grilled republican fbi director is there evidence for their allegations i will ask the republican former u.s. attorney who recommended him for the job of presidential candidate chris christie joins us. later ray apps the 6th protests are now in hiding after right-wing media painted him as an fbi so we have a lot of plant. his people taking, ship attorney joins me to talk about the obviously no one is lawsuit they ve just flying into out of chicago right now filed against fox news. and the good, evening the breaking news incoming threat for starts us off tonight. new tornadoes. and again, word that another top state these two areas circled out election official has spoken with federal prosecutors in connection with former presidents efforts to overturn the election. she is jocelyn benson, michigan secretary of state. she now joins her georgia counterpart, brad raffensperger, former arizona republican lawmaker, rusty bowers, and to nevada republican party officials, in talkin
he has relationship with some of these world leaders for decades and he never thought that he would hear that and so you hear him say that, you hear him talk about it. another part of it too how unprecedented, how unprecedented that moment was on january 6th when a mob of 2000-person mob went to the capitol because they were lied to about the results of the election. because they wanted to overturn the election. so, just really want to make sure that we get that, that we understand why the reason he was telling that story and look, you know, look, as it relates to the names and what he was trying to, you know, what he was trying to say, many people, elected officials, many people, you know, they tend they can misspeak sometimes, right. and look, let me give you a couple of examples. you know, on sunday, speaker johnson said iran instead of israel. this happens. joe is not here, many times i call joe from u.s.a. today michael, i m sure he does not appreciate that. [laughte
my compliments to the crew, that camera flying around, as you say, it s your most crowded table yet and it was brilliantly shot and i could just listen to you guys. i mean, i m not paying much attention to the presidential campaign, so i need a dose of that once a week. you need a reminder that it s going on and what s happening. and return back to the regular trump programming because that s the thing that s blotting out the sun, even on the campaign trail. defendant trump is part of the campaign, but yeah, it was great. i can t get enough of it. i won t tell our very talented camera crew that you want more of it, but we will have more of it. come on, it looked like they were having fun. i think they had fine. they didn t really have a choice. but they would be appreciative anyway. getting a lot of exercise. thank you, alex. this is one of those nights when we are very lucky to be joined by former federal prosecutor andrew weissmann glenn kirschner because we nee
the campaign, but yeah, it was great. i can t get enough of it. i want to tell our very talented camera crew that you want more of it, but we will have more of it. come on, it looked like they were having fun. i think they had fine. they don t really have a choice. but they would be appreciative anyway. getting a lot of exercise. thank you, alex. this is one of those nights when we are very lucky to be joined by former federal prosecutor andrew wise s men and because we need their expertise to discuss what would normally be a routine filing in a criminal case which special prosecutor jack smith used this afternoon to hit back hard against donald trump s criminal defense lawyers. the ten-page ruling followed by a signature page with jack smith s name at the top says that donald trump s request for an indefinite continuance for a trial date, quote, borders on frivolous. jack smith knocks down every argument the trump lawyers make for an indefinite delay. on page two,
Colleagues alicica menendez, jonathan capehart, ayman mohyeldin, symone sanderstownsend, and with us from miami, katie phang. The twice impeached, and now twice indicted donald trump has become the first ex president to Face Criminal Charges from the federal government. Over the next two hours, my colleagues and i, along with some special guests, are going to break down the Justice Departments case against the former commanderinchief. A case that we saw for the first time just yesterday. When the bombshell, 37 count indictment was unsealed. The indictment, which also names the trump aide and valet, walt nauta, as his coconspirator. Outlined criminal charges related to more than 100 classified documents that federal agents recovered from trumps maralago resort last august. Trump faces 31 counts of violating the Espionage Act, through willful retention of classified records. He faces another six counts stemming from his alleged efforts to impede the investigation. Nauta it was also charg