by this time tomorrow, donald trump will have retaken the stand at his new york civil fraud case. how big a gamble it is this far into the trial? plus, about last night, something happened that is raising questions about donald trump blurring political and legal lines. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we re begin with breaking news. a tornado and some devastation in tennessee. at least six people are dead, including two children after severe storms tore across the south. those powerful tornadoes ignited fire, snapping power lines, and destroying homes. at least two dozen people have been injured, and power is slowly being restored to thousands of customers. the threat is not over as the same system is moving east. today, millions in the southeast and mid-atlantic face more severe weather. torrential rain, and heavy winds definitely expected. flooding is likely. some places will get snow, and
one best served cold. that s tonight on news night. good evening. the former president s to-do list if he s elected again is looking more autocratic than democratic, more vengeance than governance. how do we know that? well, his own words. item number one, revenge. the washington post reports that he and his allies are plotting to take control of the justice department to punish his perceived enemies. this includes president biden and his former officials from john kelly to bill barr. it s something that trump also admits out loud. if i happen to be president and i see somebody who s doing well and beating me very badly, i say go down and indict them. mostly that would be you know, they would be out of business. they d be out of the election. he floated the death penalty for retired chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley. item number two, he s planning to purge the government of employees to install his own loyalists. axios reported that 50,000 worker
special counsel, to be frank, it s a cooler job with more sponsor billet-y. special attorney, all it means is that every cop show your ever seen where someone tells an officer you operating outside your jurisdiction. special attorney has the right to do that. washington d. c. , including l. a. , there was a possibility he might into do that, he is saying, look, i make sure i had authority do that. but i never asked to be special counsel. the bigger issue here is that republicans are knocking on the door of supporting testimony. this is courtroom trilogy one-on-one. you don t throw somebody up on the same without being clear on whether or not what they are saying is truthful. so when you have got someone saying, hey, the investigative wasn t allowed to do his job
special attorney, not as special counsel. can you explain to us the difference? absolutely. this is a minor difference. the difference between special counsel and special attorney. special counsel, to be frank, it s a cooler job with more sponsor billet-y. special attorney, all it means is that every cop show your ever seen where someone tells an officer you operating outside your jurisdiction. special attorney has the right to do that. washington d.c., including l.a., there was a possibility he might into do that, he is saying, look, i make sure i had authority do that. but i never asked to be special counsel. the bigger issue here is that republicans are knocking on the door of supporting testimony. this is courtroom trilogy one-on-one. you don t throw somebody up on the same without being clear on whether or not what they are saying is truthful. so when you have got someone saying, hey, the investigative wasn t allowed to do his job
mother who was shot and killed by a neighbor, and you criticize so-called stand-your-ground laws. there were such laws in 24 states when your son, jordan davis, was killed in 2012, because his music was too loud. those stand-your-ground laws are now in 38 states. what does this say about the direction our country is headed in, or is in, and why do you believe this is happening? well, it s a sad state of affairs when we are loosening our gun restrictions. of course, the stand-your-ground laws were derivative of the castle doctrine that you have the billet-y to be able to protect your home, or protect the confines of work. but loosening, the loosening of those restrictions is a standard brows was, which basically releases you from a duty to retreat. and so there again, you look at the impact that the gun manufacturers, the gun lobby have on the ability to loosen