Opening statements begin on monday. And according to the judge, quote, this trial is starting. So long we have been using the word erosion on trumps institutions and americas faith in them f. This weeks spectacle showed us any, the term erosion the flow of water, slow and steady, might be under stating the immediate danger. We should think of the harm done to the structure of our democracy like a tidal wave, Flash Flooding possible. Try as we might to board up the windows to be kept from being swept away there is damage more and more every second. Some jurors so frightened or intimidated from doing their basic civic duty that some were moved to tears in the courthouse as they were today for fear of retaliation. You can see it in the way the disgraced president lies in the case and the way everyone is in if. He conditioned his followers to Distrust Anything and everything outside the sealed mega bubble. The Executive Director of protect democracy described it to us like this. I think pe
right now on andrea mitchell reports, breaking news across capitol hill. a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling the presidents of elite universities on the carpet over their response to a spike in anti-semitism on college campuses. what is it about the way that you hire faculty and approve curriculum that s allowing your campuses to be infected by this intellectual and moral rot? leadership matters. you are leaders. in academia, at your institutions as well. new grave warnings from fbi director chris wray over domestic and foreign threats to the homeland, surging since the start of the israel/hamas war and a push to reauthorize a controversial surveillance tool. as the threats from foreign adversaries to our homeland continue to evolve, the agility and effectiveness of 702 will be essential to the fbi s ability really our mandate from the american people to keep them safe for years to come. also this hour, nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel live from
including a husband. former president jimmy carter. and that is tonight s read out. inside with jen psaki starts now. i starts now. today something pretty extraordinary happened in the courtroom here in washington. lawyers for donald trump and lawyers from the special counsel s office former president should and should not be allowed to say what the criminal case against. the focus of this hearing was the limited gag order on trump. but when you take a step back, you can see that it was about much more than that. it was about how far the first amendment really should go. and how it should be applied to a former president who is also a criminal defendant, who is also a candidate for the presidency once again. the leading one at that. former general counselor for the arts stephensburg handled some very novel legal cases in his day. but never won like this. i am going to ask him all about it in just a moment. and as a new concerns about trump s ability to incite violence
today something pretty extraordinary happened in the courtroom here in washington. lawyers for donald trump and lawyers from the special counsel s office former president should and should not be allowed to say what the criminal case against. the focus of this hearing was the limited gag order on trump. but when you take a step back, you can see that it was about much more than that. it was about how far the first amendment really should go. and how it should be applied to a former president who is also a criminal defendant, who is also a candidate for the presidency once again. the leading one at that. former general counselor for the arts stephensburg handled some very novel legal cases in his day. but never won like this. i am going to ask him all about it in just a moment. and as a new concerns about trump s ability to incite violence continue to surface, former trump white house aide cassidy h will show it here in studio as well. but we do want to start tonight in th
fortune. i know a man that 79 he was never a success intimated billion, billion and a half dollars from 79 hundred 92 and that s what it is. it s not his age. its is competence. is not respected anywhere in the world. our country is being laughed at all over the world. biden is using the weaponization of his justice department, the fbi local district attorney s and attorneys general to try and win an election against his political opponent. that happens to be me. you know who i am. something that actually was unthinkable in our nation but which is very common in third world countries are banana republics. that s what he s doing using law enforcement to try and hurt his political opponent. everyone of those things last night you saw that was started by this crooked guy and not only crooked. just so bad in so many ways. he s killing our country. he s incapable of winning based on his far-left policies of open borders, massive tax increases. the green new scam that s a windmill