what they teach. in the meantime what has to figure out whether can even teach students about the civil rights era. that doesn t for us tonight. i will see you next week. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, we have a statement from new york city mayor, eric adams on the death threats of the district attorney brag received today. the mayor says, while we cannot comment on the specifics of any ongoing investigation, no public officials should ever be subject to threats for doing his or her drop. i am confident that every elected official in the city including manhattan da brag will continue to do their work undeterred. and anyone found to be engaging in illegal conduct will be brought to justice. and so that is the mayor of new york s latest statement about this threat to the district attorney today. it s an important letter and could not commit more of a critical time considering the threats, the stakes, the rhetoric. president trump ha
in the meantime this college what has to figure out whether can even teach students about the civil rights era. that does it for us tonight. i will see you next week. now it s time for the last good evening, we have a statement from new york city word with lawrence o donnell. word with lawrence o donnell. mayor, eric adams on the death threats of the district attorney brag received today. the mayor says, while we cannot comment on the specifics of any ongoing investigation, no public officials should ever be subject to threats for doing his or her job. i am confident that every elected official in the city including manhattan da brag will continue to do their work undeterred. and anyone found to be engaging in illegal conduct will be brought to justice. and so that is the mayor of new york s latest statement about this threat to the district attorney today. it s an important letter and could not commit more of a critical time considering the threats, the stakes, the rheto
And yet all of this is a distraction, an attempt to get us away from it. Whats also interesting to me, hallie, the president of the United States takes a lot of time trying to take down joe biden. That suggests to me that he believes biden is the strongest possible opponent. Weve had 70 headtohead matchups in polls. Biden has won every single one of them. In that sense its not a surprise the president is spending the time, using the power of his office to try to take down his number one opponent. Tony, thanks for being on. Im way out of town. I have to hand it over to craig melvin on what has been a very, very busy morning. Indeed, a Story Changing by the moment. Craig melvin here at Msnbc Headquarters in new york city. We pick up the breaking news. Huge implications for this president , the administration, the Justice Department, perhaps for the system of checks and balances in our country. The Trump Administration just releasing that memo detailing that controversial conversation bet
After bragging for weeks that he would testify in the NY Attorney General's trial in front of Judge Engoron, Donald Trump is out.
In a rambling ALL CAPS post on TruthSocial, Trump rants about why he's innocent and says he's out.
Trump blinks. He would never get on that stand and answer questions abo
authority because here she has the case to bring him to say, mr. trump, you have to start making the statements. we are going to gag. you otherwise, i m going to put you in jail. and all indications, that will be the time to see whether trump blinks. he may not. but a judge then acting under inherent power to keep the trial in hand, as opposed to a first amendment charge. that s one s gonna hit the road. these kinds of things we ve seen today, you are going to have a dozen a week. bragg has to stay cool and focus on his job interest that the nypd and fbi do. harry, i want the audience to have this guidance going into the weekend. what we are seeing with the baseball bat looks like a first amendment protected speech at the stage. donald trump would have to say something like