next step, a showdown in the senate. jack smith now challenging former president trump s efforts to delay his criminal trial on the classified documents until after next year s election. raising the possibility he could pardon himself. jared kushner has spoken to prosecutors about trump s alleged attempts to overturn the election. we will check in on trump s republican rivals without him in iowa for the informal launch of the republican caucus campaign. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. hollywood comes to a standstill for the first time in more than six decades. sag-aftra, the union representing film and tv actors is now on strike after talks with studios collapsed following four weeks of negotiations. in a blow to the $134 billion industry, of course, the two sides clashing over residual payments in the age of streaming and the usual of artificial intelligence to replace actors. the union president blasting the studios yesterday. i am shocked by
because senator but you, know just between us. just between you and me. thank you, buddy it is always good to see. thank you for a great show and thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. a match and there were 50 50 odds that you had just been chosen as one of the people who would decide whether or not to criminally indict donald trump. that may very well be the case for the grand jurors who were just seated in fulton county, georgia. today, about 100 georgians showed up at the superior court of fulton county in atlanta. and for the sake of the privacy, we are not going to show you any of them by you can see, fulton county district attorney fani willis was and there. out there she is right there. now the judge sent about half of the potential jurors home. the other half he directed to one side of the room, towards the other. they were split into grand jury and grand jury be. h one was made up of 20 theaters plus alternates. now other than a $25 a day these grand jurors w
call themselves conservative and will likely dominate his way through the rest of the primaries despite what nikki haley does or does not do. but november 5th, 2024, is not a primary race and a candidate cannot rely on the strength of their base alone, and that is where it is helpful to read between the lines of last night s vote. unlike iowa, which is a lock for the gop, new hampshire s electorate is swingy trump lost moderates to haley, two lost college graduates to haley, and three, lost independents to haley, it is a problem, especially when 68% of independents flat out said they will not vote for him. and 42% of primary voters say they don t think someone convicted of a crime would be fit to be president, if that happens to donald trump. a reminder, for all we talk about the general election, what we really mean is the general election in six specific states. arizona, nevada, georgia, michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. you see them there. so let us untangle what we k
because together, we rise. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. the bread and butter of conservatives in the conservative media for years now has been hyping up an investigation into president biden s adult son hunter biden. but it never seem to end. the investigation, which was open in 2018, under trump s justice department, has been used as a black box of sorts by republicans. they use it to create a symmetry that didn t really exist between trump s alleged crimes, and what they speculated was the crime ridden biden family. and so long as this case was open, and the investigation was behind closed doors, they could really make it whatever they wanted it to be. and even though that was the case even though the republicans have been dining out on the hunter investigation for years, they also have been up in arms about how it h
walk the trump case, kickstarts it in head. john berman in here for anderson. plans we 60, how federal judge aileen cannon just got the documents case moving, and how one veteran prosecutor argues against casting judgment on her ability to be impartial for the man who appointed her. also another federal judge in another case against the president makes it official. e. jean carroll s defamation lawsuit goes to court just as primary season begins. plus, a cnn exclusive. we ll meet you queens drawn warriors as a 3d print machinery to send russian shells back where they came from with a bang. we begin with what came as a surprise to some. judge aileen cannon s first order in her new position overseen the documents case, a surprise because during her first encounter with it shortly after the search of mar-a-lago, she issued a ruling so untethered in case law and so favorable to the former president, a federal peels plan will panel overturned her in a decision that read more like a