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
Somebody was posting ads online saying that they wanted to fulfill this rape fantasy. Everything pointed to her husbands acts. They said, were going to take you into custody. Your carson. Rated for potentially the rest of my life. Hiding behind the threats was a cyber secret. Even. Something the devil might do. Who was the real double . Dea in this case would use the word diabolical. I think hes close to the mark. Hello. Welcome to dateline. Michelle hadley seem to have it all. Olympic normally, solid education, what the opportunities and support to help her fulfill the promises of youth. Now, she had a fiancee she was crazy about. Her life was about to be turned upside down. Here is Dennis Murphy what diabolical. Locked in the cage. The shrieks of wind and howling in the night. This isnt real. Its something we see in the movies. It doesnt happen in real life. How did a selfdescribed goody tissue, disney princess, he swept away innocent conspiracy so convoluted, so twisted . This is on
Latest on our top story. Jon, the 11 russian chinese warships near alaska represent the largest combined armada from both countries to ever sail so close to the United States and history. The pentagon says there is no interaction within the u. S. Military assets. General keane spoke earlier offer the following warning progress china has considerably warships vent our navy does they have more airplanes, they have more missiles we have got to catch up we have to move with a sense of urgency. Quickly u. S. Navy dispatch for warships in a pa Reconnaissance Plane to shatter the russian and chinese Flotilla Course the u. S. Military routinely does the same thing to both russia and china sailing warships and sending spy planes near both countries while keeping just outside territorial waters but we call that chinese Fighter Jet Buzz the u. S. Air force wsrc 135 Reconnaissance Plane in the South China Sea back in may wasnt exactly sightseeing russians and chinese are just returning the favor w
That, in fact, donald trump did attempt to hold up a constitutional proceeding. Yeah. He admitted that last week. Yesterday, he admitted that he violated the constitution of the United States. Just a technical violation of the United States constitution. Pretty bizarre. He violated the constitution. I mean, the admissions keep rolling. Yeah. Keep him was this a full ginsberg . He was on a lot of the sunday shows trying to own the narrative. Meanwhile, the former president himself spent the weekend raging on social media, and this could get interesting, with posts that could defy the judges orders. Remember the directions the judge gave him at his arraignment . Well get legal analysis on that new development. Also ahead, one of trumps allies in the senate makes light of the humiliating nature of his relationship with the former president. Plus, republican senator Tommy Tuberville has held up crucial Military Promotions since february over the pentagons abortion policy. His Unprecedented
A protective order after the former president lashes out online. Plus, niger ignores the president s airspace back in power. And against the odds how a man survived more than 30 hours in sharkinfested waters thats after a wave wiped out his boat. Good morning, and welcome to our viewers in the u. S. And around the world, im rahel sol solomon. Lets start here, Donald Trumps tours have in the afternoon to meet a deadline in this alleged attempts to overturn the election. And that will limit what he says during discovery. And the judge has ordered trumps side to respond to that request. This is all part of ans indicating back and forth that included trump making threats and insults at the Justice Department saturday night. I will direct a completely very, very powerful overhaul of the doj. Were not going to have cowards, were not going to have cowards like bill barr. Virtually every poll, were kicking bidens ass. If i wasnt, we wouldnt be under investigation by deranged jack smith. Hes a