How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
And a Border Patrol agent crashed friday killing at least three onboard, this as President Biden faces increasing pressure to address the cry ace at our crisis at our southern board. Welcome to fox news live, im griff jenkins. Aishah im irish either shah hasnie, the fourth person on that aircraft reported to be in critical condition. Jeff paul has the latest from eagle pass, texas. Reporter Investigator S Along the u. S. Mexico Border are still trying to figure if out exactly what went wrong leading to that helicopter to crash. We know at the time there were four people onboard. Three were killed, two were were soldiers, one was a u. S. Border patrol agent. The fourth person, the only survivor, is a soldier who was injured. Our sources tell us that soldier is now in critical condition. This all happening friday afternoon in a field in a small town in the Rio Grande Valley near the u. S. Mexico Border. They were flying a uh72 lakota helicopter. It was a principal support mission and wer
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
Little january 6th insurrection. The highest court in the land today kept him on the ballot in a ruling a dodges the facts of january 6th and trumps role in it. Instead, the Supreme Court handed trump a second gift on a constitutional technicality. The justices say that states do not have the power to bar candidates from running for federal office. They say, quote, because the constitution makes Congress Rather than the states responsible for enforcing section 3 against federal Office Holders and candidates, we reverse. Theyre referring to the decision by the Colorado State Supreme Court. Now, that court found that trump did engage in insurrection by trying to overturn the will of the voters by any means possible, including violence, and that section 3 of the 14th Amendment does, in fact, apply to the presidency. Now, the Supreme Courts decision today does not touch on either the question of whether trump is or is not an insurrectionist, or whether the text of section 3 applies to him.