president, take me to the capital now. to which bobby responded sir, we have to go back to the west wing. the president reached up toward the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm and said so you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we are going back to the west wing. we are not going to the capital. and mr. trump then used his free hand to lunch towards bobby engel and went he recounted the story to me he had motioned towards his clavicles. and was mr. engel in the room as he told you this story? he was. did mr. engel correct or disagree with any part of this story? mr. engel did not correct or disagree with any part of the story. did they ever after that tell you that what he just said was untrue? neither mr. engel or the other told me it was ever untrue. now that officer with dc metropolitan police department who was right there in the motorcade firsthand witness is corroborating details of what cassidy hutchi
Calling on a judge to stop donald trump from continuing to claim fbi agents were involved in a plot to assassinate him during his search of his maralago home during the classified documents investigation. Trump made a suggestion in a Campaign Fundraising email and has been repeated by conservative media outlets. Late friday, smith filed a notion in judge Eileen Tenants court saying, those statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal Law Enforcement agents falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him smith added that the false statements expose sba agents, some of whom will be witnesses at the trial, to threats of harassment. We have reporters covering all of the developments for you. We will begin with julie sirkin on capitol hill. Julie, welcome. The prosecutors request is different from a gag order, but what exactly are they asking of the judge . Reporter this is a first, let me just say, alex, in this case
Good evening, alex. Good evening. Okay. What would it look like if a republican president took office and then immediately set about replacing all the Career Officials with rightwing ideologues seeking to upend the way the federal Government Works . There has recently been a lot of speculation about just that kind of scenario. But we dont actually have to imagine because Something Like that has happened before. In july of 1981, here is the headline. Reagan, reversing many u. S. Policies. The New York Times reported the Reagan Administration has quietly set about accomplishing a sweeping reversal of policy and practice in the way the government deals with illness and individual citizens. Key cabinet and regulatory posts, the Reagan Administration, the reagan transformation amounts to a resolution of attitude involving the appointment of officials, who had in previous administrations my have been ruled out over concerns of lack of Conflict Of Interest or open hostility to the mission of
I wont be resting. I dont dressed. Tonight, the collapse of trumps final witness and the judges crucial decisions about what the jury will decide. Then, another former trumps lawyer silenced in court. I dont want to mute you, but i need to move on. And the rnc head of Election Integrity arraigned for voter fraud. And why Samuel Alitos ethical nightmare for the Supreme Court is not going away. Created a situation that we are all talking about, so i think it was a mistake. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. After five weeks the first criminal trial of a former u. S. President is nearly over. The defense rested this morning. I called only two witnesses and despite all his bravado and insistence is to the contrary, donald trump was not one of them. We knew that. Instead we heard briefly from a paralegal about Phone Records before a man named Robert Costello took the stand. Costello is a former federal prosecutor. A very close associate with Rudy Giu
Me. Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber and we have a packed show tonight. Michael cohen is here. You know the name. Lanny davis joins us later tonight as we track what could become a verdict that would hinge more than anything else on Michael Kahns testimony and by the end of the hour, al sharpton is here for a cultural moment unlike anything weve ever tried on the beat before. You see him there was james brown. The reverend is here joined by an artist making his big debut tonight, henry mack. Our top show story shows why verdict is on the way and trumps criminal trial, his Defense Lawyers resting their case today telling the judge theyve completed their mission without ever having to call trump to testify, as is their right. They finished after less than two days in control. Trumps lawyers call just two witnesses compared to the 19 witnesses the d. A. Called, some of whom you can see right here, the star witness cohen, former trump aid hicks, Stormy Daniels, a Tabloid Chief and an arr