good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. guilty a south carolina jury s come convicted former attorney alex murdaugh of killing his wife and son back in june of 2021. we ll have much more on all of that in a moment, but we are also following a key development in the efforts to hold donald trump accountable in the january 6th riot. a new justice department filing says trump can be held liable in a civil court for the actions of rioters at the capitol. doj rejected trump s claim of absolute immunity from civil lawsuits filed by police officers and members of congress. the department lawyers argued that protection goes away if a president uses words that are quote an incitement of imminent private violence. as a reminder, here is just some of what former president donald j trump said on that fateful day. we re gonna walk down to the capitol [applause] and we re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we re probably not gonna be cheering much
that protection goes away if a president uses words that are quote an incitement of imminent private violence. as a reminder, here is just some of what former president donald j trump said on that fateful day. we re gonna walk down to the capitol [applause] and we re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we re probably not gonna be cheering much for some of them. because you ll never take back our country with weakness. we fight like hell, and if you don t fight like hell, you re not gonna have a country anymore. what congresswoman, who is part of this lawsuit against donald trump, of course welcome the doj s decision today, and earlier she described what happened in the house when the capital was under siege. we had to try to put on our gas max and we were told we had to hit the floor we barely got out of the chambers before they came in. we almost did not get out of there. after january six, the officers on the front lines of the attack t
there s a signal to you that charges are on the horizon yes, it definitely does i don t think trump will g testify. he does not even provide emails, he will certainly not go to grand jury and start talking i do not expect him to come. i think brad will go o television i don t think that is proper i think you should stay in his office and work, but it does seem to me that and indictment there is imminent. there is a confluence of all these events is overwhelming right now. we have an indictment that may be coming out of new york. we have an indictment in fulto county that looks like it is coming we have the eeg carroll case which we tried and april, an we have the dominion suit whic has a lot to do with trump and lies it s an amazing legal avalanch on the shoulders of trump righ this minute. molly, we heard a familia refrain from donald trump, thi time on truth social, claiming
which is a blue state, and these people, this is political, and it has nothing to do wha what happened. remember, he has done this stormy daniels dance before. he has every different defense and he will say it never happened you will remember the most recent stuff that he is th denying it now i don t think it necessarily matters. i think his base is so dug in, that they will go along with anything cynthia, even if trump is indicted, convicting him o sending him to prison will b challenging for the a bragg. explain to us why this case is rather unique? well, first i would say i that probably to me, the mos important aspect of the case would be jury selection, because as molly says, as much about trump and even about - is baked in. people have their opinions and won t change picking a jury will be critical
constitution in a violent way, and we are fit the battlin around with some booker who go paid that is not what makes him s dangerous to the country so, while i think this case is part of the avalanche, to me because it has problems, i car deeply about what jack smith i doing much more and what i happening in georgia much more than this case you are right this is a former president tha has a potential indictment coming in from different place and different states, but molly, i want to go back to you t speak about michael cohen, who is trump s former fixer an went to prison for his role in this hush money scandal. this is what he had to say about the possibility of trump testifying knowing donald as well as i do, understand that he does no