argued in court today that trump could send seal team six to kill a political opponent and absent unofficial impeachment conviction there s nothing the u.s. criminal justice system could do about any of that. it is a shocking position to take. especially when you consider the number of times trump has toyed with the idea of killing his political rivals. accusing general mark milley of treason. punishable by death. encouraging a mob as it rallied to hang vice president mike pence. announcing that he could shoot someone, anyone, on fifth avenue. so, history happened here in this courtroom. maybe some prognostication to. president trump was in the courtroom today, just feet away from special counsel jack smith. trump was surrounded by his lawyers and buy his body men, walt nauta, who is of course trump s codefendant in the mar-a-lago documents case. by all accounts, the judges here appeared more receptive to
encouraging a mob as it rallied to hang vice president mike pence. announcing that he could shoot someone, anyone, on fifth avenue. so, history happened here in this courtroom. maybe some prognostication to. president trump was in the courtroom today, just feet away from special counsel jack smith. trump was surrounded by his lawyers and buy his body men, walt nauta, who is of course trump s codefendant in the mar-a-lago documents case. by all accounts, the judges here appeared more receptive to the prosecutions arguments, but trump and his lawyers may not really have been there to convince the judges anyway. for them, the point may have been the hearing itself. delaying trump s criminal trial, even if it meant explaining the hypothetical immunity and sending commandoes to assassinate your political rivals. joining me now is former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official chuck rosenberg. also with me is former senior adviser to president obama and co-host of pod save america,
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moan of mike pence, what he would have said about donald trump. how it fits together, and who will be the targeting, including trump himself. that is still a huge question. so a lot of unknowns still. allison? katelyn, thank you for sorting through that so we don t have to. i want to bring in my panel. joe pinion, and max rose, and missy maris is back with us. let s just break it down. first, the classified documents. everyone is familiar with that case. walt nada is one of the president s body men, one of his top aides and involved. and there is information that the prosecutors that they have given them a list of people they cannot speak to. does it include each other?