from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin with two major developments both of which could impact the election interference cases against donald trump. first up, we have the supreme court rejecting the special counsel s request for an early review of clumps claims that he should be immune from facing prosecution. a newly discovered recording of trump pressuring michigan election officials not to certify the 2020 election. we are going to go right now to nbc s erin gilchrist here that the white house fourth. aaron, welcome. what does this mean for trump in the cases against him? alex, to potential impacts. hear this phone call could turn into damning evidence in one of the four cases against trump. now at the same time the supreme court could be just the kind of speed bumps the trump legal team could be looking for. reporter: the setback for government lawyers trying to fast-track the prosecution of former president do
banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. a hearing is set for friday. and arizona trump supporter who bay the target of conspiracy claims on fox news suing the network for defamation. he says tucker carlson made him a january 6 scapegoat. and still ahead for us, a secret briefing later today about the cocaine found at the white house. and tomato turmoil. right now in india, why the red vegetable suddenly costs so much green. i like that. we ll be right back. uuuhhhh... here, i ll take that! woohoo! ensure max protetein, 30 grams of protein, 1 gramam of sugar. enter the $10,00000 powered by protetein max challenge. meet gold bond healing. a powerhouse lotion that moisturizes, heals, and smooths dry skin. with 7 moisturers and 3 vitamins, you can pay more but you can t get more. gold bond. champion yr skin.
after the fact, but nothing tells the score quite like what a person was doing in saying back at the time and now we have mccarthy on tape. um-hum. ryan nobel under uncovered the texts between scott perry to mark med ohos after the 2020 election that show him pushing to have the nay nation s top intel official investigate the conspiracy claims. including this text on november 12th and i quote here. it says, from an intel friend dni needs to task nsa to immediately seize and begin looking for international comms related to kmin onwas china malware involved. everything he proposed in the texts is wrong or illegal. why. tell us more. yeah, scott perry doesn t have the profile of a kevin mccarthy. but boy, oh boy, the things he is asking people to do are really extreme here. he is asking to seize voting machines. he is floating the crazy theory
these defendants. 17 of them some of them, individuals some of them, organizations designated as hate groups. and while the jury did, you know, hold them accountable for millions when you add it all up, they did deadlock on two major claims. one of those, being conspiracy to commit racially-motivated violence. - the other one, failing to prevent that conspiracy. however, the jurors, at the end of the day, they did find that these defendants were responsible for four other claims, including state conspiracy claims. and in addition to that, subjecting plaintiffs to racial and religious racial and religious harassment. this verdict sends a very clear message that violent hate won t go unanswered. that there will be very serious consequences for this sort of extremist violence we saw here four years ago. reporter: and, erin, when you look at things in terms of what ended up happening here, you
letting him respond to our editorial. we offer the same courtesy to others we recognize even when they make allegations that are falls. as for the media, they diminished mr. trump and did nothing to diminish his credibility. this is bull. they have more credibility in refuting mr. trump. if you can ignore, if you can ignore the sort of virtue signaling to the most hard core trump readers on the quote, russia hoax collusion thing and you can ignore the media bashing at the top which you find in the heart of that editorial of deep-boning donald trump s conspiracy claims. they go state by state and they point out the fact that yes, and i agree what the pennsylvania