Alleged coconspirators, but how will it fit in. Plus a live report from maui, where the governor says the death toll has risen and probably over 1,000 people could still be missing. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin with two pieces of Breaking News tonight. The first, weve just learned of charges in texas connected with alleged threats against judge Tanya Chutkan, who has presided over the Subversion Trial of the former president. According to the court filing, the woman, who lives in alvin, texas, left a threatening, racist, and bigoted vase mail for judge chutkan on august 5th, saying, if trump doesnt get elected, were coming to kill you. You will be targeted personally, publicly, all of it. Authorities visited the woman on the 8th and according to the filing, she admitted to making the call from her home telephone. Breaking news as well in the georgia racketeering trial. A Federal District judge setting mark meadows request to move charges to Federal Court. This will be
Bret, good evening to you. Donald trumps closest advisers are spinning this indictment to advantage. Meanwhile his former number two, former Vice President mike pence who refused to overturn the results of the election is in attack mode. Former Vice President mike pence running against his old boss is coming out swinging. It wasnt just they asked for a pause. The president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes and literally coas would have ensued. Indictment pence allegedly told trump he had no authority to do so, according to the indictment, in response, the defendant told the Vice President youre too honest. Trump is staying positive at least publicly. Posting on social media hours ago thank you to everyone. I have never had so much support on anything before. The 45page indictment lays out an overarching theme. The defendant lost the 2020 president ial election despite having lost the defendant was determined to remain in power.
The Special Counsel charges donald trump with conspireing to shatter the american experiment. The ha 45page indictment nar tat rates a plot to stay in power after losing an election. And it does so with some new evidence, including realtime notes from then Vice President mike pence. The politics, the third Trump Indictment slipped the field into familiar camps. The charges will also test joe bidens resolve to do what is sometimes unnatural. Stay quiet. The consequences, how the prosecution plays out in court may determine the future of both donald trump and american democracy. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Tomorrow a court date for the former president here in washington. Today the country gets a line by line look at The Plot Against America and the alleged crimes of donald trump. Central to the indictment is the Special Counsels assertion that trump knew that he lost the election and pushed lies to stay in office any way. Describe d in the indictment
have a great weekend. the reidout starts now. tonight on the reidout after all we have been through in our history, from unless to civil war to two world wars to insurrection to pandemic. i refuse to believe in 2024, we americans will choose to walk away from what s made us the greatest nation in the history of the world, freedom. liberty, democracy is still a sacred cause. president biden marks the anniversary of the january 6th attack on the capitol with a scathing rebuke of the man who sparked the violence that day. and a warning that trump remains a serious threat to democracy. plus, breaking news from the supreme court on whether it will hear arguments on trump s ballot status in colorado. the same court that trump s lawyer says owes him a favor. i have three very special guests tonight, congressman betty thompson, and adam schiff from the january 6th select committee. and officer harry dunn, who is planning his return to the capitol. the place he so brav
smoke because of canadian wildfires. 75 million americans under air quality alert. when will the smoke clear? plus amanda gorman has her book pulled from a miami area grade school because one parent complained. turns out the parent never actually read the book. we begin with the growing legal jeopardy that former president trump faces in the federal documents investigation. a letter from the justice department to the former president s attorneys saying he is a target in a federal investigation. it s often but not always a strong sign that the person in question will be indicted. it is hard to overstate the unprecedented nature of this latest development. kaitlan collins joins us now with what we know. what is the latest on this letter and what is the trump team reaction? we haven t gotten a formal reaction from the trump legal team so far. we do know that justice department prosecutors did inform the former president s legal team that he is a target in that federal inve