Trumps free speech. It is about his conduct. Plus, new revelations about the extent of trumps pressure campaign, and we are talking to the man who is in charge of running secure elections there in 2024, we are going to get into the lasting effects of voting in the political process. Then, we will take a timeout from donald trump so that our critics can weigh in against lizzo, and what the popstar has to say about it. I have something to say. We start with Breaking News this evening, in spite of being warned by a judge not to temper with witnesses or jurors, or interfere with the administration of justice, former President Donald Trump fired off a threat within the last 24 hours. If you go after me, i am coming after you. Now, this threat is the definition of political speech. As part of the prosecutions case against trump. If you hours go, the trial judge gave trumps negotiate deadline of five pm on monday, to respond to a protective order proposal submitted by the Special Counsel. Jac
Trumps social media, they say, pointing to a post that says if you go after me, im coming after you. That was friday night in the filing. Since then, donald trump has repeatedly attacked jack smith, said nancy pelosi is going to hell and claimed mike pence is lying in his sworn testimony, that hes gone to the dark side. Trumps lawyers did the Full Ginsberg, or his lawyer, singular on sunday, arguing the january 6th charges are bunk, that donald trump was exercising his free speech. Will he use that same defense in arguing against the protective order. Donald trump used that, the response is due today at five, well explore it. Were also watching georgia where d. A. Fani willis is indicating a big decision is coming any moment. Not to mention florida where something could be brewing in the other Special Counsel case. What judge Aileen Cannon just did that might give jack smith a reason to ask for her dismissal. Let us dive in. Joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspon
Thats the center of jack smiths case. Donald trump is not being prosecuted for lying. Hes being prosecuted for the deliberate and criminal steps he took alongside his six coconspirators to stay in the white house and the quote, unlawful means they pursued to subvert the results in several key states. After the election, in michigan, the indictment noting this, in a private oval office meeting, with the States Senate majority leader, donald trump raised a false claim of an illegitimate vote dump in detroit. The Senate Majority leader told trump that he, quote, had lost michigan, not because of fraud, but because the defendant had underperformed with certain voter populations. Prosecutors then say trump brought his false vote dumping claim to his ag, who told the former president what happened in michigan was, quote, the normal vote Counting Process and that there was no indication of fraud in detroit. The very next day donald trump say this, made a knowingly false statement that in mich
By Special Counsel jack smith. And then thursdays arraignment on the most grave case of all, this new indictment and arraignment for donald trump, the defendant, over his failed effort to overthrow democracy. We begin there tonight because we have a special for you tonight. Its called indicted the coup conspiracy. A detailed look into trumps failed coup plot with new reporting and context from that detailed Speaking Indictment this week. If youve been following this all really closely, so have we. Weve been working to bring you an even more indepth set of reports tonight. If you happen to be catching up after a long week, ive got a onestop shop for you on what really matters and what weve learned. And by the way, if you are a longtime viewer, i know some of you are, you might recall about a year ago, we broke down trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results along that grid, how his desperation and his plotting grew as all the legal challenges lost in court and he turned to plo
Leader not holding back. I thought the reference to my favorite punk scaband, insane. What was it . Malignant clown show. Malignant clown show. A good one best 1990s bunk scaband out there. Close cousin to the Insane Clown Posse out of detroit. Yeah, of course. Fantastic. That a Malignant Clown show. This as Top Republican in the Senate Releases an fbi memo that fails to prove any, any, of the accusations against President Joe Biden and his son hunter. And the people said, oh, how nice. The republicans now have their own steele dossier. Yeah. Plus, Kevin Mccarthy made a secret promise to trump. And speaking of the form period well play his ominous comments that seem to be calls for a january 6 response to his legal issues. Heres the problem. Willie a lot of problems there there are a lot of problems but he needs to read the room. This does not help him with jack smith. I dont know. Maybe this helped him with a Contract Dispute in new jersey when hed throw words around like that. Threat