Coming up later this hour. Good day to all of you from msnbc headquarters. Welcome, everyone to alex witt reports. A fallout and a big week for donald trump. Naming five more defendants indicted in the scheme, a total of 16 have now been indicted on conspiracy, fraud, and forgery charges are related to the election certification. Trump himself, back in florida after intense hearings and testimony in the hush money trial. He set through the indignity of life as a defendant in Criminal Court while his friend, david pecker, using the catch and kill scheme and Karen Mcdaniel , a months long the january 6th case appears headed for further delay as Supreme Court justices way arguments on the claims of absolute immunity from prosecution. We have reporters and analysts and place covering every angle of the source. We will begin with nbcs dasha burns. Dasha . Reporter it was a while week wild week in court. He described the alleged catch and kill scheme with donald trump and Michael Cohen. This
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dana: president trump announcing today that he will pardon conservative commentator and filmmaker dinesh d souza for a campaign finance violation. he is considering doing the same for martha stewart and commuting the sentence of former illinois governor rod blagojevich. but what about first-time drug to firmeds like matthew charles who we have offenders like matthew charles and the case that brought kim kardashian to the white house? we have the former assistant deputy assistant general under president bush. rumors are that matthew charles case and probably alice johnson is out there in the universe at the white house so perhaps we will get news on that as well. in the meantime, tom, let me ask about this. look at the president s time line of the pardons so far in his administration. starting early on in august of 2017 with sheriff arpaio and then moving on down to, of course, lewis libby scooter libby being probably the most prominent one in april 13. then the posthumous pardon
investigation, it means that there is reasonable there s a reason to suspect collusion by americans. you re not going to pursue a criminal investigation against russian intelligence officers. if you have a criminal investigation, there s probable cause of suspecting collusion and they may be looking into obstruction of justice. the stakes have just gotten much, much higher for the trump administration. forgive me. carl roy is joining me, former assistant deputy general and knows both rosenstein and muller. rory, your response here to these two senators coming out of this meeting with mr. rosenstein and saying that it appears to be a criminal investigation territory and, b, it appears that rosenstein wrote the letter recommending the firing of comey after he had learned he would be
words if they would, if they would like. but i want you to know i very much appreciate this courtesy. thank you. you bet. senator cruz. thank you, mr. chairman. and i want to welcome each of the three nominees who i ve known a long time and consider each to be friends. but i have a particular honor and privilege of introducing my dear friend that was senator diane feinstein laying out her concerns of the firing of now former fbi director james comec. they re looking at a couple of nom neeks, including one for assistant deputy general. reactions? part that we missed at the beginning is that senator schumer said they ll stop committee hearings today. they re going to invoke this time. it s not a big tool for them but what they can say is committees can only meet for two hours before democrats approve.