Court for the donald trump legal team, who won, who lost, and the comments the judge made that the former president might not want to hear. Also, a former army officer who was an adviser to the Trump Administration explained why his blood ran cold after reading jack smiths latest indictment. Plus, the Vice President talks exclusively to msnbcs Reverend Al Sharpton amid new revelations about her role in the 2024 campaign. Campaign. As i bid you all a very good day from msnbc World Headquarters in new york, welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. Were beginning this hour with some staggering the numbers. About the wildfires of this devastated murray this past week. The math now says it will cost five and a half billion dollars to be built from hawaiis governor says. We will likely be the worst Natural Disaster in the states history. So, he comes as many residents return to assess whats left, if anything, of their homes. Officials say more than 2200 buildings were destroyed. That majorit
that that is why there is in the insurrection act. professor eastman, sometimes violence is necessary to preserve the republic. it is clear that the endgame here is intended to be a military would intended to go into the protests. chance in your question, it would be a legally order given for an immoral purpose. it would ve put our generals untenable purpose of breaking the unbroken tradition to civilian authority or turning their guns on american citizens. they were understandably. you wrote him being unthinkable position. how would this have played out? i think as a practical matter every military officer that i now would ve refused to follow the order however there shouldn t have been a disagreement between units able
have asked federal troops to put down protests over stolen action could trump have legally used troops against citizens lawfully protesting alex, alarming is the word. the insurrection act of 1807 gives the president great authority to use federal armed forces to reestablish order in the states if the federal laws are not being enforced. for example, if the federal courts are unable to operate. two paragraphs in the indictment set out that professor john eastman, who is the academic behind the false theory that vice president pence could refused electoral votes, assistant secretary general wanted to make assistant general were both warned that there could be riots in every major city in america if the election was decided on an unconstitutional basis. assistant general clark replied
through there and say, this is what i need to know, and so they mean that he literally can t even write something down? you can write something down but before he is finished, they need, before he leaves that room, his lawyers need to look at it and make sure that he didn t indicate any personal identifying information that would be in violation of this order. and that s is a fairly extraordinary that the former president of the united states cannot be trusted to take notes and not violate the court order. he also can t bring in a device, any device, whether it s a cell phone and that specific mentioned in the order, or any other device that is capable of copying we re taking a photograph of the materials. so, the bottom line here is, not only does the government in its motion for these kinds of provisions and a protective order making clear they don t trust donald trump, but the judge agreed. and again, i don t think that s
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