been talking to the special counsel, and jack smith responds to trump team s efforts to delay the documents trial. also tonight, how conservative republicans managed to attach restrictions on abortion access to a key defense bill, and what that could do to the chances of getting it through congress. later, without being able the say who left a pact of cocaine in the west wing, the secret service still says case closed. why? good evening. jack smith decides to charge the former president for his role in trying to overturn the election, being able to show his intent will be critical. and showing a ten could hinge on whether or not he believed he had won. tonight there is new evidence that smith is thinking along those lines, and is looking for evidence for people who know or heard him indicate he d lost. jared kushner and hope hicks have both gone before the grand jury, and some of the questions asked was whether the former president was told he lost the election. other mem
fatigue and morale issues, and in thele meantime republicans a playing politics. they are playing politicwise the vital resources ukraine needs to defend its democracy from invaders. the democrats agreed to work with republicans and to craft a bipartisan bill to increase border security measures in exchange for that aid. but then donald trump came out against the deal. he did not want to hand president biden a victory on trump s favorite campaign issue, which is drumming up fear about what s happening eaautothe bord. and so today republicans voted to kill their own bill in the senate. the finaln vote was 49-50 with all but four republicans voting against r it. after that stunning defeat democrat chuck schumer put a second bill on the floor. it strips out the border stuff and juste funds aid to israel d taiwan and ukraine, which is what the democrats wanted in the first place. 58 voted to advance that bill. that is just shy until the 60 they need for final passage. now the sen
there. remember the saying, take him seriously but not literally? if past is prologue, maybe it should be both. tonight on laura coates live. well, it is language you never want to hear. the kind of stuff that gets compared to the worst figures in recorded history. by now, you may have already heard exactly what i m talking about. but i want to play what the former president of the united states, donald trump, had to say at a rally over the past weekend in front of thousands of his supporters in new hampshire. they re poisoning the blood of our country, that s what they ve done. they ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. not just in south america, not just in three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world there coming into our country from africa, from asia, all over the world. the pouring in our country. quote, poisoning the blood. that was his actual quote. now, experts say that that mirrors hitler s calls for rac
is differentio than ours. he sending out fund-raising e-mails. this is oxygen to him and elemental. wealth, success, winning, that is central to his being. so alien to me.ie as a person, i can t imagine. i ll think twice about suing you then. please don t. thank you, chris,in as alway. thank you for joining us. tonight in the last fewin hours trump suffered a legal setback in a different case. the one regarding the materials seized from his florida beach club.s an appeals court ruled the justice department can have access tont roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents taken fromit mar-a-lago. trump has been arguing that all of the documents seized from his club are his personal property. and if the fbi found anything classified in, there he declassified it when he was president, even though he has n record of ever having done thato trump got a lower court judge who he appointed to agree a speciale master should go thror all the documents. and in a ruling that
calls staggering business fraud over a decade. we ll have the response from team trump in just moments. we re also watching blowback in russia to vladimir putin s plan to mobilize more troops to fight in ukraine. more than 1300 people were detained in rare protests. the desperate measures taken by some russians facing a potential draft. also a significant update in the january 6th investigation. a source telling nbc news it is agreed it has reached an agreement to interview conservative activist ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. what that could mean for the panel s next hearing next week. we start with the latest on the multiple investigations into donald trump. joining me now is vaughn hillyard from trump tower in new york, justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, charles coleman, the former new york prosecutor and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and senior member of the mueller probe. charles and andrew fortunate