good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. more inside information on the fulton county, georgia, grand jury investigation looking into possible election interference by donald trump and his allies. in her first television interview, the grand jury forewoman talks to nbc news about what happened behind the scenes and whether that list of recommended indictments includes the former president. bracing for a major winter wallop, 42 million people from california to maine under winter weather alerts. we re talking brutally cold temperatures, snow storms and blizzards. we ll get a live report from minneapolis where they could see the largest snow totals in more than a decade. and is there a plan b? new reporting on the hush, hush planning by democrats just in case president biden decides not to seek a second term. but first, we begin with that rare look inside the inner workings of the georgia special grand jury investigation. the forewoman, emily
recommendations of indictments that were made. she would not give me specific names, but here is what she did have to say to me. take a look. there definitely are some names you expect. did the grand jury recommend an indictment of former president trump? i m not going to speak on exact indictments. i would not expect you to be too shocked, no. and that includes of the former president potentially? potentially it might. one of the big questions that i asked her, chris, is why are you speaking out about this? that was actually how i opened the interview. why are you speaking publicly? a couple of things she said. she said that she really wanted to kind of help control the flow of information, the stream of information. she says she believes it was going to get out anyway and she d rather have at least some sort of say as to how it gets out rather than sitting back and
watching people talk about her. she said she was not concerned about threats, knowing this is a very polarizing situation. obviously that was not enough to stop her. she said she did not have a concern about receiving threats after speaking out like this, chris. so much there. after parts of that grand jury report were released, trump declared total exoneration on twitter. here s what the atlanta constitution writes, which picks up on the sound. when ajc reporters on tuesday told cors about trump s reaction, she rolled her eyes and burst out of laughing. did he really say that? she asked, that s fantastic, that s phenomenonphenomenonal. tim, do we dare read into that? it sure seems to me like someone who is speaking on an
and in politics you want to fight on good turf for you. the republicans, the merits of immigration investigations, immigration politics play well for republicans, you know, investigaing the department of homeland security would at least make political sense, even if the way they went about it wasn t exactly appropriate. investigating january 6th is a big loser. that puts us in the news. we re talking about this right now. other people will continue to talk about it when tucker puts out the video. it s as if they didn t learn anything from 2022 when the candidates who most wanted to relitigate the 2020 election did the worst. i think it s a bad political move for mccarthy in that sensuous but he s doing it as part of caucus management. tim miller you re going to stay with me. i want to say we are going to have much more on the legal impact of these revelations from inside the grand jury s deliberations when harry litman