tonight, on the mehdi hassan show. the grand reinvesting in donald trump s mishandling of classified documents will meet again this week, are we close to seeing criminal charges in this case? plus, a republican admits on tape that he tried to interfere with elections in texas. can paxton, yes the same can pack them just got impeached, is now under renewed scrutiny for that admission. and the latest on breaking news out of virginia, a fighter jet from scramble to intercept of private plane causing a sonic boom that reverberated across the area. welcome to the show. nbc news is reporting the federal grand jury that has been hearing evidence in the department of justice s investigation into former president donald trump s handling of classified documents is, wait for it, expected to meet again this coming week in washington, d.c.. now we don t know yet if an indictment is coming, which would be major. the first ever federal indictment of a former president, he would be indicte
trump and rnc chair woman, ronna mcdaniel, try to pressure to republican canvassers and michigan into not certifying the 2020 presidential election results. the paper reviewed recordings of trump and mcdaniel on phone calls with to local officials just days after the election. nbc has not heard or verify the audio recordings. but it s statements nbc spokespeople for trump and the rnc did not dispute them. this afternoon, michigan secretary of state, jocelyn benson, so the chief suspect at the election officials were under pressure back in 2020. they re recording in the detroit i tyler the recording. it didn t surprise me, the content of which we were well aware that he was trying to pressure these local pointed officials to subvert their own duty, the legal duty under the law. we knew as it was happening, it s really, when you re up against the president of the united states, the purported leader the free world, that we had the truth, the law, the will of the people on our
be a major political minefield for now. it deny special counsel, jack smith, requests to fast-track a decision on whether donald trump has broad immunity for actions he took as president while challenging his 2020 election loss. this means justices will allow the case to move forward through the regular appeals process. it is likely that the court will also be soon confronted with another trump case. today trump confirmed that his legal team is working on an appeal of a colorado high court ruling that would kick him off the primary ballot. there are challenges to trump s ballot eligibility underway and more than a dozen other states including michigan. now that state is also in the spotlight after the detroit news reported that trump and rnc chair woman, ronna mcdaniel, try to pressure to republican canvassers and michigan into not certifying the 2020 presidential election results. the paper reviewed recordings of trump and mcdaniel on phone calls with to local officials just
nation once again. we re not a free nation right now. we don t have free press. we don t have free anything. just a small sample of donald trump s dark speech at cpac. we ll have more of the former president s maga messaging in just a moment. meanwhile it sure sounds like his former secretary of state is also running for president. mike pompeo is making the rounds, criticizing trump s fiscal record while in the white house. and also ahead, we ll have a look at president joe biden s visit to selma, alabama, to mark the anniversary of bloody sunday. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, march 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this week just outside washington, dc, where former president donald trump returned to the stage at cpac over the weekend. for nearly two hours saturday evening trump addressed a smaller than usual crowd at the conservative conference in national harbor, maryland. there the 2024 pre
without power and commuters facing a travel nightmare. i think people thought that w winter was going to be done and over with and now we re getting hit. this is new england it is about time well, on the west, more catastrophic flooding in the forecast in the wake of weeks of unrelenting rain thousands now under evacuation orders, rescue teams already deployed to save people trapped in those deadly floodwaters. we re timing out both of these systems. and the gloves are off former president trump in iowa taking direct aim at his biggest competition for the gop ticket, florida governor ron desantis. ron was a disciple of paul ryan, who is a rino loser. how the crowd responded to that and why it may not be what the former president wanted to hear we re going to begin with the latest fallout from the collapse of silicon valley bank and the new inflation numbers out this morning. starting us off, jake ward in san francisco. our business and data reporter brian cheung