Hes claiming that. Also tonight Breaking News on his former Chief Of Staff and current codefendant mark meadows who now warrants the trial moved to Federal Court and the latest from maui where President Biden is 34re7b8ging every federal asset needed and the need is enormous. We begin with the Breaking News in the wake of last nights rico indictment in georgia, the former president and 18 other, one of them former trump Chief Of Staff mark meadows filed papers late today asking to move the case to Federal Court. Rudy giuliani facing 13 counts said this afternoon hell seek to do the same. Well talk more in a moment about this and the case to be made for it with our legal experts and whether the former president might join in. Right now, though, he appears to be rushing head long into the past. Two years and seven months since leaving office four criminal indictments and 71 fell ni charges later donald trump says he can finally do it. Do what all his attorneys and motley cast of characte
And the man investigating hunter biden, the u. S. Attorney out of delaware had been saying up until now that he never asked for and didnt need the powers that came with that appointment. So why was david weiss made Special Counsel today . We have reaction from the white house. Hunter bidens team, and republicans on capitol hill. Joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent tom winter, nbc News White House correspondent monica alba, and ms p msnbc political contributor and cofounder of punch bowl news, jake sherman. Tom, i want to get some details from you. Sure. The question that is nagging me is why all of a sudden does this investigation, this case need a Special Counsel . Yeah, i really dont understand. And its a question i think we need some more clarity on. So to be specific, what happened here is there was clearly an ongoing plea negotiation, after the judge said, look, im not going to accept this, im not going to reject this Plea Agreement. You all have to get back tog
Out front next, trumps legal team just hours away from facing the judge in the January 6th Case in court for the first time. This is the special counsel jack smith wants to start trumps trial january 2nd. And the death toll rising in maui as Search And Rescue operations are frantically underway. Im going to speak to a woman who narrowly escaped a wall of flames. Her incredible story. Plus, all the republican president ial candidates heading to iowa, our john king just returned from there. Were talking to voters, and he will be at the magic wall tonight. For us, lets go out front. And good evening, im erin burnett. Outfacetoface, trumps team set to meet judge Tanya Chutkan. Chutkan is the judge overseeing the January 6th Case, and their meeting comes as the clock is ticking. Trump now on notice to reply to jack smiths formal request for the trial January 6th Case to begin,anuary 2nd, 2024. That would put the doj case to hold trump to account for trying to overturn the elec ahead of all
So, right now, at this very moment, former President Donald Trump is giving his first extended extended public remarks since he was indicted on tuesday for trying to overturn the 2020 election. At this event tonight, trump has been railing against the Department Of Justice and multiple federal in the multiple federal criminal indictment that have been brought against him by that department. He has called out marxist prosecutors for what he referred to as racist in reverse racist in reverse, just making sure you get, that racist in reverse enforcement of the law which presumably means racism against white people. According to his prepared remarks, theres also some room in there for five remarks about the deep state, and crooked joe biden, and you get the picture. Now, because mr. Trump is currently running for president , Conventional Wisdom might suggest that he would make these remarks on the campaign trail, maybe in an early primary state, like iowa, or new hampshire, or south caroli
Referred to as racist in reverse racists in reverse, just making sure you get, that racist in reverse presumably means racism white people. According to his prepared remarks, theres also some room in there for five remarks about the deep state, and crooked joe biden, and you get the picture. Now, because mr. Trump is currently running for president , Conventional Wisdom might suggest that he would make these remarks on the campaign trail, maybe in an early primary state, like iowa, or new hampshire, or south carolina. But mr. Trump decided that his first major post indictment Public Address would take place in the state of alabama. And that is notable for a couple of reasons. To begin with, one of the most important and, honestly, under discussed parts of the Trump Indictment is that Special Counsel jack smith chose to charge mr. Trump under section 241 of title 18 of the u. S. Criminal code. If you dont know what that is, just often, that statute is part of a group of us called the en