I would love to talk i will talk about it. Theyre not taking away my First Amendment rights. Donald trump claiming earlier this week that no one is going to stop him from speaking about his criminal case. Today, judge Tanya Chutkan laid down the law and told trumps lawyer that trumps words will have consequences. And the First Amendment is not absolute. Plus, attorney general Merrick Garland appoints a Special Counsel to investigate hunter biden . And republicans are predictably complaining about it after spending months demanding exactly that. And good evening, everyone. Happy friday. Tonight was a big night for donald trump, who discovered that after all, at least to the criminal Justice System, he is no different from anyone else. Despite his fame and political prominence, he cant just publicly abuse witnesses because hes on the campaign trail. The judge who taught him that lesson today is named Tanya Chutkan. I have a bunch more to say on her in a bit, but we begin the reidout toni
initial recovery on mar-a-lago said that archives officials believed that more records were missing and were skeptical that trump had handed over everything. as the investigation gained steam, some trump advisors have sought to steer away from the issue according to people who were speaking under anonymity. now you have to fast forward to june 3rd, bob, the trump attorney says the trump s team met with a doj official after they cooperated with presidential records in a storage wear and handed over, quote, a few pages to the doj. multiple sources have confirmed to nbc news that monday s unprecedented search was related, classified material that trump brought with limb to florida after he left the white house. two sources say the search went from 9:00 a.m. to half past 6:00 and that the fbi took about a dozen, a dozen more boxes with emthis. a lot of boxes. think, as much as we ve learned there are still major questions outstanding, for instance, what exactly what was the fbi l
welcome to prime weekend. i m nicole wallace and let s get right to the week s top stories. threats and intimidation leading to doxxing and s.w.a.t.ing apparently. not enough to satiate donald trump and his maga accolytes. of course that was for concealing hush money payments to a porn star and it was meant to hide that information from the american voter ahead of the 2016. now trump allies are propertying their revenge and their retaliation against the people who have had the audacity to hold the ex- president accountable. of course all this happens at the expense of the rule of law. basic decency and our very democracy. new york times out today with quote, within hours of a jury finding trump guilty last week, the anger congealed into calls for action. since then prominent gop leaders and out of government have demanded that elected republicans use every available instrument of power against democrats. including targeted investigations and prosecutions. here s how trump
accountable. new york times with this, quote within hours of a jury finding mr. trump guilty last week, the anger conyield into demands for action. since then, the prominent gop leaders have demanded they use every instrument of power again democrats, included targeted investigations and prosecutors. here step miller puts it is every house committee controlled by republicans? in every way, it needs to right now with every republican d.a. to start is every donor off the sidelines and in the game, the rich guys, the wealthy guys? everything facet of republican party politics and power has to be used right-to-now to go toe to toe with marxism and beat these why do you have to talk to jesse waters that way? maybe he knows. i don t know. echoes miller s tirade, trump s comrades in arms in the january 6th bannon said in a text message to the times on tuesday that now is the moment for obscure republican prosecutors around the country to make a name for themselves by pro
I haven t siege them. do see anything different out there? here s a good frame to think of it, a good way to look at it. the election white, 1 had the 0, we saw the damage that ended up being wrought. the republicans mostly went along with it, mostly. overwhelmingly they did. some didn t. some played half, we ll see. mitch mcconnell didn t really want to talk about it. cheney and adam kinzinger, and then we have the big lie 2.0, that donald trump was convicted because our justice system is rigged. that lie is just as pernicious and just as wrong as the first big lie. this time every single republican is in lockstep with it, every single one. you mentioned larry hogsen, maybe throw mitt romney out