Alleged assassination plot against president zelenskyy. We begin this hour with a looming deadline for former president donald trump. His legal team has six hours to respond to Special Counsel jack smiths request to limit what trump can say about the ongoing 2020 election interference case. The request for a special order came after the doj said trumps social media posts could, quote, have a harmful, Chilling Effect on witnesses or adversely affect the Fair Administration of justice. The doj cited a post in which the former president wrote, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Campaign called the postpolitical speech and said it was meant for the former president s political adversaries, but just this morning, trump put out another set of posts attacking the Special Counsel calling on the judge presiding over the case to recuse yourself and accusing mike pence, former vp of disloyalty. Joining us now nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian and tali farh
Ambassador, thank you very much forjoining us here in our studio. Military coup leaders in niger have on monday arrested two more cabinet ministers, as well as the head of the governing party. What do you make of these latest developments . I mean, that shows that thejunta has no intention to respect human rights as he started by claiming that he will do that. And again, i mean, this coup has really no reason whatsoever. There was no political tension. There is no situation, Security Situation that is worsening as they claimed, that just faints. The Security Situation is improving in our country. You know, you accept to power by the ballot, not by the bullets. And we have elected a legitimate president , mohamed bazoum, and we want him to be restored, like all the International Community echo us, the regional body, the african union, the United States of america, france, all our european union, all are asking them just to give back power to preseidnt bazoum. You mentioned aikawa. I do
Very efficient with the trees. We only printed one company. The shroud of secrecy is gone. The big question whether archers interview will prove to be the smoking gun that reveals Resident Bidens Involvement in his sons foreign and business. Lets get right to it. Team fox coverage. All standing by with analysis and reaction. Lets get the news from Chad Pergram W who is there on monday back again today. You told us three or four days. You are spot on. What is the news in the transcript . This is the transcript from the closeddoor interview on monday. It focuses a great deal on their brand. Devon archer told the House Oversight committee, the brand was the biden family. That delivered value to maries mama. In the transcript, archer said faced pressure from ukrainian authorities during investigation. Archer said they wanted hunter biden to help relieve some of that pressure. Archers have the biden name was key to the survival of burisma. People would be intimidated to mess with burisma be
Plus dennis quaid. Im a football player. Theyre going to pump up the volume here. What happened yesterday . A former president being prosecuted by the sitting president will leave a blackco stain on the fabric of this country. But lets not forget whose move this was. The New York Times reported that joe biden directed his Attorney General to prosecute his rival prosecu. Quote, mr. Biden privately told his close circl e of advisers that mr. Trump posed a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted for his role in the events of june 6th. Of according to two people familiar with his comments. He also told confidence that he wanted Attorney General Merrick Garland to stop acting like the Attneral To A Ponderoud to take decisive action. Dent this is not an independent justice department. This is not an indepen stice ded. Special counsel. This prosecution is being directedecutio by the commander in chief and now the Corporate Media is engaged in Aengage Bloodthirsty and libelous wad r again
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