it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. time for the last word. my friend jonathan capehart, in for lawrence tonight. good evening, john. good evening, ali. thank you very much have a good evening. thank you. last night on this program, a large breaking news that special counsel jack smith and his team had handed over the first batch of evidence in the classified documents case. today, we, along with donald trump and his legal team are getting a better idea of what that evidence actually is. according to the filing of special counsel smith and his prosecutors, that evidence includes quote, interviews of defendant trump conducted by non government entities recorded with his consent and obtained by the special counsel s office during the investigation of this case, including the july 21st, 2021 reported interview defending trump providing to a publisher and writer quoted in part in the indictment. now, we cannot say for sure whether that line refers to more priv
tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. time for the last word. my friend jonathan capehart, in for lawrence tonight. good evening, john. good evening, ali. thank you very much have a good evening. thank you. last night on this program, a large breaking news that special counsel jack smith and his team had handed over the first batch of evidence in the classified documents case. today, we, along with donald trump and his legal team are getting a better idea of what that evidence actually is. according to the filing of special counsel smith and his prosecutors, that evidence includes quote, interviews of defendant trump conducted by non government entities recorded with his consent and obtained by the special counsel s office during the investigation of this case, including the july 21st, 2021 reported interview defending trump providing to a publisher and writer quoted in part in the indictment. now, we cannot say for sure whether that line refers to more privately recor
as for him getting advice, there s actually a committee with in the judiciary made up of other judges, called the financial disclosure committee of the judicial conference. it s there specifically to answer questions about what is required and not required for financial disclosure. why don t the supreme court justices go there instead of listening to this nebulous advice from unidentified people. it s a real mess and the excuse has made it worse. wow, so dahlia lithwick writes today, quote, we keep center doing the justices and their ethics misfires at the expense of the real crusting here. billionaires being assigned like something out of the big brother s program, to individual justices for the purposes of lavish gift giving and influence. it is a big game safari for access the powerful people. thomas and alito ought to behave like republican politicians but cry foul when the court is accused of being political? i think you have to look not just to thomas alito. they got their et
about hanging members of congress, and also this started immediately. he was involved in paintball training with a cone defended where they had this thing called quote, patriot painful, going out and practiced what they would do, sort of getting ready for this. on december 19th, there is sort of this moment that really came about when donald trump said his infamous, we will be wild tweet where things coalesced. that was what the justice department was at, saying that when donald trump is seeing this tweet, this was the crystallizing moment you described it as this sort of why it all came together. so someone in this group chat involving a lot of trump supporters from the beverly hills area, dropping that tweet in there and started talking about it. they called themselves the maga 45 patriot gang. but they all kind of talk about going to the capitol, they brought a lot of what they claimed was the defensive equipment. danny rodriguez knew that eventually his words were able to convince
smith turned over to trump and his team quote the grand jury testimony of witnesses that will testify for the government at the trial of this case. after seeing what smith has on him is it any wonder that the former president was up early this morning practically begging for congress to find some way to intervene? in an all caps post on his social media site, trump posted, quote, congress, please investigate the political witch hats against me. stop them now. [laughter] county is somebody that the john kelly, who told my paper, the washington post, that trump is quote, scared crap-less. honestly, how could he not be. especially when so many of the people who used to have his back are practically lining up to talk about how screwed he is. his answers on the matters of the law seem to me to be verging on incoherent. it was not altogether clear what he was saying, but he seems to believe that the documents of his that he declassified as evidence of the