mifepristone, first, federal judge in texas invalidates the drugs fda approval, hours later, a judge s ruling in anothe case, saying the opposite. that abortion rights advocat leans in on what the dueling rulings mean, for women access to potentiall lifesaving care. plus, the case against donal trump. we ll dig into the facts behin those 34 felony counts acros falsifying business records, i new york and where the histori prosecution goes from here i am symone sanders-townsend and i have something to say. 136,378 people in tennessee ar now without representation i their own state house, all thanks to the action of th republican majority. yeah, this week republican lawmakers in tennessee, treate the second memo with mor reverence than the very bedroc of the republic they claim t love i m talking about democrac itself as parents students and legion of other everyday tennessean s demonstrated against gun violence, passionately but peacefully, at the state capital last week
set of discovery materials t trump s defense team, includin grand jury minutes, exhibits and notes of witness statements joining me now to discuss, kathryn christian, she s a former manhattan distric assistant district attorney, she s also an nbc news and msnbc legal analyst. anthony coley is back with us, he s a former chie spokesperson for the justice department catherine, i m gonna start wit the 34 felony counts the falsification of busines records, it s a felony in ne york, when it s done to concea another crime. does the ea brag have to prove what those are the crimes are? well, he has to, if you r saying that he actually afte name what they are, no he has to show that there wa an intent to commit or conceal he actually did, during hi press conference, if you rea the statement of facts, hint a if not explicitly that he envisioning in new york stat
records. you re saying you ve got record to stand out. they have a record to stand on alvin record alvin bragg has a record are there any consequence for these pressure campaigns which frankly, i view them a intimidation tactics, to intimidate the da brig in doin his work are there any consequences for republican, government officials, participating i that not that i know of. here s what i suspect will happen, and we saw this little in the aftermath of the hearing on tuesday that the judge made clear, he not going to put a gag order o donald trump right now but he made clear, he watching and some of the rhetoric tha we have seen, certainly, leading into this hearing, i think donald trump is on watch all right, well, he is on watch. catherine, i think one of th things that i ll be watching for, going forward, whethe
donald trump s legal team will request a change of venue fo the trial. do you think we have a shot at moving this trial somewher else well, they ll request it. they re not going to have a win, that s my prediction in new york, the request is motion that s made before an appellate court. the appellate court in manhattan, we ll be hearin that motion. and we ll decide it. and in my opinion, it won win. it has to be, there is a tidal wave of negative publicity, an this is not someone who is unknown. he is, and quite frankly, th publicity, he s generating himself. i don t envision that they l win it, they will certainl make the motion, which wil cause a little bit more delay, i don t think they ll be successful all right, catherine, anthony told me when we sa down on set, you are actuall on deadline white house this week reading some of the agree just tweets that you hav gotten and we just wanted to take time to give you your flowers on the air here, we ar
okay, so, anthony, afte this, we saw the arraignment house republicans they jum back in, they had something to say. and we saw that they sent subpoena to the former new yor specialist, as a detective attorney, marc pomerantz mark pomerantz, he was investigating donald trump, he resigned, and then he wrote book so, what do you think hous republicans are up to here do you think mark pomerantz is gonna show up? a couple things, i ll b adjusted to hear catherine s thought on the mark pomerant pete as well, monk pomerantz should not have written a book he should not have engaged i public conversations about the work of the district attorney office he, quite frankly, should be held accountable by th appropriate ortiz. having said that, simone, i from the south, so tell me there s strong words. two colloquial, two wrongs don t make a right on the other side of the coin, you have jim jordan, who