Hutchinson, one of the few republican candidates who has been critical of trumps legal problems despite the fact the former president seems to be gaining, not losing political strength with each and every indictment. Were keeping also a close eye on the Security Situation surrounding the courthouse as a mix of federal and city Law Enforcement blanket the area ahead of trumps rapidly approaching arrival. Were also learning new details about the latest indictment that appears to rely on testimony from high level Trump Administration officials including former Attorney General bill barr and of course former Vice President mike pence. So lets start the hour with nbcs Aaron Gilchrist outside the court, Peter Alexander and kristen welker, the cohosts of weekend today, former fbi general counsel, andrew weissmann, kristy greenberg, and former u. S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg on set with us. So aaron, kick us off from outside the courthouse. Whats the atmosphere out there as we get closer to Pre
we don t know why. we don t know whether that involves cooperation and/or whether a superseding or later set of indictments could change his legal status. if you want to go beyond the most careful reading and look at the evidence and the signals, it appears the special counsel has some cooperating witnesses who were in the room. that s a small list of people, mr. meadows is on it, and he s someone we might think could be one of those individuals. and of course, chris christie, a former prosecutor for six years, said when he looked at the first clip, he thought that it indicated that mark meadows who has every right to talk about his own testimony in front of the grand jury as any witness does, might be cooperating. his name does come up in the indictment, though, as you know, paragraph 28, it alleges that meadows advised donald trump in late december 2020 that georgia officials reviewing ballots signatures were doing their jobs honorably and only had to be contradicted by donald trum