good evening, lawrence. good evening, law alex. lawrence i just got my hands on this filing while you ve been working here. we ll very much on the fly going into live coverage of it. you will not be surprised to know that on the first page of this filing the second paragraph mentions the historic landslide victory in the iowa caucuses yesterday. that is considered a of legal import in this case by the trump lawyers in their filing tonight. i wonder if there s something about his inauguration crowd size on page 67. we ll see. i haven t read the whole thing, but so far i have not found that. your crackerjack team of producers is on it. thank you, alex. we are about to be joined by andrew weizmann and bradley moss, who have this document that joyce vance has just been discussing with alex wagner and it is a filing clearly to delay this case. it makes the argument that house no foundation in law, that there is a bias in the prosecution, and because there is a bias i
know that on the first page of this filing the second paragraph mentions the historic landslide victory in the iowa caucuses yesterday. that is considered of legal import in this case by the trump lawyers in their filing tonight. i wonder if there s something about his inauguration crowd size on page 67. we ll see. i haven t read the whole thing, but so far i have not found that. your crackerjack team of producers is on it. thank you, alex. we are about to be joined by andrew weissmann and bradley moss, who have this document that joyce vance has just been discussing with alex wagner and it is a filing clearly to delay this case. it makes the argument that house no foundation in law, that there is a bias in the prosecution, and because there is a bias in the prosecution, a political bias, that there for the crime wasn t committed, in effect. the outline of this bias comes in the middle of this filing on page 42, no, 45, under the heading, special counsel coordination
you get a fair shake. why would i allow a hostile network and allow people that are polling at zero, polling at zero, one is zero with an arrow left. why would i allow people at 1 and 2% and 0% to be hitting me with questions all night. i don t think it s fair. that was former president donald trump s noncommittal answer on debating the other republican candidates because of their polling numbers when new data shows his own are starting to slip amid his federal indictment and the possibility of another indictment for january 6th coming this summer. the numbers are starting to slip, and you look at the people outside the hard core republican base, republicans and even independents leaning republican. you get outside of that to swing voters, to independents, to everybody else. something like 85% of those voters. i think he needs to drop out of the race right now. we ll have more on that ahead. also ahead, we re learning more about the plea deal for hunter biden as the
good to be with you. i m katy tur do not travel to russia. that is the message today from the state department and the white house reiterating that it is not safe right now for americans in that country. the white house says it is still trying to establish consular contact with evan gershkovich. he was arrested overnight. the 31-year-old reporter for the wall street journal said he was not spying, denying guilt in a court proceeding this morning. gershkovich is the first american journalist arrested on claims of spying since the cold war. matt bodner who was recently based is here to explain who gershkovich says they caught him doing red handed, and a former member of the biden inner circle to walk us through what the white house is likely doing behind the scenes as this marks what is considered a new low in the already ice cold relationship between moscow and washington joining me now from london for the reporting, nbc news reporter, matt bodner and mike memoli joins us as
see the crime scene for themselves. we ll have a live report from the courthouse in south carolina coming up. at least a dozen people hospitalized, but no deaths reported after tornadoes tear apart businesses and homes in central oklahoma. we ll have the latest on the storms that made million z miserable over the last 24 hours and the problems they left behind. first, the challenges to donald trump. ideologically, financially and organizationally, all ramping up. case in point, ron desantis is gathering for more than 150 donors, a huge event over the weekend held less than a ten-minute drive from former president trump s back yard. the event was described as, quote, part of desantis increasingly open encroachments into the former president s long-term support base and ideological turf. that s just the tip of the iceberg with the florida governor set to extend his campaign with a national book tour that launches tomorrow. we should be clear. right nou desantis is still a