tonight on the prosecutor in america who may scare donald trump the most. new unseen footage from special counsel jack smith. that s coming up. meanwhile, mccarthy tapped santos for a committee that, well, you wouldn t believe it. we begin now with the serious reports of actual domestic terrorism in our nation. a new mexico republican arrested for allegedly targeting the other party, democrats, accused of shooting into at least four homes of democratic officials. there s new video of fed taking this suspect, solomon pena into custody in new mexico. he calls himself the maga king. he s basically a failed candidate for local office. he lost that november election by wide margin. he ll be in court tomorrow facing conspiracy charges. police say he s the mastermind of a string of shootings, political violence from the right, in this case targeting democrats that goes all the way back to last month, december. police say he might have been motivated by the anger he felt from his los
tonight on the reidout if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people, maybe there is. i don t know. that was more than six years ago. during the rise of trump, who champions the idea that republicans have a right to rule by force if necessary. now, a failed republican politician in new mexico is accused of a raging violent attack on the homes of four elected officials. one of those officials joins me in a few moments. that case is the latest example of how years of right wing crackpot conspiracy theories including election denial have very real consequences and put lives at
had in court to try to checkmate that move first in determining, basically, that he didn t want trump to gave out that favor. there the two of themda made re efforts to obstruct, waging a secret campaign to use the law to overturn the court. again, you don t have to be jack smith or a super lawyer to notice probe after probe, muler to jan 6th, trump is doing that kind of stuff. he stands accused of it. so smith knows those moves. he made a point of raising them in this case i told you about, vowing accountability, no matter how much time was passed. there can never be an expiration date on accountability. you will hear from victims who have waited two decades two decades to be heard. the charges here do not directly
people who have a legal defense to either or both because they followed advise oh, i thought the rule was this. special counsel jack smith speaking there. we are joined now by a veteran of the mueller probe and fbi, andrew weissman. he work as a federal prosecutor with jack smith, including trying the officer in the abnor case. nice to be here. that was a great segment on jack. thank you, andrew. we went through a lot of it, so the floor is your on what you know of him, both from that era and how he may have grown or gained experience during what has been quite a long career. well, i guess i d make a couple points. one, there s nothing that s going to prepare you for the media onslaught, and that component of it. but in term of prosecutorle chops, it s hard, as you laid out, to imagine somebody with
and while smith s folks pointed to this as experience, and it is, it can also cut both ways. this is a place, exactly this tough field of dealing with politicians, where he and his team overshot and lost, including a big case where they went after someone i bet you remember, a prominent democrat who was then spiraling from the height of his party and political stardom. don t you think i chose a great vice president of the united states of america? john and i are honest and realistic with the american people. the story sending shock waves through the presidential campaign. after months of denials, presidential candidate john edwards admitted he had an extramarital affair. tonight, a new low. after a federal grand jury charged him with six.