obviously at this point, you never know what s going to happen. my biggest concern for years now, and i ve said this at elections conferences where we get professionals who run elections in this country is somebody will be motivated by this language at some point and do something stupid. it s not going to be an organized thing. it s not going to be a bunch of conspirators together, it s going to be one mentally unstable individual who s going to be radicalized through this process. that s my biggest concern. i want to bring in jane tim, former assistant d.a.,catherine christian, and susan del percio. great to have all of you together. you have been looking at insider threats more broadly. what have you found out? it s happening in coffee county, is not isolated. we have seen either trump reporters or as we have reported elsewhere, trump campaign
new questions today about how far reaching the consequences of trying to overturn the presidential election really are. the latest example from michigan where 16 people now face a long list of charges from the attorney general for signing paperwork falsely claiming that president donald trump won the 2020 election. of course just yesterday we learned former president trump has been told he s a target on special counsel jack smith s investigation into efforts to overturn the election and the justice department says they ve arrested more than a thousand people in connection with the attack on the capitol. joining me now, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst glenn kirschner and nbc s jane tim is here with the latest. the first charges against electors anywhere in the country, what do we know about the charges and about the people? so 16 people have been hit with eight felony counts. these are serious felony, many of them are 14-year felonies.
authentic. who did you talk with? i think they would have to acquire cell phone records and emails and text messages and see how this information was brought to each and every fake elector. and if they get different answers, they re going to be able to play one against another, and i have a feeling this is a real danger zone for the folks in washington, not just for the people being prosecuted in michigan. so interesting. is this it, jane, or is nessel maybe not done yet here? you know, she s hinted that she might bring charges against other people saying the investigation is not done and they re not precluing other charges. i guess the big question is who organized all this in several states. you know what i mean? if they can get bigger names they re going to want those. thank you both so much. and still to come, the 2024 campaigns are raking in the cash, but the candidate with the most money isn t even running
sign of things that are happening all around the country. it s disturbing to think that people who just want to do their jobs on behalf of democracy get pushed out jane, keep us posted, will you thank you. thousands of israelis marched in the west bank featuring prominent far right political leaders. their destination, a settlement that had been disbanded by the last government. it s a defiant gesture coming at an extraordinarily tense moment with israeli forces and pro-palestinian militants trading attacks on a daily basis, during the emotionally charged passover and ramadan israeli troops killed a 15-year-old palestinian boy following the funeral of two british israeli sisters shot dead by suspected palestinian gunmen those volleys of violence are spilling across borders with israeli launching air strikes in syria days after bombing targets in lebanon. and today, pope francis
a barely functioning election board after harassment and baseless claims of voter fraud drove an entire department to quit the departures left people in the small rural community temporarily even unable to even register to to let people regist vote what happens when election denialism drives out the people needed to keep local democracy running? nbc s jane tim has reporting on this story she joins me here on set you were just telling me in the break, these are dedicated public servants so what happened here you know, what happened has been building nationally for years in these stolen election claims, the era of donald trump s claims about election fraud, but locally republicans across virginia took over control of what s called county electoral boards, counties and cities have them, they run and administer elections they re supposed to act nonpartisan, but being nonpartisan in election administration is becoming increasingly hard. local republicans in january