Election integrity and all of this is completely aboveboard because he was the president and that is what president s do. That is the argument he made today in a new filing filed in state court asking a judge to dismiss the Indictment Charging Trump with election interference. In the new filing, trumps lawyers quote they can argue to ensure the integrity and the election were outside of the scope of his duties. They even went on to say quote, the president s motivations are not for the prosecution or this court to decide. Fact check. Trumps motivations i exactly what this court should be looking into. The lawyers also claimed quote the president s actions are within the ambit of his office. Is absolutely immune from prosecution. They are essentially arguing that donald trump is above the law and if that sounds familiar to you, it should. It is what Richard Nixon asserted after watergate. That means it is not illegal, by definition, exactly. I have expert guests tonight to weigh in on t
Thanks to you for not missing this beat. That does it for me. The reidout with joy reid is up next. Tonight on the reidout and if the republicans decide that jim jordan should be the speaker of the house, there will, and by the way, i dont think thats going to happen. I think hell lose, but if they were to decide that, there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected republicans could be counted on to defend the constitution. Liz cheney speaking the truth about the Republican Leadership crisis. Which an esteemed professor who joins me tonight says should be setting off alarm bells that democracy is in trouble. Even trump is being talked about as a potential speaker. Plus, trumps renewed push to delay, delay, delay, including a heavy dose of whining about being unable to access all of the highly classified documents. That he used to have stashed in his insecure bathroom at maralago. And we begin tonight with the power of eight. Eight republicans, that is. The b