By Special Counsel jack smith. And then thursdays arraignment on the most grave case of all, this new indictment and arraignment for donald trump, the defendant, over his failed effort to overthrow democracy. We begin there tonight because we have a special for you tonight. Its called indicted the coup conspiracy. A detailed look into trumps failed coup plot with new reporting and context from that detailed Speaking Indictment this week. If youve been following this all really closely, so have we. Weve been working to bring you an even more indepth set of reports tonight. If you happen to be catching up after a long week, ive got a onestop shop for you on what really matters and what weve learned. And by the way, if you are a longtime viewer, i know some of you are, you might recall about a year ago, we broke down trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results along that grid, how his desperation and his plotting grew as all the legal challenges lost in court and he turned to plo
he s also asking the georgia supreme court to shut down district tierney fani willis s investigation into whether trump and its allies tried to overturn the 2020 election. in a filing yesterday in that case trump s legal team writes that allowing the georgia investigation to continue with cause, quote, reputational harm to the petitioner as he seeks his party s nomination for the presidency of the united states via a flagrant disregard for in violation of, his fundamental constitutional rights. and i spoke last night with congressman, jamie raskin, and about these increasingly desperate looking moose on the part of the trump team. listen to what he told me. you can t prosecute him when he is president, because he s president. you can t prosecute him after he sees president, because he is running for president. you can t impeach and convict him, they argued. you can t use the impeachment process because, really, he should be tried, they say. use the criminal statutes. but you
i m ari melber. we begin with breaking news. donald trump s federal trial is back on because this court is ruling against defendant trump today. they re green lighting the trial sought by special counsel jack smith. this spruling sets a precedent for holding a former president accountable. we have special coverage we ve been working on since this broke early on the east coast today. we start with the basics. you don t need to be a lawyer or constitutional scholar to understand this. the ruling rejects donald trump s very far-fetched arguments that his job history as president should mean he could never be arrested, indicted or tried for anything related to his time in office. trump s lawyers argued he should basically retain a kind of permanent immunity from the fact he used to be president. the court is rejecting that today. we re going to begin, like i said, with the clarity of this single spare sentence. quote, for the purpose of this criminal case, former president trump
place down near the situation room down below. the west executive entrance is closer to the situation room. it is also next to west executive drive, where for example, the vice president s vehicle was parked. ashley: we will bring the administration s latest excuse for dodging reporter questions. carley: did you hear this, brittney spears said she was backhanded by a security guard while trying to talk to wendy. how both are reacting this morning. you are watching fox and friends first s, i m carley shimkus. ashley: i m ashley strohmier. after haul nothing 35 million for second quarter fundraising. carley: white house hopeful ron desantis raking in $20 million as gop candidates look to gain momentum. alexandria is live with more. alexandria: in council bluff, iowa, this is the largest crowd he has seen. will take a hit from agricultural policy. here is what the trump campaign released. they said desantis has problematic policy position that hurt farmers and demon
in fact, just standby for a second as we reset this news right now, it is the top of the hour, we have a team of nbc joining us from tel aviv s matt bradley. josh latter man is in london, the chief international correspondent, keir simmons is in erbil iraq. aaron gilchrist staying with us from the white house, erin, i do want you to get as much as you can so feel free if you have to walk away to get that information. keir simmons, we were just talking about this, we have more information, about the breadth of the communication involved in this strike. i want you to give me your take on this. . is this an idea to just spread it, we ve got australia, bahrain, canada, denmark, the netherlands, new zealand, and the united states involved in what aaron has just told us we re now 36 targets in 13 locations in yemen. tonight was all about yemen, your take about that, here? it sounds like, doesn t it, a bigger operation, then we ve seen with regards to yemen so far. but that co