divided nation and snl offers its own trumped up holiday message i ve committed no crime i will be arrested, tried an found guilty sound familiar? i m jonathan capehart this is the sunday show. the escalating war on the right issues is putting th reproductive rights of million satirist just last week, idaho pass wha it calls in abortion trafficking law that makes helping a minor league the state to get an abortion without parental consent punishable by up to five years in prison. in south carolina, republicans are proposed a law definin abortion as murder making it punishable by th death penalty. friday night, two contradictor court decisions. in texas, a trump appointe district judge invalidated the fda s 23 year approval o method for stone, a truck used in nearly all medica termination of pregnancy s after antiabortion organizations argued that th food and drug administration lacked the authority to approv the medication and did not adequately study its safety an ef
thanks for sticking around. it s friday. we have a lot going on a major show the d.a. who made history by indicting donald trump is under a lot of scrutiny. he has a very interesting record, a record that includes beating trump in court previously did you know that? we have been working on one of our special reports around here, and we are going to air it for you live tonight on manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. that s coming up we begin on the federal side of thing where is the criminal probe of trump continues he is a criminal defendant in new york but the federal case involves a star witness who was also targeted for harm or assassination by then sitting president donald trump when i say those words out loud here, it almost sounds like extreme or hard to remember, but that is really what happened you might think if you were defending yourself in the case where you re accused of causing harm to your own vice president, you d want him to testify and say on your be
and how quickly america has sort of absorbed this or normalized it, which many experts say is a good thing even if he beats the case and he is legally presumed innocent, it is a good thing that in america, anyone can go through the criminal justice, and when it works, it s afforded fair rights for everyone as for mr. smith, he is doing what, well, from what we can tell, the garland justice department was not immediately doing. he is taking more steps, which is why we re hearing about more witnesses. the new york times reports that smith may be close to finishing what they call the fact-finding phase of his work, moving closer to a decision about seeking charges against mr. trump and others we re joined by former federal prosecutor who has been in exactly that position where you finish the facts and make your decision, joyce vance, and a former very senior doj official, former acting solicitor genera
he will not appeal a judge ruling ordering him to testify before the special counsel jac smith s january 6th grand jury joining me now is neil - former acting solicitor genera of the united states saunders professor a georgetown university. and an msnbc legal analyst welcome back to the sunday show what would he want to lear from the former vice president if you are special counsel jac smith. first of all, i think jonathan this whole question o pence s arising in a uniqu historical moment. for the first time ever in our history, a former president ha been arrested. that s happened in a separat investigation in new york. i do think that changes a lo of the dynamics. it wasn t a surprise to me t see pence say i ve bee asserting these privileges i the past which are reall bogus. executive privilege. speech and debate immunity