menendez. as we begin this hour, action in the face of distraction. the bluster and bombast of donald trump s new reporting shows jack smith is relying on the facts, not the fury. also this hour, departed to pardon trump or not. a new witness tests in the republican quest for the nomination. we ve pardoned a president before, but doing so again presents a further danger to democracy. we are going to ask historian, michael beschloss. and my sit down with actress eva longoria, making her flamin hot directorial debut. this is american voices. we begin this hour with donald trump and his allies, trying to deflect attention away from his decision to keep government secrets after his presidency. we ve heard these excuses before. trump is relying on the same old script, distract with baseless claims of a witch hunt, to stopped stop his political witch hunt. on his knockoff version of twitter, calling special counsel jack smith, quote deranged, saying the indictment is fake.
or not. a new witness tests in the republican quest for the nomination. we ve pardoned a president before, but doing so again presents a further danger to democracy. we are going to ask historian, michael beschloss. and i sit down with actress eva longoria, making her flamin hot directorial debut. this is american voices. oices. to keep government secrets after his presidency. you ve heard these excuses before, trump is relying on the same old script, distract, with baseless claims of a witch hunt. to stop his political movement. he was at it again today on his knockoff version of twitter, calling special counsel, jack smith, quote, deranged. stating that the indictment is fake. make no mistake, trump s social media ramps, there is sideshow. on the other hand, smith is relying on the evidence. letting the 37 count federal indictments tell the story of how trump refused to head over classified information, and even went to great lengths to hide the documents from the governm
republicans gathered as well, including in the state of georgia. democratic party electors met right up there in the senate chambers. they are official, they are certified and they voted for joe biden. but georgia republicans, they met as exactly the same time, right behind those closed doors. they are not official, not certified, they still met and chose donald trump. even as democratic party electors were meeting in the georgia state senate for the first time in 28 years to select a democratic vice president and vice president, one floor below, at the state capital, georgia republicans were meeting for their own meeting to select republican electors for donald trump. those fake republican electors signed forged certificates, purporting to be the real electoral college votes and, in other words, asserting that in fact donald trump had won georgia. those fake certificates were actually mailed to the national archives as though they were official. and it s not like they
jersey shore. and i am wishing all of you a very good and very safe night and a great weekend. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, i want to thank you for staying up late with us. i will see all of you next week. i will see all of you xtne week welcome to the special second hour on all in. it s made it clear that the march on the capitol on 2021 was arranged by donald trump and his allies with in fact a specific goal. it wasn t just an expression of anger at the supposedly stolen election, nor was it the idea that the mob would somehow disrupt the certification of joe biden s win and then magically donald trump would stay on as president. no. the plan was to put pressure on republican lawmakers and the vice president, mike pence, to carry out a very specific plan. and that plan was set in motion actually weeks earlier, back on december 14th. that was the day that presidential electors gathered in all 50 states to cast their official electoral college v
while fani willis s case against don trump overlaps with special counsel jack smith s january six investigation into donald trump, there could be one key difference. fani willis could bring state racketeering charges against don trump and some of his allies. georgia s version of the racketeer, influence, and corrupt organizations act or, better known as rico, was modeled after the 1970 law aimed at taking down the mafia. the atlanta journal-constitution reports, quote, rico is often used to try to prove that illegal business was being used for illegal means and, in the beginning, the law was used to prosecute those involved in drug trafficking or organized crime. but, in recent years, prosecutors have also applied to government officials accused of using their offices for personal gain, such as those named in the indictment against various former and current atlanta public school officials.