Him convicted came out of his mouth. This is a very sad day for america. Donald trump has never respected this country. He said this country was trash and garbage. The filth and the decay. And now he wants to lead it again. None of this is normal. This is our life now. After that i think we need to start tonight with a deep breath. Good evening once again, im stephanie ruhle. Americas 45th president , Donald John Trump returned to washington, d. C. Today as a criminal defendant. Trump appeared in federal court for his third arraignment since april, this time pleading not guilty to seeming to over the 2020 president ial election. This afternoon, trump traveled from his bedminster, new jersey home to the d. C. Courthouse just blocks from the capitals few blocks from the scene of the january 6th riot. Some protesters gathered inside but, they were over numbered by the media. Jack smith was there and seated just ten feet away from the former president. After trump pleaded not guilty, the j
To shield the first family from wrongdoing. He has an opportunity to come tomorrow to the House Oversight committee and tell the truth. He has an opportunity to be a hero like the two whistleblowers were, like the judge in delaware was who rejected the Sweetheart Plea Deal from the department of justice. Devon archer could be in that category of americans that just come and tell the truth. Thats all we want. There you go. And in an oddlytimed move this weekend, the Justice Department sent a letter pushing for archer to report to prison right away. [laughter] i wonder why . So who is devon archer . Lucas tomlinson has that from the white house tonight. Reporter well, good evening, tammy. Devon archer is expected to offer new details tomorrow morning about meetings he claims he witnessed where both hunter and his father attended together either in person or over the phone. On sunday morning futures, the republican chairman of the House Oversight committee claims the Justice Department is
Welcome back to the weekend, folks. Were here, and House Speaker mike johnson is proving he is actually really good at one thing. Kicking that can down the road. Congress now has another week to avoid a partial government shutdown. But none of this is normal, and we cannot say that enough. If congress was actually functioning like it should, this would have been a done deal back in september. So, joining us have to discuss this and all other things happening with the governments Transportation Secretary pete buttigieg. Secretary buttigieg, welcome to the program. You are still in washington, d. C. Your colleagues on capitol hill, most of them, have gone home. Theres a chance that were gonna be here this weekend, figuring out if they can continue to fund the government. They kick the can down the road. They bought themselves about a week. Can you just give us a sense form your Vantage Point of what is at stake with the government operating in this way, with Congressional Republicans con
and the case and expose them to threats. in a legal filing split on thursday, smith said cannon applied the wrong legal standard when she ordered the unsealing of documents and she needed to reconsider to prevent manifest injustice, endangering witnesses by revealing their identities. well, late last night, after reading that motion, canyon road smith needs to hand over documents anyway, and again, but today. we have several correspondents and analysts in place covering today s new developments for you. joining me now we have katie phang, an attorney and host of the proceeding show, the katie phang show here on msnbc. and investigator for the january 6th. katie, bring us up to speed on what this dispute between cannon and smith is all about. there are certain parts of the discovery process to happen in a criminal case and during the discovery process, there is and change of information. in fact mar-a-lago, because it s a classified documents case, it s governed by somet
again. attorneys for colorado plaintiffs say this is an easy call. donald trump is disqualified today. he was disqualified on january six, 2021, when he engaged in that he. disqualified himself under our constitution. it s not our plaintiffs who are seeking to do that. trump of course appealed the colorado decision, sending it to the supreme court. trump himself is not expected to attend tomorrow s arguments, which are expected to last at least 80 minutes. this is the most consequential case for a presidential election since bush v. gore, get ready to feel old, 24 years ago. and right now americans opinion of the supreme court is historically low. meanwhile and on trump s other legal cases, his attorneys say they want to get the charges against him dropped in the mar- a-lago classified documents case. in georgia the attorneys are going after fulton county d. a. fani willis. they argue she should be disqualified and trump s charges should be dismissed because she brought u