Alleged assassination plot against president zelenskyy. We begin this hour with a looming deadline for former president donald trump. His legal team has six hours to respond to Special Counsel jack smiths request to limit what trump can say about the ongoing 2020 election interference case. The request for a special order came after the doj said trumps social media posts could, quote, have a harmful, Chilling Effect on witnesses or adversely affect the Fair Administration of justice. The doj cited a post in which the former president wrote, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Campaign called the postpolitical speech and said it was meant for the former president s political adversaries, but just this morning, trump put out another set of posts attacking the Special Counsel calling on the judge presiding over the case to recuse yourself and accusing mike pence, former vp of disloyalty. Joining us now nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian and tali farh
indicted republican front runner is continuing to echo the language of adolf hitler, and brag about compliments from vladimir putin. so, that is pretty much where we are right now. donald trump said all of that new hampshire just over the weekend, where governor chris sununu just endorsed nikki haley. the governor is going to join me to talk about all of that later in the show. we are going to dig into some pretty wild new reporting about supreme court justice clarence thomas, and concerns that he would resign over his paycheck. i do want to start tonight with what i hope will be a bit of a sober reminder of where the american electorate sits right now. it is important for everyone to hear. this weekend, trump, once again, echoed dictators, praised autocrats, repeated racist language, and was still cheered on by a arenas packed with people who will cast their ballots and just over one month. during that speech on saturday, in new hampshire, trump, once again, said immigrant
johnson s team focusing this past year. advocating for increased taxes and social programs to combat that crime. here is what he had to say in his victory speech tuesday night. tonight is just the beginning, with our voices and votes we ve ushered in a new chapter in the history of our city. to chicagoans who did not vote for me, i care about you. i value you. and i want to hear from you. moderate democrat valpaul vallas gained endorsement of the police union. i ran to bring this city together and it is clear based on the results tonight that the city is deeply divided. tonight we believe every vote should be counted, i called brandon johnson and told him i expect him to be the next mayor of chicago. former mayor lori lightfoot applauding johnson s win saying, i congratulate brandon johnson on his hard-fought runoff victory. i will continue to root for the city i call home and work toward more equity and fairness. johnson will focus on issues like defunding the po
undemocratic than putting your political opponent in prison. the american people voted to put trump in power. then they voted to take that power away. and that s how things work in america. now that trump is running again a filthy d.a. rah sass sinating your right to vote. what s the crime? the indictment says under new york state law is a felony to falsify business records. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct coldcock an asian lady not serious. push into the subway not serious. make a error in a general ledger serious conduct. the thousands of businesses that put things in the wrong ledger don t they have to worry? no, why. because their owners aren t running for president. how is trump going to get a fair trial in new york? how can you going to pick a jury in how many jurors have no opinion on donald trump? who the is jury foreman rachel maddow. bragg doesn t understand this case he can t explain it. he says trump broke election law he did not put the
arraignment wraps inside that manhattan courtroom. as i said, that image you see on the right-hand side of your screens with the president and his attorneys as he sits at the defendant s table in the courtroom just moments ago. so obviously as we have said quite a bit today, but it s worth repeating, this is a historic moment. we have never seen this before in the united states of america. a former president under indictment, under arrest and now being charged with 34 counts of felonies. former attorney general bill barr is standing by with us, brit hume is also here to weigh-in momentarily. first we go to bryan llenas who is live at the courthouse where we expect shortly the president will be exiting soon. hi, bryan. hi, martha. that s exactly right. two big questions right now ahead of us. when will the former president come out. should be any moment. will he say anything to the cameras. what will he say now that he knows the charges. the second question is, knowing more