this indictment will be. The president s entitled to a presumption of innocence. Hes entitled to make his defense in court. There actually are profound issues around this pertaining to the first amendment, Freedom Of Speech, and the rest. Im confident he and his lawyers will litigate all of thos
one year ago, president volodymyr zelenskyy stood defiantly with his cabinet in kyiv as russian forces attacked the ukrainian capital. ukraine has defied expectations and showed the world tremendous tenacity over the past year, fighting back russian forces time a time. today, there are no signs that europe s biggest land conflict since world war ii will end any time soon. we will be covering this come somber anniversary throughout the morning. at home, we re following the federal response to the train derailment in east palestine, ohio. transportation secretary pete buttigieg toured the scene as investigators appear to pinpoint a possible cause for the crash. he certainly had challenges for donald trump, as well. yes, he did. well, i m glad he came here. if he is now ready to join us in stopping the deregulation of dangerous trains like this one, then, yeah, we can work together. we ll have more of what he had to say and what is in store for east palestine today.
does best is leaking and lying and trying to clean it all up. the bureau told newsweek they had under covers inside mar-a-lago. the fbi had a mole at mar-a-lago. newsweek says, quote: the raid on mar-a-lago was based largely on information from an fbi confidential human source one who was able to identify what classified documents former president trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents. so the fbi had a mole and the trump campaign had moles in the trump administration and now they have a mole in mar-a-lago. the guy who is running the fbi field office in d.c. is the same guy who had moles in the gretchen whitmer fake kidnapping are not r. plot. and you wonder why the fbi can t stop a single mass shooting. can t protect supreme court justices. can t stop chinese supplies from sleeping with eric swalwell. can t sniff out chinese spies driving dianne feinstein around can t stop chinese from stealing our secrets and hacking our pipeline. can t stop eps
Question, we heard joe bidens answer this week. We heard him try to thread the needle and to say i support the right to his will protest but that doesnt mean that it is a license for chaos. History is at our doorstep as always. Susan glasser, thank you for your time this friday evening. That is original for tonight. Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence Odonnell, special friday Night Edition. Friday Night Edition after a friday in the courthouse. I will be joined by my Courthouse Posse this week. Andrew weissman, adam klasfeld, lisa rubin, all in the courthouse with me this week. Did you guys break for lunch together . I have pictures of lunch together, which can only be shared privately. Alex, the heroes in that building or the Court Officers. They are running an amazing process to get people in, to get them out, to control the setting in a way that it has never had to be controlled before because of course of the secret Service Protection for a former president. No group of
I give amazing spongebaths. Can i get a room . [ chuckling ] chefs kiss. Im ari melber signing off from this special hour. Keep right here on msnbc. I guess because donald trump does apparently whatever i tell him to do, he did not glare at me again in the courtroom today after i described Donald Trumps weird and childish and trumpian attempt to, i guess, intimidate me by throwing his angry glare at me when he was leaving the courtroom yesterday, i said right here on the program last night that it was a mistake for him to do that. I said that his apparently useless handyman who hangs out in the front row of the courtroom Boris Epshteyn should have told trump not to make a big deal out of that odonnell guy being in the courtroom yesterday. Donald trump shouldnt have given me that pleasure. He shouldnt have done that in such a goofy and public way that the New York Times felt to report it right away on the live update of the trial. No one in the courtroom had seen donald trump do anythin