it s always good to see you. happy new year, by the way, it s not too light to say happy new year. it is not, the whole month of january, as far as i am concerned. the whole 2024 will be, you can see it, but my fingers are crossed. from your mouth to my ears, have a good show. and tonight, donald trump s criminal defense team is renewing its requests for judge tanya chutkan to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt of court. with the election interference case currently on hold while trump s immunity claims get worked out in a federal appeals court, trump s lawyers lot of activity in the case halted, even the routine filing of documents which jack smith s team has said is permissible because it does not require the trump team to do anything. the motion to punish a jack smith for something that he is not prohibitive from even doing is yet another example of how donald trump has always referred to live in the world of alternative facts. with that strategy, it s on
and tonight, donald trump s criminal defense team is renewing its requests for judge tanya chutkan to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt of court. with the election interference case currently on hold while trump s immunity claims get worked out in a federal appeals court, trump s lawyers lot of activity in the case halted, even the routine filing of documents which jacks mitt s team has said is permissible because it does not require the trump team to do anything. the motion to punish a jack smith for something that he is not prohibitive from even doing is yet another example of how donald trump has always referred to live in the world of alternative facts. with that strategy, it s on a collision course with the courtroom reality. that s what we saw this week as the disgraced former presidents that up for just a few minutes, in his own defense and the new york attorney generals civil fraud trial, when trump rambled, dissembled and presented himself as usual, as a
bill barr. during his deposition, the former attorney general told the committee that he repeatedly told trump that there was no credible evidence of election fraud. i made it clear that i did not agree with the idea of saying that the election was stolen. i told the president this was dumb. i did not want to be a part of it. this is what led me to decide to leave when i did. even though a number of his own top administration officials debunked election fraud conspiracies, trump hospice persisted. weeks following the election, he lashed onto the idea that pence would be able to overturn the results of the election by choosing to certify the votes of certain states. this was an illegal plan that was spearheaded by john eastman, who also played a role in the pressure campaign to get the vice president to delay the certification of the 2020 presidential election. this pressure campaign and intense focus on what the vice president would do on january 6th, resulted in the viol
after the city council unanimously passed an ordinance that would allow them to vote started in april. it s the first statewide initiative of its kind, and as the new york times reports, it makes no work at the largest community to expand voting rights to younger residents since the 26th amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971. immediately, this is the work move will give students of newark more say over what happens in their schools and in their lives. joining us now are two of those students, 16 year old nate esubonteng and breanna campbell, who helped push the newark city council to lower the voting age. there are joined by ryan haygood, president of the new jersey institute for social justice, one of the main organizations that backed this effort. first and foremost, my congratulations to all of you, but i definitely want to speak to you, nate and to you, breanna. talk about first, why it was so important to make sure that you
jersey won the right to vote in local school board elections, after the city council unanimously passed a coordinates that would allow them to vote started in april. it s the first statewide initiative of its kind, and as the new york times reports, it makes no work at the largest community to expand voting rights to younger assad and since the 26th amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971. immediately, this is the work move will give students of newark more say over what happens in their schools and in their lives. joining us now are two of those students, 16 year old nate esubonteng and breanna campbell, who helped push the newark city council to lower the voting age. there are joined by ryan haygood, president of the new jersey institute for social justice, one of the main organizations that back to this effort. first and foremost, my congratulations to all of you, but i definitely want to speak to you, nate and to you, breanna. talk about in a first, why it