Saying if trump were to begin posting details from grand jury transcripts it could have a Chilling Effect on witnesses. Remember this is just 24 hours after his arrest and arraignment in his third indictment over election interference and after the judge warned him against making threats. Lets go straight to john dean, hes the former Nixon White House counsel. And john, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be, but it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threatening sounding post from donald trump on truoct to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk u
monday we have two massive pieces of nose, special counsel jack smith s investigation into the former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. one of this is just broken, and this is about this guy. who is not exactly a household name. this is mike roman. he is the director of election day operations for trump s 2020 campaign. you might know him as the guy who ungenerous, sixth try to physically deliver certificates of the fake a lectures from trump s fake electors scheme. to vice president mike pence. and that act, being the bag man trying to deliver the fake electors on january six, to stop the certification of the 2020 election. that is actually a pretty good encapsulation of his larger role in all of this. you see after the election, there was not all that much to do for trump s director of election day operations. so mike romance shifted to a new game, he acted as the go-between, the vote weber of sorts, doing the legwork to get state level officials on
overturn the 2020 election. one of these has just broken, and it s about this guy. he s not exactly a household name, this is mike roman. he was a director of election day operations for trump s 2020 campaign, you might know him as the guy who, on january 6th tried to physically deliver certificates of the fake electors from trump s fake electors scheme to vice president mike. pence electors schem about act, bek man trying to lure the fake electors on january 6th to stop the certification of the 2020 election, that there is actually a pretty good encapsulation of his larger role in all of this. you see, after the election, there was not much to do for trump s director of election day operations. so mike roman shifted to a new gate. he acted as a go-between, the vote whimper of sorts, doing allegra to get state level officials on board with trump s fake electors plan. he was an illegal mastermind planning, he was in the brains of the operation, he was the legs of the operati
set expectations for what could and would happen next because it does seem like something is happening. today our cameras caught three of donald trump s lawyers at the department of justice minutes after they left, donald trump started posting about the case saying, quote, how can doj possibly charge me, who did nothing wrong, when no other presidents were charged? so does donald trump know something we do not? joining us is senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. donald trump s lawyers were at doj, ken. do we know who they were meeting with? we know who they weren t meeting with. attorney general garland and deputy attorney general lisa mona core were not involved. presumably it was with career officials who have some oversight over this case and are briefed on this case. it s very common for defense attorneys to come in at the end of an investigation and make their case to management at the justice departm
for donald trump. we ll get into that. plus, some of the week s other top stories. take a look. in the city, jerry finding donald trump liable for a sexual abuse and defamation. the unanimous decision was handed down after less than three hours of deliberation. trump now must pay $5 million in damages to rider e. jean carroll. and e. jean carroll joins us now along with her attorney roberta kaplan. good morning to you both. how are you feeling this morning? on top of the world. yesterday was the happiest day of my life. was it? how come? [laughter] what was the feeling? because the former president had smeared me so badly and so evenly, and was such malice and such despite that it wasn t until yesterday that i got back on my feet. and so, my name is back, and robbie kaplan got it back for me. there are a lot of people who wondered why you would bring this case, not just because of the time, but because you know, you are from new york. you understand who donald tru