Good evening. Im mehdi hasan. The insanity defense. That is what the Trump Legal Team seems to be offering this week in the wake of Special Counsel jack smiths stunning and damning 45page indictment, excuse, me of the former president , charging him with conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy to violate rights. All charges fueled by his lies per the indictment. The trump team saying, though, he wasnt lying, he truly believed he won the election. Which, if he truly believed that, would of course be insane. But its not true, as smiths and item notes, trump was informed by members of his own campaign and legal teams that he had indeed, lost there was no massive fraud involved. Trump himself is quoted in the indictment telling mike pence after his own Vice President told him that he, mike, pence had no Constitutional Authority to reject the vote on January The 6th, quote, youre too honest. Best of all, one of t
over things like migrant flights and the threat to throw him in jail. desantis thinks it s time for gavin to man up and get into the race for the white house. you know what? stop pussyfooting around. are you going to throw your hat in the ring and challenge joe? are you going to get in and do it or sit on the sidelines and chirp into throw your hat in the ring and then we ll talk about what is happening. i guess gavin likes being on the sidelines. here he is repeatedly ruling out a white house run. are you considering running for president in 2024 or 2028? no. not at all. it s not my ambition. it s not the direction that i m leaning into. how many times does your phone ping a day of people saying you need to get in this race. i see where you re going. i m asking. i m not answering. that doesn t mean that newsome would not relish the chance to debate his faux. you would do a two hour debate with desantis? i would do three, on a day notice, with no notes.
this all sounds, i know for people watching other parts of the country might be a little like, you guys are really obsessed with this. fair, but it really feels bad out there today. it also gives some context what california and the pacific northwest of a living through. so, at least they have, like, i don t know, it s nicer there generally? maybe once the smoke clears anyway. what a day. thank you, my friend. thanks to at-home for joining us this evening. tonight, we have new reporting which confirms something that, up to this point, we had only suspected. former president, donald trump, is officially a target of the criminal investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified documents at mar-a-lago. that news was first reported today by the guardian, citing two people who were briefed on the matter. multiple outlets are now reporting that federal prosecutors notified trump in the letter that he is the target. nbc news has not independently verified those reports
home to us. prosecutors speak out in an in-depth television interview. you put so much of your life into it that it stays with you. laci s husband, finally hear the story he told. his rarely seen police interrogation. you have no idea of where laci is? no, i do not. we couldn t find anything wrong with the guy. he was that charming. and surprising details from the other woman who helped to uncover the truth. it still affects me emotionally. did scott peterson kill his wife? i do not believe he did. who else could have done it? i am glad you asked that question. once upon a time in a small california city lived a sweet pregnant woman with a radiant smile and outside family hardly anyone knew her name. my daughter s been missing since this morning. she is eight months pregnant. she would never know how famous the name of hers would become. would never know that a curious, sympathetic puzzled nation had cast an eye her way. laci peterson. she was 27