i m laura coates. tonight, we are once again in uncharted territory in american history it appears that a former u.s. president is facing his no third indictment in a matter of days. donald trump reveals he is now a target in the special counsel investigation of efforts to overturn the election. here s the plan for tonight. we re going to methodically analyze exactly what we do know just focusing on the facts and figuring out what this might go next we ve got an amazing team of reporters of experts, including the former council from one of trump s impeachments. we ll talk with a former trump white house legal adviser and get her reaction to all of this. we also have michael fanone the retired officer who was attacked on january 6th. what s happened to his insight after a target letter has been sent. and jake tapper, will join me on how trump s 2024 rivals are reacting, including an exclusive interview with florida s governor, ron desantis. first, an avalanche of headlines it
16 people accused of multiple felonies in the state of michigan. who are they and what does this mean for the other fake electors in other states? also, a judge appointed by trump says she ll decide, quote, promptly on a trial date in the classified documents case. how that could impact the campaign calendar. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. it is 9:00 p.m. eastern and the trump headlines keep on coming tonight. the biggest one being broken by the former president himself. he says that he has been informed by the special counsel that he s a target in the federal january 6th investigation. in his own words, that quote, almost always means an arrest and an indictment is coming. he does have some experience with this. trump also got a target letter shortly before he was indicted in the documents case, but this is what he is saying tonight. now i m like becoming an expert. it s a disgrace. we also have new reporting out of arizona where i ve learned that the f
front runner donald trump says he was informed that he is the target of the special counsel s investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. mrs trump has until thursday to report to the grand jury. if jack smith has evidence of criminality should donald trump be held accountable? here is the problem. this country is going down the road of criminalizing political differences. i think that is wrong. alvin bragg stretched a statute to be able to target donald trump. even people on the left acknowledge if it wasn t trump the case would have likely not been brought against the normal civilian. you have a situation where the department of justice, the fbi have been weaponized against people they do not like. the number one example happened to be against donald trump with the russian collusion. that was not a legitimate investigation. that was being done to try to drive trump out of office. what i have said is as president my job is to restore a single s
when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. days after a senior republican senator referred to the white house as adult day care, the man that many believe is in charge of supervising the president, chief of staff john kelly, was sent out before the press to shoot down reports that the president s tantrums are causing big problems. the day began as it often does with a presidential outburst on twitter. this one aimed at the struggling people of puerto rico. who three weeks after hurricane maria are still suffering through an acute deadly crisis, many lacking access to safe water and food, and urgent medical care. we ll have the latest from the island coming up later this hour. today the president appeared to blame puerto rico for its current situation, threatening to cut off federal recovery efforts. i quote him here. electric and all infrastructure were disaster before hurricanes. congress to decide how much to spend. we cannot keep fema, the
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