doing here, which is really trying to paint the picture of america of the country that never existed. and they do that in order to justify the inequality we see in america today. nikole hannah jones, thank you so much for your time and amazing writing and reporting. really appreciate it. that is our show for tonight. way too early with jonathan lemire is coming up next. you don t look like a guy who s concerned about two indictments. i m not concerned. we have real legit, very corrupt people running our country. congress, if you will please investigate the political witch hunts against me currently being brought by the corrupt doj and fbi who are totally out of control. two very different versions of donald trump yesterday with a second federal indictment looming over the former president. we ll have an update on his growing legal troubles in just a moment. meanwhile, house speaker kevin
hello, donald trump, and his attempt to get a gun permit without disclosing which you think would make him a hero to the gun fetish crowd. but that doesn t matter to kevin mccarthy, who would do anything, crawl on his belly, do a head stand at mar-a-lago while marjorie taylor greene throws peaing at him, whatever it takes. and to actually run the republican caucus. at this point greene and lauren boebert, perhaps the two most embarrassing members of the house have actually had a screaming match on the house floor over who gets to file articles of impeachment against biden fist. and then george santos tweeted impeach biden now, because, yeah. but what this really tells us is trump s de facto legal team, aka the house republican caucus is running out of ways to defend him. they ve already tried gaslighting the country into thinking he has never done anything illegal and january 6th wasn t really an insurrection. they blamed trump s self-imposed legal troubles on the weapons inspection of
but now at age 77, he is facing a situation that he cannot talk his way out of, with no powerful dad to bail him out and no roy cohn to fix his legal peril. and according to people who know him, donald trump is afraid he could actually wind up in prison linebacker his oath keepers and proud boy supporters. perhaps orange jumpsuit trump may be a more apt addition to the next series of his digital trading cards. with nowhere else to turn, he is now relying on his loyal followers in congress, like speaker mike kevin to somehow save him. congress, if you will, please investigate the political witch hunts against me currently being brought by the corrupt doj and fbi who are totally out of control. under mccarthy s leadership, they may try, but it will do trump no good as he faces jack smith s multiple investigations. plus those current and possible prosecutions in new york and
meetings with the former president where he tried to convince them to corrupt doj s mission, to advance false claims of fraud. the most telling detail here, andrea it s very interesting is that the notes reflect that the acting attorney general told the former president point-blank that he wouldn t use the justice department to change the outcome of the election. in other words, the election that president biden had won. trump s response wasn t that he had won the election and he needed doj to pursue that. he said, just this word echos throughout trump s practice over the years. as long as there s an investigation ongoing, i can run with that. that s what he asked for. he asked for doj to say there was an investigation into fraud. that s powerful evidence in front of a jury. jurors will be asked to infer trump s state of mind if he is indicted from his conduct.
his attorneys, publically defending him, saying anything he might be charged with had to do with his job as president. therefore, it has no bearing on any criminal activity. no news on target letters still. we have not heard of any other individuals connected with this getting target letters. we haven t reported any. i haven t seen any other news organization reporting it. as for trump s team, they are having a field day with this. when we go on indictment watch in the media, they raise a ton of money. it s part of the reason trump was tried to scoop the new york district attorney. it s the reason he posted about the indictment in the documents case, about the target letter here. the minute he does that, he starts posting and suggests that ron desantis is colluding with the doj. they are using this to fuel their campaign.