President comes into focus. I am from regular stock. I am from regular people. Tonight, donald trump, Clarence Thomas, and new reporting on the Billionaire Friends Keeping clarence happy. I like to keep that friendship. [laughter] then, why the republicans need to root for jack smiths speedy trial. Plus, on a rainy day for Fake Electors in michigan, why arent we seeing this all over the country . Count three alleges that you dont falsely make, alter, for, its recovered a Public Record with the intent to defraud. Do you understand the charges in maximum penalties . Yes. And senator roy mazie hirono on the devastation of the fires and high hawaii, when all in starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We have a proposed date for Donald Trumps trial. On charges they tried to steal the 2020 election. In a court filing today, Special Counsel jack smith asked for a start date of january 2nd, 2024. He said this would vindicate the Publics Interest in a speedy trial. That i
Donald trumps trial on charges he tried to steal the 2020 election. In a court filing today, Special Counsel jack smith asked for a start date of january 2nd, 2024. He said this would vindicate the publics interest in a speedy trial, that will ultimately be decided by the judge presiding in that case, judge tanya chutkan. But even assuming she chooses a somewhat later start, there may be some delays along the way, donald trump is probably going to face trial in this case before the president ial election next november. Though he does have one critical possible hail mary remaining. He and his lawyers could try to somehow find a way to kick the case up to the Supreme Court, where the conservative majority would rescue him. That was one of the last desperate plans for Donald Trumps coup back in 2021, to get the Supreme Court to rule in his favor. We know theres at least one very conservative justice who one of trumps Coup Plotters thought would be particularly inclined to help out. I spea
A conflict because the big question here is whether there was an actual conflict. The defendants were alleging that fani willis and not only that she had this romantic relationship with a lead prosecutor on the trump case . Case, but then she also benefited financially and he had to decide the judge had to sort of do this analysis. Is it enough that its just looks bad, but theres an appearance of a conflict or did they need to prove to the defendants at trump and his codefendants need to prove that there was an actual conflict now, again, i say that day fani willis can stay on this case. It also appears that the judge is saying that this appearance issue needs to be addressed before this can go forward. So this appears to be a pretty nuanced a ruling, but the headline is that the District Attorney at her office can stay on this case, but we continue to read to learn more about exactly what the judge is saying, about how you need to address the appearance of impropriety right . Paula re
The Appeals Court hearing on Donald Trumps Immunity Hearing has wrapped up. The threejudge appellant panel facing this big question can the former president be held criminally responsible for actions that he took while in office to overturn the 2020 election loss. We heard a remarkable argument from trumps team who heard the argument that prosecuting a former president would open up a pandoras box as john sauer said that working in the capacity as alleged in the indictment by jack smith, the Special Counsels office pushing back on that. This notion that we are all of the sudden going to be seeing a floodgate, i think that, again, the careful investigations in the clinton era didnt result in any charges. The fact that this investigation did doesnt reflect that we are going to see a sea change of vindictive titfortat prosecutions in the future. I think it reflects fundamentally unprecedented nature of the criminal charges here. Cnns evan perez joins us now. Evan, you were inside of that
and tonight, straight from the source, no immunity. donald trump s claims outright rejected by a federal appeals court in what was a unanimous decision. the judges referring to him as citizen trump, saying that former presidents cannot escape being held accountable for their actions while in office. all eyes are now turning to the supreme court. also, that republican effort to impeach the homeland security secretary over the border just went down in flames, failing spectacularly in the house this evening. it s a major embarrassment for the house speaker, but really for the house gop. also tonight, we are tracking this. for the first time ever the parent of a school shooter has been held responsible for her actions related to her own son s murderous rampage. what it could mean for the future of school shootings in america. i m kaitlan collins and this is the source. the answer, if you re wondering, is no. a president cannot order s.e.a.l. team 6 to assassinate his politi