So were going to do it the way we try to do it around here, which is with the facts and details first, and then well discuss them together. Todays proceeding began around 4 15 p. M. Eastern. Defendant trump was seated with his lawyers, just as he was during his last arraignment. You may recall. This is a sketch from that day in a Federal Court in florida. That was how he looked then. Todays arraignment adjourned so recently that we actually dont have those actual Court Sketches yet. We will get them and we will bring them to you on msnbc at whatever hour we get them. Lets put it like this when this year began, no former president had ever been indicted and arraigned. Tonight were reporting on Defendant Trumps third arraignment in four months. So he does know this process. Today he was digitally fingerprinted, submitted details like his birthday and Social Security number william a know that special counsel jack smith was in the courtroom because our reporters spotted him, seated roughl
Flatten. The currency move of the day is what is happening with the turkish lira. A huge move today. We will discuss that later on in the show. Because theres a war going on between the president and the central bank. The last 24 hours hasnt brought much certainty and who will govern germany. Chancellor merkels largest partners expressed no interest in coming together and she said she would rather have new elections they go forward without a majority. Matt miller has been covering each development and we welcome him from berlin. Bring us up to speed. What is going on . Matt you summed it up quite well. The key is she doesnt want to go forward without a majority. The form still prefer a Majority Coalition with either the ftp and the greens or with the std her Current Coalition partner. That seems so unlikely, the ftp having to walk out of Coalition Talks. The stp saying it is no way interested in prefers to stay in opposition. Now the president whom you see here is going to try and forc
To welcome them again. Were grateful that cspan is here. Im sure it has quite a bit to do with our next guest here, chairman pai, but were glad all of you, all of you are here. So in keeping chairman pai knows that i do this because hes been here before. Hes got an illustrious biography, i could go on and on and on about it, but weve got it in the brochure, for those of you who are in the cspan audience, our brochure is on the website, on the home page of the website. Its got fcc chairman ajit pais bio in it. So i commend that to you, but you know, i would just say, to state what everyone here knows, that chairman pai served as a commissioner prior to assuming the chairmanship of the fcc. How soon after the inauguration, was that two days later . It was on a monday, january 23rd, so about three days after. About three days, he was appointed by President Trump to be chair of the fcc. You know, what i will say about chairman pai is this, without going over each of the particular offices
[inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] again a brief break in the summit of bullying with the Education Department. While we wait for them to resume we will show you our Upcoming Program for this weekend on cspan2. Put tv on cspan two, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Here are here are some featured programs for this coming weekend on saturday at seven pm eastern, the Supreme Court of chief Justice Warren burger is the focus of the yellow Law School Lecturer the burger court and the rise of the judicial right. She speaks of politics and prose bookstore here in washington d. C. Then at 10 00 p. M. Eastern, after words with syndicated radio host dana lash. She argues that the u. S. Is splintering into two countries which she calls coastal america and flyover america in her book flyover nation. You cant run at country youve never been to print she is interviewed by guy benson, News Reporter and editor. It seems that in so many ways not just really so much
Ferguson to provide clear air space for those police helicopters. We start now inside ferguson. Weve got nbcs krcraig melvin. I know you were in the thick of things last night. This morning you had a ridealong with captain ron johnson. Tell us what the latest is there. I can tell you that officerinvolved shooting that happened in north st. Louis, thats about three miles from here. Word of that shooting not really affecting whats happening on the ground right here just yet. I dont know if word has necessarily travelled. That could also be because there are not really a lot of protesters yet. As you indicated there, captain johnson has called on those Peaceful Protesters to come out during the daylight to protest during daylight hours. I can tell you over the past few hours, weve seen very few protesters period. So it remains to be seen whether were going to start to see some of that happen. You mentioned the ride along. I spent about 90 minutes in the back of a patrol car with captain j