republican news organizations, or fox news and all the right-wing echo chambers. they don t want to face the republicans who are forcing these laws on people. they don t want to face the real implications of these laws and what they mean when ten year old girls get pregnant by rape. that is really what we are dealing with here. thank you, ayman. yeah. thank you, my friend. thank you. it has long been the official position of this program that if donald trump is to become a criminal defendant, the most likely place where he will be charged with a crime or crimes is atlanta, georgia, where district attorney fani willis is conducting a grand jury investigation in which the breaking news of the night is that every one of these 16 republicans who falsely claimed to be george s elected members of the electoral college are now targets of that grand jury investigation. that news was revealed in a court filing in which the criminal defense lawyers for 11 of the republicans have
that is really what we are dealing with here. thank you, ayman. yeah. thank you, my friend. thank you. it has long been the official position of this program that if donald trump is to become a criminal defendant, the most likely place where he will be charged with a crime or crimes is atlanta, georgia, where district attorney fani willis is conducting a grand jury investigation in which the breaking news of the night is that every one of these 16 republicans who falsely claimed to be george s elected members of the electoral college are now targets of that grand jury investigation. that news was revealed in a court filing in which the criminal defense lawyers for 11 of the republicans have asked the georgia judge to quash their subpoenas to testify to the grand jury. the motion says that for over two months, the district attorney s office told the criminal defense lawyers that the fake electors, quote, where witnesses, not subject for targets of the district attorneys, a
committee as it releases preliminary report on the mass shooting at robb elementary. nbc s priscilla thompson is there and covering it for us. priscilla, as always, good to talk to you. talk us through this, because this obviously has been, since it s incredibly tragic shooting happened, such an emotional time for these families. and, as the details have begun to trickle out more and more, even more so emotional. now, the release of this report to family members in the community there. talk us through what we may learn today. yeah, yasmin, another emotional day here with that meeting between committee members and the family set to get underway in just about a half hour here. an hour or so here. well we re learning, just from the spokesman a short while ago, was that that report was going to be 110 pages. he says that 18 to 20 family members have picked up a copy of the report, they re still working to get a copy to the family of the victim who is still hospitalized. he also
Hospital. At least one possible offender shot. Please avoid the area around 26th street and michigan. This is a little bit south of downtown chicago, near the shores of lake michigan. This same Communications Officer tweeted there were reports of multiple victims from a possible shooting. So its clear that the police dont quite have a handle on this situation yet. Unclear whether this one possible offender really was the offender. Unclear what happened to that person. And the numbers. We dont have the number of how many people have been shot, how badly they were injured. That is something that were still waiting for. But they have a heavy Police Presence there, as you can see. Are advising everyone in the area to avoid the area as they do this methodical search. Thats the last update we have from chicago pd, from about ten minutes ago. So were staying on this to see what develops. Athena, im just getting this information in from the chicago tribune, quoting a Fire Department spokespers
It was the Early Morning hours of january 29th. Smollett had just gotten back to chicago, posting on instagram that he had just spent seven hours on a plane for a flight that was supposed to take only two hours. He told the police that as he was walking back from a sandwich shop, the Subway Sandwich shop, that two men attacked him, putting a rope around his neck and, quote, yelling out racial and homophobic slurs and pouring an unknown chemical substance on him. This was all in the streeterville neighborhood where he had been staying. I know that neighborhood very well. I worked there for three years at the nbc tower in streeterville. So i know it very, very, very well. In a supplemental interview with authorities, smollett confirmed what had already been reported in the media, claiming that one of the attackers also shouted this is maga country. In those Early Morning hours of the 29th, smollett took himself to Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a friend. And as you may know, jussie