with joy reid next tonight on the reidout it angered me but i turned to my daughter, who was standing there by me it doesn t take courage to break the law, it takes courage to uphold the law the president s words were reckless it s clear he decided to be part of the problem mike pence back in november with about as much anger as pence is able to muster. today, the former vice president presumably said much more to the grand jury in the doj s january 6th probe. also tonight, you can t beat me up for not screaming. the chilling words of e. jean carroll who was back on the witness stand today, facing cross-examination in trump s civil rape trial and we begin tonight with the breaking news that former vice president mike pence testified before the d.c. grand jury investigating donald trump s role in the january 6th insurrection the path to pence s testimony was cleared yesterday, when a three-judge panel rejected trump s emergency bid to prevent pence from testifyin
solid, you can see incremental degradation with the general electric. losing to joe biden, and i m sure republicans will come along and make that point in the primary. and was,, you seen a bad week before and managed to publicly at least in the court of public opinion he has been able to skirt around it but this feels different. it might be different. when it comes to public opinion, something like 60% or 61% of the country doesn t want him to run in 2024. his base is solidly behind him and the republican voters are solidly behind him but independence have walked away, the number goes up to 67% for independence, they don t want him to run. things are not working that well politically. in the commercial sphere, which is really what the heart of the attorney general s case in new york is against them, this is going to hamper, even before they come to resolution, this is going to hamper his business operations, if you are a lender and a counterparty, a vendor, are you are ju
beforehand, and it was essentially a diatribe against new york state attorney general letitia james accusing her of being biased against him and conducting a politically motivated witch hunt for political gain. he acknowledged he said in the past that if you re innocent, you have no reason to take the fifth amendment. he said recent events in his life have caused him to change his tune including the recent fbi raid search of his compound in mar-a-lago, florida. he said it just made no sense for him to cooperate in any way with this civil fraud investigation. what s interesting about it is his son, eric trump, we re told took the fifth amendment more than 500 times in a deposition in this very case back in 2020. but more recently, his daughter ivanka and other son don jr. we re told did testify and answer questions in this investigation which is about whether the trump organization committed fraud in its representations to banks and insurance companies. leticia james has alr
initial recovery on mar-a-lago said that archives officials believed that more records were missing and were skeptical that trump had handed over everything. as the investigation gained steam, some trump advisors have sought to steer away from the issue according to people who were speaking under anonymity. now you have to fast forward to june 3rd, bob, the trump attorney says the trump s team met with a doj official after they cooperated with presidential records in a storage wear and handed over, quote, a few pages to the doj. multiple sources have confirmed to nbc news that monday s unprecedented search was related, classified material that trump brought with limb to florida after he left the white house. two sources say the search went from 9:00 a.m. to half past 6:00 and that the fbi took about a dozen, a dozen more boxes with emthis. a lot of boxes. think, as much as we ve learned there are still major questions outstanding, for instance, what exactly what was the fbi l
including a new threat from the former president. donald trump much like richard nixon openly opining about using the power of the federal government against his political enemies. his efforts to weaponize the justice system if he returns to office already underway. plus, the lawyer defending paul pelosi s attacker in court not denying he did it but arguing that david depape s decision to break into the pelosi house was fueled by conspiracy theories. he believed he was disrupting a corrupt, liberal network of child abusers, and believed it, according to his lawyer, with, quote, every ounce of his being. and the ongoing threats against elections. the latest on the fbi investigation after envelopes containing fentanyl, at least some of them had fentanyl in them, were sent to election workers in five states. one had a note inside that read end elections now. so we re going to cover all those stories this hour. we begin with former president trump insisting that if he s ree