Across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. Well see you at the end of tomorrow. Tomorrow thank you all for joining us at this hour. We have breaking news tonight, as i just mentioned. If your calendar was marked for this coming monday, when President Trump was set to hold a Press Conference that he promised would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that Fulton County indictment, if that was a date that was reserved on your eye calla, well im sorry to inform you, that it has been called off. Trump says tonight that his legal team is instead putting all of the overwhelming evidence informal legal filings. He adds, therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary. That news comes right after trumps legal team and another case finally gave its answer as to when they believe the former president should go to trial. Trumps team is arguing tonight that the federal 2020 election case brought by special counsel jack smith should go to trial in April Of 2026. Th
Chance to get around, i dont know if you guys have, but theres a major data in the amount of paper theyre dealing with. Oh, its coming up. We got a full screen to that. I hadnt intuition that would be there. Thats a tease. Look at that. Come on, when you see stocks of paper compared to National Monuments you know were going to full screen that. You at home are going to get you to that in this a few seconds. Thank you my friend. You bet. Thank you all for joining us this hour. We have breaking news tonight, as i just mentioned, if your calendar was marked for this coming monday when President Trump was set to hold his conference if he would promise would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that Fulton County indictments, if that was a date that was reserved on your eye kyle, im sorry to inform you that it has been called off. Trump says tonight that his legal team is instead putting all of the overwhelming evidence in formal legal filings. He adds, therefore, the News Confere
Phone about the moment of paper theyre dealing with. Its coming up. I had an intuition that would be there. When you see stacks of paper compared to national monuments, and you at home are going to get treated to that in just a few seconds. Thank you, my friend. You bet. Thank you all for joining us this hour. We have breaking news tonight as i just mentioned. If your calender was marked for this coming monday when President Trump was set to hold a Press Conference he was promised would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that Fulton County indictment, if that was a date reserved on your ical, im sorry to inform you it has been called off. Trump says tonight his legal team is instead putting the overwhelming evidence in formal legal filings. He adds, therefore the News Conference is no longer necessary. That news comes right after trumps legal team in another case finally gave its answer as to when they believe the former president should go to trial. Trumps team is arguing
Trial to 2026 is the day he s out there making the kind of statements that could be perceived as witness intimidation, stuff that could trigger the judge to move the trial date up in time. how do you square the sort of desperation that is evident in this legal filing as it pertains to the trial date and the behavior of the client at the center of all this? like so many things in trump world it s just doesn t seem terribly well thought out. the 2026 date, the proposed date, it s something of a joke. look how people have responded to it. i would of course worry it would interfere with the mid-term election in 2026. nobody talked about that, alex. but there s actually going to be a very serious response to this, and at some point the judge will weigh in on this probably sooner rather than later especially as trump and many of his surrogates continue to sort of press her hand and, you know, behave in ways that are very close to the line if not over the line.
I mean, how do you square the sort of desperation that is evident in this legal filing as it pertains to the trial dates, and the behavior of the client who is at the center of all this? it doesn t, i mean like so many other things with trump world, this doesn t seem well thought out. i think, the 2026 date, the proposed state is something of a joke. i mean, look how people have responded to it. i would of course worried that it would interfere with the midterm elections of 2026. nobody talks about that, alex. but, there is actually going to be a very serious response to this and at some point the judge will weigh in on this probably sooner rather than later, especially as trump and many of his surrogates continue to sort of press her hand and behave in ways that are very close to the line if not over the line. at some point, she s going to have to give a solemn assessment of this and will probably come sooner.