i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. today a man who felt direct heat from donald trump to overturn the 2020 election will speak to the department of justice. the special counsel s team meeting with georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger. this happening as we learn that a close trump ally, rudy giuliani also had a sit-down with jack smith s team. what all of this means for that investigation and for the former president as well. plus, a double dose of wild, wild weather, storms snarling travel as canadian wildfire smoke prompts new air alerts here in the united states. also ahead, was there help from the inside? reporting from the new york times that a russian general knew about the recent rebellion before it even happened. and later on, malaria in the united states. dr. natalie azar joins us with more cases of the illness not seen here in two decades. we begin with the new legal developments surrounding the former president. at some point today georg
we will see you again tomorrow. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. with lawrence o do i think yoa booking for over the alexander twins. we have the exclusive! i know, c ten pm is too late for them, right? i m not going to be able they are the alexander twins they are night owls, obviously. yeah, okay. you get the justin, we get the alexander twins. okay that s the way we will leave it. thank you, alex. have a good show! thanks. tonight, there is a new trump defense, bravado. votto is a spanish word which, and current american english, usage means boasting, exaggerating, which, in legal terms, means lying. so, the new trump defense tonight is i was lying. on this program, we pledge to bring to you, as soon as it is available, as soon as we have already done, every word of donald trump s defense in the case of united states of america versus donald j trump, in which donald trump stands accused of 37 counts of vi
of trump s bedminster golf club with more. good morning. good morning former president trump faces 37 felony charges for handling classified documents after leaving the white house. we learned yesterday, he is accused of being personally involved with moving those documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. take a look at the pictures that were released yesterday. prosecutors said classified documents were found in the storage room at mar-a-lago as well as a ballroom, bedroom and bathroom. president trump is a q showing people without security clearances and attack plan prepared for by the defense department and also on another occasion a map related to military operation. trump calls the charges the box hoax in the continuation of the witch-hunt against him. he told fox news digital that he believes the time it is meant to distract from reporting the president joe biden received $5 million from ukrainian gas company executive. take a look at this. here s a breakdown of t
state, i get a subpoena. it s no coincidence they indicted me the very same day that it was revealed that the fbi hid explosive evidence that joe biden took a $5 million illegal bribe from ukraine with. next hunter will probably be charged with some very minor offense so that the fbi and doj can pretend that they re fair, they want to pretend they re fair, we got hunter. for jaywalking. [laughter] as far as the joke of an indictment, it s a horrible thing. it s a horrible thing for this country. i mean, the only good thing about it is it s driven my poll numbers way up, can you believe it? [cheers and applause] rachel: well, the president, or former president trump is right about one thing, they want us to talk about the indictment and not the real story of the week which, of course, is the jaw-dropping biden-ukraine bribery claim of, like, $10 million. so let s break this all down so we can understand what really happened. pete: so burisma, energy company in ukraine, the rep
colleagues alicica menendez, jonathan capehart, ayman mohyeldin, symone sanders-townsend, and with us from miami, katie phang. the twice impeached, and now twice indicted donald trump has become the first ex president to face criminal charges from the federal government. over the next two hours, my colleagues and i, along with some special guests, are going to break down the justice department s case against the former commander-in-chief. a case that we saw for the first time just yesterday. when the bombshell, 37 count indictment was unsealed. the indictment, which also names the trump aide and valet, walt nauta, as his coconspirator. outlined criminal charges related to more than 100 classified documents that federal agents recovered from trump s mar-a-lago resort last august. trump faces 31 counts of violating the espionage act, through willful retention of classified records. he faces another six counts stemming from his alleged efforts to impede the investigation. nauta