Coconspirator best known for being detained without pants helped him do it. Step on out. Here come this way. Can i put pence on . First sir, youve got to clear the house. And why the people who prosecuted the impeachment of donald trump agree with the attorneys defending donald trump that the federal trial of donald trump should be televised. Lets have cameras in the courtroom so that all americans can see what is happening in our criminal Justice System. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. Well, for donald trump, the stakes at the next president ial election are clear. We all know them. He is running for his freedom. They put and even finer point on it, hes running for his life. The ex president now faces 78 criminal accounts across three jurisdictions and a combined 641 years in prison. At age 77, if hes convicted of any offenses, just one, he could spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. The stakes for the country are equally dire. Don
Good evening and welcome to Joe Scarborough presents. As we move closer to the primaries, donald trump remains the dominant frontrunner, according to the Morning Consult tracker. He is nearly 40 points ahead of his closest rival, Florida Governor ron desantis. And there is real apprehension about what a second trump term might look like. This morning, the New York Times published a frightening article that gives us the best look at how far donald trump may go with his obsession with authoritarians and personal political loyalty. According to the times, trump and his enablers plan to, quote, alter the Balance Of Power by increasing the president s authority over every part of the federal government. If trump wins, they plan on stacking the government with trump loyalists, regardless of their personal or professional limitations. Its going to look a lot more like 2019 than 2017. They will bring independent agencies like the fcc and the ftc, quote, under direct president ial control. The
Good evening and welcome to Joe Scarborough presents. As we move closer to the primaries, donald trump remains the dominant frontrunner, according to the Morning Consult tracker. He is nearly 40 points ahead of his closest rival, Florida Governor ron desantis. And there is real apprehension about what a second trump term might look like. This morning, the New York Times published a frightening article that gives us the best look at how far donald trump may go with his obsession with authoritarians and personal political loyalty. According to the times, trump and his enablers plan to, quote, alter the Balance Of Power by increasing the president s authority over every part of the federal government. If trump wins, they plan on stacking the government with trump loyalists, regardless of their personal or professional limitations. Its going to look a lot more like 2019 than 2017. They will bring independent agencies like the fcc and the ftc, quote, under direct president ial control. The
trump could very well escape accountability. that is the plan of him and his advisers. get elected and avoid facing trial over the doesn t of charges and then upon taking office, he would say about the task of completing the unfinished work of january six, which was the work of destroying american democracy. as the new york times reported last month, trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power of the government. reshaping to structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority in his hands. it includes bringing in independent agencies under direct presidential control, dividing the practices of impounding funds, refusing to spend money congress appropriated for the president does not like. making it easier to repay civil servants, removing state department intelligence agency officials that he described as the sikh political class of hatred and crime. let s be clear, a lot of this is tough talk from a guy who is
independent agencies under direct presidential control. he wants to revive the practice of impounding funds, refusing to spend money congress as appropriated for programs the president doesn t like. he tends to strip employment protection from tens of thousands of career civil servants, making it easier to replace them if they are deemed obstacles to his agenda. again, they are not hiding any of their plainly authoritarian and paranoid goals here. russell to vote up, former trump official, just proudly and openly in classic bond villain fashion told the times quote, what we are trying to do is identify the pockets of independents and sees them. but it s not just the times. the economist magazine also had a deep dive into how team trump aims to revolutionize the structure of government itself. maga republicans believe that they will be able to enact their program only if they first defying the deep state by making tens of thousands of top civil servants sack-able.