people in the world. we don t use them. we re going to use our smartest and our best. we re not using political hacks anymore. that s the people that do these deals. they re political hacks. we want experts our finest people. we don t want people that are b-level, c-level, d-level. we have to get our absolute best trump hired all the best people, now many of those same people, his former attorney general, defense secretary, national security adviser, and others say he endangered national security. also tonight, new reporting seems to answer the question as to why it took so long for the justice department to begin an investigation into trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election. plus, republicans loyalty pledge they re basically asking all of the presidential candidates to support trump if he s nominated again, and probably pardon him, too. i m jason johnson in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with justice delayed. today, of course, is juneteenth. marking the day i
busy news night. joy reid picks up next. tonight on the reidout give me a name. white supremacists. who would you like me to condemn. proud boys, stand back and stand by. as we await a verdict in the proud boys trial, how january 6th continues to be a drag on the republican party. as their likely nominee, donald trump, continues to quite literally embrace insurrectionists. also tonight, the sorry state of the right-wing supreme court majority. and the questions their actions raise about the credibility of the court. and actor and comedian john leguizamo will be here right hire on set with me to discuss his new series, leguizamo does america. very, very excited about that. but we begin tonight still awaiting a verdict in the trial of five members of the far right extremist group the proud boys. for their role in the violent attack on the u.s. capitol on january 6th. all five including the group s former leader enrique tarrio are charged with seditious con
tonight on the reidout so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. turns out that wasn t the only call trump made to try to overturn his georgia defeat. with criminal charges possibly coming soon in georgia and new york, we need to talk about why the justice department is taking a back seat to those investigations plus, newly released january 6th video clearly refutes tucker carlson s phony narrative about the supposedly peaceful tourists january 6th committee member adam schiff joins me i ll also be joined by the journalist who was fired after privately calling out the desantis administration for propaganda and wait until you hear the scathing response from princess diana s brother after donald trump claimed she and the other royals used to kiss his big old bum. but we begin the reidout tonight with what is considered the most difficult element to prove in a criminal case, int
he will respond to nothing most vile racist attacks against himb . guess what?al fromk the media mob at nbc latt ,we have a full report on china s petulant saber rattling during speaker pelosi s trip to our ally taiwan. siand back here at home, we are learning shocking details about speakerg pelosi s husband, paul pelosi. his recent arrest. j it wasn t just drinking. apparently drugs were involved. wewe the details coming up. but first, breaking right now is nine o clock on the east coast and six o clockck on the west coast. that means more polls are c closed in arizona, michigan, kansas and missouri. na,and voting still underway in the state of washington at the very latest at the biger board himself as our own prepare. but a lot of big primaries tonight. yeah, five of o you ve gotna arizona, kansas, michigan, missouri and washington. sean,nsas, a lot of action happg around the country. let s start in the governors races, michigan, that republican primary to take on . gretch
National security, surprise. Trumedly sharing secrets about u. S. Nuclear submarines to a Maralago Club member after he left office. Trump revealing, quote, how many Nuclear Warheads the vessels carried and how close they could get to their russian counterparts without being detected. Tr telling these secrets to an australia Billionaire Business than anthonypratt. Pratt told scores of others including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and handful ja smiths team has already interviewed pratt as part of their vestation, making pratt, quote, among more than 80 people whom prosecutors have identified as possible witnesses to testify against trump. This bombshell was not included in the trump indict, which suggests jack smith has a lot more evidence than whats been made public so far. Smith is likely to use trumps own history against him. In 2017, trump gave up highly Classified Information to the Russian Foreign minister in the oval office. Trump later twee