Lying about election results, mailing personal insults at its critics. Making famously veil threats towards those who seek to hold him accountable. But none of trumps can change the cold, hard fact that the former president now faces serious criminal charges in three separate cases. In the coming days and weeks, it could even be one more. We start tonight with congressman benny thompson, democrat of mississippi. The former chairman of the january six commission. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Its always good to talk to you. Lets talk about trumps lawyer, john moreau. He did it washington and said recall the full ginsburg today. Almost a little bit about what he had to say becho and get your response on the other side. Take a listen. The defense is quite simple, donald trump, President Trump believed in his heart of hearts that he had won that election. As an american citizen, he had the right to speak out under the First Amendment. He had the right to petition governments aroun
wallace says she s quote ready to go with her election interference case. on friday, trump posted that one more indictment would secure him the 2024 nomination. is an indictment out of georgia imminent? how do you think that gets to play itself? . i think it s absolutely imminent reverend. we are expecting charges to come any day now within this week or next week. and it s interesting that while these cases are legally distinct it s gonna come down to whether he s convicted of these federal charges. it s really gonna hold trump accountable. even though they are legally distinct keep in mind georgia is a state charge. so it has a particularly consequential effect that if trump or one of his allies become president, a state charges not something they can pardon. you have to deal with a
wouldn t be the first time but if he is gay, i m not sure he would want to go to syria with those reports out there. if this was coordinated by isis hq, it was done with them. you don t go back to syria. it s really not the goal. the goal is to die. this is a suicide operation ultimately. clarisa, there are claims more attacks were quote ready to go in jewish areas according to a source. do you know more about that? so what we re hearing is that this is a man who was well-known to the 26-year-old woman who was killed in the raid in saint-denis that took out
he had that quote ready to go. democrats tend to keep republicans on the spot about this. but, you know whether or not this is an interesting fight aside, if you put it in actual context in terms of who the players are and what s happening over time here, it is really hard to see how republicans are going to standby their decision to keep this guy. how they re going to let steve skalise be there in this visible role every day, the number three guy in congress the whip who has a very public role he s going to be there indefinitely? think about the whole reason steve skalise is extending into the leadership. republicans right-hand turn just taking over the house now? john boehner is speaker. he s staying as speaker. kevin mccarthy is staying in leadership now. the only reason a job has opened up at the top in the leadership for steve skalise to ascend to
so far, republican leadership seems to be standing by skalise. does the president feel that s appropriate? he believes it s their decision to make. but there is no there s no arguing that who republicans decide to el vat into a leadership position says a lot about what the conference s priorities and values are. i mean, ultimately, mr. skalise reportedly described himself as david duke without the bag angerer. so it will be up to republicans to decide what that says about their conference. white house trying to put the republicans on the spot for this decision they ve made to keep steve skalise in the leadership. it s mornt to note at that moment that josh looks down as david duke without the baggage. he had that quote ready to go.