and i thank you. good to be back with you on this second hour of msnbc reports with jose diaz-balart. it is 1:00 eastern, 10:00 a.m. pacific. i m in today for chris jansing. what happens today in a d.c. courthouse could be one of the most important days yet for the former president. donald trump s lawyer facing off against jack smith s special counsel team about the durability of trump s presidential immunity argument. it is now in the hands of three judges, but could this case as trump s lawyer put it open pandora s box? a president has to have immunity. and the other thing is i did nothing wrong. and the two top figures in this case, special counsel jack smith and judge tanya chutkan have now both been victims of swatting. what does that mean for the safety of public officials as we head into a busy 2024? plus, the pentagon s investigation into secretary of to hide his hospitalization from even the white house as more lawmakers on capitol hill call for his resignation.
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across the aisles is real. we know that. and between neighbor and neighbor. this is one of those moments, particularly going into november of next year. we need to call for calmer voices, we need to recognize the unity is more important than violent division. not sure we re there yet. maybe this is the opportunity. yeah, i want to ask you about january 6th participant ray epps. he changed his tune, now saying he thinks biden won fair and square. walk us through what is happening here with epps. reporter: yes, the ray epps case stands out a little bit. a lot of people were unlawfully on the grounds of the u.s. capitol like ray epps. but because he became the target of this conspiracy theory, spread by a former trump administration official, who is in the white house, a speechwriter, that suggested that ray epps was an undercover operative, he has been the target of a lot of vitriol and speaking about this, he had to
speech, you know, go down and give them hell, and they marched down the street. we heard now in the oath keepers trial, where the head of the oath keepers is texting people and talking meetings about, we re waiting for word from trump whether we should call in the armed team from virginia. and you will also note in that same stack that when president trump tweeted to them, stand down and go home, they did it on a dime. so there is this element of command and control. but you ve also got jack smith, the special counsel, who is doing this in a very his own rocket doctor. pe docket. things are being brought to court and said this stuff has to be turned over. rulings are happening. this is going very quickly before this criminal referral, so he s off and running, and i think when you look at him calling in witnesses like stephen miller, you know, the president s speechwriter, who was part of the ideological
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