Firstdegree murder. Prison officials believe he died because of coronavirus related complications. But an official cause of death has not yet been announced will continue to cover this story outside the governors home in fair oaks for you. Throughout the morning and thank you for joining us on 9 oclock hour the kron 4 morning news on Marty Gonzales were going to go ahead and check in with dave spahr to find out more about the forecast for this monday day. Marty good morning, good morning everybody and this the shot that we have the bay bridge toll plaza not much the way of traffic going on, but still those pesky stratus clouds that are in place but take their brightening up a little bit indicating there mixing out. Blue skies at san jose state says were getting some changes happening there as well current winds little bit of a week onshore wind in place will see this pick up a little bit later on for today. Temperatures mostly in the 60s in the east bay, but 71 already antioch meanwhil
How Coronavirus Transmits helps save their season. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The first ever second Impeachment Trial Set to start a week from tomorrow, we have a whole bunch of developments in the case against the former president. And was one of the most reckless acts of any president in american history. First, there is the unsurprising upheaval in the former president s legal team. At least three lawyers left the team in recent days after trump asked them to focus their defense on continuing the big Poisonous Lie hes been pushing that the election was fraudulent, stolen. This comes just days after one of those lawyers, butch bowers of columbia, south carolina, said he did not hesitate to defend trump, saying, quote, it is who i am, it is what i do. Former president now has two new attorneys named just last night, bruce castor jr. Who previously declined to prosecute bill cosby and bill schoen who represented a whole bunch of folks including
He clearly intended to use whatever means were at his disposal, whatever levers he could find to overturn a free and fair election. And it was a project, lets be clear here, that almost the entire Republican Party signed on to before some of them got a little freaked out and tried to distance themselves. The times Reports Trump was enabled by influential republicans motivated by ambition, fear or misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Hm. Mitch mcconnell was okay with the plan because he feared alienating a president whose tee his control of the chamber. He also heeded misplaced assurances from white house aides like jared kushner, mr. Trump would eventually cede to reality. Remember that texas lawsuit challenge the Election Results that 18 republican State Attorneys General signed on to . Right . That was ghostwritten, drafted by lawyers close to the white house. The lie that the election was stolen propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers and financiers including the
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
trump bowing to fight back after on the ballot in colorado. state supreme court ruling that trump violated the 14th amendment of the constitution because of january 6th. the colorado supreme court confirmed that the district court got it right, that he did engage in insurrection. section 3 of the 1st amendment has to apply to the presidency because, if not it s a get out of jail free card. literally, jack smith, who would charge donald trump absolutely everything, including jay walking if he could get away with it, didn t even charge donald trump or most of the rioters on january 6th with insurrection. presidential candidate and former governor current florida governor ron desantis calling it an abuse of power and the u.s. supreme court should reverse the decision. katie: the white house hopeful vivek ramaswamy taking things a step further. listen to this. saying i pledge to withdraw from the colorado g.o.p. primary ballot until trump is also allowed to be on the ba