that s according to people familiar with the matter. monumental updates in the special counsel s twin probes is where we begin this hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. msnbc legal analyst, lisa rubin, is live for us outside the courthouse in miami, and former top justice official and msnbc legal analyst andrew wiceman is back. director of the public policy program at hunter college is here at the table. andrew, you rocked our world at the beginning of the week with your declarative statements about the inevitability of charges and the potential timing of them. we come to you first for an update on what you ve seen that maybe we don t see as a former prosecutor and senior fbi and doj official. i think the part that seems most revelatory in the last 24 hours is the location where lisa is right now, which is until
if you come at it from a personal standpoint, it s very easy to say, oh, you don t like me. the press is rigged. i mean go. i think ivo should look at that interview if they possibly can. 1999, it s extraordinary, revelatory. quickly, your book is beautifully written. look, i settle in to finish it after crying a bit through chapter one, when you re writing about your father s sudden death and how you can hear him cheering you on as you delivered his eulogy at the funeral. you worked in tv, covered politics until just before the 2016 election, you pulled a took off from everything you knew with chamberlain, your pug dog, and your old truck, what was that journey across three years and six continents all about for you? well, it was affirming in a way. which i knew i needed to leave d.c., i felt anxious, i wasn t feeling fulfilled. i felt that i was upholding a legacy and i did know why was independent of my last name, and depended my my hometown. i set out to travel, hoping to find
i have a chapter in my book about gish galloping. i wrote a book on this and said donald trump is the master of the gish gallop. he will steam roll you, and you can t do a live tv format with donald trump and you can t do it in fronts of an audience of his superfans. it s setting up kaitlan collins to fail. and ask an open question to donald trump. we talked about this. i texted mehdi last night, what s the name of that thing? the reality is asking him an open question is inviting him to gish gallop. and not having follow-ups. when he says the democrats are executing babies, you don t move on to the next topic. you stay and follow up on that. when he said i didn t terminate the constitution, you stay there, you don t move on. and look, i think that this was as revelatory, michael, about the republican base as it was about donald trump and cnn.
by the district attorney. so the report is somewhat interesting. it s not all that revelatory. but all that work that the special grand jury did is all available to the district attorney and will inform her prosecutive decision and inform if there are trials down the road what evidence jurors at those trials hear. blayne alexander, garrett haake, tia mitchell and chuck rosenberg, i thank you all for being with us. law enforcement released new details about monday s deadly shooting at michigan state university. here s some of what we learned about the weapons, plural, found with the shooter. we can confirm that the shooter had two handguns he was. those handguns are both 9 millimeter. he also had additional magazines and ammunition on his person. we have learned that they were
he didn t give a direct or revelatory answer. he referred only to remarks that had been made by president putin, telling reporters they should read more of what president putin says. he was also asked about the possible use of nuclear weapons in ukraine. we have seen president putin dangling that threat in recent days. and he said only that there is a doctrine for nuclear security in russia, and that would determine when nuclear weapons are used. there was a back and forth with a reporter who asked about china and potential pressure from china on russia to end the ukraine war. and listen to how he responded. translator: i ll asking you, are you coming under any pressure? i don t know, i m asking you. no, no, no. you ask me about how do we feel under pressure from china? look. let s be honest are you coming under any pressure from china? look. you may you may tell your