Republican candidate for president tried to overthrow the last election. Rachel maddow and Lawrence Odonnell join me live tonight then did he lose the 2020 election . Tim, i am focused on the future. That is a damning nonanswer. Senator Chris Murphy on the plan to subvert the selection. Plus, Original War as israel invades lebanon and my interview on the book. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I am chris hayes. 34 days out from the Election Voting has started in a number of states. The judge in Donald Trumps January 6 Special Counsel Case has unsealed a new Court Filing just this afternoon. In the filing, special Counsel Jack Smith outlines the details about why Donald Trump should be federally prosecuted for his attempted coup, so we have a special to show tonight. Im going to be joined in just a moment by Rachel Maddow and Lawrence Odonnell. The filing is hundred and 65 pages long. As prosecutors put it, when trump lost the 2020 president Ial El resorted to track c
Developments in Donald Trumps ongoing legal battles. In a newly unsealed brief in response to the supreme Courts President ial Immunity Ruling, special Counsel Jack Smith gives us the clearest view yet of his 2020 Election Interference Case against the former president. Smith asserts trump acted as a private candidate and not as president , when he tried to overturn the Election Results and resorted to crimes to stay in office. It also provides new evidence about Trumps Phone Usage and the conversations he had on the 6th Of January, as the riots were unfolding at the capitol. Quote, beginning at about 150. 30 p. M. the defendant settled in the Dining Room off of the oval office. He spent the afternoon there reviewing twitter on his phone, while the Dining Room television played Fox News contemporaneous coverage of events at the capitol. Citing testimony, the filing says that when trump was informed his Vice President had to be rushed to a secure location after trump attacked pence in h
Donald trumps efforts to target what he calls trumps desperate attempt to stay in office. Where do things go from here . Plus, Kamala Harris appealing to republican sense of History And Tradition as she tries to convince them to cast their vote for her. How the Location Today and the woman who will be campaigning alongside her could help her make her case. Just hours ago, israel expanding Evacuation Warnings to nearly two dozen more towns across southern lebanon. How the people on both sides are now bracing for this wider war. A lot to get to. We start with Jack Smith. The Trial Wont be until after election day. To do that, Jack Smith has to convince the judge that trump was acting as a candidate, not the president , and orchestrated a criminal scheme to hold on to power meaning the Supreme Courts recent ruling on president ial immunity should not apply. The following is full of examples. Smith argues trumps conversations with Vice President pence were in their private capacity as Runn
State of michigan saying, quote, make them riot. The Question Today beyond the Damming Narrative is whos listening. Joining us now, nbc News Correspondent Garrett haake whos in university center, michigan, for us, and nbc News Justice Reporter ryan reilly. I know the former president will be where you are, garrett, in a moment. Im going to start with ryan. As i said, ryan, the story here is not new. We know what Donald Trump tried to do around the 2020 election. We saw it happen in realtime. We had the January 6th hearings. There have been filings up until this point, a lot of them. But this new 165 Court Filing from Jack Smith gives us some more detail, more color, more insight into Donald Trumps State Of Mind in particular. What stood out to you, was there anything that was particularly damming . Personally, i think the volume of evidence of spreading lies stood out to me. That was going to be the challenge of this case. In 2020, i jokingly referred to this as the question of bad Fai
So much for joining us. Ac360 begins right now 360, just 33 days before the 2024 election, the judge on sealed jack smith, hundred and 65, page argument for why donald trump should still face charges for trying to overturn the last one. We ll tell you what s new and whether or not his revised case might survive the supreme court challenge also tonight, john king all over the map talking young voters in michigan whose ties, the middle east could determine their vote. And with the race so close, perhaps tip the election. And later gary tuchman walking some of the worst hit parts of hurricane helene s path of destruction, or even almost a week later, the only way in its by air or on foot good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin with breaking news in the case of conservative supreme court majority put on hold, if not on ice, late today. Judge tanya chutkan unsealed. Special counsel, jack smith s argument for reviving the election interference case against donald trump. Now smith as re