Fulton county courthouse with all the breaking details, plus running out the clock. Its team trumps legal and political strategy with multiple court dates. Now on hold. It is paused so voters could decide the former president s beit before any of his cases reach a jury. And the white house has a message for republicans trying to impeach president biden, move on shockingly, the house may listen, will bring you that new sin and reporting this hour. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines inside politics we start in georgia where a judge just ruled that da fani Willis Willis can continue spearheading the election case. They are against donald trump if she removes her top deputy in the case, nathan wade, with whom she has had a romantic relationship that is part of a win for the District Attorney, but the rest of the ruling leaves a major stain. The judge went on to Admonish Willis for the relationship, writing, quote, georgia law does not permit the finding of an actual conflict. Four,
Thank you so much for joining us tonight. Cnn prime time with laura coates starts right now. Hey caitlin, im telling you, if you thought august was winding down. This is heating up. Until your vacations, anyone watching. Did you have a vacation plan, kaitlyn . What is the thing called vacation . Do you go someplace . You dont work . I wonder how that goes . One to answer that one i would think. We are not, i will do a staycation right here. Im laura coates, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. Listen, tonight, donald trump is bracing for two more indictments. You heard that right. One potential counsel, jack smith, for efforts to overturn the election. Another in hot lana, for trying to overturn the results in georgia. And yet, that phrase teflon don . It continues to be one of the oddest juxtapositions in all of politics. As his legal problems start to pile up, guess what, so does his poll numbers. Take a look while it is still early of course. He is crushing the field. Look at
A period of time. But trump is on the ballot. He is still on the ballot. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled think today that he cannot be removed from the ballot in colorado, really, any other state for that matter. And really what the ballots already printed up and colorado voters along with 15 other states heading to the polls and a few hours from even now on Super Tuesday, there was really no time to waste all nine justices agreed. Isnt a judicial love story in the making you had me at hello. God i love that movie well, a three Supreme Court justices must have had that movie on the brain today only it wasnt much of a love story and there was no ones screaming about kwon are showing them the money. Nope, this time the socalled Liberal Justices, sonia sotomayor, elena kagan, and Ketanji Brown jackson in a Concurring Opinion basically told her cat there are colleagues quit while youre ahead, you have them at patchwork. See you . I did there. Youre waiting for c. Rozanna day where you
Morning, they want to try to move this trial to a friendlier venue. They suggest west virginia. We have got another jampacked hour of special coverage with reporters in the field providing the latest updates and the best legal and political minds we could find. And joining us this morning, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian outside the courthouse. Nbc news correspondent garrett haake, who covers the Trump Campaign. Catherine christian, a former manhattan district attorney. She is also an msnbc legal analyst. And Ann Curb Kadori for new york magazine. Do we expect to hear from trump at all today, either before or after his arraignment . Well, we have been hearing from him already on social media, blasting this case as Election Interference as hes done so many times before, arguing the whole endeavor is an effort by joe biden and the biden doj to have him tied down in legal battles in 2024. Instead of focusing on the campaign. Hell also be traveling here today w
that couldn t be. or could it? tonight on laura coates live. let s be clear. there is no border deal yet. senate negotiators are trying to dot the is to cross the ts and there s no clear sign when they might get there. that s not stopped republicans in the house for not declaring the not yet final deal dead on arrival. we have a responsibility, a duty to the american people, to insist that the border catastrophe has ended. and trying to whitewash that or do it for political purposes, that it apoors it may be, is not going to cut it. that s a nonstarter in the house. now, john cornyn says the gop is debating whether to ditch the border deal and move ahead with money for ukraine and israel. one senator, jon tester, has had, well, just about enough of the entire thing. and i m quoting here. this place is so god damn dysfu dysfunctional, that was a little too natural. that s not part of my lexicon but i was quoting somebody in congress. tonight, we re going in-depth on