i just hope we get fair treatment because if we don t our country s in big, big trouble. as the presidential election year begin, former president trump faces multiple legal challenges while president biden makes the case his likely gop opponent is a serious threat to democracy. the choice is clear. donald trump s campaign is about him, not america. not you. democracy is on the ballot. your freedom is on the ballot. i ll talk to republican congresswoman elise stefanik of new york and biden s deputy campaign manager quentin fulks. plus, wider wars. there are growing fears the war between israel and hamas could spread further after the u.s. killed an iranian-backed militia leader inside, and tensions are rising in the red sea. we have an intense focus from preventing this crisis from spreading. i ll talk to isaac herzog. and shutdown threat. will spending cuts lead to another government shutdown. we want to get the border closed and secured first. how far is t
tonight on 360, the former president makes a late move in his battle with states to stay on the 2024 ballot. details on that and what his next big court filing could come. also russia s worst air strikes of the war on ukraine, the civilians targeted, and what america s top european commander makes of this latest brutal stage of the war. plus we ll take you to the west coast where surf s up is now an urgent warning, and another round of waves, some more than two stories high, is now expected to hit. good morning everyone good evening, i should say. john berman in for anderson. first up tonight, the flurry and soon to be blizzard of new legal developments in what is shaping up to be a history-making fight over kicking the former president off state ballots under the 14th amendment. already divided states, legal scholars, and will almost certainly do the same with the supreme court justices. the newest headline came late today in a trump court filing in oregon, and it
crucial witnesses in any of these trump probes. i m talking about the man atop the white house during the january 6th insurrection, and he was chief of staff during that period, chaotic and otherwise of trump s departure when we know the secretive classified documents were taken, stolen, or mishandled. the man you see on the screen is your witness, mark meadows. the times has just crossed that news in the last few minutes. we have that news. we ve also got this video, providing a rare look at trump council jack smith heading to work today, apparently escorted by security. msnbc news cameras with this exclusive. i want to show you what we have here. it s the first known video of smith going about his job, going to work in this role. the at the high stakes job with where his approach has been discreet, secretive, and low profile. we can show you how the reporter did his job today, asked the questions, and smith responded by showing exactly how he does his job no comment wha
all of these signs, reports and indications that donald trump s team is at least concerned about a possible indictment in the doj classified documents case. that doesn t mean they ve given up. that doesn t mean it s inevitable and we are not reporting on a future possibility. we are reporting on a current set of concerns and let me walk you through it. if indicted donald trump will be the first-ever person who served in the white house to be indicted for a federal crime. here s what s brand new and we ve never reported this before, our cameras caught trump s legal team going into doj in washington today and we got footage of them leaving. they spent roughly two hours inside and wait until you hear who they met with. i will not make you wait longer than this. this wasn t some routine catch-up. we have reporting that they sat down face to face in a very rare showdown with the man who has been leading this high-profile rest gagz of donald trump. they sat down with special counse