Developments in Donald Trumps ongoing legal battles. In a newly unsealed brief in response to the supreme Courts President ial Immunity Ruling, special Counsel Jack Smith gives us the clearest view yet of his 2020 Election Interference Case against the former president. Smith asserts trump acted as a private candidate and not as president , when he tried to overturn the Election Results and resorted to crimes to stay in office. It also provides new evidence about Trumps Phone Usage and the conversations he had on the 6th Of January, as the riots were unfolding at the capitol. Quote, beginning at about 150. 30 p. M. the defendant settled in the Dining Room off of the oval office. He spent the afternoon there reviewing twitter on his phone, while the Dining Room television played Fox News contemporaneous coverage of events at the capitol. Citing testimony, the filing says that when trump was informed his Vice President had to be rushed to a secure location after trump attacked pence in h
President Biden Tours Florida And Georgia hit hard by helene. The Death Toll in Western North Carolina continues to rise. The world is on edge waiting to see how israel will respond to irans missile attack. The White House arguing against targeting irans nuclear program. Joining me this hour, former Defense Secretary Leon panetta on the crisis across the Middle East, former dls second Jeh Johnson joins on domestic terror threats and the anniversary of the October 7th Terror Attacks in israel, four days away. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. We are 33 days from the election. For the first time, we have former Vice President make pences own words under oath about Donald Trumps alleged attempts to discount votes and overthrow the election. Yesterday afternoon, Judge Chutkan unsealed a legal filing in the 2020 Election Interference case. The 165page Document is Special Counsel Smiths Response to the Supreme Court Immunity Decision, sending the case back to the Lower Co
State of michigan saying, quote, make them riot. The Question Today beyond the Damming Narrative is whos listening. Joining us now, nbc News Correspondent Garrett haake whos in university center, michigan, for us, and nbc News Justice Reporter ryan reilly. I know the former president will be where you are, garrett, in a moment. Im going to start with ryan. As i said, ryan, the story here is not new. We know what Donald Trump tried to do around the 2020 election. We saw it happen in realtime. We had the January 6th hearings. There have been filings up until this point, a lot of them. But this new 165 Court Filing from Jack Smith gives us some more detail, more color, more insight into Donald Trumps State Of Mind in particular. What stood out to you, was there anything that was particularly damming . Personally, i think the volume of evidence of spreading lies stood out to me. That was going to be the challenge of this case. In 2020, i jokingly referred to this as the question of bad Fai
Now an extraordinary political moment, the kind that just a few years ago was in the category of hell has frozen over and pigs are flying. Vice president harris will be joined on the Campaign Trail by None Other than Liz Cheney in battleground wisconsin. Their joint Campaign Appearance is fraught with symbolism. Nbc news reports, quote, harris plans to play into that symbolism by recognizing the founding principles of the Republican Party. Thats according to a senior campaign official. Harris will be at the Birth Place of the gop together with Liz Cheney. The democratic president ial nominee and a former Republican Congresswoman, former leader of the republican caucus and the heir to a family whose name is synonymous with what it meant to be a conservative republican speaks to the coalition Vice President harris has assembled. Its unprecedented in modern american politics. Its an incredibly large tent she has assembled that includes former Vice President Dick Cheney and bernie sanders.
Straight from the source tonight what a quotes that jack smith s says came from donald trump s mouth as the special counsel and the judge are revealing blockbuster her new evidence and the election case against donald trump also, what melania trump just said about abortion that stands in stark contrast to the reality in america, because of her husband s three supreme court picks, the eyeopening new quotes from her new memoir james carville has some advice for democrats tonight, include one moment in last night s debate that he says, they aren t seizing on nearly enough they ll want to know what that is. I m kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight, as donald trump is sowing doubt about the 2024 election, we re getting just about as close, but look as we may ever get and what his trial may have looked like for what he tried to pull off the last time. Judge tanya chutkin released 165 pages of evidence from special counsel, jack smith which paints a far more detailed picture than w