Of manhattan, alvin bragg. I want to give you one piece of context here. Thats an individual at a Law Enforcement level whos not been nationally famous. Indeed, most people around the country following the show in utah, for example, wouldnt be able to name the random d. A. S in random cities. Yet, this is the d. A. That donald trump has been publicly targeting since the manhattan d. A. Indicted donald trump. Now i say with precision because thats a fact. Law enforcement is not making any direct link, causal or otherwise yet but this is the environment were in. Msnbc reporting this manmade to trip to utah and discussed preparing camouflage and a sniper rifle. Then he called d. A. Bragg a hack, brought up a Conspiracy Theory by george soros and discussed a plot to somehow assassinate bragg in a Parking Garage according to these charging documents. The fbi is reviewing the shooting. So, how do you go from being an unknown lawyer to being elected d. A. , to being caught up at a president i
to get to it. you can tell me in the hall later. as mentioned tom hanks is our special guest tonight. the oscar winner who campaigned for biden and obama is here tonight. he has a new book. we re going to get into a lot more. that s tonight. we begin right now with this. you know the sound. new election votes in america. voters just went to the polls in four states and some results have some of the republicans shook again, and we all remember the fizzle of the 2022 midterms. now democrats won in several more key states, including ousting republican mayor in a conservative city in florida. last night florida democrats scored their biggest election victory in years. a stunner in jacksonville, florida, the most populous city. a democrat has flipped the mayor s office. this is really important a democrat won the mayoral seat in jacksonville, florida. it s all new. they re calling that republican loss there in the largest city in florida a stunner because the desant
these extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. this is one of those nights. we are tracking several developments, including a brand-new hearing over evidence in a case alleging unlawful lies by fox news. if you re thinking, wait, is this a rerun? did i dvr this? no, this is a different multibillion dollar case that the network is dealing with while reeling from the other original record defamation settlement in the defamation case. that is big. we re going to get to that. also, more tom hanks. we have new material from our interview that s airing tonight for the first time. it will be new, and i m excited to share it with you. we begin with cascading set backs and a political request that s backfiring in public with house republicans pushing on on their deep state in that nothing burger report from trump and bill barr s hand picked attorney general. you can make up your own mind about the evidence, because these kind of things involve eviden
our country. maybe if you just oppose the republican party and you never want it to win another election, you are cool with that. but we will go deeper. that s coming up later tonight. i will explain more. i wanted to tell you off top, it s special. i hope you will stick around for it. the top story right now, it relates to the accountability crisis on the far right and another chunk of the gop as long as it s tied to donald trump. it involves, of course, all the different ways that there are boundaries in american life. others may wish they weren t held accountable this way. it is the lies that hurt donald trump and the lies that caused the insurrection and the lies that george santos was peddling that are getting smacked down in court. today, congressman santos dodging criminal prosecution in brazil after surrendering to authorities this week in new york. he pled not guilty on those 13 counts. he is claiming it s a witch hunt. that was new york on wednesday. now he confesse
formerly president and would be the largest story in the political universe if it were about anyone else who has fewer legal problems. that is my factual introduction to the ongoing civil defamation and sexual assault/rape trial for donald trump. e. jean carroll alleges donald trump raped her in the 1990s. today is the sixth day of the trial and we are learning a lot as we are right in the heart of it. the jury also heard in a way from trump himself, but not live. instead, this jury, which is assessing these very serious allegations, heard from trump in a deposition that was taped in okay. now, there s no video of this new deposition available. we do know broadly what it looks like. it s a contrast to past depositions that trump faced. we also can tell you reporting today in what is a small portion of a 45-minute deposition was reported as evidence. this is something off the top i want to explain why it matters before i go any further. donald trump as a legal and political ma