Special counsel jack smith paints a picture of a commanderinchief willing to throw out the votes of millions of americans, including large numbers of black voters who turned out to elect joe biden. Trump fueled Conspiracy Theories, putting poll workers, and Public Servants at risk. On january 6th, he embraced violence, and swamped a mob, that went on to attack one of the most sacred monuments to our democracy. Even now, trump continues to behave as if hes above the law. We have Breaking News this evening, his legal team has until monday to respond to a Government Motion for a protective order related to a threatening social media post. From the former president. We are going to get into the legal specifics of the case, and the political implications throughout the hour. But, make no mistake, while it is donald trump who will be going on trial, it is the fate of our nation that will be decided by the outcome. We begin with delicate, stacey pulaski, from the virgin islands. A former Hous
two separate alleged crimes, a hush money scheme and the classified document saga and now he is potentially facing another. special counsel jack smith, the investigation into the effort to overturn the election is clearly escalating this week. smith is focused on a chaotic shouting match that you might remember unfolded at the whi house six weeks after the election. that is were the baseless ideas we floated to lock president biden s victory including marshall all and seizing voting machines. here are some of those in attendance at the meeting in their own words. i walked in, i saw general flynn, and sidney powell sitting there, i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. doing what? first of all, the over start person, i never knew this guy was, the first thing i did, i walked in and looked at him and said you are you? and he told me, i don t think any of these people were providing the president was good advice, the three of them were really sort of forcefull
cannot wait for that on sunday night. thanks so much for joining us. ac 360 starts right now. tonight on 360, the former president meets a no-no sense judge. what the judge did not even let his lawyer ask. plus, the lawmakers who have been saying they want a border deal but now can t take yes for an answer. and later, a school shooter s mother on trial charged with involuntary manslaughter. why she and her husband are being held responsible for the murder of four students. we begin with donald trump s brief testimony in the penalty case. it came after the judge reiterated in graphic detail what the former president had already been found liable for. namely, sexually abusing miss carroll. also with several interjections, the judge established tight parameters on what trump s attorney could and could not ask. it made for quite a scene today. trump biographer, maggie haberman, was in court to see it. also joining us, elie honig. think spent about ten minutes going back
anti jewish in american history. let s take a look now at the human cost of russia s invasion of ukraine. moscow, like kyiv, has been very secretive when it comes to casualties from the fighting, but a bbc investigation suggests at least 25,000 russian soldiers have died. that s four times higher than the figure acknowledged by the kremlin. the research also suggests many of the casualties are now older fighters, with little or no training, with significant numbers recruited from prisons. 0ur correspondent 0lga ivshina has this special report. these are the war graves russia doesn t want to talk about. since december, the bbc has located seven new cemeteries dotted across russia and occupied ukraine. they are filled with the graves of poorly trained fighters. many were prisoners, recruited by the notorious wagner mercenary group. and the cemeteries are growing rapidly. this one is about 20 times bigger than it was six months ago. since the start of the war, we have been verif
wagner. ron desantis described it as a crisis at war. donald trump called it an invasion. with less than two weeks left until the iowa caucuses, today, trump and desantis published dueling op-eds in the des moines register. both cast immigration as the most pressing problem facing our country. both candidates promised that they, and they alone, can t fix it. now, what both trump and desantis are advancing in these offices, neither actually fixes to our country s border issues, nor are they actually immigration policies. but they are the sort of plans you can tell people that you have, and they are articulating them to the public. they want to let fewer brown people in. they want immigration to be the most painful process possible. they want to set new records in deportations. again, none of that really addresses any of the root causes of migration, for the actual problems with our immigration system, which are real. but it is a plan, and it s a plan around which republicans