the question is like, is their jurisdiction has gets to trump everything else? how are they going to manage it? how important is it, would what smith s office is preferences are in terms of how it one? so, i don t think there is any precedent for being indicted in three separate jurisdictions that i am aware of. i have seen two, and usually the judges speak to each other, and they obviously hear from the parties, so they will want to hear from the government and the defendant, and then the judges speak to each other. there are all sorts of ways to slice and dice that. remember, we may be very soon having for big cases. there will need to be some discussion, usually judges behind the scenes are having this conversations, and it will be interesting to see exactly what happens. remember, the federal cases are
WASHINGTON — In the long annals of the republic, the White House has seen its share of perfidy and scandal, presidents who cheated on their wives and cheated the taxpayers, who abused their power and abused the public trust. But not since the framers emerged from Independence Hall on that clear, cool day in Philadelphia 236 years ago has any president who was voted out of office been accused of plotting to hold onto power in an elaborate scheme of deception and intimidation that would lead to vi
andrew, it s chris hayes, we re in the same room, so you knew that. the tv, the magic of it all, i m looking into the camera. so, i guess my question is, there is no precedent here for preferred i mean, take away precedence, i can t think of a defendant, just a defendant, they have seen this many trials and different venues all at the same time. i think it s probably hard to come up with the, so i guess the question is like, is their jurisdiction has gets to trump everything else? how are they going to manage it? how important is it, would what smith s office is preferences are in terms of how it one? so, i don t think there is any precedent for being indicted in three separate jurisdictions that i am aware of. i have seen two, and usually the judges speak to each other, and they obviously hear from the parties, so they will want
nixon is a footnote because it could ve gone differently. that s what this is. this is the first time donald trump has ever been indicted for acts he took in office. you don t have to go to law school to have kind of the feel that, well, if you can drop bombs, you can start wars without congress, we know that. it seems like they have a lot of power, yes. this is the justice department saying he went well beyond that. the reasons each of you have each dimension, it s a list that gets so long that is damning. it s not that we want to commander-in-chief to worry about overstepping in one meeting or one statement. no, this is over and over for several months, including violence and also several measures of abusing power. some of them are quite arcane. i think it s fascinating what smith has covered. i don t think we mentioned this on our area tonight. they talk about they had to lie to some of the activists ore trump fans who would become electors because some of them, as rabid as they wer
us. joe, you set it up very well. what s so remarkable about this indictment is it starts off, as you said, with jack smith acknowledging that donald trump not only had the right to claim fraud and the election, he had the right to lie about it. the first amendment right to lie. but not to launch a campaign of what smith called pervasive and destabilizing lies and then act on it. that crossed the line into criminal conspiracy, and the indictment charges three separate conspiracies, conspiracy to defraud the united states, conspiracy to obstruct that official proceeding on january 6 and conspiracy to deprive voters of their rights in those seven states. there wasn t a lot of reporting on this along the way, i was wondering whether they would charge, and they did, the plot to subvert the justice department, which i found to be the most dangerous part of the whole thing because, remember, jeffrey clark, co-conspirator number four in this indictment,