mean for his rhetoric amid new warnings about what is at stake in 2024. and growing momentum to push george santos out of congress but members of his own party. then, from near fistfights in congress to president biden on the world stage, it has been quite a week. michael beschloss is here to put it on perspective, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. greetings, everyone, i am symone sanders townsend, in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump's divisive and potentially dangerous rhetoric is about to be tested in court. monday morning, a federal appeals court will weigh his requests to lift a partial gag order and posed by judge tanya chutkan who is overseeing the election interference case in washington d.c.. this afternoon, judge chutkan denied the former presidents bid to strike references to the violence on january six, from his indictment. that ruling came just hours after we learned more about trump's own view of that day and the rally on the ellipse. here is what he told abc's jonathan carl, a little more than two months after the insurrection. >> if you look at the real si of the crowd, it was never report coecy. it was the biggest crowd i've ever spoken in front of by far. >> really? >> by far. that wendo to the >> you told them you are going to go up to the capital, where you just -- >> know, i was going to, and then the secret service set, you can' then, by the time i would have, and i want to get back, i saw -- i wanted to go back. i was thinking about going back during the problem to stop the problem, doing it myself. secret serviceid not like that, i can tell you thamuch. >> so, so what -- >> anin what, i would have been very well received. don't forget, people that went to washington that day, in my opinion, they went because they thought the election was rigged, that is why they went. >> now, of course, we know the 2020 election was most definitely not rate. as for trump wanting to go to the capitol, we did hear about this in detail with the january six committee hearing. >> the president said something to the effect of, i am the effing president, take me up to the capitol now, to which bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the west wing, the president reached up towards the front at the vehicle and grabbed at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm, said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, or going back to the west wing. we're not going to the capital. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engle. >> meanwhile, new house speaker mike johnson is making thousands of hours of security footage from the capitol right available to the public by posting it online. there is also news in the georgia election case brought by fulton county d.a. fani willis. she is seeking an august 5th trial date for donald trump and 14 other defendants in the case. that's less than a month after the republican national convention and just three months before election day. just hours ago tonight, a judge in colorado rejected a bid to keep donald trump off the 2024 ballot. that challenge is based on s effort to overturn the 2020 election results, when they just said, trump did engage in insurrection. with that, let's bring in our lead off panel to get smarter. jon allen is here, senior national politics reporter for nbc. we annie linksey, is also here, white house reporter for the white house journal. and former new york prosecutor and attorney charles coleman, who i believe, it must be founders day for the -- hence the sweater. charles, we'll start with you, happy founders day. let me start with the news out of colorado. here is the secretary of state reacting to the judge's decision to keep trump on the ballot. >> having the court say that the former president engaged in an instruction is big news for the entire country. donald trump is a danger to american democracy, and that is something that is really novel about this case, that the judge decided that. >> so she agreed with the plaintiffs that donald trump committed insurrection on january six. can you just explain this ruling to us. if you committed insurrection, why is he still a lot to be on the ballot? >> symone, i think the biggest issue that this case had from the very outset is the notion that the 14th amendment of the constitution does not necessarily outline, and we talked about this before, what the actual standard is dissatisfied in order to take some of the ball. while the judge did intervene her assertion basically makes a decision, which is a more of an observation that appeared that trump was involved in an insurrection, and was attempt te american government. it did not necessarily rise to the level of being able to fulfill whatever the standard meant for the 14th amendment. we talked about the fact that jack smith did not indict him. in fact, he's not been indicted anywhere criminally regarding insurrection because of those things. jack standard in terms of the constitution wasn't met, and ultimately, the case needed to be dismissed, which is a problem that most lawyers anticipated from the beginning, and now it's come to fruition. >> could the insurrection find that, charles, it be significant to special counsel jack smith or d.a. fani willis in both of those cases? >> yes and no. i would, generally speaking, say no, especially when it comes to fani willis's case. she's looking a state statutes in georgia and their r.i.c.o. law, and the way that the case is constructed is entirely different. i suspect that jack smith, i think he is someone who already put his tax in a row in a particular way, about how he has constructed his view of the case and move forward. whereas, i don't think that either of them will ignore this or what comes from it -- >> -- the judge found that donald trump did participate in an insurrection. that is not something that i have heard before. it was a question on the table, and it seems like the colorado judge is. >> yeah, absolutely. i think the question is, who is important to? there are different audiences here, simone. as you know, trump supporters have shown, time and time again, that there is a rock-solid support for him. so whatever this judge has said, i don't think it will impact them very much, but holes do showed that independent voters, will be very important in the general election, are looking at this and do you see it differently. and democrats, of course, this is the case that the president and the white house want to make, is that they want to have a contrast between trump and joe biden, and this is the kind of finding that bolsters the white house case, so this is a candidate who is chaotic, who is difficult. it helps the white house, but it does not hurt trump, when you look at this initial primary stage. >> i was not just colorado, minnesota and michigan also rejected, of course, a justice in the states rejected to keep donald trump off the ball. this isn't you that the judges may be trying to avoid getting caught up in donald trump's legal problems? >> i think so. i think when you talk about voters want to have this race. even when we talk to democrats, they say, beat trump, beat him on the ball, that is the way that you not only and trump, but you and trumpism. you do at the box, that is how democracy works in this country. you know, trump will be on the, i don't think that is all that is unexpected. i think if he was not on the ball, that would only gather the knives. >> yeah, i think it's a good point. jonathan allen, you've talked to a lot of folks in the trump world. we heard donald trump in his own words from that tape john carl, and what he said was in stark contrast to what he told the folks at the rally. he was on the state talking about how he wants them to fight like hell, what stood out to you about donald trump's comments in the audio? >> i thought, number one, they hear in his voice, that he wanted to go down to the capitol. and that he is saying that he wanted to basically get them to stop, which you may make the argument in court, but there is a lot of evidence to the contrary that he was doing that beforehand riling up the crowd. you heard the other speakers at the crowd inciting their crowd. and then donald trump goes to the white house, makes absolutely no effort with all the capital being sacked to stop the until very late in the day. this is odds with basically all the evidence that we have seen about january six, and not surprising at the same time, that trump will try to make this argument. >> including the videos of donald trump, his mini takes and is digital videos asking the people in the capital to go home. >> charles, i want to turn to monday's gag order of the court hearing. what will you be watching for their? what should we be watching for? >> simone, as an attorney, i will be paying a lot of attention not to the arguments that are made by other party but to the questions that are being asked by the panel, and the reason i say this is because i am interested to see how they intend to thread the needle in the balance of making sure that they can maintain a fair and partial trial so that donald trump can get his constitutional rights upheld, but also maintaining and protecting donald trump's first amendment rights. this is going to be an interesting proposition as far as how they did that needle, and the question that they asked, has to and say as to what they're thinking about. obviously, this is a case of first impression, in terms of the amount of influence and the fact that you're talking about a former president who is also a candidate for president, in the middle of an election cycle, being tried in criminal court for a felony at the federal level. these are all things that are just explosive, in and of themselves. when your weaving in the part about donald trump and how he actually approaches attacking the audience, attacking the, jury attacking witnesses, attacking jurist and all that, that becomes a very different conversation. i am going to be interested to see how the judges rule on this appeals court are looking to dissect the balance of donald trump's constitutional interests regarding his first amendment rights, as well as protecting the very impartiality of the trial. >> here is how the new york times describes trump's legal strategy, deny allegations, blame's lawyers and gaslight with fiery rhetoric. any, how much does this echo his political strategy, especially from the campaign? >> i feel like it's a perfect echo, right? it's almost the exact same idea, so doubling down on strategy is to say, of course, i had to fight the election, because there was fraud. of course, you want the president to be standing up against fraud, so it's the absolute trump playbook that we have come to know since 2015, really, when he marched on the national stage as a political figure, so i read that piece in the near times like, oh, yeah, of course, these lawyers are on the same thing. the second problem with that strategy, of course, is to say, oh, if anything was wrong about the strategy, it was the lawyers, who i hired, the best people that i had around me, giving me bad advice. >> -- >> deflection, a missed headline opportunity there. >> we need to send you to speak to the editors at the new york times. let's talk about the campaign though. so you have funny walls now asking for a trump trial day and 14 others for august 5th. you have these four other trials that are going to be happening. but this is me for the campaign? let's be clear, jury selection for the january six federal sea case starts the day before. >> look, get ready for the next year the be all about donald trump's trials, and intersperse, be some elections, if the polls are to be believed now, they stay in this introductory, he's on target to be the republican nominee for president. this august start period is interesting, right ted smack in the middle of a general election. i think that is something that will be difficult for him to contend with, and it will be something that republican voters are thinking about over the course of the last couple of months. >> campaign, campaign, campaign. charles, trump's lawyer,'s they filed to oppose the a willis's request for august 5th, when you think the judge in georgia will decide? they did grant the trial to start early for jenna ellis, and we saw how that went. >> you know, symone, i do think that trump's attorneys have a fighting chance of getting this pushed further down the road, if you're talking about august 5th start date, for the reason that we already talked about. at that point, donald trump would be the presumptive republican candidate, and that is something that will weigh heavily on the notion of election interference, and how this could influence voters in one way or the other. i think they're going to lean into the, something i fully expected them to do. the entire time that they were comparing their legal strategy. the fact that election season, or election day will be about 90 days from that point, gives them some sort of crossed a stand on, which typically, or was donald trump's plan all along. funny willis is aware of this, which is why she's going ahead with asking for the august 5th date, which i believe she believes is realistic, which i do think is realistic, but i do think that his defense team will push back as much as they can on that. and i expect if it is the night, they will try to appeal it and get that they moved further into the future. >> before we go, there's one more new case, new reporting, not a new case, but new reporting that the classified documents case, the one in florida, folks, is about four months behind because of some of these judges decisions. this is judge cannon, who was appointed by donald trump. charles, what do we think is happening there? what is going on? >> i think that donald trump's legal strategy there has been very effective because he has a judge who is willing to work with him. she's obviously a trump appointee. she has not given him everything he wanted, but she has done enough where they can move the camp further and further down the road. there are a lot of documents. they dragged their feet, expected to get the security clearances they need to prepare the case. nevertheless, judge aileen cannon as not necessarily stood in their, way from having them slowed down things the way -- it's a combination of things. some have been in their control, many have not. at the end of the day, this is all played to donald trump and what he's about to achieve. >> well, we'll leave it there. jonathan allen, annie linksey and charles coleman, thank you all very much. we want to turn now to the latest in the israel hamas world. israeli forces launching new strikes into gaza, as ground forces push deeper into the territory. hospitals are not the focus for both the group's racing to save lives and from israel's military, as he searches for hostages. nbc's clare symonds has more. >> tonight, israel announcing its recovered the body of 19 year old corporal, noah marciano, deception -- second hamas hostage found that near al-shifa hospital in 24 hours. israel has shown videos says indicates that hamas has helped hostages inside hospitals, and tonight, hamas emitting hostages were there. the fear is the youngest hostage held captive in gaza, just ten months old. this video showing his mother terrified, holding him and his brother while they were all adopted. we spoke to his cousin. >> i am getting angrier by the days, because this is sick. i don't want to celebrate his first birthday without him. >> there is an ak-47. >> the israeli military saying it found ak-47s, grenades and other weapons al-shifa, and it says, a tunnel nearby. israel and the u.s. saying that hospitals in gaza have been harboring hamas command centers. >> just scratching the surface. >> palestinian red crescent posting videos pushed through hospitals for the north. to the south, where our camera crew today filming more chaos and bloodshed. and now, is u.s. military -- >> is there a reason why you should push on rather than stop at the stage for a deal, for a hostage deal? 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