So good to see you again. When this all happened last night, i thought of many things, but i did think of you, and ill tell you why. Its evidence related. You have used your knowledge, your program over the many months of this to talk about how initially it was pretty clear that the Justice Department was not going beyond the events of that day, and you and i talked about that. Other reporters have weighed in, and im curious even though i know you have been talking about it for two hours how you think we got here. Because what we saw in this indictment that i thought was both strong, gripping and bad for the indicted donald trump, was how long and repeatedly they tried to end democracy in america. Yeah, the indictment is so harrowing, and i think that jack smith was at this for just ten months, obviously he built on all of the good work of the committee. I have learned that things are never as clean as what they appear, and we dont always have all the facts before them. But i think the
President at the United States. The only person who could possibly have told jack smith and The Grand Jury about those phone calls is mike pence. The january Six Committee invited mike pence to testify, but he refused. The january Six Committee did not bother to issue a statement to mike pence since they knew he would ignore it, just as some other elected republicans ignored subpoenas from the committee. Mike pence could not ignore jack smiths subpoena. Mike pence went to court in what he knew was a legally hopeless attempt to block jacks mitt subpoena. Mike pence went to court to try to show trumps quarters, whose votes he wants in the president ial campaign to think that he was forced by Judicial Process to testify to jack smiths grand jury. Mike pence did not just testify to jack smiths grand jury. He became the star witness, and he will be the start witness when the case that the United States of america versus Donald J Trump is presented to a trial jersey in washington, d. C. They
The special coverage. He is of course innocent until Proven Guilty and he will and should mount a robust defense against these charges, and he should be acquitted if he didnt do what he is accused of. But if the allegations made by the Justice Department in this indictment are proven, if the former president did what he is accused of, history is going to ask a different question of this time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convict some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Where actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a ser
Bolton. Later, trumps trial judge, tanya chutkan, what we know about the sentences shes already given other january 6th defendants. And ukraine, a remarkable rescue. A ukrainian soldier saved with the help of a drone, which delivered medical supplies and water. Good evening. Tomorrow the former president of the United States will make his second appearance in a Federal Court as an alleged felon. The first was in miami in the documents case. Until donald trump in the 234 years since George Washington has held the office, no holder of the office has had to do that once. Tomorrow, the 44th president since washington will enter a Federal Courthouse in washington, just a short walk from the capitol. Hell be asked by a federal magistrate to plead to four counts in an indictment. An effort that special counsel jack smith said yesterday was, quote, fuelled by lies. And criminal or not, there were plenty of those lies. The indictment identifies 21 separate lies the former president told, lies a
Is immune from prosecution. We will be airing the full audio of the arguments starting live at 10 00 a. M. During the arguments trump himself will be sitting if for the third day of testimony. Tomorrow night is a bonanza. Well have special coverage of both trump trials led by my colleague Rachel Maddow starting at 8 00 p. M. Do not miss it. Now it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Just when we thought the big news from arizona today was the House Of Representatives repealing the 1864 bill, we now have 11 republicans in arizona indicted. It is 7 00 p. M. In arizona right now. Alex. And theres 11 indicted Fake Electors there who may be struggling. Maybe thinking about . What they want for dinner. Maybe thinking about what they should do in the medium term. Maybe thinking not be on the stand. Maybe being witnesses for the prosecution maybe. Maybe, just maybe. And we all discovered tonight that in arizona law, coconspirator is written without a hyphen. Never seen that befor